William Wordsworth Book

	Introduction
	Chronology
	Note on the Text
	Old Man Travelling	1
	The Ruined Cottage	11
	[A Night-Piece]	15
	[The Discharged Soldier]	15
	The Old Cumberland Beggar	20
	Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House	25
	Goody Blake and Harry Gill	26
	The Thorn	30
	The Idiot Boy	36
	Lines written in Earl Spring	50
	Anecdote for Fathers	50
	We Are Seven	52
	Expostulation and Reply	55
	The Tables Turned	56
	Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey	57
	The Fountain	61
	The Two April Mornings	63
	'A slumber did my spirit seal'	65
	Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')	66
	'Strange fits of passion I have known'	66
	Lucy Gray	67
	Nutting	69
	'Three years she grew in sun and shower'	70
	The Brothers	72
	Hart-Leap Well	84
	To Joanna	99
	'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags'	101
	Michael	104
	'I travelled among unknown Men'	116
	To a Sky-Lark	117
	Alice Fell	117
	Beggars	119
	To a Butterfly ('Stay near me')	121
	To the Cuckoo	121
	'My heart leaps up when I behold'	122
	To H.C., Six Years Old	123
	'Among all lovely things my Love had been'	124
	To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')	124
	'These chairs they have no words to utter'	125
	Resolution and Independence	126
	Travelling	130
	'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one'	130
	'The world is too much with us'	132
	'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh'	133
	'Dear Native Brooks your ways have I pursued'	133
	'Great Men have been among us'	134
	Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais	134
	'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free'	135
	To Toussaint L'Ouveture	135
	Composed Upon Westminster Bridge	136
	London, 1802	136
	'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'	137
	'She was a Phantom of delight'	137
	Ode to Duty	138
	Ode('There was a time')	140
	'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'	145
	Stepping Westward	146
	The Solitary Reaper	147
	Elegiac Stanzas	148
	A Complaint	150
	Gipsies	151
	St Paul's	151
	'Surprised by joy - impatient as the Wind'	152
	Yew-Trees	153
	The River Duddon: Conclusion	154
	Airey-Force Valley	154
	Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg	155
	from The Prelude: Book I	157
	from The Prelude: Book II	168
	from The Prelude: Book III	181
	from The Prelude: Book IV	183
	from The Prelude: Book V	184
	from The Prelude: Book VI	193
	from The Prelude: Book VII	197
	from The Prelude: Book VIII	203
	from The Prelude: Book IX	208
	from The Prelude: Book X	210
	from The Prelude: Book XI	216
	from The Prelude: Book XII	220
	from The Prelude: Book XIII	221
	Abbreviations	225
	Notes	225
	Further Reading	246
	Index of Titles and First Lines	250