Poor Susan

Poor Susan
by William Wordsworth
Myles Birket Foster's illustration of "Poor Susan" from Beauties of English Landscape (1874), engraved by the brothers Dalziel
First published in1798 (1798)
Meteranapestic tetrameter
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"Poor Susan" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth composed at Alfoxden in 1797. It was first published in the collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798. It is written in anapestic tetrameter.

The poem records the memories awakening in a country girl in London on hearing a thrush sing in the early morning.

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