The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

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CONTENTS.

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POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF

CHILDHOOD.

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Rural Architecture, 1801

The Pet-lamb. A Pastoral, 1800

The Idle Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll

Force. A Pastoral, 1800..

To H. C. Six Years old, 1802.....

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and

strengthening the imagination in Boyhood and

early Youth

My heart leaps up when I behold, 1804

To a Butterfly, 1801..

Foresight, 1802.....

Characteristics of a Child three Years old, 1811. 73

Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter

Evening, 1806......

The Mother's Return, 1807.

Alice Fell; or, Poverty, 1801

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude, 1799

We are Seven, 1798...

Anecdote for Fathers, 1798

" 1817...

POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS.

The Brothers, 1802.....

Artegal and Elidure, 1815.

Farewell Lines......

To a Butterfly, 1801..

Farewell, 1802...

The longest Day. Addressed to-

The Sparrow's Nest, 1801

The Norman Boy..

The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy. 82

The Westmoreland Girl........

Notes to Poems Referring to the Period of Child-

bood....

Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's

Castle of Indolence, 1802....

Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain

Excursion, 1805..

Strange fits of passion have I known, 1799.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways, 1799

I travelled among unknown men, 1799

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew, 1826... 96

To, 1824...

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'Tis said, that some have died for love, 1800..... 97

The Forsaken

A Complaint, 1806.

To, 1824.

Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved

How rich that forehead's calm expanse, 1824.... 98

What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine

To, 1824

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a

New Year. 1817....

The Widow on Windermere Side

The Last of the Flock, 1798...

Repentance. A Pastoral Ballad, 1804.

The Affliction of Margaret

-, 1804

The Cottager to her Infant, 1805..

The Sailor's Mother, 1800..

The Childless Father, 1800.

The Emigrant Mother 1802

Vaudracour and Julia, 1805

The Armenian Lady's Love, 1830.

The Somnambulist, 1833

The Idiot Boy, 1798.....

Michael. A Pastoral Poem, 1800

The Russian Fugitive, 1830.....

Grace Darling, 1842

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman,

1798......

Maternal Grief..

Loving and Liking. Irregular Verses, addressed

to a Child, 1832.....

The Redbreast. Suggested in a Westmoreland

Cottage, 1834..

Her Eyes are Wild, 1798.

Notes to Poems Founded on the Affections

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POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES.

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It was an April morning: fresh and clear, 1800.. 131

To Joanna, 1800...

131

There is an Eminence,-of these our hills, 1800. 132

A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags, 1800. 133

To M. H., 1800....

When, to the attractions of the busy world, 1805. 133

Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base,

135

The Waterfall and the Eglantine, 1800.....

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral, 1800..... 141

Song for the Spinning Wheel, 1812...

142

The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly, 1806... 142

The Kitten and Falling Leaves, 1804 ...........

143

A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicester-
shire, 1824....

Love Lies Bleeding

Companion to the foregoing.

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Stray Pleasures, 1806....

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On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp,

1827.....

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove, 1830.

A Wren's Nest, 1833...

Rural Illusions, 1832

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Address to my Infant Daughter, on being reminded

that she was a Month old, 1804.......

The WAGGONER, 1805

Notes to Poems of the Fancy..

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137

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138

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POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.

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163

There was a Boy, 1799....

To, on her First Ascent to the Summit of

Helvellyn, 1810.

To the Cuckoo, 1804

A Night-piece, 1798..

Water-fowl, 1812..

Yew-trees, 1803

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146

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149

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Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey,

on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a

Tour, July 13, 1798. 1798.....

PETER BELLA Tale..................

The EGYPTIAN MAID, or Romance of the Water

Lily, 1830....

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The Simplon Pass, 1799....

211

An Evening Ode, composed upon an Evening of

Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty, 1818.. 211

To the Clouds...

On the Power of Sound 1828...

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. - PART I.

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Dedication. To-

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216

Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room... 215

At Applethwaite, near Keswick, 1804 .......... 215

Admonition

"Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con"... 216

Pelion and Ossa, flourish side by side........ 216

There is a little unpretending Rill

Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat.......... 216

The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade

. 216

Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture............ 217

'Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings". 217

Aerial Rock-whose solitary brow....

Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete

Angler"

To Sleep

The Wild Duck's Nest....

To the Poet, John Dyer

On the Detraction which followed the Publication

of a certain Poem

To the River Derwent.

Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland,

From the Italian of Michael Angelo ................................ 219

From the Same

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From the Same. To the Supreme Being ·

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Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind....... 220

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

Even so for me a Vision sanctified ........

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free ...................... 220

Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go! 220

With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh... 221

The world is too much with us; late and soon... 221

A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found.............. 221

How sweet it is when mother Fancy rocks............ 221

I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret 222

To B. R. Haydon .........

222

From the dark chambers of dejection freed

Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild................. 222

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I heard (alas! 't was only in a dream).

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Retirement.......................

To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.-PART II.

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned. 223

Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell... 223

While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields

How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright.. 224

.. 223

Composed during a Storm

To a Snow-drop

Composed a few days after the foregoing...

The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand.. 224

To the Lady Mary Lowther.............

There is a pleasure in poetic pains

225

The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said..... 225

Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour.. 225

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the

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sky!..

Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress...... 225

Mark the concentred hazels that enclose

Captivity.-Mary Queen of Scots.....

Brook! whose society the Poet seeks.....

Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream.............

Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er....

Gordale....

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The Monument commonly called Long Meg, and

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her Daughters......

Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton

Hills, Yorkshire.......

These words were uttered as in pensive mood... 227

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3,

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1802 ******

227

Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth! (Ox-

ford,) 1820....

Shame on this faithless heart! that could

(Oxford,) 1820........

allow.

228

St. Catherine of Ledbury ...

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant

Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein

To the Author's Portrait ....

Conclusion. To...

In my mind's eye a temple like a cloud

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229

To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P......... 229

To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North

Wales, 1824 .....

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Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near 229

In the Woods of Rydal........................

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When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle............ 229

While they who once were Anna's playmates,

To, in her seventieth year...

A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of

Worcester Cathedral........

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A Tradition of Oken Hill in Darley Dale, Derby-
shire......

Filial Piety.....

To B. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of Na-

poleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena 231

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride. 231

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough.... 231

Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone,

Herefordshire...

To the Planet Venus
At Dover..

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.-PART III.

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Though the bold wings of Poesy affect........

A Poet!- He hath put his heart to school

"Wait, prithee, wait!" this answer Lesbia threw 233

The most alluring clouds that mount the sky.... 233

On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the

Field of Waterloo, by Haydon

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Composed on a May Morning, 1838....

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Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance 233

To a Painter......

234

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!

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Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake.. 234

Illustrated Books and Newspapers.......

235

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A Plea for Authors, May, 1838....

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A Poet to his Grandchild, (Sequel to the fore-

going)...

To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D.,

Master of Harrow School.

Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot.... 236

While beams of orient light shoot wide and

high......

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