English Romantic Writers

Introduction
from Poetical Sketches
To Spring
To Summer
To Autumn
To Winter
Song (How sweet I roam'd from field to field)
Song (My silks and fine array)
Song (Love and harmony combine)
Song (Memory, hither come)
Mad Song
To the Muses
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion (a)
There Is No Natural Religion (b)
Songs of Innocence
Introduction (Piping Down the valleys wild)
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Shepherd
Infant Joy
The Little Black Boy
Laughing Song
Spring
A Cradle Song (Sweet dreams, form a shade)

Nurse's Song
Holy Thursday ('Twas on a Holy Thursday , their innocent faces clean)
The Blossom
The Chimney Sweeper (When my mother died I was very young)
The Divine Image (To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love)
Night
A Dream
On Anothers Sorrow
The Little Boy Lost (Father, father, where are you going?)
The Little Boy Found
Songs of Experience
Introduction (Hear the voice of the Bard!)
Earth's Answer
Nurse's Song
The Fly
The Tyger
The Little Girl Lost (In futurity)
The Little Girl Found
The Clod and the Pebble
The Little Vagabond
Holy Thursday (Is this a holy thing to see)
A Poison Tree
The Angel
The Sick Rose
To Tirzah
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah! Sun-flower
The Lilly
The Garden of Love
A Little Boy Lost (Nought loves anther as itself)
Infant Sorrow
The Schoolboy
London
A Little Girl Lost (Children of the future Age)
The Chimney Sweeper (A little black thing among the snow)
The Human Abstract
A Divine Image (Cruelty has a Human Heart)
Love' Secret
A Cradle Song (Sleep Sleep beauty bright)
The Book of Thel
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
America: A Prophecy
The Book of Urizen
The Book of Ahania
from The Four Zoas
Night the Ninth
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
The Mental Traveler
The Crystal Cabinet
Auguries of Innocence
Milton: from Jerusalem
To the Jews
To the Deists
To the Christians
from A Descriptive Catalogue
from Public Address
from A Vision of the Last Judgment
Letters
To the Revd. Dr. Trusler, August 23, 1799
To William Hayley, May 6, 1800
To Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802
To Thomas Butts, July 6, 1803
To William Hayley, October 7, 1803
To George Cumberland, April 12, 1827

Introduction
Stanzas Written between Dover and Calais, in July 1792
Inscribed to Maria
January, 1795
The Camp
To Jealousy
To the Poet Coleridge
The Old Beggar

Introduction
Green Grow the Rashes
To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785
The Cotter's Saturday Night
To a Mountain-Daisy, On Turning One Down, with the Plough, in April - 1786
Auld Lang Syne
Afton Water
John Anderson My Jo
Tam O'Shanter. A Tale
Ae Fond Kiss
Ye Flowery Banks
Highland Mary
Song - For A' That and A' That

Introduction
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Introduction
A Reverie
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Woo'd and Married and A'
The Ghost of Fadon
The Kitten
from Introductory Discourse to Plays on the Passions

Introduction
from Letters Written from France in the Summer of 1790 and Letters from France, 1792, 1795
from Letters from France, 1792, 1795
Letter II

