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Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798

Original text in English.

Two friends publish together, anonymously, poems written in the language of everyday speech.

Poetry · 24 parts · about 21 000 words · about 1 h 32 of reading

Contents

1. ADVERTISEMENT3 min
2. THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS18 min
3. THE FOSTER-MOTHER’S TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT3 min
4. 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 PROSPECT2 min
5. THE NIGHTINGALE;4 min
6. THE FEMALE VAGRANT10 min
7. GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY4 min
8. LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED1 min
9. SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED3 min
10. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT2 min
11. WE ARE SEVEN2 min
12. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING1 min
13. THE THORN7 min
14. THE LAST OF THE FLOCK3 min
15. THE DUNGEON1 min
16. THE MAD MOTHER3 min
17. THE IDIOT BOY13 min
18. LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING1 min
19. EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY1 min
20. THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT1 min
21. OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH1 min
22. THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN3 min
23. THE CONVICT2 min
24. LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 17986 min

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