Dorothy Wordsworth
diarist · Lake District, England · 1771–1855
Sister of the poet William Wordsworth. The journals she kept while living with him gave him material for his poems more than once.
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April 15, 1802 · Two years later her brother William remembered this day and wrote the poem "Daffodils"
I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind
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