Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbul… - William Wordsworth

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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance.

William Wordsworth

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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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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
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