The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders

On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp

To a Lady, in answer to a request that I would write her a Poem upon some Drawings that she

had made Flowers in the Island of Madeira

Love lies Bleeding

Companion to the foregoing

Rural Illusions

To the same Flower

The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie

Who fancied what a pretty sight

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The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

Song for the Spinning Wheel. Founded upon a Belief prevalent among the Pastoral Vales of

Westmoreland.

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glow-worm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove.

A Wren's Nest.

THE WAGGONER.-Canto I.

Yew-tros.

The Kitten and Falling Leaves.

Address to my Infant Daughter, on being reminded that she was a Month old, on that Day.

Canto III.
Canto IV.

Notting

The Simplon Pass

Sewa Phantom of delight

POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.

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O Nightingale! thou surely art.

Three years she grew in sun and shower

A slumber did my spirit seal

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Power of Music

Star-gazers

Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the foot of Brother's Water

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live.

✓Beggars

Sequel to the Foregoing, composed many Years after

✓ Gipsies

Ruth

Resolution and Independence

The Thorn

Hart-leap Well.-Part I.

Dion. .

The Pass of Kirkstone

To Enterprise

To

-Part II. .

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to

the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors

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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

It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown

French Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement. Reprinted from "The

Friend"

Yes, it was the mountain Echo

To a Sky-lark

Laodamia

View from the top of Black Comb

The Wishing-gate destroyed

The Primrose of the Rock

Presentiments

on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn

To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country
Water-fowl

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

Dedication.

To

Nans fret not at their Convent's narrow room

Admonition

* Beloved Vale!" I said, “ when I shall con

At Applethwaite, near Keswick

Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler”

To the Poet, John Dyer

On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem

Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend

To S. H...

Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday

Decay of Piety..

Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812.

From the Italian of Michael Angelo.

From the Same .

From the Same. To the Supreme Being

Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

Even so for me a Vision sanctified

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Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire

Those words were uttered as in pensive mood

While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields, .

How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright

Composed during a Storm.

To a Snow-drop

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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

To

The Infant M- M-

To, 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, Derbyshire

Filial Piety

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To the Author's Portrait

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 PORT!-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

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

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.

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

The Solitary Reaper.

Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe.

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 Tower.

Effusion, in the Pleasure-ground on the banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld

Yarrow Visited, September, 1814

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