The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England, and his Two Letters to the Morning Post on "The Kendal and Windermere Railway," are included in this volume,-on the same principle that the Prefaces and Appendices to his Poems were published in previous ones,—viz., from the close relation in which they stand to the Poetical Works, and the light which they cast upon them. These prose fragments will be further referred to in the Life of the poet.

Materials for this Life have accumulated, which, if published as they stand, would more than fill another volume of equal size to those already issued; and the importance of presenting the Life by itself, apart from the Works, will justify the slight extension of this edition beyond the limit originally proposed.

Through the kindness of Mr William Wordsworth, Elphinstone College, Bombay, and Mr Gordon Wordsworth, -grandsons of the poet,-I shall be able to include in the next volume the unpublished canto of The Recluse, entitled "Home at Grasmere." A portrait of the poet will be given in the same volume.

Several Poems now published have not appeared in any previous edition of the Works.

I am indebted to the Bishop of St Andrews for most kindly revising the proof-sheets of the first hundred pages of volume seven, containing the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, and for making some valuable suggestions.

The etching in volume seven is of Alfoxden, in Somersetshire, where Wordsworth lived with his sister from August 1797 to September 1798.

CONTENTS.

STONE.

THE FOREGOING SUBJECT RESUMED.

TO A CHILD.

LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE,

Nov. 5, 1834.

WHY ART THOU SILENT? IS THY LOVE A PLANT.

TO THE MOON.

WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB.

EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG.

UPON SEEING A COLOURED DRAWING OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE

IN AN ALBUM.

DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH.

FOUR FIERY STEEDS, IMPATIENT OF THE REIN.

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORD-

SHIRE.

ST CATHERINE OF LEDBURY.

BY A BLEST HUSBAND GUIDED, MARY CAME.

SAID SECRECY TO COWARDICE AND FRAUD.

PEOPLE! YOUR CHAINS ARE SEVERING LINK BY LINK.

NOVEMBER 1836. .

SIX MONTHS TO SIX YEARS ADDED HE REMAINED.

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY--

I. MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE.

II. THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME.

III. AT ROME.

IV. AT ROME.-REGRETS.-IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR

AND OTHER MODERN HISTORIANS.

V. CONTINUed.

VI. PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN.

VII. AT ROME.

VIII. NEAR ROME, IN SIGHT OF ST PETER'S.

Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Lakes
in the North of England, and his Two Letters to the Morning
Post on "The Kendal and Windermere Railway," are
included in this volume, on the same principle that the
Prefaces and Appendices to his Poems were published in
previous ones,—viz., from the close relation in which they
stand to the Poetical Works, and the light which they cast
upon them.
These prose fragments will be further referred
to in the Life of the poet.

Materials for this Life have accumulated, which, if pub-
lished as they stand, would more than fill another volume of
equal size to those already issued; and the importance of
presenting the Life by itself, apart from the Works, will
justify the slight extension of this edition beyond the limit
originally proposed.

Through the kindness of Mr William Wordsworth,
Elphinstone College, Bombay, and Mr Gordon Wordsworth,
-grandsons of the poet,-I shall be able to include in
the next volume the unpublished canto of The Recluse,
entitled "Home at Grasmere." A portrait of the poet will
be given in the same volume.

Several Poems now published have not appeared in any
previous edition of the Works.

I am indebted to the Bishop of St Andrews for most
kindly revising the proof-sheets of the first hundred pages
of volume seven, containing the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, and
for making some valuable suggestions.

The etching in volume seven is of Alfoxden, in Somerset-
shire, where Wordsworth lived with his sister from August
1797 to September 1798.