Selected PoemsPenguin, 1994 - 587 pages This book contains a selection of the shorter poems, including Wordsworth's whole contribution to the Lyrical Ballads (1798), several tales from The Excursion and over half of The Prelude. Two additional features of this edition are new versions of The Pe |
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Contents
Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead | 1 |
Beauty and Moonlight | 4 |
Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem | 5 |
When slow from pensive twilights latest gleams | 6 |
Lines Written While Sailing in a Boat at Evening | 7 |
The Female Vagrant | 8 |
The Convict | 16 |
Animal Tranquillity and Decay | 18 |
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic | 168 |
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | 170 |
Calais August 1802 | 171 |
It is a beauteous evening calm and free | 172 |
September 1802 Near Dover | 173 |
Written in London September 1802 | 174 |
To the Men of Kent October 1803 | 175 |
October 1803 These times | 176 |
To My Sister | 20 |
Goody Blake and Harry Gill | 21 |
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman | 25 |
Her Eyes are Wild | 28 |
The Idiot Boy | 31 |
The Last of the Flock | 45 |
We are Seven | 48 |
Simon Lee | 50 |
The Thorn | 53 |
Lines Written in Early Spring | 61 |
Anecdote for Fathers | 62 |
Expostulation and Reply | 64 |
The Tables Turned | 65 |
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey | 66 |
The Reverie of Poor Susan | 70 |
A NightPiece | 71 |
The Old Cumberland Beggar | 72 |
A whirlblast from behind the hilf | 77 |
A slumber did my spirit seaf | 78 |
Three years she grew in sun and shower | 79 |
I travelled among unknown men | 81 |
Matthew | 83 |
The Two April Mornings | 84 |
The Fountain | 86 |
Lucy Gray or Solitude | 88 |
A Poets Epitaph | 91 |
The Brothers | 93 |
To M H | 105 |
fresh and clear | 111 |
To Joanna | 113 |
When to the attractions of the busy world | 115 |
Michael | 118 |
To a Young Lady | 131 |
The Sailors Mother | 132 |
Alice Fell or Poverty | 133 |
Beggars | 135 |
To a Butterfly Stay near me | 136 |
To the Cuckoo O blithe Newcomer | 137 |
My heart leaps up when I behold | 138 |
Intimations of Immortality | 139 |
The Sparrows Nest | 145 |
Written in March | 146 |
The Green Linnet | 147 |
To the Daisy Bright Flower | 148 |
To a Butterfly Ive watched | 149 |
To the Same Flower The Small Celandine | 151 |
Resolution and Independence | 153 |
Travelling | 158 |
Stanzas Written in my PocketCopy | 159 |
1801 I grieved for Buonaparté | 161 |
England the time is come when thou shouldst wean | 162 |
When I have borne in memory what has tamed | 163 |
Personal Talk | 164 |
The world is too much with us late and soon | 166 |
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? | 167 |
The Pedlar and the Ruined Cottage | 178 |
She was a Phantom of delight | 203 |
The Small Celandine | 204 |
Ode to Duty | 205 |
I wandered lonely as a cloud | 207 |
YewTrees | 208 |
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle | 209 |
Stepping Westward | 211 |
The Solitary Reaper | 212 |
Character of the Happy Warrior | 213 |
The Waggoner | 215 |
StarGazers | 239 |
Yes it was the mountain Echo | 241 |
Lines Composed at Grasmere | 264 |
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland | 265 |
November 1806 | 266 |
Gypsies | 271 |
St Pauls | 272 |
Characteristics of a Child Three Years Old | 273 |
The Excursion | 274 |
The Tale of the Whig and the Jacobite | 275 |
The Story of Ellen | 279 |
The Pastors Children | 286 |
Yarrow Visited | 287 |
Laodamia | 290 |
Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty | 295 |
Sole listener Duddon to the breeze that played | 297 |
Return Content for fondly I pursued | 298 |
Mutability | 299 |
To a Skylark Ethereal minstrel | 300 |
Yarrow Revisited | 301 |
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott | 304 |
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes | 305 |
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg | 306 |
Final FourteenBook Version MS E | 307 |
Schooltime continued | 324 |
Residence at Cambridge | 337 |
Summer Vacation | 347 |
Books | 359 |
Cambridge and the Alps | 366 |
Residence in London | 374 |
Retrospect Love of Nature leading to Love of Man | 382 |
Residence in France | 388 |
France continued | 395 |
France concluded | 401 |
Imagination and Taste how impaired and restored | 407 |
Subject concluded | 415 |
Conclusion | 421 |
Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 with Appendix | 431 |
Preface to Poems 1815 with Essay Supplementary | 461 |
Notes | 503 |
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Common terms and phrases
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