William Wordsworth

Poems by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as 'The Poem to Coleridge'.

Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and was a key figure of the Romantic poets.

Poems

  • " As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest" Read Poem
  • "Advance – Come Forth From Thy Tyrolean Ground" Read Poem
  • "Alas! What Boots The Long Laborious Quest" Read Poem
  • "And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales" Read Poem
  • "Avaunt All Specious Pliancy Of Mind" Read Poem
  • "Behold Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con" Read Poem
  • "Brave Schill! By Death Delivered" Read Poem
  • "Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks" Read Poem
  • "By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze" Read Poem
  • "Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate" Read Poem
  • "When I Have Borne In Memory" Read Poem
  • "Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved" Read Poem
  • "Young England--What Is Then Become Of Old" Read Poem
  • 'Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love Read Poem
  • A Character Read Poem
  • A Complaint Read Poem
  • A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore Read Poem
  • A Farewell Read Poem
  • A Flower Garden At Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire. Read Poem
  • A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral Read Poem
  • A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine Read Poem
  • A Morning Exercise Read Poem
  • A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags, Read Poem
  • A Night Thought Read Poem
  • A Night-Piece Read Poem
  • A Parsonage In Oxfordshire Read Poem
  • A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School Read Poem
  • A Poet's Epitaph Read Poem
  • A Prophecy. February 1807 Read Poem
  • A Sketch Read Poem
  • A Slumber did my Spirit Seal Read Poem
  • A Whirl-Blast From Behind The Hill Read Poem
  • A Wren's Nest Read Poem
  • Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister Read Poem
  • Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe Read Poem
  • Address To My Infant Daughter, Dora On Being Reminded That She Was A Month Old That Day, September 1 Read Poem
  • Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of --- Read Poem
  • Admonition Read Poem
  • After-Thought Read Poem
  • Alice Fell, Or Poverty Read Poem
  • Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been Read Poem
  • An Evening Walk Read Poem
  • Andrew Jones Read Poem
  • Anecdote For Fathers Read Poem
  • Animal Tranquility And Decay Read Poem
  • Anticipation, October 1803 Read Poem
  • Argument For Suicide Read Poem
  • Artegal And Elidure Read Poem
  • At Applewaite, Near Keswick 1804 Read Poem
  • Beggars Read Poem
  • Book Eighth: Retrospect--Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man Read Poem
  • Book Eleventh: France [concluded] Read Poem
  • Book Fifth-Books Read Poem
  • Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] Read Poem
  • Book Fourteenth [conclusion] Read Poem
  • Book Fourth [Summer Vacation] Read Poem
  • Book Ninth [Residence in France] Read Poem
  • Book Second [School-Time Continued] Read Poem
  • Book Seventh [Residence in London] Read Poem
  • Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] Read Poem
  • Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] Read Poem
  • Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] Read Poem
  • Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] Read Poem
  • Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] Read Poem
  • Bothwell Castle Read Poem
  • British Freedom Read Poem
  • By The Seaside Read Poem
  • By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After Read Poem
  • Calais, August 15, 1802 Read Poem
  • Calais, August 1802 Read Poem
  • Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel. Read Poem
  • Character Of The Happy Warrior Read Poem
  • Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old Read Poem
  • Composed After A Journey Across The Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire Read Poem
  • Composed At The Same Time And On The Same Occasion Read Poem
  • Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 Read Poem
  • Composed By The Side Of Grasmere Lake 1806 Read Poem
  • Composed During A Storm Read Poem
  • Composed In The Valley Near Dover, On The Day Of Landing Read Poem
  • Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 Read Poem
  • Composed on The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere Read Poem
  • Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Read Poem
  • Composed While The Author Was Engaged In Writing A Tract Occasioned By The Convention Of Cintra Read Poem
  • Crusaders Read Poem
  • Daffodils Read Poem
  • Dion [See Plutarch] Read Poem
  • Elegiac Stanzas In Memory Of My Brother, John Commander Of The E. I. Company’s Ship The Earl Of Aber Read Poem
  • Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle Read Poem
  • Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle Read Poem
  • Emperors And Kings, How Oft Have Temples Rung Read Poem
  • England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean Read Poem
  • Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera Read Poem
  • Even As A Dragon’s Eye That Feels The Stress Read Poem
