THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.

PART I.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN, TO

THE CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.

Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion. 17

Missions and Travels

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TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.

As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest

Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root

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Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs.

Waldenses

Archbishop Chichely to Henry V.

Wars of York and Lancaster

Wicliffe

Corruptions of the higher Clergy

Abuse of Monastic Power

Monastic Voluptuousness .

Dissolution of the Monasteries

The same Subject

Continued

Saints

The Virgin

Apology.

Imaginative Regrets

Translation of the Bible

The Point at Issue

Edward VI.

Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of