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Topic·Nature scene✕clear

Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up These plum trees function gorgeously A few days every year In a way nobody else does.

1970

★ 3.5

Personal journal

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and about 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.

Dorothy Wordsworth

1802

★ 3.5

Personal journal

We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant.

Dorothy Wordsworth

1803

★ 3.5

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples · 1824

★ 3.6

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on. A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home. I have wasted my life.

James Arlington Wright

1961

★ 5.1

The old pond- A frog leaps in, And a splash.

1686

★ 7.1