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The sea, spotted with white, of a bluish grey in general, and streaked with darker lines. The near shores clear; scattered farm houses, half-concealed by green mossy orchards, fresh straw lying at the doors; hay-stacks in the fields. Brown fallows, the springing wheat, like a shade of green over the brown earth, and the choice meadow plots, full of sheep and lambs, of a soft and vivid green; a few wreaths of blue smoke, spreading along the ground; the oaks and beeches in the hedges retaining their yellow leaves; the distant prospect on the land side, islanded with sunshine; the sea, like a basin full to the margin; the dark fresh-ploughed fields; the turnips of a lively rough green.

Returned through the wood. Coleridge came in the morning, and Mr. Cruikshank; walked with Coleridge nearly to Stowey after dinner. A very clear afternoon. We lay sidelong upon the turf, and gazed on the landscape till it melted into more than natural loveliness. The sea very uniform, of a pale greyish blue, only one distant bay, bright and blue as a sky; had there been a vessel sailing up it, a perfect image of delight.

Walked to the top of a high hill to see a fortification. Again sat down to feed upon the prospect; a magnificent scene, curiously spread out for even minute inspection, though so extensive that the mind is afraid to calculate its bounds. A winter prospect shows every cottage, every farm, and the forms of distant trees, such as in summer have no distinguishing mark.

On our return, Jupiter and Venus before us. While the twilight still over-powered the light of the moon, we were reminded that she was shining bright above our heads, by our faint shadows going before us. We had seen her on the tops of the hills, melting into the blue sky. Poole called while we were absent.

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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Vol. It was a threatening, misty morning, but mild. We set off after dinner from Eusemere. Clarkson went a short way with us, but turned back. The wind was furious, and we thought we must have returned. We first rested in the large boathouse, then under a furze bush opposite Mr. Saw the plough going in the field.

The wind seized our breath. The lake was rough. There was a boat by itself floating in the middle of the bay below Water Millock. We rested again in the Water Millock Lane. The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish, but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the twigs. We got over into a field to avoid some cows—people working.

A few primroses by the roadside—woodsorrel flower, the anemone, scentless violets, strawberries, and that starry, yellow flower which Mrs. When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side.

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We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing.

This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot, and a few stragglers higher up; but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity, unity, and life of that one busy highway. Retrieved 15 April Archived from the original on 5 September Retrieved 22 December London: W. Satchell and Compant. ISBN Westport, CT: Praeger.

May []. Oxford University Press. Romanticism and Gender. London: Pluto Press. OCLC Bibliography [ edit ]. De Selincourt, Ernest Dorothy Wordsworth: A Biography. Oxford, The Clarendon Press.

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Gittings, Robert; Manton, Jo Dorothy Wordsworth. Clarendon Press. Gosse, Edmund William Jones, Kathleen Virago Press. Levin, Susan M. Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism. McFarland and Company. MacLean, Catherine Macdonald Dorothy Wordsworth: the Early Years. Smith, Ken Edward The Edwin Mellen Press. Wilson, Frances New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Woof, Pamela Dorothy Wordsworth, Writer. Grasmere, Cumbria: The Wordsworth Trust. External links [ edit ]. Wikisource has original works by or about: Dorothy Wordsworth. Wikiquote has quotations related to Dorothy Wordsworth. William Wordsworth. List of poems. Early life Lake Poets. Dorothy's mother died when she was young, but this did not prevent her, William, and their three brothers and sisters from having a happy childhood.

Intheir father passed away, and the children were sent to live with various relatives. After reuniting with her brother William in Dorset inand later in Somerset inthey became inseparable. In the early years, the siblings lived in poverty and even had to wear clothes given to them by friends. Dorothy was a poet and memoirist but had little interest in becoming a famous writer like her brother.

She once wrote, "I cannot bear the idea of being established as a writer However, Dorothy almost published her account of her journey with William to Scotland intitled "Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland," but was unable to find a publisher for her work. It was not until that this work was finally published. Born in Cockermouth, Dorothy never married and continued to live with William even after his marriage to Mary Hutchinson in At the time, she considered herself too old at the age of 31 to get married.