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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. V Illustrated by V (° Eiry/iii Ewabds. The Poet's Birth-place. Preluie VI. 1 Lo/d Ojs: E.jvloxoy, S<_y\c., Do n/ef^ Sjreet. i 87 THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [THE ONLY COMPLETE CHEAP EDITION.] EDITED, WITH A CRITICAL MEMOIR, BV WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTL ILLUSTRATED BY ARTISTIC ETCHINGS BY EDWIN EDWARDS. LONDON: E. MOXON, SON, & CO., DOVER STREET. If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet 1 in thy place, and be content : — The stars pre-eminent in magnitude, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin. No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge Of some dark mountain ; or than those which seem Humbly to hang, like twinkling winter lamps, Among the branches of the leafless trees ; All are the undying offspring of one Sire : Then, to the measure of the light vouchsafed, Shine, Poet 1 in thy place, and be content.

CONTENTS. Prefatory Notice by M. W. Rossetti xv POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. PAGE PAGE Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in anticipation of leaving School .... i Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps . . 5 Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the Shore, commanding a beautiful Prospect .... 12 Written in very early Youth 1 An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady 1 Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening ...... 5 Remembrance of Collins, composed upon Guilt and. Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain ..... 12 the. Thames near Richmond ... 5 The Borderers. A Tragedy . . 20 POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. My heart leaps up when I behold . . 45 To a Butterfly 45 The Sparrow's Nest 45 Foresight 45 Characteristics ofa Child three Years old 46 Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening ..... 46 The Mother's Return ■ 46 Alice- Fell; or, Poverty -. . 47 Lucy Gray ; or, Solitude .... 47 We are Seven 48 The Idle Shepherd-boys ; or, Dungeon- Ghyll Force.

A Pastoral ... 48 Anecdote for Fathers . . . . < 49 Rural Architecture ..... 50 The Pet-lamb. A Pastoral ... 50 To H. C. Six Years old .... 51 Influence of Natural Obj'ects in calling forth and strengthening the imagination in Boyhood and early Youth . . 51 The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter .. ... . .52 The Norman Boy ..... 52 The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy ...... 53 The Westmoreland Girl- Part 1 54 Part 1 1 54 POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS The Brothers 56 Artegal and Elidure 60 To a Butterfly 62 A Farewell ...... 62 Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence . . 63 Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Excursion .... 63 Strange fits of passion have I known . 63 She dwelt among the untrodden ways . 64 I travelled among unknown men . . 64 Ere with cold beads of midnight dew 64 To 64 The Forsaken 64 'Tis. said, that some have. died for love . 64 A Complaint 65 To-^- 65 Yes 1 thou art fair, yet be not moved . 6$ How rich that forehead's . calm expanse . .65 What heavenly smiles !

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Dedication. To .... 155 Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room ■ * 155 Admonition ...... 155 ** Beloved Vale I" I said, "when I shall con" 155 At Applethwaite, near Keswick . . 155 Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side . 155 There is a little unpretending Rill . . 156 Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat . 156 The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade 156 Upon the sight ofa Beautiful Picture . 156 " Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings" 156 Aerial Rock — whose solitary brow . . 156 To Sleep 156 To Sleep 156 To Sleep 157 The Wild Duck's Nest . . . .157 Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler" 157 To the Poet, John Dyer .... 157 On the Detraction which followed the publication ofa certain Poem . .157 PAGE Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend 157 To S. H 157 Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday . . 158 Decay of Piety 158 Composed on the eve ofthe Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812 . 158 From the Italian of Michael Angelo . 158 From the Same 158 From the Same.

To the Supreme Being 158 Surprised by joy — impatient as the Wind 158 Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne 159 Even so for me a Vision sanctified . . 159 It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free 159 Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go ? 159 With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh 159 The world is too much with us ; late and soon 159 A volant Tribe of Eards on earth are found 159 " Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind 159 To the Memory of Raisley Calvert . . 160

