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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.

A violet by a mossy stone
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 ceased to be;
But she is in her Grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

• The Wordsworths lived in Dove cottage from December 1799 until May 1808. The “springs” can probably be found in the vicinity of this house in Grasmere.

1. Notes
2. Reading Pointers for Sharper Insights
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   1. Inroduction
   2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts
   3. Kubla Khan
4. William Blake
   1. Introduction
   2. The Lamb
   3. The Tyger
   4. The Chimney Sweeper
   5. The Chimney Sweeper
   6. A Poison Tree
5. William Wordsworth
   1. Inroduction
   2. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
   3. My Heart Leaps Up
   4. Ode Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
   5. The Lucy Poems
      1. Strange fits of Passion have I Known
      2. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
      3. I travelled among unknown men
      4. Three years she grew in sun and shower
      5. A slumber did my spirit seal
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   1. Introduction
   2. On the castle of chillon
   3. She walk in beauty
   4. Prometheus
7. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   1. Introduction
   2. Ozymandias
   3. Ode to the West Wind
   4. Adonais
8. John Keats
   1. Introduction
   2. To Hope
   3. Ode on Melancholy
   4. Ode to a Nightingale
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