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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.” The claim that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow (10[1])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” (10[1])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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