A Slumber did my Spirit Seal

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

A slumber did my spirit seal;

I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force; C

She neither hears nor sees; D
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, C
With rocks, and stones, and trees.D

Introduction
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal is one of the five Lucy
poems written by the great romantic poet William
Wordsworth. It was first published in the volume Lyrical
Ballads that Wordsworth co-authored with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. This volume was written in 1798 and published in
1800. This is a poem about Wordsworth’s deep love for his
beloved and his reaction to her sudden and untimely death.

Wordsworth had experienced some harsh realities of

life like the French Revolution, the War between France and
England, etc., hence this poem holds the spirit of Escapism
from city life to the elemental nature which, for the poet, is an
ideal place. Through this poem, Wordsworth describes an
appreciation of life beyond death.

About the poet:

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth
in Cumbria. His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth's parents
died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in
the care of different relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth
developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his
poems.