  • Expostulation and Reply Read Poem
  • Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg Read Poem
  • Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School Read Poem
  • Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien Read Poem
  • Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals Read Poem
  • Feelings Of The Tyrolese Read Poem
  • Fidelity Read Poem
  • For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood On St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater. Read Poem
  • Foresight Read Poem
  • From The Cuckoo And The Nightingale Read Poem
  • From The Dark Chambers Of Dejection Freed Read Poem
  • From The Italian Of Michael Angelo Read Poem
  • George and Sarah Green Read Poem
  • Gipsies Read Poem
  • Goody Blake And Harry Gill Read Poem
  • Great Men Have Been Among Us Read Poem
  • Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain Read Poem
  • Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour Read Poem
  • Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet eye Read Poem
  • Hart-Leap Well Read Poem
  • Her Eyes Are Wild Read Poem
  • Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise Read Poem
  • Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders Read Poem
  • Hoffer Read Poem
  • How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks Read Poem
  • I Grieved For Buonaparte Read Poem
  • I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell Read Poem
  • I Travelled among Unknown Men Read Poem
  • In Due Observance Of An Ancient Rite Read Poem
  • In The Pass Of Killicranky Read Poem
  • Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog Read Poem
  • Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard Read Poem
  • Influence of Natural Objects Read Poem
  • Inscriptions For A Seat In The Groves Of Coleorton Read Poem
  • Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire Read Poem
  • Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone Read Poem
  • Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge Read Poem
  • Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 Read Poem
  • Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer Read Poem
  • It Is a Beauteous Evening Read Poem
  • It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown Read Poem
  • It was an April morning: fresh and clear Read Poem
  • Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots Read Poem
  • Laodamia Read Poem
  • Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey Read Poem
  • Lines Left Upon The Seat Of A Yew-Tree, Read Poem
  • Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 Read Poem
  • Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 Read Poem
  • Lines Written In Early Spring Read Poem
  • Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem "The Excursion," Read Poem
  • London, 1802 Read Poem
  • Look Now On That Adventurer Who Hath Paid Read Poem
  • Louisa: After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion Read Poem
  • Lucy Read Poem
  • Lucy Gray [or Solitude] Read Poem
  • Mark The Concentrated Hazels That Enclose Read Poem
  • Maternal Grief Read Poem
  • Matthew Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland 1814 I. Suggested By A Beautiful Ruin Upon One Of The Islands Of Lo Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 Read Poem
  • Memorials of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 I. Departure From The Vale Of Grasmere, August 1803 Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Sonnet Composed At ---- Castle Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Yarrow Unvisited Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XIV. Fly, Some Kind Haringer, To Grasmere-Dale Read Poem
  • Memorials Of A Tour Of Scotland, 1803 VI. Glen-Almain, Or, The Narrow Glen Read Poem
  • Memory Read Poem
  • Methought I Saw The Footsteps Of A Throne Read Poem
  • Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night Read Poem
  • Michael: A Pastoral Poem Read Poem
  • Minstrels Read Poem
  • Most Sweet it is Read Poem
  • Mutability Read Poem
  • My Heart Leaps Up Read Poem
  • November 1813 Read Poem
  • November, 1806 Read Poem
  • Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room Read Poem
  • Nutting Read Poem
  • O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art Read Poem
  • Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 Read Poem
  • October 1803 Read Poem
  • October, 1803 Read Poem
  • Ode Read Poem
  • Ode Composed On A May Morning Read Poem
  • Ode on Intimations of Immortality Read Poem
  • Ode to Duty Read Poem
  • Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 Read Poem
  • On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History Read Poem
  • On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford Read Poem
  • On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Read Poem
  • On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese Read Poem
  • On The Same Occasion Read Poem
  • O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain Read Poem
  • O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied Read Poem
  • Personal Talk Read Poem
  • Picture of Daniel in the Lion's Den at Hamilton Palace Read Poem
  • Power Of Music Read Poem
  • Remembrance Of Collins Read Poem
  • Repentance Read Poem
