Many travellers called at Dove Cottage, or were met on the road, all of them with stories to tell: “ we met an old man whose trade was to gather leeches, but now leeches are scarce and he had not the strength for it – he lived by begging…” (3rd October 1800) ‘ The journal records the visits of Coleridge and others and gives a glimpse of the peasant life of Westmoreland at the beginning of the 19th century. She was always willing to play a supporting role to her brother. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.”Ī drooping columbine is a good picture of Dorothy’s humble soul. “ The columbine … is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I think these years have been the very happiest of my life. Apparently his butterfly poem was written during one breakfast! She said of this place: We can imagine her pottering with her plants while William sits on a bench working on a poem. The semi-wild garden at Dove Cottage was Dorothy’s delight – her happy place. This plot of orchard-ground is ours My trees they are, my Sister’s flowers Here rest your wings when they are weary Here lodge as in a sanctuary! From William’s poem ‘ To a Butterfly‘. Behind his poetry there was a supporting, caring household encouraging him in his poetry, suggesting ideas, often walking with him in those fells and freeing him to work on his poems.Īnd love, and thought, and joy.‘ From ‘ The Sparrow’s Nest’ Dove Cottage Those famous, much quoted words ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud‘ were not William’s either. They grew about the mossy stones… 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.’ Spring Stillness Sunsets Sussex The Lake District The Sea Thomas Hardy Wales Wildflower Meadows Wildlife Wildlife Secrets William Wordsworth Wind Wind in the Willows Winter Woods Wordsworth Photographs and Quotes Resurrection Richard Jefferies Robert Macfarlane S.T.Coleridge Scotland September Skies Solitude Song Thrush South Downs. Dorothy Wordsworth Dreams Early Morning Easter Edward Elgar Edward Thomas English Village Churches Evening Faith Fell Walking Flowers G.M.Hopkins George Herbert Gerard Manley Hopkins Gertrude Jekyll Gilbert White Global Warming Grasmere Harvest Healing Heaven Hope Houseplants Immortality Iona Ireland Jesus John Clare John Constable John Keats John Masefield Joy Lindisfarne Listening Lost Words Meadows Mountains Music Nature poetry November Old England Our Footpaths Oxford Paradise Peace Poetry Prayer. C.S.Lewis Celtic Christianity Celtic Christians Chelsea Flower Show Christ Christian Faith Christianity Christmas Clouds Columba Contentment Cottage Gardens Country Lanes Creation Cuckoo Daffodils Dawn Chorus. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.įollow My Tags Angels Annual Flowers April April in the garden Arun valley Aslan Autumn Birdsong Brendan Voyage.
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