LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O.REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW, BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL. 1800. The Nightingale, written in April, 1798. Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening PREFACE. The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems: I flattered myself |