For me the real horror in this poem is in the father going back to his work while the child goes out into the storm. Date ot composition of the poema-Lucy Poems, concrete expression of Wordsworths Nature philosophy-Analysis of Three years-Lucy, one or composite-Three. When she I loved look’d every day 5 Fresh as a rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath an evening moon. Reading it recently with my daughter-who is fascinated with the idea of ghosts and not at all scared -it struck me that apart from the obvious subject of the loss of a child, there is a very modern sort of guilt expressed here. Strange fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the lover’s ear alone, What once to me befell. Although Wordsworth did not compose the poems as a strict sequence, they are often collected and published together. As in Strange fits of passion have I known, Lucy. Wordsworth is best known for The Prelude, which is a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he. Wordsworth introduces the character of Lucy as a figure with one foot in reality and the other in fantasy. He and Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. Wordsworth's poem 'Lucy Gray' (1799) is one of his best known. The Lucy Poems William Wordsworth Between 17, William Wordsworth wrote five ballads about an idealized young woman named Lucy. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet, best known for Lyrical Ballads (1667), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.