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A barking sound the Shepherd hears,iii44
A Book came forth of late, called Peter Bell;vi212
A bright-haired company of youthful slaves,vii14
Abruptly paused the strife;—the field throughoutvi216
A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,vi248
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grownvii342
Advance—come forth from thy Tyrolean ground,iv214
Aerial Rock—whose solitary browvi188
A famous man is Robin Hood,ii403
Affections lose their object; Time brings forth,viii[185]
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,iv43
A genial hearth, a hospitable board,vii87
A German Haggis from receiptviii[272]
Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers,ii414
Ah! if I were a lady gayviii[262]
Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide,viii[110]
A humming Bee—a little tinkling rill—v106
Ah, when the Body, round which in love we clung,vii19
Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor peniv240
Ah why deceive ourselves! by no mere fit,viii[86]
Aid, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light,vii64
Alas! what boots the long laborious questiv216
A little onward lend thy guiding handvi133
All praise the Likeness by thy skill portrayed,viii[114]
Along the mazes of this song I go,viii[233]
A love-lorn Maid, at some far-distant time,vi253
Ambition—following down this far-famed slopevi356
Amid a fertile region green with woodvii301
Amid the smoke of cities did you passii157
Amid this dance of objects sadness stealsvi299
Among a grave fraternity of Monks,viii[6]
Among all lovely things my Love had been,viii[232]
Among the dwellers in the silent fields,viii[310]
Among the dwellings framed by birdsvii325
Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream!vi193
Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream!vii345
A month, sweet Little-ones, is pastiv63
An age hath been when Earth was proudvi146
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,ii164
And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven,viii[211]
And is it among rude untutored Dales,iv222
And is this—Yarrow?—This the Streamvi36
And, not in vain embodied to the sight,vii40
“And shall,” the Pontiff asks, “profaneness flow”vii30
And what is Penance with her knotted thong;vii50
And what melodious sounds at times prevail!vii40
An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold,iv20
Another year!—another deadly blow!iv49
A pen—to register; a key—vii117
A Pilgrim, when the summer dayvi167
A plague on your languages, German and Norse!ii73
A pleasant music floats along the Mere,vii27
A Poet!—He hath put his heart to school,viii[128]
A point of life between my Parents’ dust,vii346
Arms and the Man I sing, the first who boreviii[281]
Army of Clouds! ye wingèd Host in troops,viii[142]
A Rock there is whose homely frontvii274
A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground,iv242
Around a wild and woody hillvi310
Arran! a single-crested Teneriffe,vii370
Art thou a Statist in the vanii75
Art thou the bird whom Man loves best,ii295
As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crestvii42
A simple Child,i231
As indignation mastered grief, my tongue,viii[85]
As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow,viii[87]
A slumber did my spirit seal;ii83
As often as I murmur herevii265
As star that shines dependent upon starvii87
“As the cold aspect of a sunless way”vi191
A Stream, to mingle with your favourite Dee,vii129
A sudden conflict rises from the swellvii82
As, when a storm hath ceased, the birds regainvii9
As with the Stream our voyage we pursue,vii33
At early dawn, or rather when the airvi185
A Traveller on the skirt of Sarum’s Plaini79
A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain,vii284
At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,i226
A twofold harmony is hereviii[282]
Avaunt all specious pliancy of mindiv247
Avaunt this œconomic rage!viii[299]
A voice, from long-expecting thousands sentvii79
A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found,vii119
Avon—a precious, an immortal name!vii303
A weight of awe, not easy to be borne,vii390
A whirl-blast from behind the hilli238
A wingèd Goddess—clothed in vesture wroughtvi292
A Youth too certain of his power to wadevii362
Bard of the Fleece, whose skilful genius madeiv273
Beaumont! it was thy wish that I should reariii23
Before I see another day,i276
Before the world had past her time of youth,viii[107]
“Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,”ii170
Beguiled into forgetfulness of care,viii[2]
Behold an emblem of our human mind,viii[188]
Behold a pupil of the monkish gown,vii24
Behold her, single in the field,ii397
Behold, within the leafy shade,ii237
“Beloved Vale!” I said, “when I shall con”iv35
Beneath the concave of an April sky,vi138
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shedii367
Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound,iv80
Be this the chosen site; the virgin sod,vii103
Between two sister moorland rillsii96
Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deepvii86
Black Demons hovering o’er his mitred head,vii34
Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak,ii121
Blest is this Isle—our native Land;vii109
Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will,viii[101]
Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strongvii359
Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flightiv226
Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere,ii360
Bright was the summer’s noon when quickening stepsiii186
Broken in fortune, but in mind entirevii365
Brook and roadii69
Brook, that hast been my solace days and weeks,viii[265]
Brook! whose society the Poet seeks,iv52
Brugès I saw attired with golden lightvi288
But Cytherea, studious to invent,viii[277]
But here no cannon thunders to the gale;vi262
But liberty, and triumphs on the Main,vii102
