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Lyrical Ballads

LYRICAL BALLADS William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Editor's note:

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THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS.

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THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS. — I. —

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The FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE A Dramatic Fragment —

L I N E S Left Upon a Seat In A YEW-TREE Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite, On a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect. ______

THE NIGHTINGALE; A Conversational Poem, Written In April, 1798 —

L E W T I ; or, The Circassian Love Chant —

The FEMALE VAGRANT —

GOODY BLAKE and H A R R Y G I L L, A True Story. —

L I N E S Written at a Small Distance from my House, And Sent by my Little Boy th the Person to Whom They Are Addressed.

SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, With an Incident in Which He Was Concerned. —

ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS, Shewing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught. —

WE ARE SEVEN —

L I N E S Written in Early Spring —

The T H O R N. —

The LAST OF THE FLOCK. —

THE DUNGEON. —

The MAD MOTHER. —

THE I D I O T B O Y . THE i d i o t b o y . —

L I N E S Written Near Richmond, Upon the Thames, At Evening. —

EXPOSTULATION And R E P L Y. —

THE TABLES TURNED; An Evening Scene, On the Same Subject. —

OLD MAN TRAVELLING; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A SKETCH. —

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THE COMPLAINT of a Forsaken I N D I A N W O M A N . —

THE COMPLAINT, &c. —

THE CONVICT. —

L I N E S Written a Few Miles Above TINTERN ABBEY, On revisiting the banks of the WYE during a tour, July 13, 1798. —

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How a ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.