Lakes Poets
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
Lakes Authors
John Ruskin
Thomas De Quincey
Beatrix Potter
Lake District Actors
Stan Laurel
Lake District Chefs
David Myers (Hairy Biker)
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She was a phantom of delight
(William Wordsworth)
Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.
When she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent my way,
Beneath an evening-moon.
Upon the moon I fixed my eye,
All over the wide lea;
With quickening pace my horse drew nigh
Those paths so dear to me.
And now we reached the orchard-plot;
And, as we climbed the hill,
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot
Came near, and nearer still.
In one of those sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's gentlest boon!
And all the while my eye I kept
On the descending moon.
My horse moved on; hoof after hoof
He raised, and never stopped:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropped.
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a Lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy hould be dead!"
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Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
Birth Of Love, The | Childless Father, The | Composed During a Storm | A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags, | "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways" | She was a phantom of delight | "Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind" | "'Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love" | "With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh," | A Night-Piece | A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal | Daffodils | Expostulation and Reply | For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater. | I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell | Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone | It is not to be Thought of | Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots | Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | Lines Written In Early Spring | Lucy i | Memory | Most Sweet it is | Mutability | My Heart Leaps Up | Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room | September, 1819 | Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem | Ode Composed On A May Morning | Perfect Woman | Resolution and Independence | Reverie of Poor Susan, The | Rural Architecture | Russian Fugitive, The | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | Solitary Reaper, The | Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors | Sparrow's Nest, The | Surprised by Joy | French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts, The | Power of Armies Is a Visible Thing, The | Prelude, The - (Book 1) | Primrose of the Rock, The | Wishing Gate, The | Two April Mornings, The | Sun Has Long Been Set, The | Sonnet, The (ii) | Shepherd Looking Eastward Softly Said, The | To M.H. | To The Daisy (second poem) | To The Daisy (third poem) | Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon | Written in London. September, 1802 | Written in March | Yarrow Unvisited | Yarrow Visited |
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