But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred Book,vii58
But, to remote Northumbria’s royal Hall,vii15
But what if One, through grove or flowery mead,vii21
But whence came they who for the Saviour Lordvii44
By a blest Husband guided, Mary came,viii[35]
By antique Fancy trimmed—though lowly, bredvi324
By Art’s bold privilege Warrior and War-Horse stand,viii[118]
By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied:vii93
By playful smiles, (alas, too oft,viii[120]
By such examples moved to unbought pains,vii22
By their floating mill,iv18
By vain affections unenthralled,vii135
Call not the royal Swede unfortunate,iv227
Calm as an under-current, strong to draw,vii80
Calm is all nature as a resting wheeli4
Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to losevii317
Calvert! it must not be unheard by themiv44
“Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!”vi237
Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pridevii273
Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Streamii401
Child of the clouds! remote from every taintvi231
Clarkson! it was an obstinate hill to climb:iv62
Closing the sacred Book which long has fedvii98
Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid barsiv73
Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpoweredvii29
Come, gentle Sleep, Death’s image tho’ thou art,viii[264]
Come ye—who, if (which Heaven avert!) the Landii437
Companion! by whose buoyant Spirit cheered,viii[41]
Complacent Fictions were they, yet the same,viii[61]
Confiding hopes of youthful hearts,viii[297]
Critics, right honourable Bard, decreeviii[272]
Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell;ii349
Darkness surrounds us: seeking, we are lostvii7
Days passed—and Monte Calvo would not clear,viii[64]
Days undefiled by luxury or sloth,viii[179]
Dear be the Church, that, watching o’er the needsvii89
Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!ii366
Dear Fellow-travellers! think not that the Muse,vi285
Dear native regions, I foretell,i2
Dear Reliques! from a pit of vilest mouldvi114
Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,vii350
Deep is the lamentation! Not alonevii56
Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!ii410
Deign, Sovereign Mistress, to accept a lay,viii[319]
Departed Child! I could forget thee onceiv249
Departing summer hath assumedvi202
Deplorable his lot who tills the ground,vii38
Desire we past illusions to recal?vvii360
Desponding Father! mark this altered boughviii[31]
Despond who will—I heard a voice exclaim,vii368
Destined to war from very infancyiv234
Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen,vii363
Discourse was deemed Man’s noblest attribute,viii[184]
Dishonoured Rock and Ruin! that, by law,vii292
Dogmatic Teachers, of the snow-white fur!vi208
Doomed as we are our native dustvi312
Doubling and doubling with laborious walk,vii295
Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold designvii83
Dread hour! when, upheaved by war’s sulphurous blast,vi329
Driven in by Autumn’s sharpening airvii410
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:ii328
Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewedvii385
Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rungvi113
England! the time is come when thou should’st weanii433
Enlightened Teacher, gladly from thy handviii[162]
Enough! for see, with dim associationvii44
Enough of climbing toil!—Ambition treadsvi149
Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook,vii294
Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyesvii239
Ere the Brothers through the gatewayiv12
Erewhile to celebrate this glorious mornvi195
Ere with cold beads of midnight dewvii145
Ere yet our course was graced with social treesvi235
Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load,viii[81]
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!vii143
Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stressvi69
Even as a river,—partly (it might seem)iii293
Even so for me a Vision sanctifiedviii[37]
Even such the contrast that, where’er we move,vii71
Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of Francevii101
Excuse is needless when with love sincerevii162
Failing impartial measure to dispenseviii[99]
Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sateii124
Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailingvi116
Fair Lady! can I sing of flowersviii[177]
Fair Land! Thee all men greet with joy; bow few,viii[84]
Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gildvii165
Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the west,ii330
Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap,vi256
Fame tells of groves—from England far away—vi214
Fancy, who leads the pastimes of the glad,vii178
“Farewell, deep Valley, with thy one rude House,”v196
Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain-ground,ii324
Far from my dearest Friend, ’tis mine to rovei6
Far from our home by Grasmere’s quiet Lake,iv259
Father! to God himself we cannot givevii90
Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agreevii69
Feel for the wrongs to universal kenviii[129]
Festivals have I seen that were not names:ii334
Fit retribution, by the moral codeviii[108]
Five years have past; five summers, with the lengthii51
Flattered with promise of escapevii229
Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!ii419
Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep!iv43
For action born, existing to be tried,viii[67]
Forbear to deem the Chronicler unwise,viii[61]
For ever hallowed be this morning fair,vii15
For gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takesvi316
Forgive, illustrious Country! these deep sighs,viii[65]
Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose baseviii[170]
For thirst of power that Heaven disowns,viii[320]
Forth rushed from Envy sprung and Self-conceit,viii[304]
For what contend the wise?—for nothing lessvii58
