Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth

"Biographical Note Introduction An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady Descriptive Sketches. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Commanding a Beautiful Prospect The Reverie of Poor Susan A Night-Piece We Are Seven Anecdote for Fathers The Thorn Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A True Story Her Eyes Are Wild Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman; with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned Lines Written in Early Spring To My Sister ""A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill"" Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the Same Subject The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman The Last of the Flock The Idiot Boy Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour July 13, 1798 The Old Cumberland Beggar Animal Tranquillity and Decay Peter Bell. A Tale The Simplon Pass Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth There Was a Boy Nutting ""Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"" ""She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"" ""I Travelled Among Unknown Men"" ""There Years She Grew in Sun and Shower"" ""A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"" A Poet's Epitaph Matthew The Two April Mornings The Fountain. A Conversation Lucy Gray; or, Solitude Ruth ""Bleak Season Was It, Turbulent and Wild"" ""On Nature's Invitation Do I Come"" The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. An Autobiographical Poem The Recluse The Brothers Michael. A Pastoral Poem The Pet-Lamb. A Pastoral The Waterfall and the Eglantine The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral Hart-leap Well The Childless Father The Sparrow's Nest The Sailor's Mother Alice Fell; or, Poverty To a Butterfly ""My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"" ""Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been"" Written in March, While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water To a Butterfly To the Small Celandine Resolution and Independence ""I Grieved for Buonaparte"" A Farewell Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 Calais, August, 1802 ""It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"" On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic To Toussaint L'Ouverture Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing Near Dover, September, 1802 In London, September, 1802 London, 1802 ""England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should'st Wean"" ""Great Men Have Been Among Us"" ""It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood"" ""When I Have Borne in Memory"" Stanzas Written in My Pocket-Copy of Thomson's ""Castle of Indolence"" To H. C. Six Years Old The Green Linnet Yew-trees Stepping Westward The Solitary Reaper Yarrow Unvisited October, 1803 To the Men of Kent. October, 1803 In the Pass of Killicranky, an Invasion Being Expected, October, 1803 Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803 To the Cuckoo ""She Was a Phantom of Delight"" ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" The Affliction of Margaret The Small Celandine Ode to Duty ""When to the Attractions of the Busy World"" Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont To a Young Lady, Who Had Been Reproached for Taking Long Walks in the Country The Waggoner French Revolution, As It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement. Reprinted from the Friend Character of the Happy Warrior Star-Gazers ""Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room"" Personal Talk ""The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon"" ""With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh"" ""Where Lies the Land to Which Yon Ship Must Go?"" To Sleep To Sleep To Sleep To the Memory of Raisley Calvert ""Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne"" November, 1806 Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland ""Though Narrow Be That Old Man's Cares"" Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of His Ancestors The White Doe of Rylstone; on the Fate of the Nortons The Excursion, Book I Laodamia Yarrow Visited, September, 1814 ""Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind"" Ode to Lycoris. May, 1817 Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series. (A Selection) Pt. I. From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion Pt. II. To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I Pt. III. From the Restoration to the Present Times ""Scorn Not the Sonnet"" Yarrow Revisited ""If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven"" ""If This Great World of Joy and Pain"" ""Most Sweet It Is with Unuplifted Eyes"" To a Child. Written in Her Album Preface to the Second Edition of ""Lyrical Ballads,"" 1800 Appendix, 1802 Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines"