The poetical works of William Wordsworth

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THE POETICAL WORKS Of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE, DORSET BUILDINGS, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. CONTENTS. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. TAGE PACE Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in anticipation of leaving School ....... 1 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 Eoat at Evening ...... 5 Remembrance of CoUins, composed upon the Thames near Richmond ... 5 Guilt and Sorrow ; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain ..... 12 The Borderers.

A Tragedy 20 POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. My heart leaps up when I behold . . 45 Rural Architecture ..... 50 To a Butterfly 45 The Pet-lamb. A Pastoral ... 50 The Sparrow's Nest ..... 45 To H. C. Six Years old .... 51 Influence of Natural Objects in calling Foresight . . . . . . -45 Characteristics of a Child three Years old 46 forth and strengthening the imagination in Boyhood and early Youth . . 51 Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening ..... 46 The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter 52 The Mother's Return .... 46 Alice Fell; or, Poverty .... 47 Lucy Gray ; or, Solitude ... -47 We are Seven ...... 48 The Norman Boy ..... 52 The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy ...... 53 The Idle Shepherd-boys ; or, Dungeon- Ghyll Force. A Pastoral ... 48 Anecdote for Fathers .... 49 The Westmoreland Girl — Part 1 54 Part II 54 54 POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS The Brothers 56 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year .... 66 Artegal and Elidure ..... 60 To a Butterfly ...... 62 The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman 66 A Farewell 62 The Last of the Flock .... 67 Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of indolence . . 63 Repentance.

A Pastoral Ballad . . 68 The Affliction of Margaret 68 The Cottager to her Infant . 69 Maternal Grief . ..... 69 The Sailor's Mother . .... 70 Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Excursion .... 63 Strange fits of passion have I known . 63 She dwelt among trie untrodden ways . 64 The Childless Father .... 70 I travelled among unknown men . 64 The Emigrant Mother .... 71 Ere with cold beads of midnight dew 64 Vaudracour and Julia .... 71 To 64 The Idiot Boy 74 Michael. A Pastoral Poem ... 77 The Widow on Windermere Side . . 81 The Forsaken 64 'Tis said, that some have died for love . 64 The Armenian Lady's Love ... 82 Loviog and Liking. Irregular Verses, addressed to a Child .... 83 Farewell Lines ..... .84 A Complaint 65 To 65 Yes ! thou art fair, yet be not moved . 65 How rich that forehead's calm expanse ....... 65 What heavenly smiles !

Part II

Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned ....... 160 To Lady Beaumont ..... 162 There is a pleasure in poetic pains . . 162 The Shepherd, lookingeastward, softly said 162 When haughty expectations prostrate lie, 162 Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour . . . . . . .163 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou clirrtb'st the sky ! ...... 163 Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress 163 The =tars 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 of the rein . 164 Brook ! whose societv 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 How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks ....... 160 To B. R. Haydon ..... 160 From ihe dark chambers of dejection freed 160 Fair Prime ofli.e ! 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 . . . . . . - 16 1 Mark the concentred hazels that enclose 161 Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire . . 161 Those words were uttered as iu pensive mood ....... 161 While not a leaf seems faded ; while the fields, ... ... 161 How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright i6t Composed during a Storm . . . i6i To a Snow-drop ..... 162 To the Lady Mary Lowther 162