Four fiery steeds impatient of the reinviii[32]
From Bolton’s old monastic toweriv106
From early youth I ploughed the restless Main,vii364
From false assumption rose, and fondly hail’dvii36
From Little down to Least, in due degree,vii91
From low to high doth dissolution climb,vii100
From Nature doth emotion come, and moodsiii355
From Rite and Ordinance abused they fledvii85
From Stirling castle we had seenii411
From that time forth, Authority in Franceiii330
From the Baptismal hour, thro’ weal and woe,vii97
From the dark chambers of dejection freed,vi34
From the fierce aspect of this River, throwingvi308
From the Pier’s head, musing, and with increasevi381
From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams playvi245
Frowns are on every Muse’s face,vii157
Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oarsvii41
Genius of Raphael! if thy wingsvii195
Giordano, verily thy Pencil’s skillviii[183]
Glad sight wherever new with oldviii[154]
Glide gently, thus for ever glide,i33
Glory to God! and to the Power who camevii107
Go back to antique ages, if thine eyesvii174
Go, faithful Portrait! and where long hath kneltvii318
Grant, that by this unsparing hurricanevii57
Grateful is Sleep, my life, in stone bound fast,viii[264]
Great men have been among us; hands that pennedii346
Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stonesvii344
Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready friendvi196
Grieve for the Man who hither came bereft,viii[72]
Had this effulgence disappearedvi177
Hail, orient Conqueror of gloomy Night!vi78
Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped—to girdv235
Hail to the fields—with Dwellings sprinkled o’ervi243
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!vi67
Hail, Virgin Queen! o’er many an envious barvii65
Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eyeiv224
Happy the feeling from the bosom thrownvii159
Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined, to leanviii[86]
Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest,viii[93]
Harmonious Powers with Nature workviii[125]
Harp! could’st thou venture, on thy boldest stringvii72
Hast thou seen, with flash incessant,vi174
Hast thou then survived—iii14
Haydon! let worthier judges praise the skillvii277
Here closed the Tenant of that lonely valev145
Here Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall,vii37
Here, on our native soil, we breathe once moreii341
Here on their knees men swore; the stones were black,vii381
Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise,iv255
Here stood an Oak, that long had borne affixedvii305
Here, where, of havoc tired and rash undoing,viii[168]
Her eyes are wild, her head is bare,i258
Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boatvii160
“High bliss is only for a higher state,”vii156
High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you!iv59
High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate,iv83
High is our calling, Friend!—Creative Artvi61
High on a broad unfertile tract of forest-skirted Down,viii[133]
High on her speculative towervi345
His simple truths did Andrew gleanii174
Holy and heavenly Spirits as they are,vii67
Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba’s Cell,vii382
Hope rules a land for ever green:vii190
Hope smiled when your nativity was cast,vii378
Hopes, what are they?—Beads of morningvi170
How art thou named? In search of what strange land,vii129
How beautiful the Queen of Night, on highviii[188]
How beautiful, when up a lofty heightviii[90]
How beautiful your presence, how benign,vii19
How blest the Maid whose heart—yet freevi351
How clear, how keen, how marvellously brightvi63
“How disappeared he?” Ask the newt and toad;vii297
How fast the Marian death-list is unrolled!vii61
How profitless the relics that we cull,vii308
How richly glows the water’s breasti32
How rich that forehead’s calm expanse!vii123
How sad a welcome! To each voyagervii380
How shall I paint thee?—Be this naked stone,vi232
How soon—alas! did Man, created pure—vii35
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocksiv36
Humanity, delighting to beholdvi107
Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blastiv248
I am not One who much or oft delightiv31
I come, ye little noisy Crew,ii84
I dropped my pen; and listened to the Windiv211
I find it written of Simonides,viii[258]
If from the public way you turn your stepsii215
If Life were slumber on a bed of down,vii351
If money’s slack,viii[271]
If Nature, for a favourite child,ii88
If there be prophets on whose spirits restvii5
If these brief Records, by the Muses’ artvii177
If the whole weight of what we think and feel,vii165
If this great world of joy and painvii336
If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven,vii175
If thou in the dear love of some one Friendii210
If to Tradition faith be duevii311
If with old love of you, dear Hills! I shareviii[95]
I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vainii323
I hate that Andrew Jones; he’ll breedviii[221]
I have a boy of five years old;i234
I heard (alas! ’twas only in a dream)vi198
I heard a thousand blended notes,i269
I know an aged Man constrained to dwellviii[186]
I listen—but no faculty of mine,vi326
Imagination—ne’er before content,vi88
I marvel how Nature could ever find spaceii208
I met Louisa in the shade,ii362
Immured in Bothwell’s Towers, at times the Bravevii299
In Brugès town is many a streetvii198
In days of yore how fortunately faredv67
In desultory walk through orchard grounds,viii[123]
In distant countries have I been,i279
In due observance of an ancient rite,iv241
Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood;ii343
Inmate of a mountain-dwelling,vi135
In my mind’s eye a Temple, like a cloudvii173
In one of those excursions (may they ne’eriii367
Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brakeviii[122]
In these fair vales hath many a Treevii269
In the sweet shire of Cardigan,i262
