LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POE MS. IN TWO VOLUMES.' By W. WORDSWORTH Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T.N.LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW, BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL. 1800. Page The Tables turned ; an Evening Scene, on the Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman The Last of the Flock - - - - - 15 Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed - - - - The Female Vagrant . - - - - - 67 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 The Idiot Boy - - - - - - - 107 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 |