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Dorothy Wordsworth2 quotes
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 · 1803I 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 · 1802James Arlington Wright1 quote
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 · 1961Matsuo Basho1 quote
The old pond-
A frog leaps in,
And a splash. — Matsuo Basho · 1686Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1824Philip Whalen1 quote
Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up
These plum trees function gorgeously
A few days every year
In a way nobody else does. — Philip Whalen · 1970