COMPOSED.

1811.

1811.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Sonnet, "The power of Armies is a visible thing," 1815
Conclusion, "Here pause; the Poet claims at
least this praise,"

Sonnet, Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture,
"Prised be the Art whose subtle power could
stay,"

.

1815

1815

1811.

1841.

Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.,
from the South-West Coast of Cumberland,
Upon perusing the foregoing epistle thirty years
after its composition,

1842

1842

1812.

1812. 1812.

1812.

Song for the spinning wheel,

1820

Sonnet, composed on the eve of a marriage of a
friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812, "What
need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay," . 1815
Water-Fowl,

. 1827

1813. 1813.

1813.

View from the top of Black Comb,

Written with a slate pencil on a Stone, on the
side of the mountain of Black Comb,

1813, November. Sonnet, "Now that all hearts are glad, all faces

bright,"

1814.

Yarrow visited, September 1814,

Lines written on a blank leaf in a copy of the
Author's poem, "The Excursion,” upon hear-
ing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal,
Sonnet, "From the dark chambers of dejection
freed," .

1820

1815

L

1815

1815.

1815, April 15. Dedication to "the White Doe of Rylstone, in

COMPOSED.

1815.
1815, Sept.

1815, Nov. 1.

FIRST PUBlished.

Ode, "Imagination-ne'er before contert,"
Sonnet, "While not a leaf seems faded; while
the fields,"

Sonnet, "How clear, how keen, how marvellously
bright,"

1845

1816

1816

[The following sonnets were originally published in the edition of 1815. It is impossible to determine the precise year of composition, but they fall within the years 1810-1815.]

1811 (?)

"The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade,"
"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind,”
“Hail, twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!"
"The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said,”.
"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress,"
"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose,"
To the Poet Dyer, "Bard of the Fleece, whose
skilful genius made," .

1815

1815

1815

1815

1815

1815

1815

"Brook! whose society the Poet seeks,"
'Surprised by joy,-impatient as the wind,"

1816.

Ode, composed in January 1816, "When the
soft hand of sleep had closed the latch,"
Ode, The morning of the day appointed for a

general thanksgiving, January 18, 1816,
Invocation to the Earth,

1816, Feb.

The French Army in Russia,

1816

1816, Feb.

Sonnet, on the same occasion, "Ye storms, re-
sound the praises of your king,"

Sonnet, "By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze," 1832
Sonnet, The Germans on the Heights of Hoch-
heim, "Abruptly paused the strife ;-the field
throughout,"

1827

Sonnet, Siege of Vienna, raised by John Sobieski,
"O, for a kindling touch from that pure flame," 1816
Sonnet, Occasioned by the battle of Waterloo,

Intrepid Sons of Albion !—not by you,"
Sonnet, Occasioned by the same battle, "The
Bard, whose soul is meek as dawning day," 1816
Sonnet, "Emperors and Kings, how oft have
temples rung,"

Sonnet, On the disinterment of the remains of
the Duke D'Enghien, "Dear Reliques! from
a pit of vilest mould,".

1832

COMPOSED.

1816.

1816.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Translation of part of the first Book of the Enid, 1836
A fact, and an Imagination; or Canute and
Alfred on the seashore,

1820

1817.

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the eve of

1818.

1818.

1818.

1820

1820

The Pilgrim's dream: or, the Star and the
Glowworm,

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a
Hermit's cell, .

I. "Hopes what are they? Beads of morning."
II. "Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be."
III. "Hast thou seen, with flash incessant."
IV. "Troubled long with warring notions."
V. "Not seldom, clad in radiant vest."
Composed on an evening of Extraordinary
Beauty and Splendour,

1819.

1820

1819, Feb.

Sonnet, composed during a storm, "One who
was suffering tumult in his soul,"

1819

1819.

Sonnet, suggested by Mr W. Westall's views of
the caves, &c., in Yorkshire, "Pure element
of waters! wheresoe'er,"

1819

1819.

1819.

Sonnet, Malham Cove, "Was the aim frustrated
by force or guile,"

Sonnet, Gordale, "At early dawn-or rather
when the air," .

COMPOSED.

1819.

1819.

1819.

1819.

1819.

1819.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Sonnet, The Wild Duck's nest, "The imperial
consort of the Fairy-king,"

Sonnet, written upon a blank leaf in the 'Com-
plete Angler,' "While flowing rivers yield a
blameless sport,"

1819

1819

1819

Sonnet, Captivity,-Mary Queen of Scots, "As
the cold aspect of a sunless way,"
Sonnet, To a Snow-drop, "Lone Flower,
hemmed in with snows, and white as they," . 1819
Sonnet, To the river Derwent, "Among the
mountains were we nursed, loved Stream,"
Sonnet, composed in one of the valleys of West-
moreland, on Easter Monday, "With each re-
currence of this glorious morn,”

.

Sonnet, "Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready
friend,"

Sonnet, "I watch, and long have watched, with
calm regret,"
Sonnet, "I heard, (alas ! 'twas only in a dream)," 1819

1819

.

Sonnet, Oxford, May 30, 1820, "Ye sacred
Nurseries of blooming youth,"

1820

1820.

Sonnet, Oxford, "Shame on this faithless heart!

Sonnet, June 1820, "Fame tells of groves—

The River Duddon: a series of Sonnets,
To the Rev. Dr Wordsworth, with the Sonnets
to the River Duddon, and other poems, "The
Minstrels played their Christmas tune,"

I. "Not envying Latian shades—if yet
they throw."

II. "Child of the clouds! remote from

every taint."

III. "How shall I paint thee?-Be this

naked stone."

IV. "Take, cradled Nursling of the moun

tain, take."

V. "Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze

that played."

1820

COMPOSED.

1820.

VI. Flowers, "Ere yet our course

graced with social trees."

FIRST PUBLISHED.

was

VII. "Change me, some God, into that
breathing rose!”

VIII. "What aspect bore the Man who roved

or fled."

IX. The Stepping-Stones, "The struggling
Rill insensibly is grown."

X. The same subject, "Not so that Pair
whose youthful spirits dance."

XI. The Faery Chasm, "No fiction was it
of the antique age."

XII. Hints for the Fancy, “On, loitering
Muse-the swift stream chides us-

on."

XIII. Open prospect, "Hail to the fields--
with dwellings sprinkled o'er."
XIV. "O Mountain Stream! the Shepherd
and his Cot."

XV. "From this deep chasm, where quiver-
ing sunbeams play."

XVI. American Tradition, "Such fruitless
questions may not long beguile."
XVII. Return, "A dark plume fetch me from
yon blasted yew."

XVIII. Seathwaite Chapel, "Sacred Religion!
"mother of form and fear.""

XIX. Tributary Stream, "My frame hath
often trembled with delight."

XX. The Plain of Donnerdale, "The old
inventive Poets, had they seen."
XXI. "Whence that low voice? A whisper
from the heart."

XXII. Tradition, "A love-lorn Maid, at some
far-distant time."

XXIII. Sheep-washing, "Sad thoughts, avaunt!
partake we their blithe cheer."
XXIV. The Resting-place, "Mid-noon is past;
-upon the sultry mead."

XXV. "Methinks 'twere no unprecedented

feat."

XXVI. "Return, Content! for fondly I pur

sued."

XXVII. "Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless

heap."

1820