Part II

To Lady Beaumont 162 Scom not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned . 160 How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks 160 To B. R. Haydon . . . _ . .160 From the dark chambers of dejection freed 160 Fair Prime of life ! were it enough to gild 160 I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret 160 I heard (alas ! 'twas only in a dream) . 160 Retirement .... .161 Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell 161 Mark the concentred hazels that enclose :6i Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire . . . 161 Those words were uttered as in pensive mood ....... 161 While not a leaf seems faded ; while the fields, ... ... 161 How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright ....... 161 Composed during a Storm . . . 162 To a Snow-drop ..... 162 To the Lady Mary Lowther . . 162 There is a pleasure in poetic pains . . 162 The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said 162 When haughty expectations prostrate lie, 162 Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour ....... 163 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky ! ...... 163 Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress 163 The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand, ....... 163 Desponding Father! mark this altered bough 163 Captivity. — Mary Queen of Scots . 163 St Catherine of Ledbury .... 163 Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near, ...... 163 Four fiery steeds impatient ofthe rein . 164 Brook ! whose society the Poet seeks, . 164 Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 164 Pure element of waters ! wheresoe'er . 164 Malham Cove 164 Gordale ....... 164 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 164 Conclusion. To — .... 164

Part III

Though the bold wings of Poesy affect . 165 Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth ! 165 Shame on this faithless heart 1 that could To the Torrent at the Devil's Eridge, North Wales, 1824 . . . 166 In the Woods of Rydal . . . .166 allow 165 Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge . 165 On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third) 165 Fame tells of groves — from England far When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle . 166 While Anna's peers and early playmates tread ....... 166 To the Cuckoo 166 To 167 The Infant M M .. . . 167 To , in her seventieth year . . 167 To Rotha Q 167 A Grave-stone upon the Floor in tlje Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral . . . 167 away— 165 A Parsonage in Oxfordshire . . . 165 Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales 166 To the Lady E, B. and the Hon. Miss P. CONTENTS.

PAGE Hark ! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest 169 'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain 169 Oh what a Wreck ! how changed in mien and speech ! . . " . - • • ™9 Intent on gathering wool from hedge and bralje ,,,#••• *7° A Plea for Authors, May . . .170 Valedictory Sonnet 170 To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Master of Harrow School . . 170 To the Planet Venus .... 170 Wansfell ! this Household has a favoured lot • 170 While beams of orient light shoot wide and high . .... 171 In my mind's eye a Temple like a cloud . 171 On th? projected Kendal and Windermere Railway, . . . . . 171 Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in. times of old . .,.,,. 171 At Furness Abbey , . . . 171 At Furness Abbey 171 PAGE Roman Antiquities discovered at Eishopstone, Herefordshire .... 167 Chatsworth ! thy stately mansion, and the pride 167 A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire 168 Filial Piety 168 To the Author's Portrait . . . .168 Why art thou silent !

Is thy love a plant 168 To B.. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island ofSt Helena 168 A Poet .'—He hath put his heart to school 168 The most alluring clouds that mount the sky ....... 168 On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon 169 Composed on a May Morning, 1838 . 169 Lo ! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance 169 To a Painter ...... 169 On the same Subject .... 169 MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803. Departure from the Vale of Grasmere, August, 1803 172 At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after his "Death ..... 172 The Solitary Reaper" .... 175 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe 176 Rob Roy's Grave 176 Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence 173 To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave of their Father .... 173 Sonnet.

Composed at Castle . . 177 Yarrow Unvisited ..... 177 Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranky . . 178 The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband ,_,.;... I7S Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere- Ellen Irwin; or, the Braes of Kirtle . 174 To a Highland Girl 174 dale ! 179 The Blind Highland Boy . . .179 Glen-Almain ; or, the Narrow Glen. . 175 Stepping Westward 175 MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814. The Brownie's Cell 182 Effusion, in the Pleasure-ground on the banks ofthe Bran, near D unkeld . . 1S3 Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower . . . . . .183 Yarrow Visited, September, 1814 . . 184 POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERTY. I. PART Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 186 Great men have been among us ; hands that penned ...... 188 Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind, . 186 It is not to be thought of that the Flood . 188 Composed near Calais, on the Road leading, to Ardres, August 7, 1802 . . 186 When I have borne in memory what has tamed 188 I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain . 186 One might believe that natural miseries . 1S8 Festivals have I seen that were not names: 186 There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear 188 These times strike monied worldlings with On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic .. , 1S7 The King of Sweden .... 187 To Toussaint L'Ouverture . . . 187 We had a female Passenger who came . 187 dismay : ...... 188 England 1 the time is come when thou should'stwean 189 Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the.day of landing .... 187 Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood ; . 187 Tk i-_. __■ - n ■. .__ .1 ' _-- ■ ■ *.- ' When, looking on the present face of things, ....... 189 To the Men of Kent.

