The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

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Methuen, 1908

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Contents

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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT 1820
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Fort Fuentes
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Processions suggested on a Sabbath morning in
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY 1837
116
Near Rome in sight of St Peters
125
At the Convent of Camaldoli
132
Composed at Rydal on May Morning 1838
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THE RIVER DUDDON
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What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled
155
The same Subject
156
Hints for the Fancy
157
From this deep chasm where quivering sunbeams play
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Return
159
The Plain of Donnerdale
160
Tradition
161
Methinks twere no unprecedented feat
162
Fallen and diffused into a shapeless heap
163
Who swerves from innocence who makes divorce
164
Conclusion
165
YARROW REVISITED AND OTHER POEMS I The gallant Youth who may have gained
166
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford for Naples
169
On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland
170
The Trosachs
171
Eagles
172
Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm
173
Highland Hut
174
The Brownie
177
Bothwell Castle
178
Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest
179
Fancy and Tradition
180
Roman Antiquities
181
THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE OR THE FATE of THE NORTONS
183
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS PART I
229
Trepidation of the Druids
230
Uncertainty
231
Recovery
232
Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians
233
Monastery of Old Bangor
234
Glad Tidings
235
Conversion
236
Primitive Saxon Clergy
237
Seclusion
238
Saxon Monasteries and Lights and Shades of the Religion
239
Alfred
240
Danish Conquests
241
The Norman Conquest
242
Crusades
243
An Interdict
244
Papal Dominion
245
From false assumption rose and fondly hailed
246
Deplorable his lot who tills the ground
247
Continued
248
As faith thus sanctified the warriors crest
249
The Vaudois
250
Waldenses
251
Wicliffe
252
Abuse of Monastic Power
253
The same Subject
254
Saints
255
Imaginative Regrets
256
Translation of the Bible
257
Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent
258
Latimer and Ridley
259
English Reformers in Exile
260
Eminent Reformers
261
Gunpowder Plot
262
Troubles of Charles the First
263
Afflictions of England
264
Charles the Second
265
Waltons Book of Lives
266
Acquittal of the Bishops
267
Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty
268
Aspects of Christianity in America1 The Pilgrim Fathers
269
Concluded American Episcopacy
270
Pastoral Character
271
Baptism
272
Confirmation
273
Sacrament
274
Visitation of the Sick
275
Forms of Prayer at Sea
276
Rural Ceremony
277
Old Abbeys
278
Congratulation
279
Continued
280
Cathedrals etc
281
Continued
282
Conclusion
283
EVENING VOLUNTARIES I Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose
284
On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland
285
Not in the lucid intervals of life
286
Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high
297
POEMS COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833
298
They call Thee Merry England in old time
299
In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth
300
Nuns Well Brigham
301
Stanzas Suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees Heads on the Coast of Cumberland
302
In the Channel between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man
306
Desire we past illusions to recall?
307
Isle of Man
308
By a Retired Mariner
309
Despond who willI heard a voice exclaim
310
On the Frith of Clyde
311
Written in a Blank Leaf of Macphersons Ossian
312
Cave of Staffa
314
Cave of Staffa
315
Iona
316
Homeward we turn Isle of Columbas Cell
317
There said a Stripling pointing with meet pride
318
Suggested by the Foregoing
319
Steamboats Viaducts and Railways
320
To the Earl of Lonsdale
321
To Cordelia M
325
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
326
POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION I Expostulation and Reply
327
The Tables turned an Evening Scene on the same Subject
328
Lines written in Early Spring
329
To my Sister
330
Simon Lee the Old Huntsman
331
Written in Germany on one of the Coldest Days of the Century
334
A Poets Epitaph
335
To the Daisy
336
Matthew
337
The Two April Mornings
338
The Fountain
340
Personal Talk
342
Illustrated Books and Newspapers
343
To the Spade of a Friend
344
A Night Thought
345
Priory
353
September 1819
360
The unremitting voice of nightly streams
366
If this great world of joy and pain
373
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil
382
Men of the Western World in Fates dark book
388
Continued
389
Young Englandwhat is then become of Old
390
SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH I Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle on the Road from the South
391
The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die
392
Ye brood of ConscienceSpectres that frequent
393
Though to give timely warning and deter
394
Ah think how one compelled for life to abide
395
Apology
396
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS I Epistle
397
Upon perusing the Foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after its Composition
403
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase
404
Liberty
405
Poor Robin
409
The Gleaner
410
To a Redbreast
411
Sonnet
412
Floating Island
413
How beautiful the Queen of Night on high
414
To the Lady Fleming
415
On the same Occasion
418
The Horn of Egremont Castle
419
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
422
Prelude
425
To a Child
426
Lines
427
Grace Darling
429
The Russian Fugitive
431
In the Grounds of Coleorton the Seat of Sir George Beau mont Bart Leicestershire
441
Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont Bart and in his Name for an Urn placed by him at the Termination of a newlyplanted Avenue in the s...
442
Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House an Outhouse on the Island at Grasmere
443
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb
444
In these fair vales hath many a Tree
445
The massy Ways carried across these heights
446
Inscribed upon a Rock
447
Hast thou seen with flash incessant
448
Not seldom clad in radiant vest
449
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
450
SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER I The Prioress Tale
451
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
458
Troilus and Cresida
468
POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE I The Old Cumberland Beggar
473
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
477
The Small Celandine
480
The Two Thieves or the Last Stage of Avarice
481
Animal Tranquillity and Decay
482
NOTES
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On being stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne
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Page 337 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove...
Page 315 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 324 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 33 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 30 - ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea.
Page 32 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 338 - Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
Page 324 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Page 33 - In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, 1802 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee...
Page 327 - was well begun, Then from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought?" A second time did Matthew stop; And fixing still his eye Upon the eastern mountain-top, To me he made reply...

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