Peter Bell

Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798

There was a Boy

The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice

Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal

1799

  Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the
  Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth

  The Simplon Pass

  Nutting

  Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century

  A Poet’s Epitaph

  “Strange fits of passion have I known”

  “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”

  “I travelled among unknown men”

  “Three years she grew in sun and shower”

  “A slumber did my spirit seal”

  Address to the Scholars of the Village School of——­

  Matthew

  The Two April Mornings

  The Fountain

  To a Sexton

  The Danish Boy

  Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

  Ruth

1800

  “On Nature’s invitation do I come”

  “Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak”

  Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle

  Hart-Leap Well

  The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force

  The Pet-Lamb

  The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale

Poems on the Naming of Places: 

  “It was an April morning:  fresh and clear”

  To Joanna

  “There is an Eminence,—­of these our hills”

  “A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags”

  To M. H.

  The Waterfall and the Eglantine

  The Oak and the Broom

  “’Tis said, that some have died for love”

  The Childless Father

  Song for the Wandering Jew

  The Brothers

  The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie

  Rural Architecture

  A Character

  Inscription for the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert’s
  Island, Derwent-Water

  Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an
  Out-House), on the Island at Grasmere

  Michael

1801

  The Sparrow’s Nest

  “Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side”

  Selections from Chaucer Modernised: 

    The Prioress’ Tale

    The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

    Troilus and Cresida

1802

  The Sailor’s Mother

  Alice Fell; or, Poverty

  Beggars

  Sequel to the Foregoing

  To a Butterfly

  The Emigrant Mother

  To the Cuckoo

  “My heart leaps up when I behold”