Introduction
from Descriptive Sketches
Guilt and Sorrow
The Old Cumberland Beggar
The Reverie of Poor Susan
A Night-Piece
from Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Lines: Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
To My Sister
Simon Lee
Anecdote for Fathers
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
The Thorn
The Last of the Flock
Her Eyes Are Wild
The Idiot Boy
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Lines: Composed a Few Miles above Titern Abbey
There Was A Boy
Nutting
The Prelude 1798-1799
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
I Travelled Among Unknown Men
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
Three Years She grew in Sun and Shower
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Lucy Gray
or, Solitude
Matthew
The Two April Mornings
The FountainA Poet's Epitaph
Hart-Leap Well
The Childless Father
Michael
The Sparrow's Nest
The Sailor's Mother
Alice Fell, or, Poverty
To a Butterfly (Stay near me - do not take thy flight!)
To the Cuckoo
My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Written in March
To a Sky-Lark (Up with me! up with me into the clouds!)
To A Butterfly (I've watched you now a full half-hour)
To H.C.
Resolution and Independence
1801 (I grieved for Buonaparte', with a vain)
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802
Calais, August, 1802
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
September, 1802. Near Dover
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Written in London, September, 1802
London, 1802
Great Men Have Been Among Us
Hands That Penned
When I Have Borne in Memory What Has Tamed
It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood
With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh
The World Is Too Much with Us
Late and Soon
Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room
Scorn Not the Sonnet
Critic, You Have Frowned
Personal Talk
Yew-trees
The Green Linnet
Ode to Duty
The Small Celandine
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
She Was A Phantom of Delight
Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
Stepping Westward
The Solitary Reaper
Character of the Happy Warrior
Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake
Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind
Aodamia
from The Excursion
Prospectus
Book First
from Book Second
from Book Third
from Book Fourth
from Book Nine
Afterthought
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Mutability
To a Skylark (Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
So Fair, So Sweet, Withal So Sensitive
from The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind
Book First:
Introduction - Childhood and School-Time
Book Second:
School-Time (continued)
from Book Third: Residence at Cambridge
Book Fourth: Summer Vacation
from Book Fifth: Books
from Book Sixth: Cambridge, and the Alps
from Book Seventh: Residence in London
from Book Eighth: Retrospect - Love of Nature Leading to Love of Man
from Book Tenth: Residence in France
from Book Eleventh: France
from Book Twelfth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored
from Book Thirteenth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored (concluded)
from Book Fourteenth: Conclusion
Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Appendix
from Preface to the Edition of 1815 (of Poems)
Essay Supplementary to the Preface of 1815
Letters of the Wordsworth Family
Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (?), June, 1797
W.W. to Charles James Fox, January 14, 1801
W.W. to Sara Hutchinson, June 14, 1802
W.W. to Thomas DeQuincey, July 29, 1803
Richard Wordsworth to W.W., February 7, 1805
W.W. to R.W., February 11, 1805
W.W. to Lady Beaumont, May 21, 1807
Francis Jeffrey
from Review of Poems by George Crabbe
from Review of The Excursion
H.D. Rawnsley
from Reminiscences of Wordsworth Among the Peasantry of Westmoreland
Sir Henry Taylor
from Autobiogrphy (1885)
Thomas Carlyle
from Reminiscences (1881)

Introduction
from The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Introduction
from Canto VI
Hunting Song
from Marmion
Where Shall the Lover Rest
Lochinvar
from The Lady of the Lake
Hail to the Chief
Coronach
And What Though Winter Will Pinch Severe
Proud Maisie

Introduction
Alfoxden Journal
from Grasmere Journal
To My Niece Dorothy, a Sleepless Baby
The Mother's Return
Grasmere - A Fragment
Floating Island at Hawkshead, An Incident in the Scheme of Nature
To D.
Loving & Liking. Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed

Introduction
Sonnet: To the River Otter
Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village
Pantisocracy
To a Young Ass
To the Rev. W.L. Bowles
The Eolian Harp
Reflections on Having left a Place of Retirement
Ode to the Departing Year
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
France: An Ode
Lewti
Fears in Solitude
The Nightingale
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie
Kubla Khan
To Asra
Dejection: An Ode
Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
The Pains of Sleep
Phantom
What Is Life?
To William Wordsworth
Human Life
Limbo
Ne Plus Ultra
The Knight's Tomb
On Donne's Poetry
Work Without Hope
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Phantom or Fact
Desire
Reason
Self-Knowledge
Epitaph
from On the Principles of Genial Criticism
Essay Third
From Biographia Literaria
from Chapter IV
from Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XXII
On Poesy or Art
from Shakespearean Criticism
The Character of Hamlet
Stage Illusion
Ancient and Modern Art
Mechanic and Organic Form
Poetry Is Ideal
The Grandest Efforts of Poetry
from The Statesman's Manual
Ideas
Symbol and Allegory
Satanic Self-Idolatry
from The Friend
His Prose Style
On Radicals and Republicans
The Speech of Educated Men
from Aids to Reflection
Mystics and Mysticism
from Speicmens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Anima Poetae
Letters
To John Thelwall, November 19, 1796
To John Thelwall, December 17, 1796
To Joseph Cottle, c. July 3, 1797
To John Thelwall, Ocotber 14, 1797
To Thomas Poole, March 16, 1801
To Thomas Poole, March 23, 1801
To William Godwin, March 25, 1801
To William Godwin, January 22, 1802
To William Sotheby, July 13, 1802
To William Sotheby, July 19, 1802
To William Sotheby, September 10, 1802
To Robert Southey, August 14, 1803
To Thomas Wedgwood, September 16, 1803
To Thomas Poole, October 14, 1803
To Thomas Clarkson, October 13, 1806
To Thomas Poole, january 28, 1810
To Joseph Cottle, April 26, 1814
To William Wordsworth, May 30, 1815
To Daniel Stuart, May 13, 1816
To William Sotheby, November 9, 1828

Introduction
from Psyche

Introduction
The Ruined Cottage
My Days Among the Dead Are Past
The Cataract of Lodore

Introduction
Rose Aylmer
Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel
A Fiesolan Idyl
Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart
Absence
Dirce
Homage
So Late Removed
Past Tuined Ilion Helen Lives
Mild Is The Parting Year
Epitaph at Fiesole
The Maid's Lament
The Hamadryad
Twenty years Hence My Eyes May Grow
Death Stands Above Me
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
Well I Remember How You Smiled
from Imaginary Conversations
from Southey and Porson

