The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: Poems on the Naming of Places

Edited by William Knight

1896

[Table of Contents]

• [Poems on the Naming of Places]
• • ["It was an April morning: fresh and clear"]
  • [To Joanna]
  • ["There is an Eminence,—of these our hills"]
  • ["A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags"]
  • [To M. H.]
  • [The Waterfall and the Eglantine]
  • [The Oak and the Broom]
  • ["'Tis said, that some have died for love"]
  • [The Childless Father]
  • [Song for the Wandering Jew]
  • [The Brothers]
  • [The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie]
  • [Rural Architecture]
  • [A Character]
  • [Inscription for the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water]
  • [Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an Out-House), on the Island at Grasmere]
  • [Michael]

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Poems on the Naming of Places

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By Persons resident in the country and attached to rural objects, many places will be found unnamed or of unknown names, where little Incidents will have occurred, or feelings been experienced, which will have given to such places a private and peculiar interest. From a wish to give some sort of record to such Incidents or renew the gratification of such Feelings, Names have been given to Places by the Author and some of his Friends, and the following Poems written in consequence