In this still place, remote from men,ii393
In trellised shed with clustering roses gay,iv102
Intrepid sons of Albion! not by youvi111
In youth from rock to rock I went,ii353
I rose while yet the cattle, heat-opprest,vi257
I saw a Mother’s eye intensely bentvii92
I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;i300
I saw far off the dark top of a Pine,viii[58]
I saw the figure of a lovely Maidvii74
Is Death, when evil against good has fought,viii[106]
I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,ii379
Is it a reed that’s shaken by the wind,ii331
Is then no nook of English ground secure,viii[166]
Is then the final page before me spread,vi382
Is there a power that can sustain and cheeriv228
Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill,viii[59]
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,vi263
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,ii335
It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown,ii376
It is not to be thought of that the Floodii347
It is the first mild day of March:i271
I travelled among unknown men,ii80
It seems a dayii70
It was a beautiful and silent dayiii311
It was a dreary morning when the wheelsiii168
It was a moral end for which they fought;iv217
It was an April morning: fresh and clearii154
I’ve watched you now a full half-hour,ii297
I wandered lonely as a cloudiii4
I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!iii54
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regretvi197
I, who accompanied with faithful pacevii4
I, whose pretty Voice you hear,viii[295]
I will relate a tale for those who loveviii[224]
Jesu! bless our slender Boat,vi301
Jones! I as from Calais southward you and Iii332
Just as those final words were penned, the sun broke out in power,viii[135]
Keep for the Young the Impassioned smilevi218
Lady! a Pen (perhaps with thy regard,viii[8]
Lady! I rifled a Parnassian cavevi211
Lady! the songs of Spring were in the groveiv58
Lament! for Diocletian’s fiery swordvii8
Lance, shield, and sword relinquished—at his sidevii20
Last night, without a voice, that Vision spakevii74
Let other bards of angels sing,vii121
Let thy wheel-barrow aloneii95
Let us quit the leafy arbour,vi153
Lie here, without a record of thy worth,iii50
Life with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun,viii[97]
Like a shipwreck’d Sailor tostvii328
List, the winds of March are blowing;vii331
List—’twas the Cuckoo.—O with what delight,viii[68]
List, ye who pass by Lyulph’s Towervii394
Lo! in the burning west, the craggy napevi377
Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as theyvi191
Long-favoured England! be not thou misled,viii[131]
Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn,viii[63]
Long time have human ignorance and guiltiii345
Lonsdale! it were unworthy of a Guest,vii392
Look at the fate of summer flowers,vii124
Look now on that Adventurer who hath paidiv228
Lord of the vale! astounding Flood;vi26
Loud is the Vale! the Voice is upiv47
Loving she is, and tractable, though wild;iv252
Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance,viii[132]
Lo! where the Moon along the sky,viii[88]
Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seenvii392
Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells,vi372
Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live,viii[147]
“Man’s life is like a Sparrow, mighty King!”vii16
Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood,iv278
Mark the concentred hazels that enclosevi71
Meek Virgin Mother, more benignvi318
Men of the Western World! in Fate’s dark book,viii[112]
Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defyvii68
Mercy and Love have met thee on thy road,vii7
Methinks that I could trip o’er heaviest soil,vii66
Methinks that to some vacant hermitagevii21
Methinks ’twere no unprecedented featvi255
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throneiv46
’Mid crowded obelisks and urnsii387
Mid-noon is past;—upon the sultry meadvi254
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:ii346
Mine ear has wrung, my spirit sunk subdued,vii104
Miserrimus!” and neither name nor date,vii201
Monastic Domes! following my downward way,vii100
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyesvii401
Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost,vii54
Motions and Means, on land and sea at war,vii389
My frame hath often trembled with delightvi250
My heart leaps up when I beholdii292
My Lord and Lady Darlingtonviii[298]
My Son! behold the tide already spent,viii[273]
Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree standsi109
Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove,viii[65]
Never enlivened with the liveliest ray,viii[150]
Next morning Troilus began to clearii264
No fiction was it of the antique age:vi241
No more: the end is sudden and abrupt,vii309
No mortal object did these eyes beholdiii381
No record tells of lance opposed to lance,vi258
Nor scorn the aid which Fancy oft doth lendvii18
Nor shall the eternal roll of praise rejectvii78
Nor wants the cause the panic-striking aidvii12
Not a breath of air,viii[146]
Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throwvi230
Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep;vi261
Not in the lucid intervals of lifevii402
Not in the mines beyond the western main,vii400
Not, like his great Compeers, indignantlyvi303
Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swellvii118
Not ’mid the World’s vain objects that enslaveiv210
Not sedentary all: there are who roamvii23
Not seldom, clad in radiant vest,vi175
Not so that Pair whose youthful spirits dancevi240
Not the whole warbling grove in concert heardvii169
Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew;vii372
Not to the object specially designed,viii[106]
Not utterly unworthy to endurevii55
Not without heavy grief of heart did Heiv236
No whimsey of the purse is here,viii[259]
Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright,iv282
