Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

By William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The 1798 volume that began English Romantic poetry puts Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere beside Wordsworth's ballads of country life, among them We Are Seven, The Thorn and The Idiot Boy. It closes with the lines written above Tintern Abbey, and the spelling is that of the first edition.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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1: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts
2: The Foster-Mother’s Tale, a Dramatic Fragment
3: Lines 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
4: The Nightingale
5: The Female Vagrant
6: Goody Blake, and Harry Gill, a True Story
7: Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed
8: Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned
9: Anecdote for Fathers Shewing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught
10: We Are Seven
11: Lines Written in Early Spring
12: The Thorn
13: The Last of the Flock
14: The Dungeon
15: The Mad Mother
16: The Idiot Boy
17: Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening
18: Expostulation and Reply
19: The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject
20: Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch
21: The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
22: The Convict
23: LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

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