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CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE

1834

THE FOREGOING SUBJECT RESUMED

1835

“WHY ART THOU SILENT? IS THY LOVE A PLANT”

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”

TO ——

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORDSHIRE

ST. CATHERINE OF LEDBURY

“OH WHAT A WRECK! HOW CHANGED IN MIEN AND SPEECH!”

1836

NOVEMBER 1836

TO A REDBREAST—(IN SICKNESS)

1837

“SIX MONTHS TO SIX YEARS ADDED HE REMAINED”

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY 1837

“WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY”

A NIGHT THOUGHT

THE WIDOW ON WINDERMERE SIDE

1838

“HARK! ’TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST”

“’TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING’S HIGH DISDAIN”

A PLEA FOR AUTHORS, MAY 1838

“BLEST STATESMAN HE, WHOSE MIND’S UNSELFISH WILL”

1839

“MEN OF THE WESTERN WORLD! IN FATE’S DARK BOOK”

1840

TO A PAINTER

ON THE SAME SUBJECT

1841

1842

“INTENT ON GATHERING WOOL FROM HEDGE AND BRAKE”

FLOATING ISLAND

“THE CRESCENT-MOON, THE STAR OF LOVE”

“THE MOST ALLURING CLOUDS THAT MOUNT THE SKY”

“FEEL FOR THE WRONGS TO UNIVERSAL KEN”

IN ALLUSION TO VARIOUS RECENT HISTORIES AND NOTICES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

“LO! WHERE SHE STANDS FIXED IN A SAINT-LIKE TRANCE”

THE NORMAN BOY

SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE

AIREY-FORCE VALLEY

“LYRE! THOUGH SUCH POWER DO IN THY MAGIC LIVE”

LOVE LIES BLEEDING

“THEY CALL IT LOVE LIES BLEEDING! RATHER SAY”

COMPANION TO THE FOREGOING

THE CUCKOO-CLOCK

“WANSFELL! THIS HOUSEHOLD HAS A FAVOURED LOT”

“THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT”

“GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD”

1843

“WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH”

1844

“SO FAIR, SO SWEET, WITHAL SO SENSITIVE”

ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY

“PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD”

AT FURNESS ABBEY

1845

“FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE”

AT FURNESS ABBEY

“YES! THOU ART FAIR, YET BE NOT MOVED”

“WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE”

TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS

“YOUNG ENGLAND—WHAT IS THEN BECOME OF OLD”

1846

“WHERE LIES THE TRUTH? HAS MAN, IN WISDOM’S CREED”

“WHO BUT IS PLEASED TO WATCH THE MOON ON HIGH”

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS

“I KNOW AN AGED MAN CONSTRAINED TO DWELL”

“THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS”

“HOW BEAUTIFUL THE QUEEN OF NIGHT, ON HIGH”

ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM

1787

LINES WRITTEN BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AS A SCHOOL EXERCISE AT HAWKSHEAD, ANNO ÆTATIS 14

1792 (or earlier)

“SWEET WAS THE WALK ALONG THE NARROW LANE”

“WHEN LOVE WAS BORN OF HEAVENLY LINE”

THE CONVICT

1798

“THE SNOW-TRACKS OF MY FRIENDS I SEE”

THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR

1800

ANDREW JONES

“THERE IS A SHAPELESS CROWD OF UNHEWN STONES”

1802

“AMONG ALL LOVELY THINGS MY LOVE HAD BEEN”

“ALONG THE MAZES OF THIS SONG I GO”

“THE RAINS AT LENGTH HAVE CEAS’D, THE WINDS ARE STILL’D”

“WITNESS THOU”

WILD-FOWL

WRITTEN IN A GROTTO

HOME AT GRASMERE

“SHALL HE WHO GIVES HIS DAYS TO LOW PURSUITS”

1803

“I FIND IT WRITTEN OF SIMONIDES”

1804

“NO WHIMSEY OF THE PURSE IS HERE”

1805

“PEACEFUL OUR VALLEY, FAIR AND GREEN”

“AH! IF I WERE A LADY GAY”

1806

TO THE EVENING STAR OVER GRASMERE WATER, JULY 1806

MICHAEL ANGELO IN REPLY TO THE PASSAGE UPON HIS STATUE OF NIGHT SLEEPING

“COME, GENTLE SLEEP, DEATH’S IMAGE THO’ THOU ART”

“BROOK, THAT HAST BEEN MY SOLACE DAYS AND WEEKS”

TRANSLATION FROM MICHAEL ANGELO

1808

GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN

1818

PLACARD FOR A POLL BEARING AN OLD SHIRT

“CRITICS, RIGHT HONOURABLE BARD, DECREE”

1819

“THROUGH CUMBRIAN WILDS, IN MANY A MOUNTAIN COVE”

“MY SON! BEHOLD THE TIDE ALREADY SPENT”

1820

1822

“THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM”

TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ÆNEID

1823

“ARMS AND THE MAN I SING, THE FIRST WHO BORE”

1826

LINES ADDRESSED TO JOANNA H. FROM GWERNDWFFNANT IN JUNE 1826

COMPOSED WHEN A PROBABILITY EXISTED OF OUR BEING OBLIGED TO QUIT RYDAL MOUNT AS A RESIDENCE

“I, WHOSE PRETTY VOICE YOU HEAR”

1827

TO MY NIECE DORA

1829

“MY LORD AND LADY DARLINGTON”

1833

TO THE UTILITARIANS

1835

“THRONED IN THE SUN’S DESCENDING CAR”

“AND OH! DEAR SOOTHER OF THE PENSIVE BREAST”

1836

“SAID RED-RIBBONED EVANS”

1837

ON AN EVENT IN COL. EVANS’S REDOUBTED PERFORMANCES IN SPAIN

1838

“WOULDST THOU BE GATHERED TO CHRIST’S CHOSEN FLOCK”

“SAID SECRECY TO COWARDICE AND FRAUD”

1840

“OH BOUNTY WITHOUT MEASURE, WHILE THE GRACE”

1842

“WHEN SEVERN’S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN”

THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN

1846

“DEIGN, SOVEREIGN MISTRESS! TO ACCEPT A LAY”

1847

TO MISS SELLON

“THE WORSHIP OF THIS SABBATH MORN”

A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY

PREFATORY NOTE

ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST

INDEX TO THE POEMS

INDEX TO FIRST LINES