The poems of William Wordsworth : collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series. Volume III

Licence and Use ......Page 2 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright ......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Note on the Text ......Page 9 “The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said”......Page 11 Sonnet on Milton......Page 12 Elegiac Stanzas (for George and Sarah Green),......Page 13 “A few bold Patriots, Reliques of the Fight”......Page 15 Composed while the Author was Engaged in Writing a Tract, Occasioned by the Convention of Cintra, 1808......Page 17 1810......Page 18 “Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid”......Page 19 Feelings of the Tyrolese......Page 20 “And is it among rude untutored Dales”......Page 21 Hôffer......Page 22 “True is it that Ambrosio Salinero”......Page 23 “Not without heavy grief of heart did He”......Page 24 “There never breathed a man who when his life”......Page 25 “Destined to war from very infancy”......Page 26 “Perhaps some needful service of the State”......Page 27 “O Lelius, beauteous flower of gentleness”......Page 28 “O flower of all that springs from gentle blood”......Page 29 “In due observance of an ancient rite”......Page 30 1810 ('O'erweening Statesmen') ......Page 31 The French, and the Spanish Guerillas......Page 32 “The martial courage of a day is vain—”......Page 33 On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History......Page 34 Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture......Page 35 Departure from the Vale of Grasmere ......Page 36 [Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-west Coast of Cumberland,—1811]......Page 37 To the Poet, Dyer......Page 41 View from the Top of Black Comb......Page 42 In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. Leicestershire......Page 43 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......Page 44 Inscription for a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton......Page 45 “Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready Friend”......Page 46 “Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress”......Page 47 “Surprized by joy—impatient as the Wind”......Page 48 Maternal Grief......Page 49 November, 1813 ......Page 52 “Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind”......Page 53 Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wal lace's Tower......Page 54 The Brownie’s Cell......Page 55 Effusion in the pleasure-ground on the banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld ......Page 58 Yarrow Visited, Sept 1814 ......Page 62 To ——— ("From the dark chambers of dejection freed")......Page 64 Laodamia......Page 65 “Emperors and Kings, how oft have Temples rung”......Page 70 Artegal and Elidure—......Page 71 Occasioned by the Same Battle.......Page 79 To R. B. Haydon, Esq.......Page 80 September 1815......Page 81 Ode, the morning of the day appointed for a general thanksgiving, January 18, 1816. ......Page 82 Elegiac Verses, February 1816 ......Page 92 Ode, composed in January 1816......Page 93 Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into Russia......Page 97 Ode ('Who rises on the banks of Seine ...?')......Page 98 A Fact, and an Imagination; Or, Canute and Alfred......Page 100 On the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D’enghien......Page 101 Dion......Page 102 To ———, on her first ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn ......Page 106 “A little onward lend thy guiding hand”......Page 107 “I heard (alas, ’twas only in a dream)”......Page 108 [Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year]......Page 109 Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars]......Page 111 [Ode.—1817]......Page 113 Sonnet ('The stars are mansions ...') ......Page 115 Ode to Lycoris, May, 1817 ......Page 116 Addressed to ———, on the longest day ......Page 117 Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone ......Page 120 [To the Same] (Lycoris) ......Page 122 To the Same (Lycoris)......Page 123 Ode composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty......Page 124 Hint from the Mountains for certain political aspirants ......Page 126 Inscriptions supposed to be found in, and near, a hermit’s cell......Page 127 Placard for a Poll bearing an Old Shirt......Page 130 “The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae”......Page 131 The Pilgrim’s Dream, or, the Stasr and the Glow-worm......Page 132 Malham Cove......Page 134 To a Snow-drop, appearing very early in the Season.......Page 135 Composed during one of the most awful of the late Storms, Feb. 1819......Page 136 To ——— ("Those silver clouds") ......Page 137 September, 1819......Page 138 Upon the Same Occasion......Page 139 On the Death of His Late Majesty......Page 141 Oxford, May 30, 1820......Page 142 June, 1820......Page 143 The Prelude (1824–1839)......Page 144 II......Page 349 IV......Page 350 VI. Flowers ......Page 351 IX. The Stepping-stones ......Page 352 XI. The Faëry Chasm......Page 353 XIII. Open Prospect......Page 354 XVI. American Tradition ......Page 355 XVIII. Seathwaite Chapel ......Page 356 XX. The Plain of Donnerdale ......Page 357 XXII. Tradition ......Page 358 XXV......Page 359 XXVII. Journey Renewed ......Page 360 XXIX......Page 361 XXXII......Page 362 To the Rev. Dr. W——......Page 363 “Fallen, and diffus’d into a shapeless heap”......Page 366 II. Conjectures......Page 368 IV. Druidical Excommunication......Page 369 VI. Persecution......Page 370 VIII. Temptations from Roman Refinements......Page 371 XI. Saxon Conquest......Page 372 XII. Monastery of Old Bangor ......Page 373 XV. Paulinus......Page 374 XVI. Persuasion ......Page 375 XVIII. Apology......Page 376 XX. Other Influences......Page 377 XXIII. Reproof......Page 378 XXV. Missions and Travels......Page 379 XXVII. His Descendants......Page 380 XXX. Canute......Page 381 XXXII. The Council of Clermont......Page 382 XXXIV. Richard I......Page 383 XXXVII. Scene in Venice......Page 384 I. Cistertian Monastery......Page 385 III. Other Benefits......Page 386 V. Crusaders......Page 387 VII. Waldenses......Page 388 X. Wicliffe......Page 389 XII. Abuse of Monastic Power......Page 390 XIV. Dissolution of the Monasteries......Page 391 XVII. Saints......Page 392 XIX. Apology......Page 393 XXII. Translation of the Bible......Page 394 XXIV. Edward Signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent......Page 395 XXVI. General View of the Troubles of the Reformation......Page 396 XXIX. Eminent Reformers......Page 397 XXXI. Distractions ......Page 398 XXXIII. Illustration......Page 399 XXXVI. Afflictions of England......Page 400 II. Patriotic Sympathies......Page 401 IV. Latitudinarianism......Page 402 VII. Acquittal of the Bishops......Page 403 IX. Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty......Page 404 XI. Pastoral Character ......Page 405 XIV. Rural Ceremony ......Page 406 XVI. Mutability......Page 407 XVIII. Congratulation......Page 408 XXI. Continued......Page 409 XXIII. Cathedrals, &c.......Page 410 XXVI. Continued......Page 411 XXVIII. Conclusion......Page 412 Revival of Popery......Page 413 Persecution of the Scottish Convenanters......Page 414 Sacheverell......Page 415 Confirmation Continued......Page 416 Emigrant French Clergy......Page 417 “Deplorable his lot who tills the ground”......Page 418 “Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered”......Page 419 II. Continued......Page 420 “How soon—alas! did Man, created pure—”......Page 421 “As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crest”......Page 422 The Marriage Ceremony.......Page 423 Visitation of the Sick......Page 424 Funeral Service......Page 425 Fish-women - on landing at Calais......Page 427 Bruges......Page 428 Sonnet. Scenery between Namur and Liege......Page 429 In the Cathedral at Cologne ......Page 430 In a carriage, upon the banks of the Rhine ......Page 431 Hymn for the boatmen, as they approach the rapids, under the castle of Heidelberg......Page 432 The source of the Danube ......Page 433 Memorial near the outlet of the Lake of Thun ......Page 434 On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen ......Page 435 On the Lake of Brientz ......Page 436 Our Lady of the Snow......Page 437 The town of Schwytz ......Page 438 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano ......Page 439 Fort Fuentes—at the Head of the Lake of Como......Page 441 The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd......Page 442 The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820......Page 445 The Three Cottage Girls......Page 447 The column intended by Buonaparte for a triumphal edifice in Milan, now lying by the way-side on the Semplon Pass ......Page 449 Stanzas composed in the Semplon Pass......Page 450 Processions, suggested on a sabbath morning in the Vale of Chamouny ......Page 451 Elegiac Stanzas ('Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells)......Page 454 On being stranded near the harbour of Boulogne ......Page 456 To Enterprize......Page 457 Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the preceding sheets from the press ......Page 462 Effusion in presence of the painted tower of Tell, at Altorf ......Page 465 After-thought......Page 466 Incident at Brugès......Page 467 At Dover......Page 468 Yarrow Revisited......Page 469 1. On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples......Page 472 4. Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a storm......Page 473 6. 'The Pibroch's note ...'......Page 474 8. Composed after reading a newspaper of the day......Page 475 10. In the Sound of Mull......Page 476 12. The Earl of Breadalbane’s ruined mansion, and family burial-place, near Killin......Page 477 14. Highland hut......Page 478 16. To the planet Venus, an evening star. Composed at Loch Lomond......Page 479 18. Picture of Daniel in the lion’s den, at Hamilton Palace......Page 480 20. Suggested by a view from an eminence in Inglewood Forest......Page 481 22. Countess’s Pillar ......Page 482 Apology......Page 483 The Highland Broach......Page 484 The Modern Athens......Page 487 1. Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown......Page 488 4. To the River Greta, near Keswick ......Page 489 6. In sight of Cockermouth ......Page 490 8. Nun's Well, Brigham ......Page 491 10. Mary Queen of Scots ......Page 492 12. At sea off the Isle of Man ......Page 493 14. On entering Douglas Bay......Page 494 16. Isle of Man ......Page 495 18. By a retired mariner (a friend of the author) ......Page 496 20. Tynwald Hill ......Page 497 22. In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. (July 17, 1833.) ......Page 498 24. On Revisiting Dunolly Castle ......Page 499 26. Cave of Staffa (“We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd”)......Page 500 28 . Cave of Staffa (“Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims”)......Page 501 30. On to Iona!—What can she afford ......Page 502 32. The Black Stones of Iona ......Page 503 35. "There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride ......Page 504 37. The River Eden, Cumberland ......Page 505 39. Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou ......Page 506 41. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways ......Page 507 43. To the Earl of Lonsdale ......Page 508 45. Conclusion ......Page 509 Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson’s Ossian......Page 510 The Somnambulist......Page 513 Stanzas suggested in a steam-boat off St. Bees’ heads ......Page 518 Musings Near Aquapendente, April 1837 ......Page 524 2. At Rome . Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill?......Page 535 4. Continued ......Page 536 6. At Rome . They—who have seen the noble Roman’s scorn......Page 537 9. Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove ......Page 538 11. Near the Lake of Thrasymene ......Page 539 The Cuckoo at Laverna......Page 540 13. At the Convent of Camaldoli ......Page 543 15. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli ......Page 544 At Vallombrosa......Page 545 16. At Florence ......Page 546 18. At Florence.—From Michael Angelo (“Rapt above earth ...")......Page 547 Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines......Page 548 21. Continued ......Page 549 24. After leaving Italy ......Page 550 The Pillar of Trajan......Page 551 Composed on May-morning, 1838 ......Page 553 I, II......Page 555 III, IV, V......Page 556 VI, VII......Page 557 VIII, IX, X......Page 558 XI, XII......Page 559 XIV. Apology......Page 560 II. Upon the late general fast.......Page 561 III, IV......Page 562 VI. Continued......Page 563 VIII......Page 564 X. At Bologna ... 1831 ......Page 565 XII. Concluded......Page 566 XIV. 