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INTRODUCTION
Washing-Day
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
The First Fire
Octogenary Reflections
On Education
On Female Studies
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Introduction
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from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
from Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Introduction
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion (a)
There is No Natural Religion (b)
A Divine Image (Cruelty has a Human Heart)
Love's Secret
A Cradle Song (Sleep! Sleep! beauty bright)
The Book of Thel
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
America: A Prophecy
The Book of Urizen
The Book of Ahania
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
The Mental Traveller
The Crystal Cabinet
Auguries of Innocence
Milton
from A Descriptive Catalogue
from Public Address
from A Vision of the Last Judgment
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Stanzas
Inscribed to Maria
January, 1795
The Camp
To Jealousy
To the Poet Coleridge
The Old Beggar
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Green Grow the Rashes
To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785
The Cotter's Saturday Night
To a Mountain-Daisy, on Turning One Down, with the Plough, in April---1786
Auld Lang Syne
Afton Water
John Anderson My Jo
Tam O'Shanter. A Tale
Ae Fond Kiss
Ye Flowery Banks
Highland Mary
Song--For A' That and A' That
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from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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A Reverie
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Woo'd and Married and A'
The Ghost of Fadon
The Kitten
from Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions (1798)
INTRODUCTION
from Letters Written From France in the Summer of 1790
from Letters From France, 1792, 1795
INTRODUCTION
from Descriptive Sketches
Guilt and Sorrow
The Old Cumberland Beggar
The Reverie of Poor Susan
A Night-Piece
There Was a Boy
Nutting
The Prelude, 1798-1799
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
I Travelled Among Unkown Men
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Lucy Gray
Matthew
The Two April Mornings
The Fountain
A Poet's Epitaph
Hart-Leap Well
The Childless Father
Michael
The Sparrow's Nest
The Sailor's Mother
Alice Fell
To a Butterfly (Stay near me--do not take thy flight)
To the Cuckoo
My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Written in March
To a Sky-Lark (Up with me! up with me into the clouds!)
To a Butterfly (I've watched you now a full half-hour)
To H. C.
Resolution and Independence
1801 (I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vain)
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802
Calais, August, 1802
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
September, 1802. Near Dover
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Written in London, September, 1802
London, 1802
Great Men Have Been Among Us; Hands That Penned
When I Have Borne in Memory What Has Tamed
It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood
With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh
The World is Too Much with Use; Late and Soon
Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room
Scorn Not the Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned
Personal Talk
Yew-Trees
The Green Linnet
Ode to Duty
The Small Celandine
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She Was a Phantom of Delight
Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
Stepping Westward
The Solitary Reaper
Character of the Happy Warrior
Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake
Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind
Laodamia
After-Thought
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Mutability
To a Skylark (Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
So Fair, So Sweet, Withall So Sensitive
Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Appendix
from Preface to the Edition of 1815
Essay Supplementary to the Preface of 1815
from Review of Poems by George Crabbe
from Review of The Excursion
from Reminiscences of Wordsworth Among the Peasantry of Westmoreland
from Autobiography (1885)
from Reminiscences (1881)
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And What Though Winter Will Pinch Severe
Proud Maisie
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Journal, Written at Alfoxden in 1798
from Grasmere Journal
To My Niece Dorothy, A Sleepless Baby
The Mother's Return
Grasmere--A Fragment
Floating Island at Hawkshead, An Incident in the Schemes of Nature
To D.
Loving & Liking. Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child--
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed
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Sonnet: To the River Otter
Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village
Pantisocracy
To a Young Ass
To the Rev. W. L. Bowles
The Eolian Harp
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
Ode to the Departing Year
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
France: An Ode
Lewti
Fears in Solitude
The Nightingale
The Ballad of the Dark Ladié
Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream
To Asra
Dejection: An Ode
Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
The Pains of Sleep
Phantom
What Is Life?