  • Resolution And Independence Read Poem
  • Rural Architecture Read Poem
  • Ruth Read Poem
  • Scorn Not The Sonnet Read Poem
  • September 1, 1802 Read Poem
  • September 1815 Read Poem
  • September, 1819 Read Poem
  • She Was A Phantom Of Delight Read Poem
  • Siege Of Vienna Raised By Jihn Sobieski Read Poem
  • Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman Read Poem
  • Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle Read Poem
  • Song Of The Spinning Wheel Read Poem
  • Song Of The Wandering Jew Read Poem
  • Sonnet: "It is not to be thought of" Read Poem
  • Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress Read Poem
  • Spanish Guerillas Read Poem
  • Stanzas Read Poem
  • Stanzas Written In My Pocket Copy Of Thomson’s "Castle Of Indolence" Read Poem
  • Star-Gazers Read Poem
  • Stepping Westward Read Poem
  • Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known Read Poem
  • Stray Pleasures Read Poem
  • Surprised By Joy Read Poem
  • Sweet Was The Walk Read Poem
  • The Affliction Of Margaret Read Poem
  • The Birth Of Love Read Poem
  • The Brothers Read Poem
  • The Childless Father Read Poem
  • The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman Read Poem
  • The Cottager To Her Infant Read Poem
  • The Danish Boy Read Poem
  • The Eagle and the Dove Read Poem
  • The Emigrant Mother Read Poem
  • The Excursion: I: Dedication: To the Right Hon.William, Earl of Lonsdalee, K.G. Read Poem
  • The Excursion: II: Book First: The Wanderer Read Poem
  • The Excursion: IV: Book Third: Despondency Read Poem
  • The Excursion: IX: Book Eighth: The Parsonage Read Poem
  • The Excursion: V: Book Fouth: Despondency Corrected Read Poem
  • The Excursion: VII: Book Sixth: The Churchyard Among the Mountains Read Poem
  • The Excursion: X: Book Ninth: Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Evening Visit to the Lake Read Poem
  • The Faëry Chasm Read Poem
  • The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade Read Poem
  • The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale Read Poem
  • The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition Read Poem
  • The Forsaken Read Poem
  • The Fountain Read Poem
  • The French And the Spanish Guerillas Read Poem
  • The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 Read Poem
  • The French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts Read Poem
  • The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim Read Poem
  • The Green Linnet Read Poem
  • The Happy Warrior Read Poem
  • The Highland Broach Read Poem
  • The Horn Of Egremont Castle Read Poem
  • The Idiot Boy Read Poem
  • The Idle Shepherd Boys Read Poem
  • The King Of Sweden Read Poem
  • The Kitten And Falling Leaves Read Poem
  • The Last Of The Flock Read Poem
  • The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria della Grazia—Milan Read Poem
  • The Longest Day Read Poem
  • The Martial Courage Of A Day Is Vain Read Poem
  • The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816 Read Poem
  • The Mother's Return Read Poem
  • The Oak And The Broom Read Poem
  • The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same Read Poem
  • The Old Cumberland Beggar Read Poem
  • The Passing of the Elder Bards Read Poem
  • The Pet-Lamb Read Poem
  • The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing Read Poem
  • The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood And School-Time Read Poem
  • The Primrose of the Rock Read Poem
  • The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer] Read Poem
  • The Recluse - Book First Read Poem
  • The Redbreast Chasing The Butterfly Read Poem
  • The Reverie of Poor Susan Read Poem
  • The Russian Fugitive Read Poem
  • The Sailor's Mother Read Poem
  • The Seven Sisters Read Poem
  • The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said Read Poem
  • The Simplon Pass Read Poem
  • The Solitary Reaper Read Poem
  • The Sonnet Ii Read Poem
  • The Sparrow's Nest Read Poem
  • The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature's Hand Read Poem
  • The Sun Has Long Been Set Read Poem
  • The Tables Turned Read Poem
  • The Thorn Read Poem
  • The Trosachs Read Poem
  • The Two April Mornings Read Poem
  • The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice Read Poem
  • The Vaudois Read Poem
  • The Virgin Read Poem
  • The Waggoner - Canto First Read Poem
  • The Waggoner - Canto Fourth Read Poem
  • The Waggoner - Canto Second Read Poem
  • The Waggoner - Canto Third Read Poem
  • The Waterfall And The Eglantine Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Fifth Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto First Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Fourth Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Second Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Seventh Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Sixth Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Third Read Poem
  • The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Dedication Read Poem
  • The Wishing Gate Destroyed Read Poem
  • The World Is Too Much With Us Read Poem
  • There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear Read Poem
  • There is an Eminence,--of these our hills Read Poem
  • There Was A Boy Read Poem
  • Those Words Were Uttered As In Pensive Mood Read Poem
