Author:William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

See also biography, media, quotes. A major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature.

[edit] Works

[edit] Lyrical Ballads (1800 edition)

• Volume I
  • Preface to The Lyrical Ballads
  • Expostulation and Reply
  • The Tables Turned
  • Old Man Travelling
  • The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman
  • The Last of the Flock
  • Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, (penned 1797 near a yew tree in Esthwaite)
  • The Foster-Mother's Tale
  • Goody Blake and Harry Gill
  • The Thorn
  • We Are Seven
  • Anecdote for Fathers
  • To My Sister
  • The Female Vagrant
  • Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman
  • Lines Written in Early Spring, (penned on the banks of the Wye)
  • Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening
  • Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames
  • The Idiot Boy
  • The Mad Mother
  • Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
• Volume II
  • Hart-leap Well
  • There was a Boy
  • The Brothers
  • Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle
  • Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
  • She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
  • A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
  • The Waterfall and the Eglantine
  • The Oak and the Broom
  • Lucy Gray
  • The Idle Shepherd-Boys or Dungeon-Gill Force
  • 'Tis said that some have died for love
  • The Reverie of Poor Susan
  • Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
  • Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere
  • To a Sexton
  • Andrew Jones
  • The Two Thieves, or the last stage of Avarice
  • A whirl-blast from behind the Hill
  • Song for the wandering Jew
  • Ruth
  • Lines written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone
  • Lines written on a Tablet in a School
  • Two April Mornings
  • The Fountain
  • Nutting
  • Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
  • The Pet-Lamb
  • Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century
  • The Childless Father
  • The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
  • Rural Architecture
  • A Poet's Epitaph
  • A Character
  • A Fragment
  • Poems on the Naming of Places
  • Michael

[edit] Other poems

• Afterthought
• To a Butterfly
• Character of The Happy Warrior
• Composed by the Seaside, Near Calais, August 1802
• Composed Upon An Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
• To The Cuckoo (O Blithe New-comer! I have heard...)
• To The Cuckoo (Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard...)
• Elegiac Stanzas
• England! The Time is Come When Thou Shouldst Wean
• Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg
• Great Men Have Been Among Us
• To H.C.
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (also known as The Daffodils)
• In London, September, 1802
• Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
• It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
• It is not to be Thought of
• Laodamia
• London, 1802
• Matthew
• Milton
• Mutability
• My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
• Near Dover, September, 1802
• Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room
• Ode to Duty
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
• Ode
• On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
• The Prelude
• The Primrose of the Rock
• Resolution and Independence
• The Ruined Cottage
• Scorn Not the Sonnet
• She Was a Phantom of Delight
• To Sleep
• Surprised by Joy, Impatient as the Wind
• The Solitary Reaper
• Thought of a Briton On the Subjugation of Switzerland
• To Toussaint L'Ouverture
• The Trosachs
• Weak is the Will of Man, His Judgment Blind
• Where Lies the Land to Which Yon Ship Must Go?
• Why Art Thou Silent!
• With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Sky
• With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh
• The World Is Too Much With Us
• Written in March
• Yew-Trees

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