COMPOSED.

1840.

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."

1842

On a portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon
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

and trunk,”

1842, March 26. Prelude, prefixed to the volume entitled "Poems chiefly of early and late years,"

1842

1842

1842

1842

1842

“A Poet! he hath put his heart to school,"

1842

"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,"

1842

1842

Concluded, "Long-favoured England! be not

thou misled,"

1842

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

book,"

1842

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

trance,"

1842

Troilus and Cressida (from Chaucer),

1842

The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (from Chaucer),
The Norman Boy,

1842

1842

The Poet's Dream, Sequel to the Norman Boy. 1842
The Widow on Windermere Side,

COMPOSED,

1842.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

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

To the Clouds,

A Night Thought,

1842

1842, Dec. 24.

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

1843.

1843.

Grace Darling,

1845

1843, Jan. 1.

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

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

1845

1843, December. Inscription for a Monument in Crossthwaite

Church, in the Vale of Keswick,

1850

1844.

1844, Oct. 12.

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

1845.

1845.

Poem on the Naming of Places, "Forth from a
jutting ridge, around whose base,"

1845

1845, June 6. 1845, June 21.

1845.

1845.

1845.

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,

FIRST PUBLISHED.

To the Pennsylvanians, "Days undefiled by
luxury or sloth,"

"Young England! what has then become of
Old,"

1845

1845

1845. 1845.

"If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven," 1845 Sonnet, "Though the bold wings of Poesy affect,"

1845

1846.

1846.

1846.

"I know an aged Man constrained to dwell,"
"How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high,"
Evening Voluntaries.

1850

1850

1846.

Sonnet, To Lucca Giordano. "Giordano,
verily thy Pencil's skill,"

Sonnet, "Who but is pleased to watch the

Sonnet, "Where lies the truth? has Man in

Sonnet, Illustrated Books and Newspapers,
"Discourse was deemed Man's noblest attri-
bute,"

Sonnet, "The unremitting Voice of nightly
streams,"

1850

1846.

Sonnet, To an Octogenarian, "Affections lose
their object: Time brings forth,"
Sonnet, "Why should we weep or mourn, Angelic
Boy,"

WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS.

EXTRACT

FROM THE CONCLUSION OF A POEM, COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF

In edd., 1815 to 1832, the title is "Composed upon leaving school.”

It was written at Hawkshead.

[The image with which this poem concludes, suggested itself to me resting in a boat along with my companions under the

while I was

shade of a magnificent row of sycamores, which then extended their branches from the shore of the promontory upon which stands the ancient, and at that time, the more picturesque Hall of Coniston, the seat of the Le Flemings from very early times. The poem of which it was the conclusion, was of many hundred lines, and contained thoughts and images, most of which have been dispersed through my other

writings.]

DEAR native regions, I foretell,

From what I feel at this farewell,
That, wheresoe'er my steps may tend,
And whensoe'er my course shall end,

If in that hour a single tie

Survive of local sympathy,

My soul will cast the backward view,

The longing look alone on you.

Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest

Far in the regions of the west,