There is a collection of poetry published in 1807 by the romantic poet William Wordsworth. It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Freedom" "I Live Alone Like a Cloud" "My Heart Leaps Up" "Odd: Intimacy of Immortality" "Odd to Duty" "Solitary Reaper"
A Character
I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.
There's weakness, and strength both redundant and vain;
Such strength as, if ever affliction and pain
Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease,
Would be rational peace--a philosopher's ease.
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