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Part 1 Anna Seward, (1742-1809): sonnet - "By Derwent's rapid stream as oft I strayed,", "An Evening in November", "Autumn", "To Colebrooke Dale". Part 2 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743-1825): from "Corsica" "Ode to spring" "A Summer Evening's Meditation" "Autumn. A Fragment". Part 3 Hannah More, (1745-1833): from "The Search after Happiness" from "The Search after Happiness". Part 4 Mary Hays, (1760-1843): "An Invocation to the Nightingale" "The Consolation" sonnet - "Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild,". Part 5 Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749-1806): sonnet - "To a Nightingale", "To The South Downs", "On the Departure of the Nightingale", "Composed during a Walk on the Downs". Part 6 Eliza Knipe (later Cobbold) (1767-1824): "On the Lake of Windermere" "Keswick". Part 7 Anne Hunter (nee Home) (1742-1821): "November, 1784" "To the Nightingale". Part 8 Helen Maria Williams, (1762-1827): sonnet - "To Twilight", "To Expression" "An Address to Poetry" sonnet - "To Hope". Part 9 Mary Hunt, (1764-1834): "Written on visiting the Ruins of Dunkeswell Abbey ....". Part 10 Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1752-1806): "To Mr. ***, an Unlettered poet, on Genius Unimproved" "Anarchy" "Peace" "Dedicated to Louis XIV". Part 11 Mary O'Brien, (fl. 1785-1790): "Ode to Milton". Part 12 Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851): from "A Winter Day" from "A Summer Day" from "Thunder" from "Wind". Part 13 Anna Maria Jones, (nee Shipley) (1748-1829): "Sonnet to Echo" stanzas - "Marie Antoinette's Complaint in Prison" "Ode to Fancy" "Adieu to India". Part 14 Mary Robinson, (nee Darby) (1758-1800): "Ode to the Nightingale" stanzas - "Written between Dover and Calais", "Written after Successive Nights of Melancholy Dreams" "Ode to my Beloved Daughter". Part 15 Ann Radcliffe (nee Ward) (1764-1823): "To the visions of Fancy" "Song of a Spirit" "Morning, on the Sea Shore" "Rondeau". Part 16 Amelia Alderson, (later Opie) (1769-1853): "To Twilight" "Ode to Borrowdale" "Ode on the Present Times, 27th January 1795" "Stanzas Written under Aeolus's Harp". Part 17 Jane West (nee Iliffe) (1758-1852): "Ode to Imaginations" sonnet - "'Her hair disheveled, and her robe untied,'", "To May". Part 18 Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832)?: "Address to poetry, sonnet to a Sea-Gull". Part 19 Mary Tighe (nee Blachford) (1772-1810): "Written at Scarborough" sonnet - "For me would Fancy now her chaplet twine", "Ye dear associates of my gayer hours" from Psyche - "The Island of Pleasure". Part 20 Barbara Hoole (nee Wreaks, later Hofland) (1770-1844): "Cumberland Rocks" sonnet - "Composed on the Banks of Ulswater" "Composed in a cell, (commonly called the Giant's Cave)" "Lines composed while Climbing some Rocks in Derbyshire". Part 21 Jane Taylor, (1783-1824): "A Town" from "A pair" from "The World in the House". Part 22 Felicia Dorothea Hemans (nee Browne) (1793-1835): "The Voice of Spring" "The Treasures of the. (Part contents)..

The Lucy poems were evoked by stress in Wordsworth’s relationships with Dorothy and Coleridge. Four were written in Germany, where Wordsworth was forced to separate from Coleridge because of the added expense of keeping Dorothy. Wordsworth’s resulting hostility toward Dorothy mixes with his love as he fantasizes her death and then mourns her loss in the Lucy poems. But his relationship with Coleridge darkened as well after Coleridge stated a preference for living near Thomas Poole rather than Wordsworth when the poets met at Göttingen following their winter-long separation. “I Travelled among Unknown Men,” written in England two years later, reveals, however, that Wordsworth overcame his ambivalence toward Dorothy and his excessive dependency upon Coleridge; his declaration of love for England becomes an indirect refusal to venture abroad with Coleridge again. Through the development of the Lucy cycle, Wordsworth discovered that place is the foundation of love and relationship.