'Feel for the wrongs ...' ......Page 567 “Not Love, nor War, nor the tumultuous swell”......Page 568 [Translation of the Sestet of a Sonnet by Tasso]......Page 569 “Queen and Negress chaste and fair!”......Page 570 “By Moscow self–devoted to a blaze”......Page 571 “These Vales were saddened with no common gloom”......Page 572 To the Lady ———, on seeing the foundation preparing for the erection of ----- Chael, Westmorland ......Page 573 On the Same Occasion ('When in the antique age of bow and spear') ......Page 575 Memory......Page 577 “How rich that forehead’s calm expanse!”......Page 578 A Flower Garden......Page 579 To ——— ('Let other Bards') ......Page 580 To Rotha Q ———......Page 581 To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. Composed in the grounds of Plass Newidd, near Llangollin, 1824 ......Page 582 To ———......Page 583 The Contrast......Page 584 The Infant M——— M———......Page 585 Elegiac Stanzas. 1824 ......Page 586 A Morning Exercise......Page 588 “While they, her Playmates once, light-hearted tread”......Page 590 “Ere with cold beads of midnight dew”......Page 591 “Strange visitation! at Jemima’s lip”......Page 592 Retirement......Page 593 “Go back to antique Ages, if thine eyes”......Page 594 Ode, composed on May Morning ......Page 595 To May......Page 597 “Once I could hail (howe’er serene the sky)”......Page 600 “The Lady whom you here behold”......Page 601 “Prithee gentle Lady list”......Page 602 Conclusion [to Miscellaneous Sonnets in Poetical Works 1827] ......Page 603 Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe ......Page 604 “Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned”......Page 605 “In my mind’s eye a Temple, like a cloud”......Page 606 On Seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp,......Page 607 “Her only Pilot the soft breeze the Boat”......Page 608 Extract from the Strangers bookStation Winandermere. [and] On seeing the above ......Page 609 “Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein”......Page 610 St. Catherine of Ledbury......Page 611 Filial Piety......Page 612 The Wishing-gate......Page 613 A Tradition of Darley Dale, Derbyshire......Page 615 The Gleaner (Suggested by a Picture)......Page 616 The Triad ......Page 617 On the Power of Sound......Page 623 The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily ......Page 630 A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine) ......Page 641 The Poet and the Caged Turtledove......Page 642 The Russian Fugitive......Page 643 The Primrose of the Rock......Page 656 The Armenian Lady’s Love......Page 657 Rural Illusions......Page 663 This Lawn, &c.......Page 664 Presentiments ......Page 665 Gold and Silver Fishes, in a vase ......Page 667 Liberty (Sequel to the above) ......Page 669 Humanity (Written in the Year 1829)......Page 673 Inscription intended for a stone in the grounds of Rydal M ount......Page 676 Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, the seat of the late Sir George Beaumont, Bart. ......Page 677 “Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride”......Page 678 Epitaph......Page 679 Devotional Incitements......Page 680 i. “For Lubbock vote—no legislative Hack”......Page 682 iv. Question and Answer......Page 683 A Wren’s Nest......Page 684 1. 'Calm is the fragrant air ...'......Page 686 2. 'Not in the lucid intervals of life' ......Page 687 3. (By the side of Rydal Mere)......Page 688 4. 'Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge' ......Page 689 5. 'The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill'......Page 690 7. (by the sea-side)......Page 691 8. 'The sun has long been set'......Page 692 Composed by the Sea-shore......Page 693 To ———, upon the birth of her first-born child, March 1833 ......Page 694 The Warning. A sequel to the foregoing. March, 1833 ......Page 697 To the Utilitarians......Page 701 The Labourer’s Noon-day Hymn......Page 702 Companion to the Foregoing......Page 703 Lines suggested by a portrait from the pencil of F. Stone ......Page 704 The Foregoing Subject Resumed......Page 708 Lines written in the album of the countess of ———. Nov. 5, 1834 ......Page 709 The Redbreast (suggested in a Westmoreland cottage) ......Page 712 Upon Seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album......Page 714 Airey-force Valley......Page 715 To the Moon (composed by the sea-side,—on the coast of Cumberland) ......Page 716 To the Moon (Rydal) ......Page 718 “To a good Man of most dear memory”......Page 719 Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg......Page 723 At the Grave of Burns, 1803 ......Page 724 Thoughts suggested the day following on the banks of Nith, near the poet’s residence ......Page 727 November, 1836......Page 729 The Widow on Windermere Side......Page 730 “Wouldst Thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock”......Page 731 Valedictory Sonnet ......Page 732 “Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest”......Page 733 A Plea for Authors. May, 1838......Page 734 Composed on the same Morning......Page 735 i. “Grateful is Sleep; more grateful still to be”......Page 736 “Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance”......Page 737 On the same Subject......Page 738 Upon the sight of the Portrait of a female Friend—......Page 739 Poor Robin ......Page 740 The Cuckoo-clock......Page 741 The Norman Boy......Page 743 Sequel to the Norman Boy......Page 744 On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon ......Page 746 Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland......Page 747 The Wishing-gate Destroyed......Page 748 Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise......Page 750 “Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live”......Page 751 Prelude [to Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years]......Page 752 'When Severn's sweeping Flood had overthrown'......Page 754 To a Redbreast—(In Sickness)......Page 755 “Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake”......Page 756 “Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot”......Page 757 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......Page 758 “While beams of orient light shoot wide and high”......Page 759 Grace Darling......Page 760 To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.......Page 763 Sonnet on the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway ......Page 764 The Westmoreland Girl ......Page 765 “Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved”......Page 768 At Furness Abbey......Page 769 “I know an aged Man constrained to dwell”......Page 770 To an Octogenarian......Page 771 Written upon a fly leaf in the Copy of the Author’s Poems which was sent to her Majesty Queen Victoria......Page 772 “Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed”......Page 773 Illustrated Books and Newspapers......Page 774 Ode, Performed in the Senate-house, Cambridge, on the Sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII. At the first Commencement afterthe Installation of His Royal Highness The Prince Albert,Chancellor of the University ......Page 775 Thanksgiving Ode, 1816 ......Page 779 The River Duddon ......Page 781 Postscript to The River Duddon ......Page 785 Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822) ......Page 786 The Church of San Salvador......Page 789 Highland Hut......Page 790 Bothwell Castle......Page 792 To the River Greta......Page 794 Stanzas Suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees’ Heads......Page 795 At the Convent of Camaldoli......Page 796 The sun has long been set and Thron’d in the Sun’s descending car......Page 797 Index of Titles, first lines and series titles (Volume 3)......Page 798 Cumulative Index to Volumes 1, 2, 3 ......Page 829 Wordsworth from Humanities-Ebooks ......Page 873 Licence and Use 2 Title Page 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 Preface 7 Acknowledgements 9 Note on the Text 9 Shorter Poems (1807–1820) 11 “Mark the concentred Hazels that enclose” 11 “The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said” 11 “Eve’s lingering clouds extend in solid bars” 12 Sonnet on Milton 12 Elegiac Stanzas (for George and Sarah Green), 13 “A few bold Patriots, Reliques of the Fight” 15 “Say, what is Honour?—Tis the finest sense” 17 Composed while the Author was Engaged in Writing a Tract, Occasioned by the Convention of Cintra, 1808 17 Composed at the Same Time, and on the Same Occasion 18 “Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye” 18 1810 18 “Call not the royal Swede unfortunate” 19 “Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid” 19 “Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer” 20 “Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight” 20 Feelings of the Tyrolese 20 “Alas! what boots the long, laborious quest” 21 “And is it among rude untutored Dales” 21 “O’er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain” 22 “Advance—come forth from thy Tyrolean ground” 22 Hôffer 22 On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese 23 [Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera] 23 “True is it that Ambrosio Salinero” 23 “Not without heavy grief of heart did He” 24 “Pause, courteous Spirit!—Balbi supplicates” 25 “There never breathed a man who when his life” 25 “Destined to war from very infancy” 26 “Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air” 27 “Perhaps some needful service of the State” 27 “O Thou who movest onward with a mind” 28 “O Lelius, beauteous flower of gentleness” 28 “Torquato Tasso rests within this Tomb” 29 “O flower of all that springs from gentle blood” 29 The Oak of Guernica 30 Supposed Address to the Same, 1810 30 “In due observance of an ancient rite” 30 Feelings of a Noble Biscayan 31 1810 ('O'erweening Statesmen') 31 “Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind” 32 Indignation of a High-minded Spaniard. 1810 32 The French, and the Spanish Guerillas 32 Spanish Guerillas. 1811 33 “The martial courage of a day is vain—” 33 Conclusion. 1811 34 1811 "The power of armies..." 34 On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History 34 Upon the Same Event 35 Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture 35 Departure from the Vale of Grasmere 36 [Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-west Coast of Cumberland,—1811] 37 To the Poet, Dyer 41 Written with a Slate-pencil, on a Stone, on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb 42 View from the Top of Black Comb 42 In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. Leicestershire 43 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 44 In a Garden of the same 45 Inscription for a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton 45 Song for the Spinning Wheel 46 “Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready Friend” 46 “The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade” 47 “Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress” 47 “Hail Twilight,— sovereign of one peaceful hour!” 48 Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend, in the Vale of Grasmere 48 “Surprized by joy—impatient as the Wind” 48 Characteristics of a child three years old 49 Maternal Grief 49 “If Thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven” 52 “Six months to six years added, He remain’d” 52 November, 1813 52 Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday 53 “Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind” 53 Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wal lace's Tower 54 The Brownie’s Cell 55 Effusion in the pleasure-ground on the banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld 58 Yarrow Visited, Sept 1814 62 To ——— ("From the dark chambers of dejection freed") 64 Extract from the conclusion of a poem, composed upon leaving school 65 Laodamia 65 “Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove” 70 “Emperors and Kings, how oft have Temples rung” 70 Written, November 13,1814, on a blank leaf in a Copy of the Author’s Poem The Excursion, upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal 71 Artegal and Elidure— 71 Inscription for a National Monument in Commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo 79 Occasioned by the Same Battle. 79 February 1816 80 To R. B. Haydon, Esq. 80 November 1, 1815 81 September 1815 81 “I watch, and long have watch’d, with calm regret” 82 “Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow” 82 Ode, the morning of the day appointed for a general thanksgiving, January 18, 1816. 82 Elegiac Verses, February 1816 92 Ode, composed in January 1816 93 Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into Russia 97 Sonnet on the same occasion. February 1816 98 Ode ('Who rises on the banks of Seine ...?') 