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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, The Lucy poems, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, The Matthew poems, We are Seven, Lucy Gray, A slumber did my spirit seal, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, The World Is Too Much with Us, London, 1802, The Solitary Reaper, My Heart Leaps Up, I travelled among unknown men, Strange fits of passion have I known, Resolution and Independence, The Excursion, Three years she grew in sun and shower, Primal sympathy, Ode to Duty, Michael, Elegiac Stanzas, The Tables Turned. Excerpt: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (also known as Ode, Immortality Ode or Great Ode) is a poem by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas written among a series of poems composed in 1802 about childhood. The first part of the poem was completed on 27 March 1802 and a copy was provided to Wordsworth's friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who responded with his own poem, Dejection: An Ode, in April. The fourth stanza of the ode ends with a question, and Wordsworth was finally able to answer it with 7 additional stanzas completed in early 1804. It was first printed as Ode in 1807, and it was not until 1815 that it was edited and reworked to the version that is currently known, Ode: Intimation of Immortality The poem is an irregular Pindaric ode in 11 stanzas that combines aspects of Coleridge's Conversation poems, the religious sentiments of the Bible and the works of Saint Augustine, and aspects of the elegiac and apocalyptic traditions. It is split into three movements: the first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision, the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man ...