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1786.

Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation

of leaving School

Written in very Early Youth

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree

1789.

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames near Rich

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1799.

The Simplon Pass

Influence of Natural Objects

"There was a Boy"

Nutting

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"Strange fits of passion have I known
"Three years she grew in sun and shower'
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
"I travelled among unknown men
"A slumber did my spirit seal"
A Poet's Epitaph.

Matthew

The Fountain

The two April Mornings

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"Bleak season was it, turbulent and wild'

"It was an April morning: fresh and clear' To Joanna

The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force
"When, to the attractions of the busy world"
"Tis said, that some have died for love"

1801.

The Sparrow's Nest

Beggars

To a Butterfly

To the Cuckoo

"My heart leaps up"

The Glow-Worm.

Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the Foot of

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To a Butterfly

To the Small Celandine

To the Same Flower

The Leech-Gatherer; or, Resolution and Independence

Stanzas written in my Pocket-Copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

To Toussaint l'Ouverture

"It is not to be thought of that the Flood"

"When I have borne in memory what has tamed "

To H. C.

To the Daisy

To the Same Flower

To the Daisy

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Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith,

Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe
Yarrow Unvisited

Anticipation. October 1803

1804.

"She was a Phantom of delight"

The Daffodils; or, "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
The Affliction of Margaret

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora

The Small Celandine

Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a

Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John

Wordsworth

To a Young Lady

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Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake

"Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?"

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"The world is too much with us; late and soon"

=To Sleep

Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one Evening, after

a Stormy Day

Ode, Intimations of Immortality

1807.

- Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

-To Thomas Clarkson, on the final Passing of the Bill for the
Abolition of the Slave-Trade

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle

From the White Doe of Rylstone.

- The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory

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