  • Though Narrow Be That Old Man’s Cares . Read Poem
  • Thought Of A Briton On The Subjugation Of Switzerland Read Poem
  • Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower Read Poem
  • To A Butterfly Read Poem
  • To A Butterfly (2) Read Poem
  • To A Distant Friend Read Poem
  • To a Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) Read Poem
  • To A Sexton Read Poem
  • To a Sky-Lark Read Poem
  • To a Skylark Read Poem
  • To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country Read Poem
  • To B. R. Haydon Read Poem
  • To Dora Read Poem
  • To H. C. Read Poem
  • To Joanna Read Poem
  • To Lady Beaumont Read Poem
  • To Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss Ponsonby, Read Poem
  • To M.H. Read Poem
  • To Mary Read Poem
  • To May Read Poem
  • To My Sister Read Poem
  • To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart From the South-West Coast Or Cumberland 1811 Read Poem
  • To Sleep Read Poem
  • To The Cuckoo Read Poem
  • To The Daisy Read Poem
  • To The Daisy (2) Read Poem
  • To The Daisy (Fourth Poem) Read Poem
  • To The Daisy (Third Poem) Read Poem
  • To The Memory Of Raisley Calvert Read Poem
  • To The Men Of Kent Read Poem
  • To The Poet, John Dyer Read Poem
  • To The Same (John Dyer) Read Poem
  • To The Same Flower Read Poem
  • To The Same Flower (Second Poem) Read Poem
  • To The Small Celandine Read Poem
  • To The Spade Of A Friend (An Agriculturist) Read Poem
  • To The Supreme Being From The Italian Of Michael Angelo Read Poem
  • To Thomas Clarkson Read Poem
  • To Toussaint L’Ouverture Read Poem
  • To---- On Her First Ascent To The Summit Of Helvellyn Read Poem
  • Translation Of Part Of The First Book Of The Aeneid Read Poem
  • Tribute To The Memory Of The Same Dog Read Poem
  • Troilus And Cresida Read Poem
  • Upon Perusing The Forgoing Epistle Thirty Years After Its Composition Read Poem
  • Upon The Punishment Of Death Read Poem
  • Upon The Same Event Read Poem
  • Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Painted By Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart Read Poem
  • Vaudracour And Julia Read Poem
  • Vernal Ode Read Poem
  • View From The Top Of Black Comb Read Poem
  • Waldenses Read Poem
  • Water-Fowl Observed Frequently Over The Lakes Of Rydal And Grasmere Read Poem
  • We Are Seven Read Poem
  • Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind Read Poem
  • When To The Attractions Of The Busy World Read Poem
  • Where Lies The Land To Which Yon Ship Must Go? Read Poem
  • Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight Read Poem
  • With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Sky Read Poem
  • With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh Read Poem
  • Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson's Ossian Read Poem
  • Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century Read Poem
  • Written in London. September, 1802 Read Poem
  • Written in March Read Poem
  • Written In Very Early Youth Read Poem
  • Written Upon A Blank Leaf In "The Complete Angler." Read Poem
  • Written With A Pencil Upon A Stone In The Wall Of The House, On The Island At Grasmere Read Poem
  • Written With A Slate Pencil On A Stone, On The Side Of The Mountain Of Black Comb Read Poem
  • Yarrow Revisited Read Poem
  • Yarrow Unvisited Read Poem
  • Yarrow Visited Read Poem
  • Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo Read Poem
  • Yew-Trees Read Poem
  • Character of the Happy Warrior Read Poem
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Read Poem
  • Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont Read Poem
  • The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement Read Poem
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Read Poem
  • Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth Read Poem
  • It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free Read Poem
  • It is not to be Thought of Read Poem
  • Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 Read Poem
  • Lines Written in Early Spring Read Poem
  • Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room Read Poem
  • Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Read Poem
  • On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples Read Poem
  • A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School Read Poem
  • fromThe Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time Read Poem
  • fromThe Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued) Read Poem
  • Resolution and Independence Read Poem
  • Scorn not the Sonnet Read Poem
  • She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways Read Poem
  • She Was a Phantom of Delight Read Poem
  • Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors Read Poem
  • Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought Read Poem
  • Surprised by Joy Read Poem
  • There was a Boy Read Poem
  • Three Years She Grew Read Poem
  • To a Highland Girl Read Poem
  • To the Skylark Read Poem
  • To the Cuckoo Read Poem
  • "Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant" Read Poem
  • Yarrow Visited. September, 1814 Read Poem
  • from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time Read Poem
  • from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued) Read Poem