selves to as many masters as may be counted on the fingers of one hand is as much as can really be accomplished in a lifetime." From the Memoirs of the Poet, and the critical notes in the third volume of his Prose Works, I have taken much of the material herein contained. To the excellent edition of the poems of Wordsworth by Professor Knight, I am indebted for the notes from hitherto unpublished Journals. To the late Mrs. William Wordsworth, of the Stepping Stones, Ambleside se sickness and death saddened my last visit to the Lakes, I am indebted for both information and encouragement. BROOKLINE, August, 1889. A. J. G. CONTENTS. LYRICS, BALLADS, AND ODES; NĄRRATIVE, REFLEC- 1786. Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem composed in Anticipation of leaving School "Strange fits of passion have I known She dwelt among the untrodden ways” PAGE 1833. 1834. 'If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven "If this great world of joy and pain "Not in the lucid intervals of life" To a Child. Written in her Album 1835. Written after the Death of Charles Lamb Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 299 Composed by the Seaside, near Calais, August, 1802. |