Lakes Poets
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
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John Ruskin
Thomas De Quincey
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Solitary Reaper, The
(William Wordsworth)
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?--
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
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Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ---- | Anecdote For Fathers | Character Of The Happy Warrior | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Danish Boy, The: A Fragment | Elegiac Stanzas | Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm, Painted By Sir George Beaumont | Ellen Irwin | England, 1802 iii | England, 1802 iv | "The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon" | "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" | A Character | A Complaint | A Night Thought | A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School | After-Thought | By the Seaside | Forsaken, The | Green Linnet, The | Guilt and Sorrow | Idle Shepherd Boys, The | Influence of Natural Objects | Laodamia | Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis | London, 1802 | Lucy Gray | Lucy ii | November, 1806 | Nutting | Seven Sisters, The | October, 1803 | Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford | On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic | Peter Bell, A Tale | Pet-Lamb, The: A Pastoral Poem | Remembrance of Collins | She Was a Phantom of Delight | Speak! | Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known | Longest Day, The | Prelude, The - (Book 2) | Prelude, The - (Book 4) | Table Turned, The | World Is Too Much With Us, The | Trosachs, The | Sonnet, The (i) | To A Butterfly (first poem) | To a Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) | To A Sexton | To a Skylark | To May | To My Sister | To The Cuckoo | Two April Mornings, The | Two Thieves, The | We are Seven | Written in Germany, On One of The Coldest Days Of The Century | Written With a Pencil Upon a Stone In The Wall of The House, On The Island at Grasmere |
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