October, 1803 . 189 Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland ..... 187 Written in. London, September, 1802 . 188 What if our numbers barely could defy . 189 Lines on the expected Invasion. 1803 . 189 Anticipation. October, 1803 *. . . 189 Another year . — another deadly blow ! . 189 Milton ! thou sliould'st be living at this hour: T88 Ode. Who rises on the banks of Seine, . 190

PART II.

On a celebrated Event in Ancient History - -^ 190 To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing ofthe Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade . . . , , .191 Upon the same Event .... CONTENTS. IX PAGE A Prophecy. February, 1807 . . . 191 Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake 191 Go baok to antique ages, if thine eyes . 191 Composed while the Author was engaged in Writing a Tract, occasioned by the Convention of Cintra .... 191 Composed at the same Time and on the same occasion ..... 191 Hosier ....... 191 Advance — come forth from thy Tyrolean ground 191 Feelings of the Tyrolese .... 192 Alas ! what boots the long laborious quest 192 And is it among rude untutored Dales, . 192 O'er the wide earth,- on mountain and on plain . . ■ . . . 192 On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese 192 Hail, Zaragoza !

If with unwet eye . 192 Say, what is Honour ? — 'Tis the finest sense 192 The martial courage ofa day is vain . 192 Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight ...... 193 Call not the royal Swede unfortunate . 193 Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid 193 Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer 193 Ah ! where is Palafox ? Nor tongue nor pen 193 In due observance of an ancient rite . 193 Feelings of a Noble Biscayan -at one of those Funerals* .. .• .- . . 193 PAGE The Oak of Guernica .... 193 Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard . 194 Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind . 194 O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied . . / I54 The French and the Spanish Guerillas . 194 Spanish Guerillas ..... 194 The power of Armies is a visible thing . 194 Here pause : the poet claims at least this praise 195 The French Army in Russia . . . 195 On the same Occasion .... 195 By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze . . 195 The Germans on the Heights of Hockheim 195 Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright 195 Ode 1814. — When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch .... 196 Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien ..... 197 Occasioned by the Eattle of Waterloo .

J97 Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski 197 Occasioned. by the Battle qf W^terlop . 197 Emperors and Kings, how oft have .temples rung iy8 Ode 1815. — Imagination — ne'er before content 198 Ode. — The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. 1816 . 198 praise MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 182a Dedication ...... 202 Fish-women. — On Landing at Calais . 202 Bruges .- .- .. .- . . . 202 Bruges ....... 202 Incident at Bruges ..... 202 After visiting the Field of Waterloo . 203 Between Namur and Liege . . . 203 Aix-la-Ghapelle 203 In the Cathedral at Cologne . . . 203 In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine ....... 203 Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg . ... . . . . 204 The Source of the Danube .. . . 204 .On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen . . . . . . 204 The Fall of the Aar — Handec . . . 204 Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun ....... 204 Composed in One of the Catholic Cantons ........ 204 After -thought ...... 205 Scene on the Lake of Brientz . . . 205 Engelberg, the Hill of Angels . . . 205 Our Lady of the Snow .... 205 Effusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altorf . . . 205 The Town of Schwytz .... 206 On hearing the " Ranz desVaches"on the Top of the Pass of St Gothard . 206 Fort Fuentes ...... 206 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano ... . . 206 The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd. — Part 1 207 Part 1 1 207 The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria della Grazia — Milan . . .' . 208 The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820 . . . 208 The Three Cottage Girls .... . 209 The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan, now lying by the wayside in the Simplon Pass . 209 Stanzas, composed in the Simplon Pass . 209 Echo, upon the Gemmi ... . . 210 Processions.

Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny . 210 Elegiac Stanzas ..... 211 Sky-prospect — From the Plain of France 212 On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 212 After landing — the Valley of Dover . 212 At Dover . . .... . . 212 Desultory Stanzas . .... 2r2 MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837. To H. C. Robinson 214 Musings near Aquapendente . . .214 The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome . . 217 At Rome ....... 217 At Rome. — Regrets. — In allusion to Niebuhr and other modern Historians . 217 Continued ...... 21S Plea for the Historian .... 218 At Rome . 218 Near Rome, in sight of St . . 218 At Albano . . . ." . 2i8 Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove .. ...... . . 21S From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome 2r3 Near the Lake of Thrasymene . , 219 Near the same Lake .... 219 The Cuckoo at Laverna . .... 219 CONTENTS.

