The Lesser Celandine
by William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet and poet-laureate, whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), first published anonymously with contributions by his friend Coleridge, marked an important turning point in the history of English literature. Some of his many well-known poems include 'The Brothers', 'Michael' and the "Lucy" poems: 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' and 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower'. His other great work, the philosophical-autobiographical poem The Prelude was published posthumously in 1850. He also published two poems dealing with the sublime and the picturesque; An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches (both in 1793), and his one and only play The Borders (1842). Wordsworth's name, perhaps even more so than that of his friend Coleridge, remains to this day almost synonymous, in England, with Romanticism itself.
The Lesser Celandine
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There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, But lately, one rough day, this Flower I passed, I stopped, and said, with inly-muttered voice, "The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew; To be a Prodigal's Favourite -then, worse truth, |