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St. Catherine of Ledbury
Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and
near
Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein
Brook! whose society the Poet seeks
Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream
Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er
Though the bold wings of Poesy affect
Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth
Shame on his faithless heart! that could allow
Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry
Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third)
Fame tells of groves-from England far away-
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire
Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North
Wales
To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P.
To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North
Wales, 1824.
In the Woods of Rydal
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle
While Anna's peers and early playmates tread.
To the Cuckoo
in her seventieth year
To Rotha Q-
A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of
Worcester Cathedral
Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone,
Herefordshire
Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride
A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derby-
shire
Filial Piety.
To the Author's Portrait
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Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
To B. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of
Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St.
Helena.
A Poet!-He hath put his heart to school.
The most alluring clouds that mount the sky
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon
the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon
Composed on a May Morning, 1838
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Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance
To a Painter
On the same Subject
Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest
'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain
Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and
speech!
Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake
A Plea for Authors, May, 1838 .
Valedictory Sonnet
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,
Master of Harrow School
To the Planet Venus .
Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot
While beams of orient light shoot wide and high
In my mind's eye a Temple like a cloud
On the projected Kendal and Windermere
Railway
Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old
At Furness Abbey
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803.
Departure from the Vale of Grasmere, August,
1803
At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years
after his Death
Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the
Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence
To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave of
their Father.
Ellen Irwin; or, the Braes of Kirtle.
To a Highland Girl
Glen-Almain; or, the Narrow Glen
Stepping Westward
Yarrow Unvisited
Castle
Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranky
The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband
Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale
The Blind Highland Boy
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814.
The Brownie's Cell
Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's
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Tower
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Effusion, in the Pleasure-ground on the banks
of the Bran, near Dunkeld
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Yarrow Visited, September, 1814
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POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
AND LIBERTY.-PART I.
Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August,
1802
Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind
Composed near Calais, on the Road leading to
I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vain
Festivals have I seen that were not names
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
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The King of Sweden
To Toussaint L'Ouverture.
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We had a female Passenger who came
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Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the day
Great men have been among us; hands that
penned .
It is not to be thought of that the Flood.
When I have borne in memory what has tamed 135
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One might believe that natural miseries
There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear
These times strike monied worldlings with
dismay.
England! the time is come when thou should'st
wean
When, looking on the present face of things
To the Men of Kent. October, 1803 .
What if our numbers barely could defy
Lines on the expected Invasion.
Anticipation. October, 1803
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Another year!-another deadly blow!
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Ode. Who rises on the banks of Seine
PART II.
On a celebrated Event in Ancient History
Upon the same Event
To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the
Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
A Prophecy. February, 1807
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Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake
Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes
Composed while the Author was engaged in
Writing a Tract, occasioned by the Conven-
tion of Cintra
Composed at the same Time and on the same
Occasion
Hoffer.
Advance come forth from thy Tyrolean ground 149
Feelings of the Tyrolese
Alas! what boots the long laborious quest
And is it among rude untutored Dales
O'er the wide earth on mountain and on plain
On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese
Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
Say, what is Honour?-'Tis the finest sense
The martial courage of a day is vain.
Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
Call not the royal Swede unfortunate
Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid
Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer
Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
In due observance of an ancient rite.
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of those
Funerals
The Oak of Guernica.
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard
Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind
O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied
The French and the Spanish Guerillas
Spanish Guerillas
The power of Armies is a visible thing
Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise 162
The French Army in Russia
On the same Occasion
By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze
The Germans on the heights of Hochheim
Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright
Ode 1814.-When the soft hand of sleep had
closed the latch
Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinter-
ment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo
Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski
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Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung 173
Ode 1815.-Imagination-ne'er before content
Ode.-The Morning of the Day appointed for a
General Thanksgiving.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820.
In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine
Hymn, for the Boatmen as they approach the
Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg
The Source of the Danube.
On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen 195