X PAGE PAGE Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines ...... 221 At the Convent of Camaldoli . . . 220 Continued 220 At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli 220 In Lombardy 222 After leaving Italy 222 At Vallombrosa . * . . 220 Continued .222 Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838 . . _ 222 At Florence 221 Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence . 221 The Pillar of Trajan . . . .222 The Egyptian Maid ; or, the Romance of the Water Lily . . 224 At Florence.— From Michael Angelo . 221 At Florence.— From M. Angelo . . 221 A SERIES OF SONNETS. THE RIVER DUDDON.

The Plain of Donnerdale . . . .231 Whence that low voice? — A whisper from the heart, 231 Tradition 231 Sheep-washing .... . 231 The Resting-place ..... 232 Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat . 232 Return, Content ! for fondly I pursued . 232 Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap 232 Journey renewed ..... 232 No record tells of lance opposed to lance 232 Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce ....... 232 The Kirk ofUlpha to the pilgrim's eye 233 Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep; 233 Conclusion , 233 After-thought 233 THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE ; or, The Fate of the Nortons — Dedication. 234 Canto I. ......... . 235 Canto II. . ... a . . 237 Canto III. 239 Canto IV. ...... 242 Canto V 243 Canto VI 245 Canto VII 246 To the Rev. Dr Wordsworth . . .228 Not envying Latian shades— if yet they throw 228 Child of the clouds 1 remote from every taint 229 How shall I paint thee 1— Be this naked stone • 229 Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take 229 Sole listener, Duddon ! to the breeze that played 229 Flowers 229 "Change me, some God, into that breathing rose I" 229 What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled 229 The Stepping-stones .... 230 The same Subject 230 The Faery Chasm 230 Hints for the Fancy 230 Open Prospect 230 O mountain Stream ! the Shepherd and his Cot 230 From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play 230 American Tradition 230 Return ...... . 231 Seathwaite Chapel ... . 231 Tributary Stream 231 ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.

Part I

— From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion. I n troduction 250 Conjectures ...... 250 Trepidation of the Druids . . . 250 Druidical Excommunication . . . 250 Uncertainty ...... 250 Persecution ...... 251 Recovery ....... 251 Temptations from Roman Refinements . 251 Dissensions ...... 251 Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians 251 Saxon Conquest 251 Monastery of old Bangor .... 251 Casual Incitement 252 Glad Tidings 252 Paulinus ....... 252 Persuasion ...... 252 Conversion 252 Apology 252 Primitive Saxon Clergy .... 252 Other Influences 252 Seclusion . 253 Continued 253 Reproof . 253 Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion .... 253 Missions and Travels .... 253 Alfred 253 His Descendants 253 Influence Abused 254 Danish Conquests ..... 254 Canute 254 The Norman Conquest .... 254 Coldly we spake.

The Saxons, overpowered 254 The Council of Clermont .... 254 Crusades 254 Richard I. 255 An Interdict ...... 255 Papal Abuses ...... 255 Scene in Venice 255 Papal Dominion ..... 255

Part II

— To the Close of the Teoudi.es in the Reign of Charles I. How soon— alas ! did Man, created pure 255 From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd 255 Cistertian Monastery .... 256 Deplorable his lot who tills the ground . 256 Monks and Schoolmen .... CONTENTS. XI PAGE PAGE Other Benefits . # _. . .256 Continued 256 Crusaders - • 256 Imaginative Regrets . . . 259 Reflections ...... 259 Reflections ...... 259 Translation ofthe Bible .... 259 The Point at issue ..... 259 As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest 256 Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root . 256 Tran substantiation 257 Edward VI. .... . . . 259 Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent .... 259 The Vaudois . . . . . . 257 Revival of Popery 260 Praised be the Rivers, from their moun- Latimer and Ridley ..... 260 Cranmer . . . . • . . 260 General View of the Troubles of the Retain springs 257 Waldenses 257 Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. . . 257 formation ...... 260 Wars of York and Lancaster . . . 257 English Reformers in Exile . . . 260 Elizabeth 260 Wicliffe 257 Corruptions of the higher Clergy . . 258 Abuse of Monastic Power . . . 258 Monastic Voluptuousness .... 258 Dissolution ofthe Monasteries . . 258 The same Subject 258 Eminent Reformers . 260 The Same . . .'.-.-. . 261 Distractions 261 Gunpowder Plot ..... 261 Illustration.

The Jung-Frau and the Fall ofthe Rhine near Schaffhausen . . 261 Continued ....... 258 Saints 258 The Virgin ...... 258 Troubles of Charles the First . • . 261 Laud ..... . 261 Apology 259 Afflictions of England . 261