CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

COMPRISING VOLS. I. AND II.

VOL. I.

SKETCH OF WORDSWORTH'S LIFE,

POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in

Anticipation of leaving School

Written in very early Youth

An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames

near Richmond

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour

among the Alps

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

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain

THE BORDERERS. A Tragedy.

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF

CHILDHOOD.

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80

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188

Foresight

189

Characteristics of a Child Three Years old

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Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening 191

The Mother's Return

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Alice Fell; or, Poverty

Lucy Gray; cr, Solitude

We are Seven

The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. A

Pastoral

Anecdote for Fathers

Rural Architecture

The Pet Lamb. A Pastoral

To H. C. Six Years old

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and

strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and early

Youth

The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter, Dora

The Norman Boy

The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy

The Westmoreland Girl. - Part I.

Part II.

POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS.

Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson s Castle

of Indolence

Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Ex-

cursion

Strange fits of passion have I known

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

I travelled among unknown men

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew

To

The Forsaken

'Tis said, that some have died for love

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Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New

Year

Farewell Lines

The Widow on Windermere Side

The Armenian Lady's Love

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses, addressed to a

Child

It was an April morning: fresh and clear

To Joanna

There is an Eminence, - of these our hills

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372

The Redbreast. Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage 373

Her Eyes are Wild

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NOTES

VOL. II.

POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES.

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When, to the attractions of the busy world

Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base

POEMS OF THE FANCY.

A Morning Exercise

A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire

A whirl-blast from behind the hill

The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie

Who fancied what a pretty sight

The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

The Danish Boy. A Fragment
Song for the Wandering Jew
Stray Pleasures

Song for the Spinning-Wheel. Founded upon a Belief
prevalent among the Pastoral Vales of Westmoreland

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders

On seeing a Needle-Case in the Form of a Harp

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

Glad sight wherever new with old

The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glowworm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove

A Wren's Nest .

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Companion to the Foregoing

Rural Illusions

The Kitten and Falling Leaves

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora, on being remind-

ed that she was a Month old that Day, September 16

THE WAGONER, Canto I.

Canto II.

Canto III.

Canto IV.

There was a Boy

To the Cuckoo

A Night Piece.

Airey-Force Valley

Yew-Trees

Nutting

The Simplon Pass

She was a Phantom of delight

O Nightingale! thou surely art

Three years she grew in sun and shower

A slumber did my spirit seal.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Power of Music

Star-Gazers.

Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the Foot

of Brother's Water.

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live

Beggars

Sequel to the Foregoing, composed many Years after

Gypsies

Ruth

Resolution and Independence

The Thorn

Hart-Leap Well, Part I.

Part II.

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Resto-

ration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates

and Honors of his Ancestors