Introduction
The Old Familiar Faces
Parental Recollections
Written at Cambridge
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
New Year's Eve
Dream-Children
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Letters
To William Wordsworth, January 30, 1801
To Thomas Manning, February 15, 1801
To Thomas Manning, September 24, 1802

Introduction
from Essay on the Principles of Human Action
from Observations on Mr. Wordsworth's Poem The Excursion
from On the Character of Rousseau
On Gusto
from Lectures on the English Poets
On Shakespeare and Milton
from On the Living Poets
On Genius and Common Sense
The Same Subject Continued
On Reading Old Books
The Fight
My First Acquaintance with Poets
from The Spirit of the Age
Mr. Coleridge
Lord Byron

Introduction
from National Airs
Oft, in the Silly Night
from Irish Melodies
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
Let Erin Remember the Days of Old
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Dear Harp of My Country

Introduction
from The Story of Rimini
from Canto III
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
The Nile
On a Lock of Milton's Hair
Abou Ben Adhem
Rondeau
from Imagination and Fancy
Proem to Selections from Keats
from Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries

Introduction
from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
from The Pleasures of Opium
from The Pains of Opium
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
from Suspiria De Profundis
Dreaming
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power
from The English Mail-Coach
Section II - The Vision of Sudden Death
Section III - Dream - Fugue

Introduction
The Four Ages of Poetry

Introduction
from Autobiography

Introduction
Lachin y Gair
When We Two Parted
from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
She Walks in Beauty
Oh! Snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom
My Soul is Dark
Song of Saul before His Last Battle
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Stanzas for Music (There's not a joy the world can give)
Sonnet on Chillon
Fare Thee Well
Stanzas to Augusta
Stanzas for Music (There be none of Beauty's daughters)
Darkness
Proemetheus
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
from Canto III
from Canto IV
Manfred: A Dramatic Poem
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving
My Boat Is on the Shore
From Don Juan
Dedication
Canto the First
from Canto the Second
from Canto the Third
from Canto the Fourth
from Canto the Eleventh
from Canto the Twelfth
from Canto the Fourteenth
from Canto the Fifteenth
Canto the Sixteenth
The Vision of Judgment
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
Letters
To Francis Hodgson, July 16, 1809
To Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12, 1809
To Francis Hodgson, September 3, 1811
To Thomas Moore, September 20, 1814
To the Countess of Jersey, Ocotber 5, 1814
To S.T. Coleridge, October 18, 1815
To Leigh Hunt, Septmenber-October 30, 1815
To John Murray, November 25, 1816
from To John Murray, May 9, 1817
To John Murray, September 15, 1817
from To John Murray, October 12, 1817
from To John Cam Hobhouse, November 11, 1818
To John Murray, January 25, 1819
To John Murray, April 6, 1819
from To John Murray, May 15, 1819
from To John Murray, June 7, 1819
To Augusta Leigh, July 26, 1819
To John Murray, August 29, 1819
from Douglas Kinnaird, October 26, 1819
from To John Murray, February 21, 1820
from To Richard Belgrave Hoppner, April 22, 1820
from To John Murray, February 16, 1821
To Percy Bysshe Shelley, April 26, 1821
To John Murray, September 24, 1821
from To Thomas Moore, March 4, 1822
To Lady Hardy, December 1, 1822
To Henri Beyle, May 29, 1823
To Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, July 22, 1823
To Countess Teresa Guicciolo, October 7, 1823
from To Countess Teresa Guicciolo, October 29, 1823
To John Cam Hobhouse, December 27, 1823
To Thomas Moore, December 27, 1823
To Yusuff Pasha, January 23, 1824
To Augusta Leigh, February 23, 1824

from Recollections

Introduction
Stanzas: April, 1814
To Wordsworth
Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude
Mont Blanc
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
from Julian and Maddalo
Stanzas: Written in Dejection, near Naples
Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil
Prometheus Unbound
Sonnet: England in 1819
Song to the Men of England
The Mask of Anarchy
Ode to the West Wind
The Indian Girl's Song
Love's Philoshy
The Sensitive Plant
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Arethusa
Song of Apollo
Song of Pan
To - (I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden)
The Two Spirits: An Allegory
Epipsychidion
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
To Night
Time
To - (Music, when soft voices die)
Song (Rarely, rarely, comest thou)
Mutability
A Lament
Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento
from Hellas
Life May Change, but It May Fly Not
Worlds on Worlds Are Rolling Ever
The World's Great Age Begins Anew
Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered
To Jane: The Invitation
To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling
With a Guitar, to Jane
A Dirge
The Triumph of Life
On Life
On Love
from Essay on Christianity
A Defense of Poetry
Letters
To William godwin, January 10, 1812
To Thomas Love Peacock, December 17 or 18, 1818
To Mary Shelley, August 10, 1821
To Lord Byron, October 21, 1821
To John Gisborne, June 18, 1822

