LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam nihilad' genium, Papiniane, tuum ! VOL: I. SECOND EDITION. ' LONDON: PRINTED FOR T.N.LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW, BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL. 1800. CONTENTS. Expostulation and Reply - - - - - 1 The Tables turned ; an Evening Scene, on the Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - 7 The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman . The Last of the Flock . . . . . Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands Goody Blake and Harry Gill - . . . Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to The Female Vagrant - - - - - - 67 Simon Lee, the old Huntsman - - - - 85 Lines written in early Spring - - The Nightingale, written in April, 1798. - - 94 Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening 101 Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames 103 PREFACE. The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems : I flattered myself |