THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
VOL. VI

THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED BY

WILLIAM KNIGHT

VOL. VI

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
1896

CONTENTS

[1814]

PAGE
Laodamia[1]
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland—
The Brownie's Cell[16]
Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower[26]
Effusion, in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the
Bran, near Dunkeld[28]
"From the dark chambers of dejection freed"[33]
Yarrow Visited[35]
Lines written 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[40]

[1815]

PAGE
Dedication to the White Doe of Rylstone[42]
Artegal and Elidure[45]
To B.R. Haydon[61]
November 1[63]
September, 1815[64]
"The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade"[65]
"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind"[67]
"Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!"[67]
"The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said"[68]
"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress"[69]
"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose"[71]
"Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind"[72]

[1816]

PAGE
Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving.
January 18, 1816[74]
Ode[88]
Invocation to the Earth[95]
Ode[96]
Ode[104]
The French Army in Russia, 1812-13[107]
On the Same Occasion[109]
Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski[110]
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo[111]
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo[112]
"Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung"[113]
Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the
Remains of the Duke D'Enghien[114]
Dion[116]
A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on the
Sea-shore[130]
"A little onward lend thy guiding hand"[132]
To ——-, on her first Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn[135]

[1817]

PAGE
Vernal Ode[138]
Ode to Lycoris[145]
To the Same[149]
The Longest Day[153]
Hint from the Mountains, for certain Political Pretenders[156]
The Pass of Kirkstone[158]
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots[162]

[1818]

PAGE
The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glow-worm[167]
Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell[170]
Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty[176]

[1819]

PAGE
This, and the two following, were suggested by Mr. W. Westall's Views
of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire[183]
Malham Cove[184]
Gordale[185]
Composed during a Storm[187]
"Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow"[187]
The Wild Duck's Nest[189]
Written upon a blank leaf in "The Complete Angler"[190]
Captivity—Mary Queen of Scots[191]
To a Snow-Drop[191]
"When haughty expectations prostrate lie"[192]
To the River Derwent[193]
Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday[194]
"Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend"[195]
"I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret"[197]
"I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)"[198]
The Haunted Tree[199]
September, 1819[201]
Upon the Same Occasion[202]

[1820]

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Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream[208]
On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third)[209]
"The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand"[210]
To the Lady Mary Lowther[211]
On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem[212]
Oxford, May 30, 1820[213]
Oxford, May 30, 1820[214]
June, 1820[214]
The Germans on the Heights of Hock Heim[216]
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire[217]
To Enterprise[218]
The River Duddon—
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth[227]
"Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throw"[230]
"Child of the clouds! remote from every taint"[231]
"How shall I paint thee?—Be this naked stone"[232]
"Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take"[233]
"Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played"[234]
Flowers[235]
"Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!"[237]
"What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled"[237]
The Stepping-Stones[239]
The Same Subject[240]
The Faëry Chasm[241]
Hints for the Fancy[242]
Open Prospect[243]
"O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot"[245]
"From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play"[245]
American Tradition[246]
Return[248]
Seathwaite Chapel[249]
Tributary Stream[250]
The Plain of Donnerdale[251]
"Whence that low voice?—A whisper from the heart"[252]
Tradition[253]
Sheep-Washing[253]
The Resting-Place[254]
"Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat"[255]
"Return, Content! for fondly I pursued"[255]
"Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap"[256]
Journey Renewed[257]
"No record tells of lance opposed to lance"[258]
"Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce"[260]
"The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye"[260]
"Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep"[261]
Conclusion[262]
After-Thought[263]
Postscript[264]
Note to Sonnets XVII. and XVIII.[267]
Memoir of the Rev. Robert Walker[270]
Memorials of a Tour on the Continent—
Dedication[285]
Fish-women—on Landing at Calais[286]
Brugès[288]
Brugès[290]
After visiting the Field of Waterloo[292]
Between Namur and Liege[293]
Aix-la-Chapelle[295]
In the Cathedral at Cologne[297]
In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine[299]
Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids under the
Castle of Heidelberg[301]
The Source of the Danube[303]
On approaching the Staubbach, Lauterbrunnen[306]
The Fall of the Aar—Handec[308]
Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun[310]
Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons[312]
After-Thought[315]
Scene on the Lake of Brientz[315]
Engelberg, the Hill of Angels[316]
Our Lady of the Snow[318]
Effusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altorf[321]
The Town of Schwytz[324]
On hearing the "Ranz des Vaches" on the Top of
the Pass of St. Gothard[326]
Fort Fuentes[328]
The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano[332]
The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd[338]
The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the
Convent of Maria della Grazia—Milan[343]
The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820[345]
The Three Cottage Girls[351]
The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal
Edifice in Milan, now lying by the wayside in the Simplon Pass[356]
Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass[357]
Echo, upon the Gemmi[360]
Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the
Vale of Chamouny[363]
Elegiac Stanzas[371]
Sky-Prospect—From the Plain of France[377]
On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne[378]
After Landing—the Valley of Dover, Nov. 1820[380]
At Dover[381]
Desultory Stanzas, upon receiving the preceding Sheets from the Press[382]
Appendix—
Note A[387]
Note B[389]
Addendum[396]

WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS
[1814]

The Excursion—to which the fifth volume of this edition is devoted—has been assigned to the year 1814; since it was finished, and first published, in that year,—although commenced in 1795. During the earlier stages of its composition, this poem was known, in the Wordsworth household, as "The Pedlar"; and Dorothy Wordsworth tells us in one of her letters to the Beaumonts, preserved amongst the Coleorton MSS., that "The Pedlar" was finished at Christmas 1804. See also the Memoirs of Wordsworth, by his nephew (vol. i. p. 304, etc.), and Dorothy's Grasmere Journal, passim. But The Excursion, as we have it now, was finished for press in 1814. The poems more immediately belonging to that year are Laodamia, the Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, Dion, and two Sonnets.—Ed.