Now that the farewell tear is dried,vi338
Now we are tired of boisterous joy,ii420
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,viii[116]
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;iv28
Oak of Guernica! Tree of holier poweriv245
O blithe New-comer! I have heard,ii289
O dearer far than light and life are dear,vii122
O’er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain,iv223
O’erweening Statesmen have full long reliediv247
O Flower of all that springs from gentle blood,iv235
Of mortal parents is the Hero borniv214
O for a dirge! But why complain?vii132
O, for a kindling touch from that pure flame,vi110
O for the help of Angels to completevi297
O Friend! I know not which way I must lookii345
Oft have I caught, upon a fitful breeze,vii373
Oft have I seen, ere Time had ploughed my cheek,vii163
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:ii99
Oft is the medal faithful to its trustiv77
Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer!v20
O gentle Sleep! do they belong to thee,iv42
O happy time of youthful lovers (thusiii24
Oh Bounty without measure, while the Graceviii[308]
Oh Life! without thy chequered scenevi315
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!iii35
Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech,viii[36]
Oh! what’s the matter? what’s the matter?i254
“O Lord, our Lord! how wondrously,” (quoth she)ii240
O Moon! if e’er I joyed when thy soft lightviii[235]
O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cotvi245
Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee;ii336
Once I could hail (howe’er serene the sky)vii152
Once in a lonely hamlet I sojournedii285
Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear,vii49
Once on the top of Tynwald’s formal moundvii366
Once to the verge of yon steep barrier cameviii[236]
One might believe that natural miseriesii431
One morning (raw it was and wet—ii270
One who was suffering tumult in his soulvi187
On his morning rounds the Masteriii48
O Nightingale! thou surely artiv67
On, loitering Muse—the swift Stream chides us—on!vi242
“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,”v23
On Nature’s invitation do I come,ii118
O now that the genius of Bewick were mine,ii60
On to Iona!—What can she affordvii379
Open your gates, ye everlasting Piles!vii105
O there is blessing in this gentle breeze,iii132
O thou who movest onward with a mindiv231
O thou! whose fancies from afar are brought;ii351
Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine,viii[109]
Our walk was far among the ancient trees:ii167
Outstretching flame-ward his upbraided handvii62
Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies,ii301
Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steepvii286
Pastor and Patriot!—at whose bidding risevii349
Patriots informed with Apostolic lightvii85
Pause, courteous Spirit!—Balbi supplicatesiv237
Pause, Traveller! whosoe’er thou bevi173
Peaceful our valley, fair and green;viii[259]
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side,ii238
“People! your chains are severing link by link;”vii290
Perhaps some needful service of the Stateiv230
Pleasures newly found are sweetii303
Portentous change when History can appear,viii[130]
Praised be the Art whose subtle power could stayiv272
Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springsvii45
Prejudged by foes determined not to spare,vii71
Presentiments! they judge not rightvii266
Prompt transformation works the novel Lore;vii17
Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old,viii[167]
Pure element of waters! wheresoe’ervi184
Queen of the Stars!—so gentle, so benign,viii[15]
Ranging the heights of Scawfell or Black-Comb,vii358
Rapt above earth by power of one fair face,viii[81]
Realms quake by turns: proud Arbitress of grace,vii32
Record we too, with just and faithful pen,vii39
Redoubted King, of courage leonine,vii31
Reluctant call it was; the rite delayed;vii323
“Rest, rest, perturbèd Earth!”vi95
Return, Content! for fondly I pursued,vi255
Rid of a vexing and a heavy load,viii[265]
Rise!—they have risen: of brave Aneurin askvii11
Rotha, my Spiritual Child! this head was greyvii171
Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seenii213
Sacred Religion! “mother of form and fear,”vi249
Sad thoughts, avaunt!—partake we their blithe cheervi253
Said red-ribboned Evans:viii[302]
Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud,viii[304]
Say, what is Honour?—’Tis the finest senseiv225
Say, ye far-travelled clouds, far-seeing hills—vii287
Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler’s net,vii64
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,vii163
Screams round the Arch-druid’s brow the seamew—whitevii6
Seek who will delight in fable,viii[172]
See the Condemned alone within his cell,viii[110]
See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built Cot,vii296
See, where his difficult way that Old Man wins,viii[83]
Serene, and fitted to embrace,vi117
Serving no haughty Muse, my hands have here,viii[102]
Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald,ii204
Shade of Caractacus, if spirits love,viii[309]
Shall he who gives his days to low pursuitsviii[257]
Shame on this faithless heart! that could allowvi214
She dwelt among the untrodden waysii79
She had a tall man’s height or more;ii278
She was a Phantom of delightiii2
She wept.—Life’s purple tide began to flowviii[209]
Shout, for a mighty Victory is won!ii436
Show me the noblest Youth of present time,vii181
Shun not this rite, neglected, yea abhorred,vii96
Since risen from ocean, ocean to defy,vii369
Six changeful years have vanished since I firstiii247
Six months to six years added he remained,viii[39]
Six thousand veterans practised in war’s game,ii435
Small service is true service while it lasts,viii[8]
Smile of the Moon!—for so I namevi163
So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive,viii[164]
Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Merevii405
Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that playedvi234
Son of my buried Son, while thus thy hand,viii[305]
Soon did the Almighty Giver of all restiv267
Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands,iv3
Stay, bold Adventurer; rest awhile thy limbsiv281
Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay,viii[38]
Stay near me—do not take thy flight!ii283
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!iii38
Strange fits of passion have I known:ii78
Stranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stonesii63
Stretched on the dying Mother’s lap, lies deadvii387
Such age how beautiful! O Lady bright,vii172
Such fruitless questions may not long beguilevi246
Surprised by joy—impatient as the Windvi72
Sweet Flower, belike one day to haveiii51
Sweet Highland Girl, a very showerii390
“Sweet is the holiness of Youth”—so feltvii59
Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane,viii[215]
Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!iv275
Sylph was it? or a Bird more brightvii319
Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, takevi233
Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,vii106
Tell me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold,vii125
Tenderly do we feel by Nature’s law,viii[104]
Thanks for the lessons of this Spot—fit schoolvii377
That happy gleam of vernal eyes,vii202
That heresies should strike (if truth be scannedvii10
That is work of waste and ruin—ii298
That way look, my Infant, lo!iii16
The Baptist might have been ordained to cry,viii[80]
The Bard—whose soul is meek as dawning day,vi112
The captive Bird was gone;—to cliff or moorvii371
The cattle crowding round this beverage clearvii348
The Cock is crowing,ii293
The confidence of Youth our only Art,viii[273]
The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love,viii[127]
The Danish Conqueror, on his royal chair,vi130
The days are cold, the nights are long,iii74
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;ii143
The doubt to which a wavering hope had clungviii[289]
The embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine,iv74
The encircling ground, in native turf arrayed,vii104
The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade;vi66
The feudal Keep, the bastions of Cohorn,vii360
The fields which with covetous spirit we sold,iii12
The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary;vii388
The forest huge of ancient Caledonvii304
The formal World relaxes her cold chain,viii[112]
The gallant Youth, who may have gained,vii281
The gentlest Poet, with free thoughts endowed,viii[141]
The gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plainsii378
The glory of evening was spread through the west;viii[217]
The God of Love—ah, benedicite!ii250
The imperial Consort of the Fairy-kingvi189
The imperial Stature, the colossal stride,vii166
The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim’s eyevi260
The Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moorii129
The Lake is thine,viii[263]
The Land we from our fathers had in trust,iv215
The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill,vii407
The leaves were fading when to Esthwaite’s banksiii222
The linnet’s warble, sinking towards a close,vii403
The little hedgerow birds,i307
The lovely Nun (submissive, but more meekvii52
The Lovers took within this ancient grovevii306
The martial courage of a day is vain,iv217
The massy Ways, carried across these heightsvii154
The Minstrels played their Christmas tunevi227
The most alluring clouds that mount the sky,viii[128]
The old inventive Poets, had they seen,vi251
The oppression of the tumult—wrath and scorn—vii13
The order’d troopsviii[234]
The peace which others seek they find;iii11
The pensive Sceptic of the lonely valev327
The pibroch’s note, discountenanced or mute;vii290
The post-boy drove with fierce career,ii273
The power of Armies is a visible thing,iv254
The prayers I make will then be sweet indeediii382
The rains at length have ceas’d, the winds are still’d,viii[233]
There are no colours in the fairest skyvii77
There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bearii431
There is a change—and I am poor;iv17
There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine,iii21
There is a little unpretending Rilliv53
There is an Eminence,—of these our hillsii162
There is a pleasure in poetic painsvii166
There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stonesviii[223]
There is a Thorn—it looks so old,i242
There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,ii370
There never breathed a man who, when his lifeiv232
“There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pridevii384
There’s George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,ii207
There’s more in words than I can teach:vii321
There’s not a nook within this solemn Pass,vii289
There’s something in a flying horse,ii3
There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffsii57
There was a roaring in the wind all night;ii314
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,viii[190]
The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die,viii[105]
The Sabbath bells renew the inviting peal;vii96
The saintly Youth has ceased to rule, discrownedvii61
The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest braeviii[270]
These times strike monied worldlings with dismay:ii432
These Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must liveii184
These vales were saddened with no common gloomviii[275]
The Sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo!iii58
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said,vi68
The sky is overcasti227
The snow-tracks of my friends I see,viii[219]
The soaring lark is blest as proudvii214
The Spirit of Antiquity—enshrinedvi290
The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand,vi210
The star which comes at close of day to shine,viii[307]
