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

by William Wordsworth

1896

[Table of Contents]

• [1803]
• • [The Green Linnet]
  • [Yew-Trees]
  • ["Who fancied what a pretty sight"]
  • ["It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown"]
  • [ Memorials of a Tour in Scotland]
  • • [Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. (August, 1803)]
    • [At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after his Death]
    • [Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence]
    • [To the Sons of Burns, after Visiting the Grave of their Father]
    • [To a Highland Girl]
    • [Glen-Almain; or, The Narrow Glen]
    • [Stepping Westward]
    • [The Solitary Reaper]
    • [Address to Kilchurn Castle]
    • [Rob Roy's Grave]
    • [Sonnet composed at —— Castle]
    • [Yarrow Unvisited]
    • [The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband]
    • ["Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale"]
    • [The Blind Highland Boy]
  • [October, 1803]
  • ["There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear"]
  • [October, 1803 (2)]
  • ["England! the time is come when thou should'st wean"]
  • [October, 1803 (3)]
  • [To the Men of Kent. October, 1803]
  • [In the Pass of Killicranky]
  • [Anticipation. October, 1803]
  • [Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803]

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The poems associated with the year 1803 consist mainly of the "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland," which Wordsworth and his sister took—along with Coleridge—in the autumn of that year, although many of these were not written till some time after the Tour was finished. The Green Linnet and Yew-trees were written in 1803, and some sonnets were composed in the month of October; but, on the whole, 1803 was not a fruitful year in Wordsworth's life, as regards his lyrics and smaller poems. Doubtless both The Prelude and The Excursion were revised in 1803.—Ed.

[Contents 1803]
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The Green Linnet

Composed 1803.—Published 1807

[The Poem]