Strange Fits of Passion, usually accepted as the first 'Lucy' poem, describes in the first person a horseman approaching his lover's cottage and falling into a reverie while watching the descending moon. When the moon drops behind the cottage roof, the rider is roused by anxiety: '"O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!"'. Price argues that a wish for Lucy's death accounts for the sudden fear occurring as the rider nears her cottage. A plausible basis for this death wish is the idea that Lucy is actually Dorothy Wordsworth, the poet's sister and the 'evident favorite of scholars interested in the biographical puzzle of Lucy's identity'. The death wish is then seen as an attempt to resolve the incestuous tie by removing the forbidden object.