greykit.poetry — #childhood

• 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.

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