Prefatory Sonnet
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Prefatory Sonnet
Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room;
And Hermits are contented with their Cells;
And Students with their pensive Citadels:
Maids at the Wheel, the Weaver at his Loom,
Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness Fells,
Will murmur by the hour in Foxglove bells:
In truth, the prison, unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is: and hence to me,
In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground:
Pleas'd if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find short solace there, as I have found.
About William Wordsworth
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Summary
To the Daisy
Louisa
Fidelity
She Was A Phantom of Delight
The Redbreast and the Butterfly
The Sailor's Mother
To the Small Celandine
To the Same Flower
Character of the Happy Warrior
The Horn of Egremont Castle
The Affliction of Margaret
The Kitten and the Falling Leaves
The Seven Sisters
To H. C.
Among all lovely things
I travell'd among unknown Men
Ode to Duty
Poems Composed During a Tour, Chiefly on Foot
Beggars
To a Skylark
With how sad Steps
Alice Fell
Resolution and Independence
Sonnets
Prefatory Sonnet
Sonnets - Part the First
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II
III
IV
V - To Sleep
VI - To Sleep
VII - To Sleep
VIII
IX - To the River Duddon
X - From the Italian of Michael Angelo
XI - From the Same
XII - From the Same
XIII - Written in very early youth
XIV - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
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XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX - To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
Sonnets - Part the Second
I - Composed by the Sea-Side near Calais
II - Calais
III - To a Friend
IV - I griev'd for Buonaparte
V - Calais
VI - On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
VII - The King of Sweden
VIII - To Toussaint L'Ouverture
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X - Composed in the Valley near Dover
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XII - Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
XIII - Written in London
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XVI
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XXI
XXII
XXIII - To the Men of Kent
XXIV
XXV - Anticipation
XXVI
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