Romantic Poetry

Series Editor's Preface vii

Introduction 1
Duncan Wu

Part I: William Blake (1757-1827):

1. Songs of Innocence

Introduction 8

The Shepherd 8

The Echoing Green 9

The Lamb 9

The Little Black Boy 10

The Blossom 11

The Chimney Sweeper 11

The Little Boy Lost 12

The Little Boy Found 12

Laughing Song 12

A Cradle Song 13

The Divine Image 14

Holy Thursday 14

Night 15

Spring 16

Nurse's Song 17

Infant Joy 17

A Dream 17

On Another's Sorrow 18

2. Songs of Experience:

Introduction 19

Earth's Answer 20

The Clod and the Pebble 20

Holy Thursday 21

The Little Girl Lost 21

The Little Girl Found 23

The Chimney Sweeper 24

Nurse's Song 24

The Sick Rose 25

The Fly 25

The Angel 26

The Tyger 26

My Pretty Rose-Tree 27

Ah, Sunflower! 27

The Lily 27

The Garden of Love 27

The Little Vagabond 28

London 28

The Human Abstract 29

Infant Sorrow 29

A Poison Tree 30

A Little Boy Lost 30

A Little Girl Lost 31

To Tirzah 32

The Schoolboy 32

The Voice of the Ancient Bard 33

A Divine Image 33

Part II: William Wordsworth (1770-1850):

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 34

The Two-Part Prelude (Part I only) 37

Strange fits of passion I have known 47

Song ('She dwelt among the 'untrodden ways') 48

A slumber did my spirit seal 48

Three years she grew in sun and shower 49

I travelled among unknown men 50

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 50

Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 51

Daffodils 55

Stepping Westward 56

The Solitary Reaper 57

The River Duddon: Conclusion 58

Part III: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834):

Of the Fragment of 'Kubla Khan' 59

Kubla Khan 60

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts 61

Frost at Midnight

Christabel (Part I and conclusion only) 81

Part IV: George Gordon Byron, 6^th Baron Byron (1788-1824):

From Don Juan: Canto II (extracts) 90

Part V: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):

To Wordsworth 136

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 136

Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni 138

Ozymandias 142

The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 142

Ode to the West Wind 152

England in 1819 154

Sonnet ('Lift not the painted veil') 154

To a Skylark 155

Part VI: John Keats (1795-1821):

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 158

Addressed to Haydon 158

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 159

Sonnet ('When I have fears that I may cease to be') 159

The Eve of St Agnes 159

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 169

Ode to Psyche 171

Ode to a Nightingale 172

Ode on a Grecian Urn 174

Ode on Melancholy 176

Ode on Indolence 176

To Autumn 178

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 179

Index of titles and first lines 180