The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

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George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1878 - 496 pages
 

Contents

POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
64
Composed in the Valley near Dover on the Day of Land
70
There is a bondage worse far worse to bear
76
Ode Who rises on the banks of Seine
82
Upon the same Event
86
Feelings of the Tyrolese
92
Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid
98
The French and the Spanish Guerillas
104
By Moscow selfdevoted to a blaze
109
Suints
113
Feelings of a French Royalist on the Disinterment
117
Ode The Morning of the Day appointed for a General
125
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT 1820
135
In the Cathedral at Cologne
141
Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons
147
Effusion in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell
152
The Italian Itinerant and the Swiss Goatherd Part I
159
The Three Cottage Girls
168
Vale of Chamouny
174
SkyProspect
182
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY 1837
189
At Rome
203
The Virgin
208
From the Alban Hills looking towards Rome
209
At the Convent of Camaldoli
215
In Lombardy
223
OR THE ROMANCE OF
229
THE RIVER DUDDON A SERIES OF SONNETS
246
The same Subject
254
Seathwaite Chapel
260
Journey renewed
266
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford
276
The pibrochs note discountenanced or mute
279
The Highland Broach
285
Picture of Daniel in the Lions Den at Hamilton Palace
291
NOTES
298
VOL IV
1
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS
72
Dissensions
78
Apology
84
His Descendants
90
Danish Conquests 91
91
Scene in Venice 97
97
Crusaders 103
103
Wicliffe 109
109
Imaginative Regrets
115
General View of the Troubles of the Reformation
121
127
127
Acquittal of the Bishops
133
Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty
134
140
140
Visitation of the Sick
146
Continued
154
Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose
160
Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge
167
174
174
182
182
POEMS COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING
183
Mary Queen of Scots Landing at the Mouth of
189
In the Channel between the Coast of Cumberland
196
At Sea off the Isle of
197
Incident characteristic of a Favorite
260
Ode to Duty
266
Take cradled Nursling of the mountain take
268
A Fact and an Imagination or Canute and Alfred
274
278
278
To the same
281
The sylvan slopes with cornclad fields
283
Humanity
289
To upon the Birth of her Firstborn Child March
295
If this great world of joy and pain
304
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F Stone 318
313
So fair so sweet withal so sensitive
319
Blest Statesman he whose Minds unselfish will
325
Young England what is then become of
331
Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle on the Road
332
VOL V
1
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after
12
Poor Robin
21
Sonnet To an Octogenarian
26
28
28
On the same Occasion
35
Goody Blake and Harry Gill A true Story
41
To a Child Written in her Album
48
The Russian Fugitive Part I
56
INSCRIPTIONS
70
Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone the largest of
76
The massy Ways carried across these heights
78
For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St Her
84
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
97
Troilus and Cresida
112
POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD
119
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
126
129
129
The Two Thieves or The Last Stage of Avarice
132
O flower of all that springs from gentle blood
141
Epitaph in the ChapelYard of Langdale Westmoreland 146
146
To the Daisy
153
Sonnet
159
Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Coleorton Hall
166
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 173
173
183
183
NOTES
185
Musings near Aquapendente
190
The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome
203
15
225
Appendix 227
227
Essay supplementary to the Preface 235
235
Dedication prefixed to the Edition of 1815 278
278
Postscript 303
303
331
331
136
339
At Rome
340
76
342
89
344
144
345
The Trosachs
347
139
349
Change me some God into that breathing rose
351
147
352
90
355
What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled
364

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Page 228 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 174 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong: The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay...
Page 19 - Reaper. Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 174 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make ; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel - I feel it all.
Page 262 - Duty, if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not...
Page 179 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Page 264 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good...
Page 176 - Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years' Darling of a pigmy size ! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes...
Page 180 - And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves ! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might ; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they...
Page 180 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

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