Table of Contents
Abbreviations xi
Introduction xiii
Note on the Text xlvi
Select Bibliography xlvii
A Chronology of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge li
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798
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The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 5
The Foster-Mother's Tale 25
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite 27
The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem 29
The Female Vagrant 32
Goody Blake and Harry Gill 39
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed 43
Simon Lee, the old Huntsman 44
Anecdote for Fathers 47
We are Seven 49
Lines written in early spring 51
The Thorn 52
The Last of the Flock 59
The Dungeon 62
The Mad Mother 63
The Idiot Boy 66
Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening 79
Expostulation and Reply 80
The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject 81
Old Man travelling 82
The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman 83
The Convict 85
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 87
Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, 1802
Vol. I
Preface 95
Expostulation and Reply 117
The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject 118
Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch 119
Goody Blake and Harry Gill 119
The Last of the Flock 123
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite 126
The Foster-Mother's Tale 128
The Thorn 129
We are Seven 137
Anecdote for Fathers 139
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed 141
The Female Vagrant 142
Lines written in early Spring 149
Simon Lee, the old Huntsman 150
The Nightingale, written in April, 1798 153
The Idiot Boy 156
Love 169
The Mad Mother 172
The Ancient Mariner 175
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 193
Wordsworth's Endnotes 199
Vol. II
Hart-leap Well 203
There was a Boy 208
The Brothers 209
Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle 222
Strange fits of passion I have known 223
She dwelt among th' untrodden ways 224
A slumber did my spirit seal 225
The Waterfall and the Eglantine 225
The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral 227
The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman 230
Lucy Gray 232
'Tis said that some have died for Love 234
The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral 235
Poor Susan 238
Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water 239
Lines written with a Pencil upon a stone in the wall of the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere 240
To a Sexton 240
Andrew Jones 241
Ruth 242
Lines written with a Slate-Pencil 250
Lines written on a Tablet in a School 251
The Two April Mornings 252
The Fountain, a Conversation 254
Nutting 256
Three years she grew in sun and shower 258
The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral 259
Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century 262
The Childless Father 263
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description 264
Rural Architecture 269
A Poet's Epitaph 270
A Fragment 271
Poems on the Naming of Places 273
Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening 280
Remembrance of Collins, written upon the Thames, near Richmond 281
The Two Thieves, or the last stage of Avarice 282
A whirl-blast from behind the Hill 283
Song for the Wandering Jew 284
Michael, a Pastoral Poem 285
Appendix. 'What is usually called Poetic Diction' 298
Wordsworth's Endnotes 302
Appendix 1 Coleridge's Marginal Glosses to 'The Ancient Mariner', 1817 303
Appendix 2 Wordsworth's Letter to Charles James Fox, 14 January 1801 306
Appendix 3 John Wilson's Letter to Wordsworth, 24 May 1802 310
Appendix 4 Wordsworth's Letter to John Wilson, 7 June 1802 316
Explanatory Notes 323
Index of Titles and First Lines 367
