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Written while sailing in a boat at Evening "Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." Miscellaneous Sonnets; Poems Written in Youth: 1807 An Evening Walk 1787–1789 Addressed to a young lady "The young Lady to whom this was addressed was my Sister. It was" Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth: 1793 Lines 1789
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English ...
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
The Earl of Abergavenny merchant sailing ship sank off the coast of Weymouth in Dorset in 1805 with the loss of over 200 people.
Captain William Stanley Clarke of Wexford was the senior EIC commander. Captain John Draper and HMS Weymouth , herself a former merchantman, provided the naval escort. On 5 February Earl of Abergavenny struck on the Shambles off the Isle of Portland and then sank in Weymouth Bay with the loss of 263 lives, including Wordsworth, out of 402 ...
Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Ode to Duty" "The Solitary ...
The loss of his brother prompted William Wordsworth to write three elegies between May and July of 1805 titled “To the Daisy”, “I only look’d for pain and grief” and “Distressful gift ...
Dove Cottage. Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".