To William Wordsworth
Human Life
Limbo
Ne Plus Ultra
The Knight's Tomb
On Donne's Poetry
Work Without Hope
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Phantom or Fact
Desire
Reason
Self-Knowledge
Epitaph
On Poesy or Art
from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Anima Poetae
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from Psyche
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The Ruined Cottage
My Days Among the Dead Are Past
The Cataract of Lodore
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Rose Aylmer
Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel
A Fiesolan Idyl
Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart
Absence
Dirce
Homage
So Late Removed
Past Ruined Ilion Helen Lives
Mild Is the Parting Year
Epitaph at Fiesolè
The Maid's Lament
The Hamadryad
Twenty Years Hence My Eyes May Grow
Death Stands Above Me
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
Well I Remember How You Smiled
INTRODUCTION
The Old Familiar Faces
Parental Recollections
Written at Cambridge
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
New Year's Eve
Dream-Children
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Old China
INTRODUCTION
from Essay on the Principles of Human Action
from Observations on Mr. Wordsworth's Poem The Excursion
from On the Character of Rousseau
On Gusto
On Genius and Common Sense
The Same Subject Continued
On Reading Old Books
The Fight
My First Acquaintance with Poets
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
The Nile
On a Lock of Milton's Hair
Abou Ben Adhem
Rondeau
from Imagination and Fancy
Proem to Selections from Keats
from Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
INTRODUCTION
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power
INTRODUCTION
The Four Ages of Poetry
INTRODUCTION
from Autobiography
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Lachin y Gair
When We Two Parted
from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
She Walks in Beauty
Oh! Snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom
My Soul is Dark
Song of Saul Before His Last Battle
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Stanzas for Music (There's not a joy the world can give)
Sonnet on Chillon
Fare Thee Well
Stanzas to Augusta
Stanzas for Music (There be none of Beauty's daughters)
Darkness
Prometheus
Manfred: A Dramatic Poem
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving
My Boat Is on the Shore
The Vision of Judgment
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
from Recollections
INTRODUCTION
Stanzas: April, 1814
To Wordsworth
Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude
Mont Blanc
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
from Julian and Maddalo
Stanzas: Written in Dejection, Near Naples
Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil
Prometheus Unbound
Sonnet: England in 1819
Song to the Men of England
The Mask of Anarchy
Ode to the West Wind
The Indian Serenade
Love's Philosophy
The Sensitive Plant
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Arethusa
Song of Apollo
Song of Pan
To --- (I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden)
The Two Spirits: An Allegory
Epipsychidion
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
To Night
Time
To --- (Music, when soft voices die)
Song (Rarely, rarely, comest thou)
Mutability
A Lament
Sonnet: Political Greatness
Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
To Jane: The Invitation
To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling"
With a Guitar, to Jane
A Dirge
The Triumph of Life
On Life
On Love
from Essay on Christianity
A Defence of Poetry
from Recollections
INTRODUCTION
Impromptu on Winter
Song (One gloomy eve I roam'd about)
Pastoral Poesy
Winter Walk
The Vixen
The Badger
The Peasant Poet
Sonnet (Poets love nature, and themselves are love)
I Love Thee Nature with a Boundless Love
Clock a Clay
Stanzas (Black absence hides upon the past)
Song (I hid my love when young while I)
Sonnet (I feel I am; --I only know I am)
"I Am"
A Vision
All Nature Has a Feeling
An Invite to Eternity
Little Trotty Wagtail
INTRODUCTION
To Wordsworth
Casabianca
The Homes of England
The Image in Lava
Woman and Fame
The Mirror in the Deserted Hall
Parting Words
The Return
A Spirit's Return
To the Blue Anemone
INTRODUCTION
Imitation of Spenser
To Lord Byron
O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell
How Many Bards
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
To Charles Cowden Clarke
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Addressed to Haydon
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
Keen, Fitful Gusts
I Stood Tip-Toe
Sleep and Poetry
After Dark Vapours
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On the Sea
from Endymion: A Poetic Romance
In Drear Nighted December
Lines On Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
When I Have Fears
God of the Meridian
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter's Wind
Four Seasons Fill the Measure of the Year
To Homer
from Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil
Mother of Hermes! Still Youthful Maia!
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
Old Meg She Was a Gipsey
Where's the Poet? Show Him! Show Him!
Fancy
Ode [Bards of Passion]
The Eve of St. Agnes
The Eve of St. Mark
Why Did I Laugh?
On a Dream
La Belle Dame sans Merci
On Fame
If by Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
Sonnet to Sleep
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
Lamia
The Fall of Hyperion
To Autumn
The Day Is Gone
I Cry Your Mercy
Bright Star
This Living Hand
from Recollections of Writers
from Reminiscences of Keats
Letter to John Taylor, October 1818
Criticism of a Sonnet by Keats
from On the Cockney School of Poetry
INTRODUCTION
Transformation
Preface to the Last London Edition of Frankenstein
INTRODUCTION
Song (Where, O! where's the chain to fling)
Home
Lines of Life
Revenge
Expectation
Song (The Dream on the Pillow)
The Snowdrop
Felicia Hemans
The Poet's First Essay
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Lines: Written in a Blank Leaf of the "Prometheus Unbound"
Old Adam, the Carrion Crow
Dream-Pedlary
Let Dew the Flowers Fill
APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
INDEX OF AUTHORS, TITLES, AND FIRST LINES
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