The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

COMPOSED.

1837.

1838.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

IX. Near Rome, in sight of St Peter's.
X. At Albano.

XI. "Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle
Dove."

XII. From the Alban Hills, looking towards

Rome.

XIII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene.

XIV. Near the same Lake.

XV. The Cuckoo at Laverna.

XVI. At the Convent of Camaldoli.

XVII. Continued.

XVIII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of
Camaldoli.

XIX. At Vallombrosa.

XX. At Florence.

XXI. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by
Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence.
XXII. At Florence.-From Michael Angelo.
XXIII. At Florence. From M. Angelo.

XXIV. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the
Apennines.

XXV. In Lombardy.

XXVI. After leaving Italy.

XXVII. Continued.

At Bologna, in remembrance of the late insur-
rections-

I. "Ah, why deceive ourselves! by no mere

fit,"

II. "Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined,
to learn,"

III. "As leaves are to the tree whereon they
grow,"

Sonnet, "What if our numbers barely could
defy,"

1842

1845

Sonnet, Composed after reading a newspaper of
the day, "People! your chains are severing
link by link,” .

Sonnet, To the Planet Venus, upon its approxi-
mation (as an evening star) to the earth,
January 1838, "What strong allurement
draws, what spirit guides,"
Sonnet, composed at Rydal on May morning,
1838, "If with old love of you, dear Hills! I
share,"

COMPOSED.

1838.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Sonnet, composed in the same morning, "Life
with you Lambs, like day, is just begun," 1838
Sonnet, "Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, un-
depressed,"

1838

Sonnet, "Tis He whose yester-evening's high 1838 disdain,"

1838.

Sonnet, "Oh what a wreck! How changed in
mien and speech,"

Sonnet, A Poet to his Grandchild (sequel to

the foregoing), "Son of my buried Son, while
thus thy hand,"

1838

1838.

Sonnet, "Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's
unselfish will,"

Sonnet Valedictory, at the close of the volume
of Sonnets, "Serving no haughty Muse, my
hands have here,"

1839

1838.

Sonnet, To a Painter, "All praise the Likeness
by thy skill portrayed,"

Sonnet, On the same subject, "Though I beheld
at first with blank surprise," .

Sonnet, On a Portrait of I. F., painted by Mar-
garet Gillies,

1840, February. Sonnet, To I. F., "The Star which comes at close

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death,

I. Suggested by the View of Lancaster
Castle (on the Road from the South),

"This spot-at once unfolding sight
so fair."

II. "Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law."
III. "The Roman Consul doomed his sons

to die."

IV. "Is Death, when evil against good has
fought."

V. "Not to the object specially designed."
VI. "Ye brood of conscience-Spectres!

that frequent."

VII. "Before the world had passed her time
of youth."

VIII. "Fit retribution, by the moral code."
IX. "Though to give timely warning and

deter."

COMPOSED.

1840.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

X. "Our bodily life, some plead, that life

the shrine."

XI. "Ah, think how one compelled for life

to abide."

XII. "See the Condemned alone within his

cell."

XIII. Conclusion, "Yes, though he well may
tremble at the sound."

XIV. Apology, "The formal World relaxes
her cold chain."

On a portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon

1842

the field of Waterloo, by Haydon, "By Art's
bold privilege warrior and war-horse stand,". 1842

1842.

1842, March 8. Sonnet, "Intent on gathering wool from hedge

1842, March 26. Prelude, prefixed to the volume entitled "Poems

chiefly of early and late years,"

Floating Island, .

J.

Miscellaneous Sonnets

“A Poet! he hath put his heart to school,"
"The most alluring clouds that mount the sky," 1842
"Feel for the wrongs to universal ken,”
In allusion to various recent histories and
notices of the French Revolution, "Portent-
ous change when History can appear,"
Continued, "Who ponders National events
shall find,"

Concluded, "Long-favoured England! be not
thou misled,"

"Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark

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

trance,"

1842

Troilus and Cressida (from Chaucer),

1842

The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (from Chaucer), 1842

The Poet's Dream, Sequel to the Norman Boy.
The Widow on Windermere Side,

COMPOSED.

1842.

1842, Dec. 24.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

"Lyre! though such power do in thy magic
live,"

To the Clouds,

A Night Thought,

Sonnet, "Wansfell! this Household has
favoured lot,"

1842

1843, Jan. 1.

Sonnet, "While beams of orient light shoot
wide and high,"

1845

1843, Dec. 11.

1845

1850

1845

Sonnet, To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth,
D.D., master of Harrow School, "Enlightened
Teacher! gladly from thy hand,"

1843, December. Inscription for a Monument in Crossthwaite

Sonnet, On the projected Kendal and Winder-
mere Railway, "Is there no nook of English
ground secure,"

Sonnet, "Proud were ye Mountains, when, in
times of old,"

Sonnet, At Furness Abbey, "Here, where, of
havoc tired and rash undoing,

1845.

Poem on the Naming of Places, "Forth from a
jutting ridge, around whose base,"
The Westmoreland Girl, To my grandchildren,
Sonnet, At Furness Abbey, "Well have yon
Railway Labourers to this ground,"
"Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved,"
"What heavenly smiles! O lady mine,"
To a Lady, in answer to a request that I would
write her a poem upon some drawings that
she had made of flowers in the island of
Madeira,