The roses to the porch which they entwine : The cottage at Town-end, Grasmere-where this sonnet was composed-may have suggested it. Some of the details, however, are scarcely applicable to Dove Cottage; the "brook " (referred to elsewhere) is outside the orchard ground, and there is scarcely anything in the garden to warrant the phrase, "its own small pasture." It is unnecessary to localise the allusions. -ED. ،،، ““ BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, “WHEN I Composed 1806. - Published 1807 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED. "BELOVED Vale!" I said, "when I shall con 1 1838. would melt, and melt away! 1807. 2 1827. Distress'd me; I look'd round, I shed no tears; 1807. 5 : I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall ; * 10 Doubtless the "Vale" referred to is that of Hawkshead; the "brooks" may refer to the one that feeds Esthwaite lake, or to Sawrey beck, or (more likely) to the streamlet, “the famous brook within our garden boxed," described in The Prelude, books i. and ii. (vol. iii.) See also The Fountain, vol. ii. p. 92.-ED. “HOW SWEET IT IS, WHEN MOTHER Composed 1806. - Published 1807 Placed among the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED. How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks The wayward brain, to saunter through a wood! An old place, full of many a lovely brood, Tall trees, green arbours, and ground-flowers in flocks; And wild rose tip-toe upon hawthorn stocks, 5 Like a bold Girl, who plays her agile pranks 2 The crowd beneath her. Verily I think, Such place to me is sometimes like a dream 10 1 1827. To see the Trees, which I had thought so tall, 1807. 2 1827. Like to a bonny Lass, who plays her pranks 1807. * Compare Hart-Leap Well, l. 117 (vol. ii. p. 134).-ED. Or map of the whole world: thoughts, link by link, "THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD" Composed 1806. - Published 1807 -"they are of the sky, And from our earthly memory fade away." * Placed among the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED. THOSE 1 words were uttered as in pensive mood 2 5 1 1838. These 2 1827. utter'd in a pensive mood, 3 1827. Even while mine eyes were on Mine eyes yet lingering on 4 1807. A silent counter part of 5 1827. It is unstable, and deserts me quite; 1807. 1807. 1807. 1815. MS. 1807. * See the sonnet Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 349.-ED. 1 Grove, isle, with every shape of sky-built dome,1 10 “WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON, THOU CLIMB'ST THE SKY" Composed 1806. -Published 1807 In the edition of 1815, this was placed among the "Poems of the Fancy." In 1820 it became one of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED. WITH how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky, 1 1827. The Grove, the sky-built Temple, and the Dome, 1807. 2 1837. 3 1837. Thou whom I have seen on high 1807. And all the Stars, now shrouded up in heaven, And the keen Stars, fast as the clouds were riven, * From a sonnet of Sir Philip Sydney.-W. W. 1807. 1807. 1820. 5 10 Should sally forth, to keep thee company, 1 The sonnet of Sir Philip Sidney's, from which the two first lines are taken, is No. XXXI. in Astrophel and Stella. In the edition of 1807 these lines were printed, not as a sonnet, but as No. 111. in the series of "Poems composed during a Tour, chiefly on foot; " and in 1807 and 1815 the first two lines were placed within quotation marks.-ED. "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON" Composed 1806. - Published 1807 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED. THE world is too much with us; late and soon, 1 1807. Should sally forth, an emulous Company, 2 1840. 1820. The text of 1837 returns to that of 1807. What strife would then be yours, fair Creatures, driv'n 1820. All hurrying with thee through the clear blue heaven; 1832. In that keen sport along the plain of heaven; 1837. in emulous company Sparkling, and hurrying through the clear blue heaven ; 1838 and C. Hurrying and sparkling through the clear blue Heaven. C. With emulous brightness through the clear blue Heaven. C. |