“The” Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

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.

Part II.

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Resto-

ration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates

and Honours of his Ancestors

To a Sky-lark
Laodamia

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Dion

The Pass of Kirkstone

To Enterprise

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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

Commencement. Reprinted from "The Friend"

Yes, it was the mountain Echo

To on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 191

To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking

long Walks in the Country

160

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193

On the Power of Sound .

PETER BELL.-A TALE.-Prologue

Part I..

Part II.

Part III.

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.

PART I.

Dedication.

To

Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room

Admonition

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

At Applethwaite, near Keswick

Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side

There is a little unpretending Rill.

Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat

The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade

Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture

"Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings

Aerial Rock-whose solitary brow

To Sleep

The Wild Duck's Nest

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

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go ?
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
The world is too much with us; late and soon
A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found

'Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind

To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

VOL. II.

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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Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned

How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks

To B. R. Haydon

From the dark chambers of dejection freed

Fair Prime of Life! were it enough to gild

I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret

I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)

Retirement

Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell

Mark the concentred hazels that enclose

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

To the Lady Mary Lowther

To Lady Beaumont .

There is a pleasure in poetic pains

The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said

When haughty expectations prostrate lie

Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!.

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

Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress

The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough

Captivity.-Mary Queen of Scots .

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

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802

Conclusion.

To

PART III.

Though the bold wings of Poesy affect .

Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth!

Shame on this 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 341

In the Woods of Rydal

342

When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle

343

While Anna's peers and early playmates tread

A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester

Cathedral

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in her seventieth year

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Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire 349

Chatsworth thy stately mansion, and the pride

350

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