WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED WITH MEMOIR BY

EDWARD DOWDEN

IN SEVEN VOLUMES

VOL. V

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN

NEW YORK: 112, FOURTH AVENUE

1893

KPD 6224 (5)

CHISWICK PRESS :-C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,

CONTENTS.

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SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.

Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on

the Road from the South)

Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law.

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die

Is Death, when evil against good has fought

Not to the object specially designed.

Ye brood of Conscience-Spectres! that frequent

Before the world had passed her time of youth.

Fit retribution, by the moral code

Though to give timely warning and deter.

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine

Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide

See the Condemned alone within his cell

Conclusion.

Apology

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.

From the South-west Coast of Cumberland.

-1811.

Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty

Years after its Composition

Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase

Liberty. (Sequel to the above.) [Addressed to

a Friend; the Gold and Silver Fishes having

been removed to a Pool in the Pleasure-

ground of Rydal Mount.]

Poor Robin .

The Gleaner. Suggested by a Picture

To a Redbreast-(in Sickness)

I know an aged Man constrained to dwell

Sonnet. To an Octogenarian

Floating Island

How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high

Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)

To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the Foundation

preparing for the Erection of Rydal Chapel,

Westmoreland

On the same Occasion

The Horn of Egremont Castle

Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A true Story

Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems

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chiefly of Early and Late Years."

To a Child. Written in her Album

INSCRIPTIONS.

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In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir

George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire

In a Garden of the Same

Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont,

Bart., and in his Name, for an Urn, placed

by him at the Termination of a newly-

planted Avenue, in the same Grounds

For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton

Written with a pencil upon a Stone in the Wall

of the House (an Out-house), on the Island

at Grasmere .

Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the

Side of the Mountain of Black Comb.

Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the

largest of a Heap lying near a deserted

Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal

In these fair vales hath many a Tree.

The massy Ways, carried across these heights

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a

Hermit's Cell-

I.-Hopes what are they?--Beads of

morning

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