The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

CONTENTS

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[1834]
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone	[1]
The foregoing Subject resumed	[6]
To a Child	[7]
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale, Nov. 5, 1834	[8]
[1835]
“Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant”	[12]
To the Moon	[13]
To the Moon	[15]
Written after the Death of Charles Lamb	[17]
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg	[24]
Upon seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album	[29]
“Desponding Father! mark this altered bough”	[31]
“Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein”	[31]
To ——	[32]
Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire	[33]
St. Catherine of Ledbury	[34]
“By a blest Husband guided, Mary came”	[35]
“Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!”	[36]
[1836]
November 1836	[37]
To a Redbreast—(In Sickness)	[38]
[1837]
“Six months to six years added he remained”	[39]
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837—To Henry Crabb Robinson	[41]
I. Musings near Aquapendente, April, 1837	[42]
II. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome	[58]
III. At Rome	[59]
IV. At Rome—Regrets—in Allusion to Niebuhr and other Modern Historians	[60]
V. Continued	[61]
VI. Plea for the Historian	[61]
VII. At Rome	[62]
VIII. Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter’s	[63]
IX. At Albano	[64]
X. “Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove”	[65]
XI. From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome	[65]
XII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene	[66]
XIII. Near the same Lake	[67]
XIV. The Cuckoo at Laverna	[67]
XV. At the Convent of Camaldoli	72
XVI. Continued	[73]
XVII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli	[74]
XVIII. At Vallombrosa	[75]
XIX. At Florence	[78]
XX. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence	[79]
XXI. At Florence—From Michael Angelo	[80]
XXII. At Florence—From Michael Angelo	[81]
XXIII. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines	[82]
XXIV. In Lombardy	[83]
XXV. After leaving Italy	[84]
XXVI. Continued	[85]
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837.—I.	[86]
II. Continued	[86]
III. Concluded	[87]
“What if our numbers barely could defy”	[87]
A Night Thought	[88]
The Widow on Windermere Side	[89]
[1838]
To the Planet Venus	[92]
“Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest”	[93]
“’Tis He whose yester-evening’s high disdain”	[94]
Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838	[94]
Composed on a May Morning, 1838	[97]
A Plea for Authors, May 1838	[99]
“Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will”	[101]
Valedictory Sonnet	[102]
[1839]
Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death—
I. Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road from the South)	[103]
II. “Tenderly do we feel by Nature’s law”	[104]
III. “The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die”	[105]
IV. “Is Death, when evil against good has fought”	[106]
V. “Not to the object specially designed”	[106]
VI. “Ye brood of conscience—Spectres! that frequent”	[107]
VII. “Before the world had past her time of youth”	[107]
VIII. “Fit retribution, by the moral code”	[108]
IX. “Though to give timely warning and deter”	[109]
X. “Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine”	[109]
XI. “Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide”	[110]
XII. “See the Condemned alone within his cell”	[110]
XIII. Conclusion	[111]
XIV. Apology	[112]
“Men of the Western World! in Fate’s dark book”	[112]
[1840]
To a Painter	[114]
On the same Subject	[115]
Poor Robin	[116]
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon	[118]
[1841]
Epitaph in the Chapel-Yard of Langdale, Westmoreland	[120]
[1842]
“Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake”	[122]
Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled “Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years”	[123]
Floating Island	[125]
“The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love”	[127]
“A Poet!—He hath put his heart to school”	[127]
“The most alluring clouds that mount the sky”	[128]
“Feel for the wrongs to universal ken”	[129]
In Allusion to various Recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution	[130]
Continued	[131]
Concluded	[131]
“Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance”	[132]
The Norman Boy	[132]
The Poet’s Dream	[135]
Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise	[140]
To the Clouds	[142]
Airey-Force Valley	[146]
“Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live”	[147]
Love lies Bleeding	[148]
“They call it Love lies bleeding! rather say”	[150]
Companion to the Foregoing	[150]
The Cuckoo-Clock	[151]
“Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot”	[153]
“Though the bold wings of Poesy affect”	[154]
