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6 de mar. de 2017 · A selection of Wordsworth's finest poems, from sonnets to long poems, with brief introductions and contexts. Learn about his themes, style, and influence on English Romanticism.
- Daffodils, Or ‘I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud’
- The Lucy Poems
- ‘Expostulation and Reply’ and ‘The Tables Turned’
- Hart-Leap Well
- ‘The World Is Too Much with Us’
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- The Prelude
- ‘Tintern Abbey’
- Conclusion, and A Note on editions of Wordsworth.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw...
The little sequence of Lucy poems—five short stanzaic poems on the mysterious Lucy figure—are exceptional in the works of Wordsworth. Never did he so successfully unite the compression demanded by the short lyric with the powerful impression of word and image. Although he is at his absolute greatest in the huge expatiations which we come to later i...
Expostulation and Reply “Why William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away? “Where are your books? that light bequeath’d To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! Up! and drink the spirit breath’d From dead men to their kind. You look round on your mother earth, As if she f...
The Knight had ridden down from Wensley moor With the slow motion of a summers cloud; He turn’d aside towards a Vassal’s door, And, “Bring another Horse!” he cried aloud. “Another Horse!”—That shout the Vassal heard, And saddled his best steed, a comely Grey; Sir Walter mounted him; he was the third Which he had mounted on that glorious day. Joy sp...
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out ...
The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. I. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn wheresoe’er I may, By night or d...
Visit here to read ‘The Prelude’ in its entirety. Around 1798–9, Coleridge began bothering Wordsworth about writing a long philosophical poem. This was to be called ‘The Recluse’. Sadly, it was never produced, but two other book-length poems were: ‘The Prelude’, published in 1850 by Wordsworth’s widow a few months after his death (the title is hers...
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, Which on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. ...
Wordsworth’s corpus is vast, and made doubly vast again by the fact that he substantially revised most of what he wrote at some point in his life. Though many editors prefer Wordsworth’s earliest versions, thinking them ‘better’ (hardly a rigorous criterion for such an important decision!), I go with Wordsworth’s own opinion, which he expressed in ...
A personal and critical appreciation of the best works of the English Romantic poet, from Daffodils to The Prelude. Learn about Wordsworth's life, style, themes, and legacy through eight examples of his poetry.
Wordsworth wrote the poems that would go into the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads—poems such as “Tintern Abbey,” “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned,” “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” and “Michael.”
A famous poem by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, describing his encounter with a crowd of golden daffodils. Read the full text, analysis, and background of this classic nature poem on The Poetry Foundation website.
Explore 40+ poems by William Wordsworth, one of the most influential and important English poets of the Romantic era. Learn about his themes, style, and biography, and read his most famous works such as 'Daffodils,' 'Tintern Abbey,' and 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality.'
A poem about a girl who claims to have seven siblings, even though four of them are dead or gone. The poet questions her belief and tries to understand her perspective.
Browse and read poems by William Wordsworth, one of the central figures of the Romantic era in English literature. Explore his themes of nature, imagination, and the human spirit in his simple and powerful verses.
