To The Memory Of Raisley Calvert

CALVERT! it must not be unheard by them

Who may respect my name, that I to thee

Owed many years of early liberty.

This care was thine when sickness did condemn

Thy youth to hopeless wasting, root and stem--

That I, if frugal and severe, might stray

Where'er I liked; and finally array

My temples with the Muse's diadem.

Hence, if in freedom I have loved the truth;

If there be aught of pure, or good, or great,

In my past verse; or shall be, in the lays

Of higher mood, which now I meditate;--

It gladdens me, O worthy, short-lived, Youth!

To think how much of this will be thy praise.

William Wordsworth

The English poet William Wordsworth is considered to be one of the most important literary figures in modern history, as well as one of the leading purveyors of the Romantic Movement. He was born in 1770, in Cumbria, and was one of four children. Over the course of his life, he continued to return to the Lake District, and eventually passed away in Cumbria, in 1850. The influence of William Wordsworth should not be underestimated, as he not only helped to kick-start the Romantic Age, he also formed half of one of the most famous literary partnerships in history. The friendship that he shared with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now the stuff of legend, as is the subsequent fallout after the friendship fell apart.

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