The struggling Rill insensibly is grownvi239
The sun has long been set,ii327
The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest;vii338
The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire,vii337
The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fieldsvi201
The tears of man in various measure gushvii60
The Troop will be impatient; let us hiei114
The turbaned Race are poured in thickening swarmsvii31
The unremitting voice of nightly streams,viii[187]
The valley rings with mirth and joy;ii138
The vestal priestess of a sisterhood who knowsviii[325]
The Vested Priest before the Altar stands;vii94
The Virgin Mountain, wearing like a Queenvii70
The Voice of song from distant lands shall callii338
The wind is now thy organist;—a clankvii288
The woman-hearted Confessor preparesvii28
The world forsaken, all its busy cares,viii[73]
The world is too much with us; late and soon,iv39
The worship of this Sabbath morn,viii[326]
They called Thee Merry England, in old time;vii343
They call it Love lies bleeding! rather say,viii[150]
They dreamt not of a perishable homevii107
The Young-ones gathered in from hill and dale,vii92
They seek, are sought; to daily battle led,iv253
They—who have seen the noble Roman’s scorn,viii[62]
This Height a ministering Angel might select:iv271
“This Land of Rainbows spanning glens whose walls,”vii299
This Lawn, a carpet all alivevii228
This Spot—at once unfolding sight so fair,viii[103]
Those breathing Tokens of your kind regard,vii217
Those had given earliest notice, as the larkvii46
Those old credulities, to nature dear,viii[60]
Those silver clouds collected round the sunvi199
Those words were uttered as in pensive moodiv37
Though I beheld at first with blank surpriseviii[115]
Though joy attend Thee orient at the birthvii299
Though many suns have risen and setvii148
Though narrow be that old Man’s cares, and near,iv69
Tho’ searching damps and many an envious flawvi343
Though the bold wings of Poesy affectviii[154]
Though the torrents from their fountainsii182
Though to give timely warning and deterviii[109]
“Thou look’st upon me, and dost fondly think,”vii347
Thou sacred Pile! whose turrets risevi333
Threats come which no submission may assuage,vii52
Three years she grew in sun and shower,ii81
Throned in the Sun’s descending Carviii[300]
Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove,viii[272]
Through shattered galleries, ’mid roofless halls,vii131
Thus all things lead to Charity, securedvii102
Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving muchiii153
Thus is the storm abated by the craftvii48
Thy functions are ethereal,vii204
’Tis eight o’clock,—a clear March night,i283
’Tis gone—with old belief and dreamvii192
’Tis He whose yester-evening’s high disdainviii[94]
’Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined,ii147
’Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfoldvi286
’Tis said, that some have died for love:ii178
’Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hillvii230
’Tis spent—this burning day of June!iii76
To a good Man of most dear memoryviii[18]
To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield;vi363
To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen,vi16
“To every Form of being is assigned,”v353
To kneeling Worshippers no earthly floorvii97
Too frail to keep the lofty vowii383
To public notice, with reluctance strong,vi40
Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men!ii339
Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throwvii293
Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thouvii387
Troubled long with warring notionsvi175
True is it that Ambrosio Salineroiv233
’Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high:v26
Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,iv61
Under the shadow of a stately Pile,viii[78]
Ungrateful Country, if thou e’er forgetvii81
Unless to Peter’s Chair the viewless windvii34
Unquiet Childhood here by special gracevii170
Untouched through all severity of cold;vii231
“Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away!”ii181
Up to the throne of God is bornevii408
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;i274
Up with me! up with me into the clouds!iii42
Urged by Ambition, who with subtlest skillvii26
Uttered by whom, or how inspired—designedvi306
Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest woodvi357
“Vallombrosa—I longed in thy shadiest wood”viii[76]
Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent,ii434
“Wait, prithee, wait!” this answer Lesbia threwviii[32]
Wanderer! that stoop’st so low, and com’st so nearviii[13]
Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot,viii[153]
Ward of the Law!—dread Shadow of a King!vi209
Was it to disenchant, and to undo,vi295
Was the aim frustrated by force or guile,vi184
Watch, and be firm! for, soul-subduing vice,vii10
“Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind;”vi67
We can endure that He should waste our lands,iv246
Weep not, belovèd Friends! nor let the airiv230
We gaze—nor grieve to think that we must die,viii[306]
We had a female Passenger who cameii342
We have not passed into a doleful City,vii383
Well have yon Railway Labourers to THIS groundviii[176]
Well may’st thou halt—and gaze with brightening eye!iv34
Well sang the Bard who called the grave, in strainsvii295
Well worthy to be magnified are theyvii84
Were there, below, a spot of holy groundi37
Were there, below, a spot of holy ground,i310
We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd,vii376
We talked with open heart, and tongueii91
We walked along, while bright and redii89
What aim had they, the Pair of Monks, in sizeviii[74]
What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled,vi237
What awful pérspective! while from our sightvii106
“What beast in wilderness or cultured field”vii47
What beast of chase hath broken from the cover?vi360
What crowd is this? what have we here! we must not pass it byiv22
