Featured Poem: The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
Our poem this week comes from William Wordsworth and could describe the general attitude to Mondays: The world is too much with us.
It's time to take a few moments out from the rush of Monday morning and enjoy a quite reflection with this week's Featured Poem from William Wordsworth.
Born in 1770, Wordsworth was one of the leading poets of the Romantic Age, serving as Poet Laureate between 1843 and his death from pleurisy in 1850.
The world is too much with us
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