William Wordsworth (1770-1850). 'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways'. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

‘She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways’

By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)


SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone	5
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;	10
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!