WITH

PASTORAL

AND OTHER

Poems,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By W. WORDSWORTH.

Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum!

VOL. I.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
BY BIGGS AND COTTLE, CRANE-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

1802.

The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the

same subject

Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch

Goody Blake and Harry Gill

The Last of the Flock

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew tree which stands

near the Lake of Esthwaite

The Foster-Mother's Tale

The Thorn

We are Seven

Anecdote for Fathers

Page

1

7

9

18

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24

28

35

Lines written at a small distance from my House,

and sent by my little Boy to the Person to

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman

The Nightingale, written in April, 1798

The Idiot Boy

The Mad Mother

The Ancient Mariner

83

90

99

130

137

145

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

191

PREFACE.

The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.

I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems: I flattered myself

a