The "Lucy poems" consist of " Strange fits of passion have I known", " She dwelt among the untrodden ways", " I travelled among unknown men", " Three years she grew in sun and shower", and " A slumber did my spirit seal". In the series, Wordsworth sought to write unaffected English verse infused with abstract ideals of beauty, nature, love, longing and death. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a milestone in the early English Romantic movement. The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 17. Earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798.
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