98 A Fact, and an Imagination; Or, Canute and Alfred 100 On the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D’enghien 101 Dion 102 To ———, on her first ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 106 “A little onward lend thy guiding hand” 107 “I heard (alas, ’twas only in a dream)” 108 [Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year] 109 Captivity 111 Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars] 111 [Ode.—1817] 113 Sonnet ('The stars are mansions ...') 115 Ode to Lycoris, May, 1817 116 Addressed to ———, on the longest day 117 Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone 120 [To the Same] (Lycoris) 122 To the Same (Lycoris) 123 Ode composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty 124 “Indulgent Muse, if Thou the labour share” 126 Hint from the Mountains for certain political aspirants 126 Inscriptions supposed to be found in, and near, a hermit’s cell 127 Placard for a Poll bearing an Old Shirt 130 “The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae” 131 The Pilgrim’s Dream, or, the Stasr and the Glow-worm 132 Sonnets suggested by Mr. W. Westall’s views of the caves, &c. in Yorkshire 134 “Pure element of waters! wheresoe’er” 134 Malham Cove 134 Gordale 135 Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 135 To a Snow-drop, appearing very early in the Season. 135 Sonnet on seeing a tuft of snowdrops in a storm 136 Composed during one of the most awful of the late Storms, Feb. 1819 136 To ——— ("Those silver clouds") 137 Sonnet on the detraction which followed the publication of a certain poem 138 September, 1819 138 Upon the Same Occasion 139 To ——— with a selection of the Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea 141 On the Death of His Late Majesty 141 Oxford, May 30, 1820 142 Oxford, May 30, 1820 142 June, 1820 143 The Prelude (1824–1839) 144 Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, (1820–1845) 349 The River Duddon 349 I 349 II 349 III 350 IV 350 V 351 VI. Flowers 351 VII 352 VIII 352 IX. The Stepping-stones 352 X. The Same Subject 353 XI. The Faëry Chasm 353 XII. Hints for the Fancy 354 XIII. Open Prospect 354 XIV 355 XV 355 XVI. American Tradition 355 XVII. Return 356 XVIII. Seathwaite Chapel 356 XIX. Tributary Stream 357 XX. The Plain of Donnerdale 357 XXI 358 XXII. Tradition 358 XXIII. Sheep-washing 359 XXIV. The Resting-place 359 XXV 359 XXVI 360 XXVII. Journey Renewed 360 XXVIII 361 XXIX 361 XXX 362 XXXI 362 XXXII 362 XXXIII. Conclusion 363 [Poems not included in series as first published] 363 To the Rev. Dr. W—— 363 Written upon a Blank Leaf in “The Complete Angler.” 366 The Wild Duck’s Nest. 366 “Fallen, and diffus’d into a shapeless heap” 366 Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822) 368 Ecclesiastical SketchesPart I 368 I. Introduction 368 II. Conjectures 368 III. Trepidation of the Druids 369 IV. Druidical Excommunication 369 V. Uncertainty 370 VI. Persecution 370 VII. Recovery 371 VIII. Temptations from Roman Refinements 371 IX. Dissensions 372 X. Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians 372 XI. Saxon Conquest 372 XII. Monastery of Old Bangor 373 XIII. Casual Incitement 374 XIV. Glad Tidings 374 XV. Paulinus 374 XVI. Persuasion 375 XVII. Conversion 376 XVIII. Apology 376 XIX. Primitive Saxon Clergy 377 XX. Other Influences 377 XXI. Seclusion 378 XXII. Continued 378 XXIII. Reproof 378 XXIV. Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion 379 XXV. Missions and Travels 379 XXVI. Alfred 380 XXVII. His Descendants 380 XXVIII. Influence Abused 381 XXIX. Danish Conquests 381 XXX. Canute 381 XXXI. The Norman Conquest 382 XXXII. The Council of Clermont 382 XXXIII. Crusades 383 XXXIV. Richard I 383 XXXV. An Interdict 384 XXXVI. Papal Abuses 384 XXXVII. Scene in Venice 384 XXXVIII. Papal Dominion 385 Ecclesiastical Sketches.Part II 385 I. Cistertian Monastery 385 II. Monks, and Schoolmen 386 III. Other Benefits 386 IV. Continued 387 V. Crusaders 387 VI. Transubstantiation 388 VII. Waldenses 388 VIII. Archbishop Chicheley to Henry V 389 IX. Wars of York and Lancaster 389 X. Wicliffe 389 XI. Corruptions of the Higher Clergy 390 XII. Abuse of Monastic Power 390 XIII. Monastic Voluptuousness 391 XIV. Dissolution of the Monasteries 391 XV. The Same Subject 392 XVI. Continued 392 XVII. Saints 392 XVIII. The Virgin 393 XIX. Apology 393 XX. Imaginative Regrets 394 XXI. Reflections 394 XXII. Translation of the Bible 394 XXIII. Edward VI 395 XXIV. Edward Signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent 395 XXV. Cranmer 396 XXVI. General View of the Troubles of the Reformation 396 XXVII. English Reformers in Exile 397 XXVIII. Elizabeth 397 XXIX. Eminent Reformers 397 XXX. The Same 398 XXXI. Distractions 398 XXXII. Gunpowder Plot 399 XXXIII. Illustration 399 XXXIV. Troubles of Charles the First. 400 XXXV. Laud 400 XXXVI. Afflictions of England 400 Ecclesiastical Sketches Part III 401 I. 'I saw the figure of a lovely Maid' 401 II. Patriotic Sympathies 401 III. Charles the Second 402 IV. Latitudinarianism 402 V. Walton’s Book of “Lives” 403 VI. Clerical Integrity 403 VII. Acquittal of the Bishops 403 VIII. William the Third 404 IX. Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty 404 X. Places of Worship 405 XI. Pastoral Character 405 XII. The Liturgy 406 XIII. Catechizing 406 XIV. Rural Ceremony 406 XV. Regrets 407 XVI. Mutability 407 XVII. Old Abbeys 408 XVIII. Congratulation 408 XIX. New Churches 409 XX. Church to be Erected 409 XXI. Continued 409 XXII. New Church Yard 410 XXIII. Cathedrals, &c. 410 XXIV. Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge 411 XXV. The Same 411 XXVI. Continued 411 XXVII. Ejaculation 412 XXVIII. Conclusion 412 [Druid Temple] 413 The Point at Issue 413 Revival of Popery 413 Latimer and Ridley 414 Persecution of the Scottish Convenanters 414 “Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design” 415 Sacheverell 415 Baptism 416 Confirmation 416 Confirmation Continued 416 Sacrament 417 Emigrant French Clergy 417 Sponsors 418 “Deplorable his lot who tills the ground” 418 The Vaudois 419 “Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain-springs” 419 “Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered” 419 Aspects of Christianity in America 420 I.—The Pilgrim Fathers 420 II. Continued 420 III. Concluded.