William Wordsworth

1770-1850 / Male / English

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Essential Poems

A first path through William Wordsworth, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.

Sonnets and Public Voice

Sonnets, London, liberty, national feeling, and Wordsworth's public moral voice.

Nature, Solitude, and the Lake Country

Daffodils, mountains, rivers, solitary figures, and Wordsworth's restorative nature.

Lucy, Memory, and Loss

Lucy poems, memory, grief, mortality, and Wordsworth's most intimate losses.

The RainbowMy heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began; / So is it n

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Michael: A Pastoral PoemIf from the public way you turn your steps / Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll, / You will

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To A ButterflyI’ve watched you now a full half hour / Self-poised upon that yellow flower; / And, little Butterfly

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I Wandered Lonely As A CloudI wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a

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MinstrelsThe minstrels played their Christmas tune / To-night beneath my cottage-eaves; / While, smitten by a

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A ComplaintThere is a change—and I am poor; / Your love hath been, nor long ago, / A fountain at my fond heart’

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The Primrose Of The RockA Rock there is whose homely front / The passing traveller slights; / Yet there the glow-worms hang

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LaodamiaVows have I made by fruitless hope inspired; / Of night, my slaughtered Lord have I required: / Rest

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The Old Cumberland BeggarI saw an aged Beggar in my walk; / And he was seated, by the highway side, / On a low structure of r

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The Solitary ReaperBehold her, single in the field, / Yon solitary Highland Lass! / Reaping and singing by herself; / S

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