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Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

BOOK TYPE
Poetry
READING TIME
At your own pace
WORDS
54,945
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About this book

A collection of pastoral poems that is considered the defining text for the beginning of Romantic-era literature.

Poetry

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Preface
  4. Epigraph
  5. Lyrical Ballads
    1. Volume I
      1. Expostulation and Reply
      2. The Tables Turned
      3. Animal Tranquillity and Decay
      4. Goody Blake and Harry Gill
      5. The Last of the Flock
      6. Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree, Which Stands Near the Lake of Estwaithe, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect
      7. The Foster-Mother’s Tale
      8. The Thorn
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
        10. X
        11. XI
        12. XII
        13. XIII
        14. XIV
        15. XV
        16. XVI
        17. XVII
        18. XVIII
        19. XIX
        20. XX
        21. XXI
        22. XXII
        23. XXIII
      9. We Are Seven
      10. Anecdote for Fathers
      11. Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed
      12. The Female Vagrant
      13. Lines Written in Early Spring
      14. Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
      15. The Nightingale
      16. The Idiot Boy
      17. Love
      18. The Mad Mother
      19. The Ancient Mariner
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
      20. Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour
    2. Volume II
      1. Hart-Leap Well
        1. Part Second
      2. There Was a Boy
      3. The Brothers
      4. Ellen Irwin
      5. Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known
      6. She Dwelt Among th’ Untrodden Ways
      7. The Waterfall and the Eglantine
      8. The Oak and the Broom
      9. The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
      10. Lucy Gray
      11. ’Tis Said, That Some Have Died for Love
      12. The Idle Shepherd-Boys
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
        5. V
        6. VI
        7. VII
        8. VIII
        9. IX
      13. Poor Susan
      14. Inscription
      15. Lines Written with a Pencil Upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (An Out-House) on the Island at Grasmere
      16. To a Sexton
      17. Andrew Jones
      18. Ruth
      19. Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil, Upon a Stone, the Largest of a Heap Lying Near a Deserted Quarry, Upon One of the Islands at Rydale
      20. Lines Written on a Tablet in a School
      21. The Two April Mornings
      22. The Fountain
      23. Nutting
      24. Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
      25. The Pet-Lamb
      26. Written in Germany, on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
      27. The Childless Father
      28. The Old Cumberland Beggar
      29. Rural Architecture
      30. A Poet’s Epitaph
      31. A Fragment
      32. Poems on the Naming of Places
        1. Advertisement
        2. I
        3. II: To Joanna
        4. III
        5. IV
        6. V: To M. H.
      33. Lines Written When Sailing in a Boat at Evening
      34. Remembrance of Collins
      35. The Two Thieves
      36. A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill
      37. Song for the Wandering Jew
      38. Michael
  6. Appendix
  7. Endnotes
  8. Colophon
  9. Uncopyright

Edition & source

This edition was prepared by Standard Ebooks. The original EPUB, typography, credits, imprint, colophon and copyright information are retained.

SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2014-05-25
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-09-04
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • William Wordsworth (ann, aut, wpr)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (aut)
  • Caspar David Friedrich (art)
  • Bruce Graver (trc)
  • Ronald Tetreault (trc)
  • Alex Cabal (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
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