“Glad sight wherever new with old”	[154]
[1843]
“While beams of orient light shoot wide and high”	[156]
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick	[157]
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Master of Harrow School	[162]
[1844]
“So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive”	[164]
On the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway	[166]
“Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old”	[167]
At Furness Abbey	[168]
[1845]
“Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base”	[170]
The Westmoreland Girl	[172]
At Furness Abbey	[176]
“Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved”	[176]
“What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine”	[177]
To a Lady	[177]
To the Pennsylvanians	[179]
“Young England—what is then become of Old”	[180]
[1846]
Sonnet	[181]
“Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed”	[182]
To Lucca Giordano	[183]
“Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high”	[184]
Illustrated Books and Newspapers	[184]
Sonnet. To an Octogenarian	[185]
“I know an aged Man constrained to dwell”	[186]
“The unremitting voice of nightly streams”	[187]
“How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high”	[188]
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream	[188]
Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	[189]
POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH NOT INCLUDED IN THE EDITION OF 1849-50
[1787]
Sonnet, on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a Tale of Distress	[209]
Lines written by William Wordsworth as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Ætatis 14	[211]
[1792 (or earlier)]
“Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane”	[214]
“When Love was born of heavenly line”	[215]
The Convict	[217]
[1798]
“The snow-tracks of my friends I see”	[219]
The Old Cumberland Beggar (MS. Variants, not inserted in Vol. I.)	[220]
[1800]
Andrew Jones	[221]
“There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones”	[223]
[1802]
“Among all lovely things my Love had been”	[231]
“Along the mazes of this song I go”	[233]
“The rains at length have ceas’d, the winds are still’d”	[233]
“Witness thou”	[234]
Wild-Fowl	[234]
Written in a Grotto	[234]
Home at Grasmere	[235]
“Shall he who gives his days to low pursuits”	[257]
[1803]
“I find it written of Simonides”	[258]
[1804]
“No whimsey of the purse is here”	[258]
[1805]
“Peaceful our valley, fair and green”	[259]
“Ah! if I were a lady gay”	[262]
[1806]
To the Evening Star over Grasmere Water, July 1806	[263]
Michael Angelo in Reply to the Passage upon his Statue of Night sleeping	[263]
“Come, gentle Sleep, Death’s image tho’ thou art”	[264]
“Brook, that hast been my solace days and week”	[265]
Translation from Michael Angelo	[265]
[1808]
George and Sarah Green	[266]
[1818]
“The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae”	[270]
Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt	[271]
“Critics, right honourable Bard, decree”	[271]
[1819]
“Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove”	[272]
“My Son! behold the tide already spent”	[273]
[1820]
Author’s Voyage down the Rhine	[273]
[1822]
“These vales were saddened with no common gloom”	[275]
Translation of Part of the First Book of the Æneid	[276]
[1823]
“Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore”	[281]
[1826]
Lines addressed to Joanna H. from Gwerndwffnant in June 1826	[282]
Holiday at Gwerndwffnant, May 1826	[284]
Composed when a Probability existed of our being obliged to quit Rydal Mount as a Residence	[289]
“I, whose pretty Voice you hear”	[295]
[1827]
To my Niece Dora	[297]
[1829]
“My Lord and Lady Darlington”	[298]
[1833]
To the Utilitarians	[299]
[1835]
“Throned in the Sun’s descending car”	[300]
“And oh! dear soother of the pensive breast”	[301]
[1836]
“Said red-ribboned Evans”	[301]
[1837]
On an Event in Col. Evans’s Redoubted Performances in Spain	[303]
[1838]
“Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock”	[303]
Protest against the Ballot, 1838	[304]
“Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud”	[304]
A Poet to his Grandchild	[305]
[1840]
On a Portrait of I.F., painted by Margaret Gillies	[306]
To I.F.	[307]
“Oh Bounty without measure, while the Grace”	[308]
[1842]
The Eagle and the Dove	[309]
Grace Darling	[310]
“When Severn’s sweeping flood had overthrown”	[314]
The Pillar of Trajan	[314]
[1846]
“Deign, Sovereign Mistress! to accept a lay”	[319]
[1847]
Ode, performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the 6th of July 1847, at the First Commencement after the Installation of His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University	[320]
To Miss Sellon	[325]
“The worship of this Sabbath morn”	[325]
[Bibliographies—]
[I. Great Britain]	[329]
[II. America]	[380]
[III. France]	[421]
[Errata and Addenda List]	[431]
[Index to the Poems]	[433]
[Index to the First Lines]	[451]

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