Wordsworth_Lucypoems
William Wordsworth, The Lucy Poems
The following poems are collectively known, in the world of Romantics studies, as Wordsworth’s “Lucy” poems, although he did not write them as a group, never referred to them as such, and never published them as a group labeled “the Lucy poems.” Yet becau of their thematic and atmospheric similarities and becau of their shared references to “Lucy,” the 5 poems have long been referred to and studied collectively. Some scholars have suggested Lucy is meant to reprent William’s beloved sister Dorothy, bad on a comment made by Coleridge (e note to poem #3). Wordsworth also wrote a poem entitled “Lucy Gray” during the same period he wrote the first 3 Lucy poems, but that poem is not considered one of the group.
(#1)
“Strange fits of passion have I known”
This was the first of the Lucy poems, written in late 1798 when William and his sister Dorothy were spending a mirable winter in Germany. First published in the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800.
Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the Lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.
When she I loved looked every day 5
Fresh as a ro in June,
I to her cottage bent my way,
泼水节的来历Beneath an evening-moon.
Upon the moon I fixed my eye,
All over the wide lea; 10
With quickening pace my hor drew nigh
Tho paths so dear to me.
And now we reached the orchard-plot;
And, as we climbed the hill,
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot 15
Came near, and nearer still.
In one of tho sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's gentlest boon!
And all the while my eyes I kept
On the descending moon. 20
My hor moved on; hoof after hoof
He raid, and never stopped:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropped.
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide 25
Into a Lover's head!
"O mercy!" to mylf I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"
“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
All information is the same as for the previous poem.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to prai
And very few to love:
A violet by a mossy stone 5
Half hidden from the eye!
— Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy cead to be; 10
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
(#3)
“A slumber did my spirit al”
Compod late 1798 or January 1799 in Germany. First published in the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800.
In a letter to a friend written in April of 1799 Coleridge made the following comment regarding this poem: “Some months ago Wordsworth transmitted to me a most sublime epitaph – whether it had any reality, I cannot say. – Most probably, in some gloomier moment he had fancied the moment in which his sister might die.”
A slumber did my spirit al;
I had no human fears:
She emed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force; 5
She neither hears nor es;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal cour,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
“Three years she grew in sun and shower”
Compod late February 1799 in Germany. First published in the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800. Three years she grew in sun and shower,
Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown;
This Child I to mylf will take;
She shall be mine, and I will make 5
A Lady of my own.
"Mylf will to my darling be
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Both law and impul: and with me
The Girl, in rock and plain,
In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, 10 Shall feel an overeing power
To kindle or restrain.
"She shall be sportive as the fawn
That wild with glee across the lawn,
Or up the mountain springs; 15
And her's shall be the breathing balm,
And her's the silence and the calm
Of mute innsate things.
"The floating clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend; 20
Nor shall she fail to e
Even in the motions of the Storm
Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form
By silent sympathy.
"The stars of midnight shall be dear 25手球
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a cret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face. 30
"And vital feelings of delight
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Shall rear her form to stately height,
Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
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While she and I together live 35
Here in this happy dell."
Thus Nature spake — The work was done —How soon my Lucy's race was run!
She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm, and quiet scene; 40
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.
“I Travelled Among Unknown Men”
Compod late April 1801 in England; first published 1807.
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the a;湿疹饮食
风险防范Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
'Tis past, that melancholy dream! 5 Nor will I quit thy shore
A cond time; for still I em
天河部落To love thee more and more.
Among thy mountains did I feel
The joy of my desire; 10 And she I cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire.
Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed
The bowers where Lucy played;
And thine too is the last green field 15 That Lucy's eyes surveyed.
