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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – first generation of English Romantics,Lake poet.
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils; нарцисс
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.       
Continuous as the stars that shine          
And twinkle on the milky way,                
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:                      
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.     

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)- first generation of English Romantics

The Ancient Mariner

The Sun now rose upon the right:

Out of the sea came he,

Still hid in mist,and on the left

Went down into the sea

Day after day,day after day

We stuck nor breath nor motion

As idle as a painted ship

Upon the painted ocean.

Water,water everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water,water everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

 

William Blake (1757-1827) – first generation of English Romantics, symbolist.

Garden of Love.
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.