William Wordsworth
poet · Lake District, England · 1770–1850
A poet who lived, walked and wrote in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy. He held that poetry should be written in the language of ordinary people.
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1802
My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a Man
"My Heart Leaps Up," in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
1804 · Remembering the daffodils he had seen by the lake with his sister Dorothy two years before
For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils.
"Daffodils," in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
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