LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POE MS. IN TWO VOLUMES. By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T.N.LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW, BY BIGGS AND CO. BRISTOL. 1800. CONTENTS. Page There was a Boy, &c - - - - - 14 The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem - - - 19 Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle - - .. Strange fits of passion I have known, &c. - A slumber did my spirit seal, &c. - - - 53 The Waterfall and the Eglantine - .. The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral - - - 58 The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, 'Tis said that some have died for love, &c. - 76 Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water - Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the CONTENTS. Page Song for the wandering Jew - - - 98 Lines written with a Slate.Pencil upon a Stone, &c. 117 Lines written on a Tablet in a School The two April Mornings - - - - 123 The Fountain, a conversation - - - 127 Three years she grew in sun and shower, &c. 130 The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral - - - - 139 Written in Germany on one of the coldest days The Childless Father . . . 147 The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description Poems on the Naming of Places, - 177 to 198 Michael, a Pastoral - - - - 199 HART-LEAP WELL. Hart. Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chace, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem, which monuments do now exist as I have there described them. The Knight had ridden down from Wensley moor “ Another Horse !”—That shout the Vassal heard, Vol. II. |