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Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

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William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.

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Also Known As: Bard of Rydal Mount

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron Alfred Tennyson

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