Grasmere, England: William Wordsworth's Grave

It's not easy being a poet for a living. You'd better be good at it if you want to eat. 

I guess William Wordsworth qualified, since he was the Poet Laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850. He had first declined the title because of his relatively advanced age at the time (about 73), but changed his mind when he was told he didn't have to do anything to earn it. Nice work if you can get it.

Wordsworth did have a little help, picking up jobs along the way. One of them came in 1813, when he was named Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, That offered him the security to write his poetry, and he came up with hundreds of such literary efforts.

Even so, his best-known poem was written way back in 1807. It's called "Daffodils" -  "I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o'er vale and hill, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils."

Wordsworth and some family members are buried in a church cemetery in Grasmere. It's near Dove Cottage, where he and his sister spend eight years together. Grasmere is a village that corners the market on cute.