Lyrical ballads/Volume 2

by William Wordsworth

LYRICAL BALLADS,

WITH

OTHER POEMS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By W. WORDSWORTH.

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Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum!

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL.

1800.

CONTENTS.

 

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	Page
Hart-leap Well	1
There was a Boy, &c	14
The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem	19
Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle	46
Strange fits of passion I have known, &c.	50
Song	52
A slumber did my spirit seal, &c.	53
The Waterfall and the Eglantine	54
The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral	58
Lucy Gray	64
The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral	69
'Tis said that some have died for love, &c.	76
Poor Susan	80
Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water	82
Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere	84
To a Sexton	86
Andrew Jones	89
The two Theives, or the last stage of Avarice	92
A whirl-blast from behind the Hill, &c.	96

Song for the wandering Jew	98
Ruth	103
Lines written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c.	117
Lines written on a Tablet in a School	120
The two April Mornings	123
The Fountain, a conversation	127
Nutting	132
Three years she grew in sun and shower, &c.	136
The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral	139
Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century	144
The Childless Father	147
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description	151
Rural Architecture	163
A Poet's Epitaph	165
A Character	169
A Fragment	171
Poems on the Naming of Places	177 to 196
Michael, a Pastoral	199
Notes to the Poem of The Brothers	226
Notes to the Poem of Michael	227