—American Episcopacy 421 “How soon—alas! did Man, created pure—” 421 “From false assumption rose, and fondly hail’d” 422 “As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crest” 422 “Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root” 423 “Bishops and Priests, blessèd are ye, if deep” 423 The Marriage Ceremony. 423 Thanksgiving after Childbirth 424 Visitation of the Sick 424 The Commination Service 425 Forms of Prayer at Sea 425 Funeral Service 425 Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820. 427 Dedication 427 Fish-women - on landing at Calais 427 Bruges 428 Bruges 428 After visiting the Field of Waterloo 429 Sonnet. Scenery between Namur and Liege 429 Aix-la-Chapelle 430 In the Cathedral at Cologne 430 Author’s voyage down the Rhine (thirty years ago) 431 In a carriage, upon the banks of the Rhine 431 Hymn for the boatmen, as they approach the rapids, under the castle of Heidelberg 432 Local recollection on the heights near Hockheim 433 The source of the Danube 433 The Jung-Frau—and the Rhine at Shauffhausen 434 Memorial near the outlet of the Lake of Thun 434 On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen 435 The fall of the Aar—Handec 436 On the Lake of Brientz 436 Engelberg 437 Our Lady of the Snow 437 The town of Schwytz 438 On hearing the “ranz des vaches” on the top of the pass of St. Gothard 439 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano 439 Fort Fuentes—at the Head of the Lake of Como 441 The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd 442 The last supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the refectory of the convent of Maria della Grazia—Milan 445 The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820 445 The Three Cottage Girls 447 The column intended by Buonaparte for a triumphal edifice in Milan, now lying by the way-side on the Semplon Pass 449 Stanzas composed in the Semplon Pass 450 Echo, upon the Gemmi 451 Processions, suggested on a sabbath morning in the Vale of Chamouny 451 Elegiac Stanzas ('Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells) 454 Sky-prospect—from the Plain of France 456 On being stranded near the harbour of Boulogne 456 After landing—the Valley of Dover 457 To Enterprize 457 [ Poems not included in series as first published] 462 Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the preceding sheets from the press 462 Effusion in presence of the painted tower of Tell, at Altorf 465 Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons of Switzerland 466 After-thought 466 Incident at Brugès 467 At Dover 468 Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems ... 1831 469 Yarrow Revisited 469 1. On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples 472 2. A place of burial in the South of Scotland 473 3. On the sight of a manse in the South of Scotland 473 4. Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a storm 473 5. The Trosachs 474 6. 'The Pibroch's note ...' 474 7. Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive 475 8. Composed after reading a newspaper of the day 475 9. Eagles. Composed at Dunollie Castle in the Bay of Oban 476 10. In the Sound of Mull 476 11. At Tyndrum 477 12. The Earl of Breadalbane’s ruined mansion, and family burial-place, near Killin 477 13. Rest and be Thankful, at the head of Glencoe 478 14. Highland hut 478 15. The Brownie 479 16. To the planet Venus, an evening star. Composed at Loch Lomond 479 16. Bothwell Castle 480 18. Picture of Daniel in the lion’s den, at Hamilton Palace 480 19. The Avon (A Feeder of the Annan) 481 20. Suggested by a view from an eminence in Inglewood Forest 481 21. Hart’s-horn tree, near P enrith 482 22. Countess’s Pillar 482 23. Roman antiquities (from the Roman station at old Penrith) 483 Apology 483 The Highland Broach 484 The Modern Athens 487 Sonnets Composed or Suggested during a tour in Scotland, in the Summer of 1833 488 1. Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown 488 2. Why should the Enthusiast, 489 3. They called Thee merry England, in old time 489 4. To the River Greta, near Keswick 489 5. To the River Derwent 490 6. In sight of Cockermouth 490 7. Address from the spirit of Cockermouth Castle 491 8. Nun's Well, Brigham 491 9. To a Friend 492 10. Mary Queen of Scots 492 11. In the Channel 493 12. At sea off the Isle of Man 493 13. ['Desire we past illusions ...?' ] 494 14. On entering Douglas Bay 494 15. By the sea-shore, Isle of Man 495 16. Isle of Man 495 17. The retired Marine Officer, Isle of Man 496 18. By a retired mariner (a friend of the author) 496 19. At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. 497 20. Tynwald Hill 497 21. Despond who will—I heard a voice exclaim 498 22. In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. (July 17, 1833.) 498 23. On the Frith of Clyde. (In a Steam-Boat.) 499 24. On Revisiting Dunolly Castle 499 25 . The Dunolly Eagle 500 26. Cave of Staffa (“We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd”) 500 27. Cave of Staffa (“Thanks for the lessons of this Spot—fit school”) 501 28 . Cave of Staffa (“Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims”) 501 29. Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the Cave 502 30. On to Iona!—What can she afford 502 31. Iona. (Upon Landing.) 503 32. The Black Stones of Iona 503 33. Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba’s Cell 504 34. Greenock 504 35. "There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride 504 36. Fancy and Tradition 505 37. The River Eden, Cumberland 505 38. Monument of Mrs. Howard 506 39. Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou 506 40. Nunnery 507 41. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 507 42. Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen 508 43. To the Earl of Lonsdale 508 44. To Cordelia M——, Hallsteads, Ullswater 509 45. Conclusion 509 The Monument Commonly Called Long Meg and Her Daughters, near the River Eden 510 Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson’s Ossian 510 The Somnambulist 513 Stanzas suggested in a steam-boat off St. Bees’ heads 518 Memorials of a Tour in Italy. 1837 524 To Henry Crabb Robinson 524 Musings Near Aquapendente, April 1837 524 1. Pine of Monte Mario at Rome 535 2. At Rome . Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill? 535 3. At Rome.—Regrets.—In Allusion to Niebuhr 536 4. Continued 536 5. Plea for the Historian 537 6. At Rome . They—who have seen the noble Roman’s scorn 537 7. Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter’s 538 8. At Albano 538 9. Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove 538 10. From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome 539 11. Near the Lake of Thrasymene 539 12. Near the Same Lake 540 The Cuckoo at Laverna 540 13. At the Convent of Camaldoli 543 14. Continued. The world forsaken ... 544 15. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli 544 At Vallombrosa 545 16. At Florence 546 17. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael 547 18. At Florence.—From Michael Angelo (“Rapt above earth ...") 547 19. At Florence.—From M. Angelo (“Eternal Lord! ") 548 Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines 548 20. At Bologna, in Remembrance of the Late Insurrections 549 21. Continued 549 22. Concluded 550 23. In Lombardy 550 24. After leaving Italy 550 25. Continued 551 The Pillar of Trajan 551 Composed on May-morning, 1838 553 Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In Series. 555 I, II 555 III, IV, V 556 VI, VII 557 VIII, IX, X 558 XI, XII 559 XIII. Conclusion 560 XIV. Apology 560 Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty and Order 561 I. Composed after reading a newspaper 561 II. Upon the late general fast. 561 III, IV 562 V. In allusion to ... recent histories 563 VI. Continued 563 VII. Concluded 564 VIII 564 IX. To the Pennsylvanians 565 X. At Bologna ... 1831 565 XI. Continued 566 XII. Concluded 566 XIII. 'Young England ...' 567 XIV. 'Feel for the wrongs ...' 567 Last Poems (1821–1850) 568 Decay of Piety 568 “Not Love, nor War, nor the tumultuous swell” 568 A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 569 Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge 569 [Translation of the Sestet of a Sonnet by Tasso] 569 “A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found” 570 “Queen and Negress chaste and fair!” 570 [Epigrams on Byron’s Cain] 571 i. “Critics, right honourable Bard! decree” 571 ii. On Cain a Mystery dedicated to Sir Walter Scott 571 iii. After reading a luscious scene of the above—The Wonder explained 571 iv. On a Nursery piece of the same, by a Scottish Bard— 571 “Thus far I write to please my Friend” 571 “By Moscow self–devoted to a blaze” 571 “These Vales were saddened with no common gloom” 572 To the Lady ———, on seeing the foundation preparing for the erection of ----- Chael, Westmorland 573 On the Same Occasion ('When in the antique age of bow and spear') 575 Memory 577 “First Floweret of the year is that which shows” 578 “How rich that forehead’s calm expanse!” 578 A Flower Garden 579 To ——— ('Let other Bards') 580 To ——— ('Look at the fate of summer Flowers') 581 To Rotha Q ——— 581 Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales 582 To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. Composed in the grounds of Plass Newidd, near Llangollin, 1824 582 To the Torrent at the Devil’s Bridge, North Wales 583 To ——— 583 The Contrast 584 The Infant M——— M——— 585 Cenotaph 586 Elegiac Stanzas. 1824 586 “Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings—” 588 A Morning Exercise 588 To a Sky-lark 590 “While they, her Playmates once, light-hearted tread” 590 To ——— 591 “Ere with cold beads of midnight dew” 591 Inscription 592 “Strange visitation! at Jemima’s lip” 592 “When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle” 593 Retirement 593 “Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild” 594 “Go back to antique Ages, if thine eyes” 594 “Are States oppress’d afflicted and degraded” 595 Ode, composed on May Morning 595 To May 597 “Once I could hail (howe’er serene the sky)” 600 “The Lady whom you here behold” 601 To ——— 602 To S. H. 602 “Prithee gentle Lady list” 602 Conclusion [to Miscellaneous Sonnets in Poetical Works 1827] 603 Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe 604 “Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned” 605 “There is a pleasure in poetic pains” 606 To the Cuckoo 606 “In my mind’s eye a Temple, like a cloud” 606 On Seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp, 607 “Her only Pilot the soft breeze the Boat” 608 Farewell Lines 609 Extract from the Strangers bookStation Winandermere. [and] On seeing the above 609 “Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein” 610 Roman Antiquities Discovered, at Bishopstone, Herefordshire 611 St. Catherine of Ledbury 611 To ——— ('Wait,, prithee, wait!') 612 Filial Piety 612 A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral 613 The Wishing-gate 613 A Tradition of Darley Dale, Derbyshire 615 “The unremitting voice of nightly streams” 616 The Gleaner (Suggested by a Picture) 616 The Triad 617 On the Power of Sound 623 The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily 630 A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine) 641 The Poet and the Caged Turtledove 642 Written in Mrs. Field’s Album opposite a Pen-and-ink Sketch in the Manner of a Rembrandt Etching done by Edmund Field 643 The Russian Fugitive 643 The Primrose of the Rock 656 The Armenian Lady’s Love 657 Rural Illusions 663 This Lawn, &c. 664 Presentiments 665 Gold and Silver Fishes, in a vase 667 Liberty (Sequel to the above) 669 Humanity (Written in the Year 1829) 673 “Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant” 676 Inscription intended for a stone in the grounds of Rydal M ount 676 Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, the seat of the late Sir George Beaumont, Bart. 677 “Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride” 678 To B. R. Haydon, Esq. On Seeing his Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena 679 Epitaph 679 Devotional Incitements 680 To the Author’s Portrait 682 [Four Poems Written in Response to the Reform Movement, December 1832] 682 i. “For Lubbock vote—no legislative Hack” 682 ii. “If this great world of joy and pain” 683 iii. “Now that Astrology is out of date” 683 iv. Question and Answer 683 Thought on the Seasons 684 A Wren’s Nest 684 Evening Voluntaries 686 1. 'Calm is the fragrant air ...' 686 2. 'Not in the lucid intervals of life' 687 3. (By the side of Rydal Mere) 688 4. 'Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge' 689 5. 'The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill' 690 6. 'The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire' 691 7. (by the sea-side) 691 8. 'The sun has long been set' 692 9. 