What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.<
        (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, 175-186)

1. Character of the Happy Warrior
2. A Complaint
3. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
4. Dion
5. Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm
6. Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
7. The French Revolution
8. The Green Linnet
9. I Travelled among Unknown Men
10. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
11. Influence of Natural Objects
12. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
13. It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
14. It is not to be Thought of
15. Laodamia
16. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
17. London, 1802
18. Lyrical Ballads (1798) (co-authored with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
19. Michael: A Pastoral Poem
20. Most Sweet it is
21. Mutability
22. November, 1806
23. Nutting
24. October, 1803
25. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
26. Ode to Duty
27. The Old Cumberland Beggar
28. On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
29. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
30. A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
31. The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
32. The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time (excerpt)
33. The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
34. The Primrose of the Rock
35. Resolution and Independence
36. The Reverie of Poor Susan
37. Scorn not the Sonnet
38. September, 1819
39. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
40. She Was a Phantom of Delight
41. Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
42. The Simplon Pass
43. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
44. The Solitary Reaper
45. Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle
46. Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
47. The Tables Turned
48. There was a Boy
49. Three Years She Grew
50. To a Highland Girl
51. To a Skylark
52. To the Cuckoo
53. The Virgin
54. The World is too much with us
55. Written in London. September, 1802
56. Yarrow Revisited
57. Yarrow Unvisited
58. Yarrow Visited. September, 1814

1. Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798)

Biographical information

Given name: William
Family name: Wordsworth
Birth date: 7 April 1770
Death date: 23 April 1850
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: John Wordsworth
          mother: Anne Wordsworth
          wife: Mary Wordsworth (from 1802)
          brother: Christopher Wordsworth
          brother: John Wordsworth
          brother: Richard Wordsworth
          sister: Dorothy Wordsworth
          daughter: Caroline Vallon
Language: English
Education
          Hawkshead Grammar School: 1778
          St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A.): 1787 to 1791
Honours
          Honorary D.C.L.: 1838
          Poet Laureate: 1843
Literary period: Romantic
Occupation: Stamp Distributor
Residences
          Cockermouth, Cumberland: 7 April 1770
          London: 1791
          Racedown Farm, Dorset: 1795
          Alfoxden: 1797
          Dove Cottage, Grasmere: 1799
          Allan Bank: 1808
          Rydal Mount: 1813 to 23 April 1850
Buried at: Grasmere Church
First RPO edition: 1997