Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2
1807
This is the second volume of the 1807 collection that marked Wordsworth's mature vision of what poetry could be. Here lies "The Solitary Reaper," that startling poem where a Highland girl singing in a field becomes a figure for all human longing - her voice "that never dies" echoing across centuries. The collection moves from Scottish legends like Rob Roy to quiet observations of shepherds and ruined abbeys, each poem insisting that ordinary moments carry infinite weight. Wordsworth's revolutionary belief - that poetry begins in emotion recollected in tranquility - pulses through every line. These are not mere descriptions of landscape but encounters with the sublime hiding in plain sight. For anyone who believes poetry can still make the world new.
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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.””
— William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.””
— William Wordsworth
“The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will.””
— William Wordsworth
“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...””
— William Wordsworth
“... and we shall findA pleasure in the dimness of the stars.””
— William Wordsworth
“Sweet is the lore which nature brings;Our meddling intellectMisshapes the beauteous forms of things”
— William Wordsworth
“poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge””
— William Wordsworth
“In sleep I heard the northern gleams;The stars they were among my dreams;In sleep did I behold the skies””
— William Wordsworth
“I'll teach my boy the sweetest things;I'll teach him how the owlet sings.””
— William Wordsworth
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