The Thorn

Poems in the second edition (1800)

Poems marked "(Coleridge)" were written by Coleridge; all the other poems were written by Wordsworth.

Volume I

  • Expostulation and Reply
  • The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject
  • Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch
  • The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
  • The Last of the Flock
  • Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite
  • The Foster-Mother's Tale (Coleridge)
  • Goody Blake and Harry Gill
  • The Thorn
  • We are Seven
  • Anecdote for Fathers
  • Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House and Sent Me by My little Boy to the Person to whom They Are Addressed
  • The Female Vagrant
  • The Dungeon (Coleridge)
  • Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
  • Lines Written in Early Spring
  • The Nightingale, written in April 1798. (Coleridge)
  • Lines Written When Sailing in a Boat at Evening
  • written Near Richmond, Upon the Thames
  • The Idiot Boy
  • Love (Coleridge)
  • The Mad Mother
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
  • Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey

Volume II

  • Hart-Leap Well
  • There Was a Boy, &c.
  • The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem
  • Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle
  • Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, &c.
  • Song
  • She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
  • A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, &c.
  • The Waterfall and the Eglantine
  • The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral
  • Lucy Gray
  • The Idle Shepherd-Boys or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral
  • 'Tis said that some have died for love, &c.
  • Poor Susan
  • Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage Stood on St Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
  • Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere
  • To a Sexton
  • Andrew Jones
  • The Two Thieves, or the Last Stage of Avarice
  • A Whirl-blast from Behind the Hill, &c.
  • Song for the Wandering Jew
  • Ruth
  • Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c.
  • Lines Written on a Tablet in a School
  • The Two April Mornings
  • The Fountain, a Conversation
  • Nutting
  • Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower, &c.
  • The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral
  • Written in Germany on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
  • The Childless Father
  • The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
  • Rural Architecture
  • A Poet's Epitaph
  • A Character
  • A Fragment
  • Poems on the Naming of Places
  • Michael, a Pastoral

For the 1800 edition Wordsworth added the poems that make up Volume II. The poem The Convict (Wordsworth) was in the 1798 edition, but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge's "Love". Lewti or the Circassian Love-chaunt (Coleridge) exists in some 1798 editions in place of The Convict. In the 1798 edition the poems later printed as "Lines Written When Sailing in a Boat at Evening" and "Lines Written Near Richmond, Upon the Thames" form a single poem, "Lines Written Near Richmond, Upon the Thames, at Evening".


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