LYRICAL BALLADS,

WITH

A FEW OTHER POEMS.

BRISTOL:

PRINTED BY BIGGS AND COTTLE,

FOR T. N. LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON.

1798.

CONTENTS.

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere

The Foster-Mother's Tale

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands

near the Lake of Esthwaite

Lewti; or the Circassian Love Chant

Page

1

53

Lines written at a small distance from my House,

and sent by my little Boy to the Person to
whom they are addressed

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman

98

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the

The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman
The Convi&

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

180

183

186

189

193

197

201

ADVERTISEMENT.

It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can intereft the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves.

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower claffes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. Readers accustomed to the