Selected poems

Old Man Travelling 3 --

Ruined Cottage 3 --

A Night-Piece 18 --

Old Cumberland Beggar 19 --

Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House 24 --

Goody Blake and Harry Gill 26 --

Thorn 30 --

Idiot Boy 38 --

Lines Written in Early Spring 53 --

Anecdote for Fathers 54 --

We Are Seven 56 --

Expostulation and Reply 59 --

Tables Turned 60 --

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 61 --

Fountain 66 --

Two April Mornings 68 --

'A slumber did my spirit seal' 71 --

Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') 71 --

'Strange fits of passion I have known' 72 --

Lucy Gray 73 --

Nutting 75 --

'Three years she grew in sun and shower' 77 --

Brothers 78 --

Hart-Leap Well 92 --

From Home at Grasmere 99 --

From Poems on the Naming of Places 109 --

Michael 114 --

'I travelled among unknown Men' 128 --

To a Sky-Lark 128 --

Alice Fell 129 --

Beggars 131 --

To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') 133 --

To the Cuckoo 133 --

'My heart leaps up when I behold' 135 --

To H. C., Six Years Old 135 --

'Among all lovely things my Love had been' 136 --

To a Butterfly ('I've watched you') 137 --

Resolution and Independence 137 --

'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one' 142 --

'The world is too much with us' 144 --

'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh' 145 --

'Dear Native Brooks your ways have I pursued' 145 --

'Great Men have been among us' 146 --

'It is not to be thought of that the Flood' 146 --

'When I have borne in memory what has tamed' 147 --

'England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean' 147 --

Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais 148 --

'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free' 149 --

To Toussaint L'Ouverture 149 --

Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of Landing 150 --

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 150 --

London, 1802 151 --

'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room' 151 --

Yarrow Unvisited 152 --

'She was a Phantom of delight' 154 --

Ode to Duty 155 --

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 157 --

'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' 164 --

Stepping Westward 164 --

Solitary Reaper 165 --

Elegiac Stanzas 166 --

A Complaint 169 --

Gipsies 169 --

St Paul's 170 --

'Surprized by joy - impatient as the Wind' 171 --

Yew-Trees 172 --

Composed at Cora Linn 173 --

Yarrow Visited 175 --

To R. B. Haydon, Esq. ('High is our calling, Friend!') 178 --

Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars] 178 --

Ode: Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty 180 --

River Duddon: Conclusion 183 --

'The unremitting voice of nightly streams' 183 --

Airey-Force Valley 184 --

Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg 184 --

'Glad sight wherever new with old' 186 --

At Furness Abbey 186 --

'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell' 187 --

from The Prelude 188.