William Wordsworth

1770–1850

England, 1770–1850. A father of English Romanticism; with Coleridge he launched the Lyrical Ballads. He sang nature and memory in a deliberately plain language. 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' is among his best-loved poems. His work is in the public domain.
  • Anecdote for Fathers (1798)
  • Lines Written in Early Spring (1798)
  • We Are Seven (1798)
  • A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (1800)
  • Lucy Gray (1800)
  • Rural Architecture (1800)
  • She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (1800)
  • Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known (1800)
  • The Pet Lamb (1800)
  • Three Years She Grew (1800)
  • Alice Fell; or, Poverty (1802)
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1802)
  • Foresight (1802)
  • It Is a Beauteous Evening (1802)
  • My Heart Leaps Up (1802)
  • To the Cuckoo (1804)
  • The Solitary Reaper (1805)
  • The world is too much with us (1807)
  • Characteristics of a Child three Years old (1811)
  • A Complaint (1815)
  • A Night-Piece (1815)
  • I Travelled Among Unknown Men (1815)
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1815)
  • She Was a Phantom of Delight (1815)
  • The Green Linnet (1815)
  • The Reverie of Poor Susan (1815)
  • The Sailor's Mother (1815)
  • The Sparrow's Nest (1815)
  • There Was a Boy (1815)
  • To a Butterfly (1815)
  • To a Skylark (1815)
  • To H. C., Six Years Old (1815)
  • With How Sad Steps, O Moon (1815)
  • Yew-Trees (1815)