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In a poem from this collection, a boy whose lips “burr” gets lost while fetching a doctor for his neighbor. The speaker hopes to find “pleasure in the dimness of stars” in a poem from this collection that disputes Milton by stating, “In Nature there is nothing melancholy.” In a poem from this collection, a little girl remarks that she sings songs to her two siblings who “in the church-yard lie.” (10[1])The claim that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is from this collection, which contains the poems “The Nightingale” and “We Are Seven.” The poet’s sister Dorothy is the addressee of a poem from this collection set on the banks of the River Wye. For 10 points, “Tintern Abbey” is from what collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth? ■END■

ANSWER: Lyrical Ballads [or Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems] (The first poem is “The Idiot Boy.”)
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