I. Still glides the stream
II. The still, sad music of humanity
III. Sing, ye birds, sing
V. The glory and the dream
Sources of prose selections
THE POET'S LIFE: 'My heart leaps up when I behold'
'I wandered lonely as a cloud'
'She was a phantom of delight'
'Among all lovely things my love had been'
'The sun has long been set'
'Yes, full surely 'twas the echo'
Lines written at a small distance from my house
Lines written in early spring
'A whirl-blast from behind the hill'
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Resolution and independence
Ode: intimations of immortality
From The prelude (1805 version) books one and two
MEMORIAL POEMS: 'A slumber did my spirit seal'
'She dwelt among the untrodden ways'
'Strange fits of passion have I known'
'Three years she grew in sun and shower'
I travelled among unknown men'
SONNETS: 'The world is too much with us'
'It is beauteous evening, calm and free'
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room'
'With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh'
'Dear native brooks your ways I have pursued'
'Great men have been among us'
NARRATIVE AND DRAMATIC POEMS: Animal tranquility and decay
The old cumberland beggar
Goody Blake and Harry Gill