William Wordsworth
Essential Poems
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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
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That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
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When all at once I saw a
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The Solitary Reaper
Behold her, single in the field,
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Yon solitary Highland Lass!
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Reaping and singing by herself;
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S
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She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
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Beside the springs of Dove,
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A Maid whom there were none to pr
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The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
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Lit
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London, 1802
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
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England hath need of thee: she is a fen
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Of stagna
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
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Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
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A sight so
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
A slumber did my spirit seal;
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I had no human fears:
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She seemed a thing that could not feel
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The
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Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
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Of five long winters! and again I hear
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These
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Evening On Calais Beach
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
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The holy time is quiet as a Nun
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Breathless with adorat
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The French Revolution As It Appeared To Enthusiasts At Its Commencement
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
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For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
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Upon our s
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Three Years She Grew
Three years she grew in sun and shower,
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Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower
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On earth was never
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The Sonnet II
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frown’d,
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Mindless of its just honours; with this key
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Shak
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Lucy II
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
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Beside the springs of Dove,
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A Maid whom there were none to pr
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Upon Westminster Bridge
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
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Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
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A sight so
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The Rainbow
My heart leaps up when I behold
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A rainbow in the sky:
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So was it when my life began;
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So is it n
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Michael: A Pastoral Poem
If from the public way you turn your steps
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Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,
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You will
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