Dorothy Wordsworth

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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

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Topic

Birds Nature scene

Author

Dorothy Wordsworth

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 16 Aug. 1803.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. "Journal entry 16 Aug. 1803." Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Yale University Press, 1997.

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

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Topic

Daffodils Flowers Nature scene

Author

Dorothy Wordsworth

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 15 Apr. 1802.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. "The Grasmere Journal, Journal entry 15 April 1802." The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, edited by Pamela Woof. Oxford University Press, 2008.