Stay near me---do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find I thee, Historian of my infancy ! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart, My father's family! Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey:---with leaps and spring I followed on from brake to bush; But she, ...

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Williams Wordsworth was a British poet. He was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District and spent most of his lifetime in the Lake District of Northern England only.  He  started the English Romantic movement with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,  with their collection "LYRICAL BALLADS" in 1798. His work as poet mainly based on topics involving the life of children, common people, poor mass, and nature. He used very simple wordings to express his feelings through poems. The beautiful landscape of ...

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A Conversation We talked with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy-two. We lay beneath a spreading oak, Beside a mossy seat; And from the turf a fountain broke And gurgled at our feet. `Now, Matthew!' said I, `let us match This water's pleasant tune With some old border-song, or catch That suits a summer's noon; `Or of the church-clock and the chimes Sing here beneath the shade That half-mad thing of witty rhymes Which you last April made!' In silence Matthew lay, and eyed The spring ...

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