"Mary and I walked to the top of the hill and looked at Rydale. I was much affected when I stood upon the second bar of Sara's gate. The lake was perfectly still, the sun shone on the hill and vale, the distant birch trees looked like large golden flowers."

📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 1st November 1802.

'...No longer, scattering to the heedless winds
The vocal raptures of fresh poesy,
Shall he frequent these precincts...' 🖊

📘 'The massy Ways, carried across these heights', William Wordsworth.

🖼 Ursula Hurst

📍The Summer House, Rydal Mount & Gardens

'With busy eyes I pierced the lane
In quest of known and unknown things,'

🖊 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on my sick-bed' (1832)

🖼 Ursula Hurst

"... For my lot
Then was, within the famed Egerian Grot
To sit and muse, fanned by its dewy air"

📔 'Composed at Rydal on May Morning', William Wordsworth

📍Rydal Hall

'Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot,
Living with liberty on thee to gaze,'

- William Wordsworth, 1842.

'Not a window lets in light,
But through flowers clustering bright;'

- Extract from 'A Poet's Home', Maria Jane Jewsbury, 1825.