CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE POEMS. COMPOSED. 1785. 1786. 1785 to 1797. School Exercise at Hawkshead, . 1786 (probably). Sonnet, "Written in very early youth," 1787-9. 1789. 1789. 1791-2. 1793-4. 1795. "Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." Lines, written while sailing in a Boat at Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the 1793 1798 Descriptive Sketches in verse, taken during One-third of this poem was published under the title of "The Female Vagrant," in Lines, left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect, 1798 1798 The Mad Mother; or, "Her eyes are wild," 1798 1798. The Tables turned, an evening scene on the 1798 1798. 1798. The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman, 1798. The Idiot Boy, 1798 1798. 1798. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 1798 1800 1798. Animal Tranquillity and Decay; or, "Old Man 1798 1799. 1799. Influence of Natural Objects, In "The Friend," 1809 1800 Matthew; or, Lines written on a tablet in a 1800. 1800. 1800. Song for the wandering Jew, Rural Architecture, Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle, The two Thieves, A Character, Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St Herbert's Island, Derwentwater, Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere, Lines, written with a slate-pencil upon a Stone, 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1801. 1801. 1801. The Sparrow's nest, 1807 Sonnet, To Skiddaw, "Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side," 1815 1802. [Miss Wordsworth's Journal enables us to fix the dates of the composition of the poems of 1802 more accurately than those of any other year, and also to correct several of the dates given by the poet himself to Miss Fenwick in 1845.] 1802, March. 1802, March. 1802, March. 1802, March. 1802, March. 1802, March. The Sailor's Mother, or "The Singing Bird," To a Butterfly (first poem), "Stay near me," &c., The Rainbow, or "My heart leaps up," . 1802, April 30. 1802, May COMPOSED. FIRST PUBlished. 1802, April 12. The Glowworm, or "Among all lovely things 1802, April 16. Brothers Water, "The cock is crowing," &c., 1807 1802, April 16. To a Butterfly (second poem), "I've watched you," &c., 1802, April 28. Foresight, To the small Celandine (first poem), "Pansies, 1. To the same flower (second poem), "Pleasures 1807 1807 1802, May 7. The Leech-gatherer, or "Resolution and Inde- 1802, June 1802, July 30. Sonnet on Westminster Bridge, "Earth hath not anything to show more fair," Sonnet, composed by the seaside, near Calais, "Fair star of evening, splendour of the west," 1807 Sonnet, Calais, "Is it a reed that's shaken by 17. Some additions to the "Ode on Immortality," 1802, August. 1802, August. the wind?" 1802, August 7. Sonnet, To a friend, composed near Calais, on the road leading to Ardres, "Jones! as from Calais southward you and I," . 1802, Aug. 15. Sonnet, Calais, "Festivals have I seen that were not names," 1802, August. Sonnet, composed on the beach near Calais, "It in fee," 1802, August. Sonnet, The King of Sweden, "The voice of song from distant lands shall call," 1802, Sept. 1802, August. Sonnet, To Toussaint L'Ouverture, "Toussaint, 1802, Sept. 1802, Sept. 1802, Sept. 1. Sonnet, composed in the valley, near Dover, on Sonnet, "Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood," 1807 1802, Sept. Sonnet, London, "Milton! thou should'st be liv- COMPOSED. 1802, Sept. 1802, Sept. 1802, Sept. FIRST PUBLISHED. Sonnet, "Great men have been among us; hands Sonnet, "It is not to be thought of that the 1807 . 1807 1807 1802, October 4. Sonnet, composed after a journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire, "Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell," 1802. 1802. 1802. 1802. 1802. Stanzas, written in my pocket copy of Thomson's To H. C., six years old, To the Daisy (first poem), "In youth from rock To the Daisy (second poem), "With little here to To the same flower (third poem), "Bright flower, Hesperus, or "It is no spirit who from heaven Memorials of a tour in Scotland, 1803 Departure from the Vale of Grasmere, Aug. 1827 1845 At the grave of Burns, 1803, seven years after 1807 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe, 1827 The Matron of Jedburgh and her Husband, . 1807 "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere dale," 1815 |