William Wordsworth Poems

William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13. Despite these losses, he did well at Hawkshead Grammar School — where he wrote his first poetry — and went on to study at Cambridge University.

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth died on 23rd April, 1850 at Rydal Mount & Gardens, Rydal, United Kingdom.

Below, you will find a collection of popular William Wordsworth poems.

Famous Poems by William Wordsworth

1. Lines Written in Early Spring
2. From The Kitten and Falling Leaves
3. Perfect Woman
4. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
5. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
6. XXIX (Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind)
7. My Heart Leaps Up
8. The World Is Too Much With Us
9. Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
10. I wandered lonely as a Cloud
11. The Solitary Reaper
12. On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm
13. The Sun Has Long Been Set
14. It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
15. She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
16. We Are Seven
17. Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes
18. Travelling
19. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798
20. Mutability
21. A Complaint
22. Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
23. The Green Linnet
24. The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
25. Character of the Happy Warrior
26. I Travelled among Unknown Men
27. Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
28. The Prelude
29. The Reverie of Poor Susan
30. Elegiac Stanzas
31. London, 1802
32. Lucy Gray (Solitude)
33. The Excursion, 1814
34. Laodamia
35. To A Butterfly