The major works

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Note on the text

Poetry:

Evening walk

Salisbury plain

Old man travelling

Lines left upon a seat in a Yew-tree

Ruined cottage

Night-piece

Discharged soldier

Old Cumberland beggar

Lines written at a small distance from my house

Goody Blake and Harry Gill

Thorn

Whirl-blast from behind the hill

Idiot boy

Lines written in early spring

Anecdote for fathers

We are seven

Simon Lee, the old huntsman

Last of the flock

Peter Bell

Expostulation and reply

Tables turned

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

To a Sexton

If nature, for a favorite child

Fountain

Two April mornings

Five Elegies:

Could I the priest's consent have gained

Just as the blowing thorn began

Elegy

Carved, Mathew, with a master's skill

Dirge

Slumber did my spirit seal

Song (she dwelt among th' untrodden ways)

Strange fits of passion I have known

Lucy Gray

Poet's epitaph

Nutting

Three years she grew in sun and shower

Brothers

Hart-leap well

Home at Grasmere

Poems On The Naming Of Places:

It was an April morning: fresh and clear

To Joanna

There is an eminence, of these our hills

Narrow girdle of rough stones and crags

To M H

Rural architecture

Childless father

Inscription: for the spot where the hermitage stood

Tis said, that some have died for love

Lines: written with a slate-pencil

Oak and the broom

Waterfall and the eglantine

Two thieves

Idle shepherd-boys

When first I journeyed hither

Character

Michael

I travelled among unknown men

Louisa

To a sky-lark

Sparrow's nest

Sailor's mother

Alice Fell

Beggars

To a butterfly (stay near me)

To The cuckoo

My heart leaps up when I behold

To H C, six years old

Among all lovely things my love had been

Written in March

Green linnet

To The Daisy: (in youth)

To The Daisy: (with little here)

To the same flower (bright flower)

To a butterfly (I've watched you)

These chairs they have no words to utter

Tinker

To the small Celandine

To the same flower (pleasures newly found)

Resolution and independence

Travelling

Within our happy castle there dwelt one

I grieved for Buonaparte

On the extinction of the Venetian Republic

How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks

I am not one who much or oft delight

World is too much with us

To the memory of Raisley Calvert

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?

With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh

It is no spirit who from heaven hath flown

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

Are souls then nothing?

Beloved Vale! I said when I shall con

Brook, that hast been my solace days and weeks

Dear native brooks your ways have I pursued

England! The time is come when thou shouldst wean

Great men have been among us

It is not to be thought of that the flood

There is a bondage which is worse to bear

When I have borne in memory what has tamed

Farewell, thou little nook of mountain ground

Sun has long been set

Calais, August, 1802

Composed by the sea-side, near Calais

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free

To Toussaint L' Ouverture

To a friend, composed near Calais

Calais, August 15th, 1802

September 1st, 1802

Composed in the valley, near Dover

September, 1802

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

Written in London, September, 1802

London, 1802

Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room

Composed after a journey across the Hamilton Hills

These words were uttered in a pensive mood

Small Celandine

Sonnet, September 25th, 1803

To the men of Kent

Anticipation, October, 1803

Yarrow unvisited

She was a phantom of delight

October, 1803: (One might believe)

October, 1803: (When, looking on)

October, 1803: (These times)

October, 1803: (Six thousand veterans)

Ode to duty

Ode (there was a time)

Who fancied what a pretty sight

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Matron of Jedborough and her husband

To the river Duddon

To the daisy (sweet flower!)

I only looked for pain and grief

Distressful gift! This book receives

Glen-Almain

Stepping westward

Rob Roy's grave

Address to the sons of burns

Solitary reaper

Character of the happy warrior

Star gazers

Power of music

By their floating mill

Elegiac stanza

Yes! Full surely 'twas the echo

Lines, composed at Grasmere

Complaint

Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland

November, 1806

O nigthtingale! Thou surely art

Gipsies

St Paul's

Characteristics of a child three year old

Surprized by joy-impatient as the wind

Yew-tree

Yarrow visited

Composed at Cora Linn

To B R Haydon, esq

November 1, 1815

While not a leaf seems faded

Ode: 1817

Ode: Pass of Kirkstone

Ode: Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty

Sequel to (beggars)

River Duddon: conclusion

Bruges (Bruges I saw)

Bruges (spirit of antiquity)

Mutability

To the Torrent at the devil's bridge

Composed among the ruins of a castle

To: (O dearer far)

To: (Let other bards)

Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)

Scorn not the sonnet

Incident at Bruges

On the power of sound

Yarrow revisited

On the departure of Sir Walter Scott

Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose

Airey-force valley

Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg

November, 1836

I know an aged man constrained to dwell

Prelude (1805)

Prose:

Advertisement to Lyrical ballads (1798)

Note to The Thorn (1800)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)

Appendix to preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)

Letter to a friend of John Wilson (7 June 1802) Preface to poems (1815)

Essay, supplementary to the preface to poems (1815)

A letter to a friend of Robert Burns (1816)

Appendix

Notes

Further reading

Index of titles and first lines.