greykit.poetry — William Wordsworth

• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Standing on Westminster Bridge at dawn, Wordsworth finds London more beautiful than any natural scene — the city lying open to sky and fields in smokeless morning calm.

  #sonnet#city#morning#beauty#1800s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] I wandered lonely as a Cloud
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  A solitary walk past a host of daffodils on a lake shore becomes, in memory, a source of joy that refreshes the poet on his couch in vacant or pensive mood.

  #lyric#nature#memory#solitude#1800s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Wordsworth's great ode on the fading of the visionary gleam — the sense, felt in childhood, of a celestial radiance on all things, and the poet's mature consolation in memory, sympathy, and "the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering.

  #ode#childhood#memory#immortality#Romantic#1800s
• 1798 [william-wordsworth] Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
  Lyrical Ballads

  Revisiting the Wye valley after five years, Wordsworth traces how nature's forms have sustained him in absence and shaped his moral being, closing with a prayer for his sister Dorothy.

  #blank-verse#meditation#nature#memory#1790s