Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)
Wordsworth
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And I had done an hellish thing And it would work ’em woe: For all averr’d, I had kill’d the Bird That made the Breeze to blow.
The Ice was here, the Ice was there, The Ice was all around: It crack’d and growl’d, and roar’d and howl’d— Like noises of a swound.
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- ADVERTISEMENT.Sample
- ARGUMENT.
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- III.
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- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- THE FOSTER-MOTHER’S TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
- LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT.
- A CONVERSATIONAL POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL, 1798.
- THE FEMALE VAGRANT.
- GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY.
- LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
- SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
- ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT.
- WE ARE SEVEN.
- LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
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- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- THE LAST OF THE FLOCK.
- THE MAD MOTHER.
- THE IDIOT BOY.
- EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY.
- THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
- THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
- THE CONVICT.