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Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray is the titular subject of a 1799 poem by William Wordsworth that details the tragic death of a young girl in a storm.

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Lucy Gray is the titular subject of a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799. The poem was published the following year in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800).

The narrative of the poem describes the tragic death of Lucy Gray, a young girl who ventures out into a storm one evening. Though she is a literary character rather than an author, her story remains a notable part of Wordsworth's early poetic catalog.