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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
Daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Jean was born in 1727 at Minto House in Teviotdale.. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, when a posse of Jacobite Army soldiers came to arrest her influential father, Jean received and entertained the officers at Minto House with such calmness, courtesy and composure that she was able to convince them that her father was not within reach when he was actually ...
The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, [- the] [7] man, he dies. Like to the grass that’s newly sprung, Or like a tale that’s new begun, Or like [a] [5] bird that’s here to-day, Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan,
The "Flowers of the Forest" however is considered the only thing she wrote that possesses lasting literary merit. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] However her correspondence and writing about the governess Henrietta Fordyce , who became her confidante and protégé, is credited with establishing Fordyce's notability.
Date of signature in the book predates formal release in publication of the poem. The Gift Outright; The Most of It; Come In; All Revelation [2] A Considerable Speck; The Silken Tent; Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length; The Subverted Flower; The Lesson for Today; The Discovery of the Madeiras; Of the Stones of the Place
Flowers of the Forest, or The Fluuers o the Forest (Roud 3812), is a Scottish folk tune and work of war poetry commemorating the defeat of the Scottish army, and the death of James IV, at the Battle of Flodden in September 1513. Although the original words are unknown, the melody was recorded c. 1615–1625 in the John Skene of Halyards ...
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
The exception is the “Botanic Muse”, who has the botanical knowledge that the poem imparts; however, as Browne argues, few readers in the eighteenth century would have seen this as a liberating image for women since they would have been skeptical that a woman could have written the poem and inhabited the voice of the muse (they would have ...