This short poem was first published in the 1800 edition of the "Lyrical Ballads". It is considered one of Wordsworth's "Lucy poems", a group of works that deal with the death of a young girl. The other Lucy poems are "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known", "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" and "Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower".

Here, Wordsworth seems to have a dreamlike vision (the "slumber" that seals his spirit) of Lucy, through which he ultimately realizes that, in death as in life, she is one with nature.

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A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

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

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