January 28, 2012

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Academy of American Poets

January 28, 2012

Today's poem appears in Selected Poems, published by Penguin Classics.

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    Travelling
    by William Wordsworth

    This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
    Shine in between the fading leaves! the air
    In the habitual silence of this wood
    Is more than silent: and this bed of heath,
    Where shall we find so sweet a resting-place?
    Come!—let me see thee sink into a dream
    Of quiet thoughts,—protracted till thine eye
    Be calm as water when the winds are gone
    And no one can tell whither.—my sweet friend!
    We two have had such happy hours together
    That my heart melts in me to think of it.

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