from Recollections

Introduction
Impromptu on Winter
Song (One gloomy eve I roamd about)
Pastoral Poesy
A Winter Walk
The Vixen
The Badger
The Peasant Poet
Sonnet (Poets love nature, and themselves are love)
I Love Thee Nature with a Boundless Love
Clock a Clay
Stanzas (Black absence hides upon the past)
Song (I hid my love when young while I)
Sonnet (I feel I am; - I only know I am)
I Am
A Vision
All Nature has a Feeling
An Invite to Eternity
Little Trotty Wagtail

Introduction
To Wordsworth
Casabianca
The Homes of England
The Image in Lava
Woman and Fame
The Mirror in the Deserted Hall
Parting Words
The Return
A Spirit's Return
To the Blue Anemone

Introduction
Imitation of Spenser
To Lord Byron
O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell
How Many Bards
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
To Charles Cowden Clarke
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Addressed to Haydon
On the Grashopper and Cricket
Keen
Fitful gusts
I Stood Tip-Toe
Sleep and Poetry
After Dark Vapours
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On the Sea
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
In Drear Nighted December
Lines On Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
When I Have Fears
God of the Meridian
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter's Wind
Four Seasons Fill the Measure of the Year
To Homer
from Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil
Mother of Hermes! and Still Youthful Maia!
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
Old Meg She Was A Gipsey
Where's the Poet? Show Him! Show Him!
Hyperion
Book I
Book II
Book III
Fancy
Bards of Passion and of Mirth
The Eve of St. Agnes
The Eve of Saint Mark
Why Did I Laugh?
As Hermes Once Took to His Feathers Light
La Belle Dame sans Merci
On Fame
If by Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
Sonnet to Sleep
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
Lamia
The Fall of Hyperion
To Autumn
The Day Is Gone I Cry Your Mercy
Bright Star
This Loving Hand
Letters
To J.H. Reynolds, April 17, 1817
To B.R. Haydon, May 10-11, 1817
To J.H. Reynolds, November 22, 1817
To Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817
To George and Tom Keats, December 21-27, 1817
To J.H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818
To John Taylor, February 27, 1818
To Benjamin Bailey, March 13, 1818
To B.R. Haydon, April 8, 1818
To John Taylor, April 24, 1818
To J.H. Reynolds, May 3, 1818
To Tom Keats, June 25-27, 1818
To Fanny Keats, July 2-5, 1818
To J.A. Hessey, October 8, 1818
To Richard Woodhouse, October 27, 1818
To George and Georgiana Keats, February 14- May 3, 1819
To Fanny Keats, May 1, 1819
To Sarah Jeffrey, May 31, 1819
To Sarah Jeffrey, June 9, 1819
To J.H. Reynolds, July 11, 1819
To Fanny Brawne, July 25, 1819
To Benjamin Bailey, August 14, 1819
To J.H. Reynolds, September 21, 1819
To Richard Woodhouse, September 21-22, 1819
To Charles Brown, September 23, 1819
To George and Georgiana Keats, Septmeber 17-27, 1819
To John Taylor, November 17, 1819
To James Rice, February 14-16, 1820
To Fanny Brawne, February (?) 1820
To Fanny Brawne, February 24 (?), 1820
To Fanny Brawne, March 25, 1820
To Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820
To Charles Brown, November 30, 1820
Joseph Severn to Charles Brown, February 27, 1821

from Recollections of Writers

from Reminiscences of Keats

Letter to John Taylor, October 1818
Criticism of a Sonnet by Keats

from On the Cockney School of Poetry

Introduction
Transformation
Preface to the Last London Edition of Frankenstein

Introduction
Song (Where, O! Where's the chain to fling)
Home
Lines of Life
Revenge
Felicia Hemans
Expectation
The Changed Home
Song (the dream on the pillow)
The Venture of a Poet
The Snowdrop
Felicia Hemans the Poet's First Essay

Introduction
from The Bride's Tragedy
Poor Old Pilgrim Misery
A Ho! A Ho!
Lines: Written in a Blank Leaf of the Prometheus Unbound
from The Second Brother
Strew Not Earth with Empty Stars
from Torrismond
How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear?
from Death's Jest Book
To Sea, To Sea!
The Swallow Leaves Her Nest
If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart
Old Adam, the Carrion Crow
Dream-Pedlary
Let Dew the Flowers Fill

Appendix

Index