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Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An undoubted classic of English literature, written by two household names of the Romantic tradition
A unique edition containing both the revised 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads and a brand new introduction by Nicholas Roe
Over two previous editions, this book has achieved life sales of 61, 807. An attractive series design and an affordable price will appeal to the widest poetry reading public available
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Poems in the 1800 Edition of Lyrical Ballads in ihe Order in Which They Were Printed
Volume One
The poems in this first volume were substantially the same as those in the 1798 edition. For details of the order in which they were printed and the changes in the titles of some of the poems, see the list of Poems in the 1798 edition. The Convict was omitted, but the following poem of Coleridgeâs was added:
â (21) Love
Volume Two
1. Hart-leap Well
2. There was a Boy, &c.
3. The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem
4. Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle
5. Strange fits of passion I have known, &c.
6. Song
7. A slumber did my spirit seal, &c.
8. The Waterfall and the Eglantine
9. The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral
10. Lucy Gray
11. The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral
12. âTis said that some have died for love, &c.
13. Poor Susan
14. Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbertâs Island, Derwent-Water
15. Inscription for the House (an Outhouse) on the Island at Grasmere
16. To a Sexton
17. Andrew Jones
18. The two Thieves, or the last stage of Avarice
19. A whirl-blast from behind the Hill, &c.
20. Song for the wandering Jew
21. Ruth
22. Lines written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c.
23. Lines written on a Tablet in a School
24. The two April Mornings
25. The Fountain, a conversation
26. Nutting
27. Three years she grew in sun and shower, &c.
28. The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral
29. Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century
30. The Childless Father
31. The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
32. Rural Architecture
33. A Poetâs Epitaph
34. A Character
35. A Fragment
36. Poems on the Naming of Places,
(I | It was an April Morning: fresh and clear |
II | To Joanna |
III | There is an Eminence, â of these our hills |
IV | A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags |
V | To M.H.) |
37. Michael, a Pastoral
Wordsworth is inconsistent in his use of titles and some of the above titles differ from those which head the poems.
Love
All Thoughts, all Passions, all Delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal Frame,
All are but Ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
Oft in my waking dreams do I 5
Live oâer again that happy hour,
When midway on the Mount I lay
Beside the Ruinâd Tower.
The Moonshine stealing oâer the scene
Had blended with the Lights of Eve; 10
And she was there, my Hope, my Joy,
My own dear Genevieve!
She leanâd against the Armed Man,
The Statue of the Armed Knight:
She stood and listenâd to my Harp 15
Amid the lingâring Light.
Few Sorrows hath she of her own,
My Hope, my Joy, my Genevieve!
She loves me best, wheneâer I sing
The Songs, that make her grieve. 20
I playâd a soft and doleful Air,
I sang an old and moving Story â
An old rude Song that fitted well
The Ruin wild and hoary.
She listenâd with a flitting Blush, 25
With downcast Eyes and modest Grace;
For well she knew, I could not choose
But gaze upon her Face.
I told her of the Knight, that wore
Upon his Shield a burning Brand; 30
And that for ten long Years he wooâd
The Lady of the Land.
I told her, how he pinâd: and, ah!
The low, the deep, the pleading tone,
With which I sang anotherâs Love, 35
Interpreted my own.
She listenâd with a flitting Blush,
With downcast Eyes and modest Grace;
And she forgave me, that I gazâd
Too fondly on her Face! 40
But when I told the cruel scorn
Which crazâd this bold and lovely
Knight, And that he crossâd the mountain woods
Nor rested day nor night;
That sometimes from the savage Den, 45
And sometimes from the darksome Shade,
And sometimes starting up at once
In green and sunny Glade,
There came, and lookâd him in the face,
An Angel beautiful and bright; 50
And that he knew, it was a Fiend,
This miserable Knight!
And that, unknowing what he did,
He leapt amid a murdârous Band,
And savâd from Outrage worse than Death 55
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