It was April morning...

"The best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.":

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Born today in 1770

Born in the beautiful lake region of England,
William Wordsworth grew up in the midst of placid, yet awe-inspiring natural surroundings.

A great poet in himself, this background made him one of England's foremost poets of nature. Wordsworth went to college at Cambridge and was in France during the French Revolution, but most of his life was spent quietly in his native lake country, where his best poems were written.

He became Poet Laureate of England in 1834 and died in 1850.