'Thron'd in the Sun's descending car' 693 Composed by the Sea-shore 693 To ———, upon the birth of her first-born child, March 1833 694 The Warning. A sequel to the foregoing. March, 1833 697 “He who defers his work from day to day” 701 To the Utilitarians 701 The Labourer’s Noon-day Hymn 702 Love Lies Bleeding 703 Companion to the Foregoing 703 Written in an Album 704 Lines suggested by a portrait from the pencil of F. Stone 704 The Foregoing Subject Resumed 708 “Desponding Father! mark this altered bough” 709 Lines written in the album of the countess of ———. Nov. 5, 1834 709 “Fairy skill” 712 The Redbreast (suggested in a Westmoreland cottage) 712 Upon Seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album 714 Airey-force Valley 715 To the Moon (composed by the sea-side,—on the coast of Cumberland) 716 To the Moon (Rydal) 718 “To a good Man of most dear memory” 719 Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 723 At the Grave of Burns, 1803 724 Thoughts suggested the day following on the banks of Nith, near the poet’s residence 727 A Night Thought. 729 On an Event in Col: Evans’s redoubted performances in Spain 729 November, 1836 729 The Widow on Windermere Side 730 To the Planet Venus, upon its approximation ... to the Earth, January 1838 731 “Wouldst Thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock” 731 “Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!” 732 Valedictory Sonnet 732 “Said red-ribbon’d Evans” 733 “Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest” 733 “’Tis He whose yester-evening’s high disdain” 734 A Plea for Authors. May, 1838 734 Protest against the Ballot, 1838 735 Composed on the same Morning 735 A Poet to his Grandchild 736 “Come gentle Sleep, Death’s image tho’ thou art” 736 [Two Translations from Michael Angelo] 736 i. “Grateful is Sleep; more grateful still to be” 736 ii. Michael Angelo in reply to the passage upon his statue of Night sleeping 737 With a Small Present 737 “A sad and lovely face, with upturn’d eyes” 737 “Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance” 737 To a Painter 738 On the same Subject 738 [Four Poems on a Portrait] 739 “More may not be by human Art exprest” 739 “Art, Nature, Love here claim united praise” 739 Upon the sight of the Portrait of a female Friend— 739 Upon a Portrait 740 “The Star that comes at close of day to shine” 740 Poor Robin 740 The Cuckoo-clock 741 The Norman Boy 743 Sequel to the Norman Boy 744 At Furness Abbey 746 On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon 746 “Sigh no more Ladies, sigh no more” 747 “The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love” 747 “Let more ambitious Poets take the heart” 747 Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland 747 “Though Pulpits and the Desk may fail” 748 The Wishing-gate Destroyed 748 Sonnet ('Though the bold wings of Poesy affect') 750 Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise 750 “Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live” 751 Prelude [to Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years] 752 Upon Perusing the Foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after its Composition 754 'When Severn's sweeping Flood had overthrown' 754 “A Poet!—He hath put his heart to school” 755 To a Redbreast—(In Sickness) 755 “The most alluring clouds that mount the sky” 756 “Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake” 756 The Eagle and the Dove 757 “What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine” 757 “Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot” 757 “Glad sight wherever new with old” 758 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 758 “While beams of orient light shoot wide and high” 759 Grace Darling 760 Inscription for a monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick 763 To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. 763 “So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive” 764 Sonnet on the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway 764 “Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old” 765 The Westmoreland Girl 765 “Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved” 768 “Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base” 769 At Furness Abbey 769 “Why should we weep or mourn, Angelic boy” 770 “I know an aged Man constrained to dwell” 770 To an Octogenarian 771 Written upon a fly leaf in the Copy of the Author’s Poems which was sent to her Majesty Queen Victoria 772 “Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high” 773 “How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high” 773 “Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed” 773 To Lucca Giordano 774 Illustrated Books and Newspapers 774 On the Banks of a Rocky Stream 775 Ode, Performed in the Senate-house, Cambridge, on the Sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII. At the first Commencement afterthe Installation of His Royal Highness The Prince Albert,Chancellor of the University 775 Wordsworth's Notes 779 Thanksgiving Ode, 1816 779 The River Duddon 781 Postscript to The River Duddon 785 Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822) 786 Bruges 789 The Church of San Salvador 789 The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820 790 Desultory Stanzas 790 Highland Hut 790 Bothwell Castle 792 Hart’s-horn Tree, near Penrith 794 To the River Greta 794 Stanzas Suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees’ Heads 795 Musings near Aquapendente 796 At the Convent of Camaldoli 796 At Vallombrosa 797 The sun has long been set and Thron’d in the Sun’s descending car 797 Index of Titles, first lines and series titles (Volume 3) 798 Cumulative Index to Volumes 1, 2, 3 829 Wordsworth from Humanities-Ebooks 873 'The Poems of William Wordsworth presents Wordsworth's verse in reading texts chosen from those offered in the twenty-one volumes of the Cornell Wordsworth. Here is the poetry in the form the poet gave it when first completed, either in its manuscript state or in a published book. Each volume includes Wordsworth's own notes published with his poems during his lifetime and a few editorial explanations where appropriate. In the third volume are the shorter poems composed between 1807 and 1820, the fourteen-book Prelude, all eight sonnet series, including The River Duddon, Ecclesiastical Sketches. Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, poems from Scotland and Italy in 1833 and 1837, and Last Poems: 1821 - 1850.'