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BODLEIRA
28.3 1900
LIBRARY
CONTENTS.
THE EXCURSION
The Wanderer..
The Solitary..
Despondency
Despondency Corrected
The Pastor
The Church-yard among the Mountains
The Church-yard among the Mountains (continued)
The Parsonage
TAGE
13
ib.
32
51
71
97
117
141
162
Discourse of the Wanderer and an Evening Visit to the Lake 174
THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE
Extract, from the conclusion of a poem, Composed upon leav
ing School...
Written in Early Youth
An Evening Walk, addressed to a Young Lady
Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening.
236
243
Remembrance of Collins, written upon the Thames, near Rich-
mond
Descriptive Sketches; taken during a Pedestrian Tour among
the Alps
244
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Lines left upon a seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the
Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, com-
manding a beautiful prospect
The Female Vagrant
250
252
.........
POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD 257
To a Butterfly
The Sparrow's Nest
Foresight; or the Charge of a Child to his younger Compa-
nion.
Characteristics of a Child three years old
258
259
260
262
265
Address to a Child, during a boisterous Winter Evening, by a
female friend of the Author........
The Mother's Return, by the same
Alice Fell
Lucy Gray; or Solitude
We are Seven
Anecdote for Fathers; showing how the practice of Lying may
The Idle Shepherd-boys; or Dungeon-gbyll Force, A Pastoral 270
Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthen-
ing the imagination in Boyhood and early Youth............ 272
To H. C. six years old
274
POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES
"It was an April morning: fresh and clear".
To Joanna
"There is an eminence,-of these our hills"
"A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags".
To M. H.
"When to the attractions of the busy world”.
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the seat of Sir George Beau-
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............... 294
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 of Grasmere
Written with a Slate-pencil, on a stone, on the side of the
Mountain of Black Comb, Cumberland
Written with a Slate-pencil, upon a stone the largest of a heap
lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at
Rydale.........
285
286
For the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Is-
land, Derwent-water
287
Indolence."
Louisa.........
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways".
Stanzas written in my pocket-copy of Thomson's "Castle of
'Strange fits of passion I have known"
"I travell'd among unknown men"
300
302
303
""Tis said, that some have died for love"
304
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
The Last of the Flock
The Cottager to her Infant, by a female friend
310
The Sailor's Mother
311
The Childless Father
312
"Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned".
"Her eyes are wild, her head is bare".
The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie
• 350
Address to my Infant Daughter, on being reminded that she
was a month old on that day
356
POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION
359
"There was a boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs".
To the Cuckoo
A Night-piece
Yew-Trees
View from the Top of Black Comb, Cumberland
Nutting
360
361
"She was a phantom of delight".
362
"O Nightingale! thou surely art".
363
"Three years she grew in sun and shower"
Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the foot of
The French Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its
"It is no spirit who from heaven hath flown"
401
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisit-
ing the banks of the Wye during a Tour...
402
"The sun has long been set"
405