CONTENTS

[1806]

PAGE
To the Spade of a Friend[2]
Character of the Happy Warrior[7]
The Horn of Egremont Castle[12]
A Complaint[17]
Stray Pleasures[18]
Power of Music[20]
Star-gazers[22]
"Yes, it was the mountain Echo"[25]
"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room"[27]
Personal Talk[30]
Admonition[34]
"'Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con'"[35]
"How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks"[36]
"Those words were uttered as in pensive mood"[37]
"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky"[38]
"The world is too much with us; late and soon"[39]
"With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"[40]
"Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?"[41]
To Sleep[42]
To Sleep[43]
To Sleep[43]
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert[44]
"Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne"[46]
Lines composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Evening,after a stormy day, the Author having just readin a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox washourly expected[47]
November, 1806[49]
Address to a Child[50]
"Brook! whose society the Poet seeks"[52]
"There is a little unpretending Rill"[53]


[1807]

To Lady Beaumont[57]
A Prophecy. February, 1807[59]
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland[60]
To Thomas Clarkson, on the final passing of the Bill forthe Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807[62]
The Mother's Return[63]
Gipsies[65]
"O Nightingale! thou surely art"[67]
"Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near"[68]
Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake. 1807[73]
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir GeorgeBeaumont, Bart., Leicestershire[74]
In a Garden of the same[76]
Written at the request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.,and in his name, for an Urn, placed by him at thetermination of a newly-planted Avenue in the same Grounds[78]
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton[80]
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle[82]


[1808]

The White Doe of Rylstone[100]
The Force of Prayer[204]
Composed while the Author was engaged in writing aTract, occasioned by the Convention of Cintra. 1808[210]
Composed at the same time and on the same occasion[211]


[1809]

Tyrolese Sonnets—
Hoffer[213]
"Advance—come forth from thy Tyrolean ground"[214]
Feelings of the Tyrolese[215]
"Alas! what boots the long laborious quest"[216]
On the final Submission of the Tyrolese[217]
"The martial courage of a day is vain"[217]
"And is it among rude untutored Dales"[222]
"O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain"[223]
"Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye"[224]
"Say, what is Honour?—'Tis the finest sense"[225]
"Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight"[226]
"Call not the royal Swede unfortunate"[227]
"Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid"[228]
"Is there a power that can sustain and cheer"[228]
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera—
"Weep not, belovèd Friends! nor let the air"[230]
"Perhaps some needful service of the State"[230]
"O Thou who movest onward with a mind"[231]
"There never breathed a man who, when his life"[232]
"True is it that Ambrosio Salinero"[233]
"Destined to war from very infancy"[234]
"O flower of all that springs from gentle blood"[235]
"Not without heavy grief of heart did He"[236]
"Pause, courteous Spirit!—Balbi supplicates"[237]


[1810]

"Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen"[240]
"In due observance of an ancient rite"[241]
Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals, 1810[242]
On a celebrated Event in Ancient History[242]
Upon the same Event[244]
The Oak of Guernica[245]
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard, 1810[246]
"Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind"[247]
"O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied"[247]
The French and the Spanish Guerillas[248]
Maternal Grief[248]


[1811]

Characteristics of a Child three years old[252]
Spanish Guerillas, 1811[253]
"The power of Armies is a visible thing"[254]
"Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise"[255]
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.[256]
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty years after itscomposition[267]
Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture[271]
To the Poet, John Dyer[273]


[1812]

Song for the Spinning Wheel[275]
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in theVale of Grasmere, 1812[276]
Water-fowl[277]


[1813]

View from the Top of Black Comb[279]
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the side of theMountain of Black Comb[281]
November, 1813[282]

WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS

1806

Wordsworth left Grasmere with his household for Coleorton in November 1806, and there is no evidence that he returned to Westmoreland till April 1808; although his sister spent part of the winter of 1807-8 at Dove Cottage, while he and Mrs. Wordsworth wintered at Stockton with the Hutchinson family. Several of the sonnets which are published in the "Poems" of 1807 refer, however, to Grasmere, and were probably composed there. I have conjecturally assigned a good many of them to the year 1806. Some may have been composed earlier than 1806, but it is not likely that any belong to a later year.

In addition to these, the poems of 1806 include the [Character of the Happy Warrior], unless it should be assigned to the close of the previous year (see the note to the poem, [p. 11]), [The Horn of Egremont Castle], the three poems composed in London in the spring of the year (April or May)—viz. [Stray Pleasures], [Power of Music], and [Star-gazers]—the lines on the Mountain Echo, those composed in expectation of the death of Mr. Fox, and the Ode, Intimations of Immortality.[A] Southey, in writing to Sir Walter Scott, on the 4th of February 1806, said, "Wordsworth has of late been more employed in correcting his poems than in writing others."—Ed.