< Lyrical Ballads (1800)
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LYRICAL BALLADS,


WITH


OTHER POEMS.


IN TWO VOLUMES.


By W. WORDSWORTH.



Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum!


VOL. II.


LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL.

1800.


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CONTENTS.

Page
Hart-leap Well 1
There was a Boy, &c 14
The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem 19
Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle 46
Strange fits of passion I have known, &c. 50
Song 52
A slumber did my spirit seal, &c. 53
The Waterfall and the Eglantine 54
The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral 58
Lucy Gray 64
The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral 69
'Tis said that some have died for love, &c. 76
Poor Susan 80
Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water 82
Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere 84
To a Sexton 86
Andrew Jones 89
The two Theives, or the last stage of Avarice 92
A whirl-blast from behind the Hill, &c. 96
Song for the wandering Jew 98
Ruth 103
Lines written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c. 117
Lines written on a Tablet in a School 120
The two April Mornings 123
The Fountain, a conversation 127
Nutting 132
Three years she grew in sun and shower, &c. 136
The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral 139
Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century 144
The Childless Father 147
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description 151
Rural Architecture 163
A Poet's Epitaph 165
A Character 169
A Fragment 171
Poems on the Naming of Places 177 to 196
Michael, a Pastoral 199
Notes to the Poem of The Brothers 226
Notes to the Poem of Michael 227

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

 
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