What heavenly smiles! O Lady mineviii[177]
What He—who, mid the kindred throngvi29
What if our numbers barely could defyviii[87]
“What is good for a bootless bene?”iv205
“What know we of the Blest above”vi315
What lovelier home could gentle Fancy choose?vi294
What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret,vii340
What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay,iv276
What sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heardiii270
What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides,viii[92]
What though the Accused, upon his own appealvii223
What though the Italian pencil wrought not here,vi321
What way does the Wind come? What way does he go?iv50
What, you are stepping westward?”—“Yea.ii396
When Alpine Vales threw forth a suppliant cry,vii79
Whence that low voice?—A whisper from the heart,vi252
When Contemplation, like the night-calm feltiii201
When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morniv244
When first descending from the moorlands,viii[27]
When haughty expectations prostrate lie,vi192
When here with Carthage Rome to conflict came,viii[66]
When human touch (as monkish books attest),viii[34]
When I have borne in memory what has tamedii348
When in the antique age of bow and spearvii115
When, looking on the present face of things,ii433
When Love was born of heavenly line,viii[216]
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian islevii167
When Ruth was left half desolate,ii104
When Severn’s sweeping flood had overthrown,viii[314]
When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latchvi97
When thy great soul was freed from mortal chains,vii25
When, to the attractions of the busy world,iii66
When years of wedded life were as a dayvi43
Where are they now, those wanton Boys?ii281
Where art thou, my beloved Son,iii7
Where be the noisy followers of the gamevi380
Where be the temples which, in Britain’s Isle,vi45
Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends,vi217
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?iv41
Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed,viii[182]
Where long and deeply hath been fixed the rootvii43
Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weedsvii137
Where will they stop, those breathing Powers,vii314
While Anna’s peers and early playmates tread,vii169
While beams of orient light shoot wide and high,viii[156]
While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport,vi190
While from the purpling east departsvii146
While Merlin paced the Cornish sands,vii252
While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields,vi65
While poring Antiquarians search the ground,viii[33]
While the Poor gather round, till the end of timevii307
While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed,v283
“Who but hails the sight with pleasure”vi156
Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high,viii[184]
Who comes—with rapture greeted, and caress’dvii75
Who fancied what a pretty sightii374
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is heiv8
Who ponders National events shall find,viii[131]
Who rashly strove thy Image to portray,viii[29]
Who rises on the banks of Seine,vi104
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorcevi260
Who weeps for strangers? Many wept,viii[267]
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant,viii[12]
Why cast ye back upon the Gallic shore,vi378
“Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings—”vii161
Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle,vii343
Why should we weep or mourn, Angelic boy,viii[181]
Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled,vii108
Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine,vii361
“Why, William, on that old grey stone,”i272
Wild Redbreast! hadst thou at Jemima’s lipvii176
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!ii66
With copious eulogy in prose or rhymevii270
With each recurrence of this glorious mornvi194
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the sky,iv38
Within her gilded cage confined,vii142
Within our happy Castle there dwelt Oneii306
Within the mind strong fancies work,vi158
With little here to do or seeii358
“With sacrifice before the rising morn”vi2
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,iv40
Witness thou,viii[234]
Woe to the Crown that doth the Cowl obey!vii27
“Woe to you, Prelates! rioting in ease”vii49
Woman! the Power who left his throne on high,vii95
Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock,viii[303]
Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight,viii[151]
Would that our scrupulous Sires had dared to leavevii99
Ye Apennines! with all your fertile vales,viii[45]
Ye brood of conscience—Spectres! that frequent,viii[107]
Ye Lime-trees, ranged before this hallowed Urn,iv78
Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth!vi213
Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claimsvii377
Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace,iii381
Yes, if the intensities of hope and fearvii88
Yes, it was the mountain Echo,iv25
Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved,viii[176]
Yes, though He well may tremble at the sound,viii[111]
Ye Storms, resound the praises of your King!vi109
Yet are they here the same unbroken knotiv65
Yet many a Novice of the cloistral shade,vii53
Yet more,—round many a Convent’s blazing firevii51
Ye, too, must fly before a chasing hand,vii54
Ye torrents, foaming down the rocky steeps,viii[161]
Ye Trees! whose slender roots entwine,viii[82]
Yet Truth is keenly sought for, and the windvii76
Yet, yet, Biscayans! we must meet our Foesiv242
Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew,viii[157]
You call it, “Love lies bleeding,”—so you may,viii[149]
You have heard “a Spanish Lady”vii232
Young England—what is then become of Old,viii[180]
You’re here for one long vernal day;viii[284]

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