Mary Shelley, daughter of literary icons William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, led a life of adventure and tragedy. At 18, she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, joining a circle […]
By William Wordsworth Five years have past; five summers, with the lengthOf five long winters! and again I hearThese waters, rolling from their mountain-springsWith a soft inland murmur.—Once againDo I […]
By William Blake from Songs of Experience Tyger Tyger. burning bright,In the forests of the night:What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the […]
By William Blake from Songs of Innocence Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made theeGave thee life & bid thee feed.By the stream & o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing […]