Author:William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Lyrical Ballads (1800 edition) 1.2 Other poems 2 Works about Wordsworth

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[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 travelled among unknown men
• 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

[edit] Works about Wordsworth

• William Wordsworth article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.