The poetical works of Wordsworth, etc

Preface

. THE present Edition of Wordsworth includes almost the whole of his poems ; the few exceptions being the pieces which appeared in 1842, and (it may be) some posthumous ones. All his finest and best-known poems will be found in this volume, with his latest corrections up to a few years before his death. CONTENTS. 3)ubenilc pocni3. Memoir xxiii — xi TAGR Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, Composed upon Leaving School . i An Evening Walk ............ i Lines Written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening 6 Remembrance of Collins ........... 7 Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps . . 7 Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree 16 The Female Vagrant 17 Bcfernng to the of erijilohociif. My Heart leaps up when I behold 20 To a Butterfly 20 Foresight 20 Characteristics ofa Child Three Years old 21 Address to a Child during a Boisterous Winter Evening 21 The Mother's Return 21 Lucy Gray ; or, Solitude 22 Alice Fell ; or Poverty 23 We are Seven 23 Anecdote for Fathers 24 Rural Architecture 25 The Pet Lamb 25 The Idle Shepherd-Boys ; or Dungeon-Ghylt-Force 26 To H. C, Six Years old 28 Influence of Natural Objects 28 The Longest Day, Addressed to VI CONTENTS. $oems JpounlJclJ on the &ffeeti'ons.

PAGH The Brothers • . . 30 Artegal and Elidure 35 The Sparrow's Nest 38 To a Butterfly 38 A Farewell 38 Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's ' ' Castle of Indolence " - 39 Louisa 40 Strange Fits of Passion I have known 40 She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways . . 41 I Travelled among Unknown Men 41 Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew 41 To 41 'Tis said that Some have Died for Love 42 A Complaint 42 To ■ 42 How Rich that Forehead's calm Expanse 43 To 43 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Eve of a New Year . . . -43 The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman 44 The I-ast of the Flock 45 Repentance . 46 The Affliction of Margaret 46 The Cottager to her Infant .47 The Sailor's Mother 47 The Childless Father 4g The Emigrant Mother .g Vaudracour and Julia .q The Idiot Boy S2 Michael C7 The Waggoner g_ of the jFancg.

A Morning Exercise 71 To the Daisy _2 A Whirl-blast from Behind the Hill 7, The Green Linnet _ The Contrast __ This Moss-lined Shed, green, soft, and dry _. To the Small Celandine 7 . To the Same Flower 7- The Waterfall and the Eglantine -, The Oak and the Broom _g CONTENTS. VII PAGE Song for the Spinning Wheel 77 The Redbreast and Butterfly 77 The Kitten and the Falling Leaves 77 A Flower Garden . 79 To the Daisy 79 To the Same Flower 80 To a Sky-lark 80 To a Sexton 80 The Coronet of Snowdrops 81 Song for the Wandering Jew 81 The Seven Sisters ; or, the Solitude of Binnorie 81 A Fragment — The Danish Boy 82 The Pilgrim's Dream ; or the Star and the Glow-worm 82 Hint from the Mountains for Certain Political Pretenders . . . -83 Stray Pleasures ............ 84 On Seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp 84 Address to nay Infant Daughter 85 of the Imagination.

There was a Boy ... 86 To 86 To the Cuckoo 86 A Night-Piece 87 Water-fowl 87 Yew-trees 87 View from the Top of Black Comb 88 Nutting 88 She was a Phantom of Delight 89 O Nightingale I Thou surely art 89 ITiree Years She Grew in Sun and Shower 8g A Slumber did my Spirit Seal $0 The Hom of Egremont Castle 9° Goody Blake and Harry Gill 91 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 92 The Reverie of Poor Susan ' . • . -93 Power of Music • 93 Star-Gazers 9* The Haunted Tree 94 Written in March, while Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water 95 Gipsies 95 Beggars 95 tequel to the Foregoing 96 Jtuth . CONTENTS VIII PAGE Laodamia 99 Her Eyes are Wild, her Head is Bare 101 Resolution and Independence . . . Jo2 The Thorn i°4 Hart-Leap Well 106 Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle . 109 The Echo 112 To a Skylark 112 It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath Flown 112 French Revolution . . . . . . . . . . - ■ JI3 The Pass of Kirkstone 113 Evening Ode ............. 114 Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey 115 Peter Bell; a Tale 117 JWiseclIaneous sonnets.

To 129 Nuns Fret not at their Convent's Narrow Room ...... 129 Written in very Early Youth . . 129 Admonition ........... . . 130 Beloved Vale 130 Pelion and Ossa Flourish Side by Side ........ 130 There is a Little Unpretending Rill ......... 130 Her only Pilot the Soft Breeze the Boat !3o The Fairest, Brightest Hues of Ether Fade ....... 130 Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture ........ 131 Why, Minstrel, these Untuneful Murmurings — 13! Aerial Rock — whose Solitary Brow I3I To Sleep i3r To Sleep .............. jo! To Sleep .............. joi The Wild Duck's Nest I32 Written upon a Blank Leaf in " The Complete Angler " 132 To the Poet, John Dyer I32 On the Detraction which Followed the Publication of a Certain Poem . . 132 To the River Derwent ........... 102 Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland on Easter Sunday . . 133 Grief, thou hast Lost an Ever-ready Friend I,, Z°SH-; 133 Decay of Piety I3, Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend, in the Vale of Grasmere . 133 From the Italian of Michael Angelo t,.

From the Same j,. From the Same. To the Supreme Being ;<4 CONTENTS. IX PAGE Surprised by Joy — Impatient as the Wind 134 Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne 134 Weak is the Will of Man, his Judgment Blind 134 It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free 135 Where Lies the Land to which yon Ship must Go ? 133 With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh 135 The World is Too Much with Us ; Late and Soon 135 A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth are Found 135 How Sweet it is when Mother Fancy Rocks 135 Personal Talk 136 To R. B. Haydon, Esq 136 From the Dark Chambers of Dejection Freed 136 Fair Prime of Life ! were it Enough to Gild 137 I Heard (Alas! 'twas only in a Dream) 137 Retirement 137 To the Memory of Raisley Calvert • . -137 Scom not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have Frowned 137 Not Love, nor War, nor the Tumultuous Swell 137 While not a Leaf seems Faded, — while the Fields 138 How Clear, how Keen, how Marvellously Bright T38 Composed During a Storm 138 To a Snowdrop 138 Composed a Few Days after the Foregoing 138 To Lady Beaumont 139 To the Lady Mary Lowther 139 There is a Pleasure in Poetic Pains 139 The Shepherd Looking Eastward, Softly Said 139 Hail, Twilight, Sovereign of One Peaceful Hour ! 139 With how Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Sky 140 Even as the Dragon's Eye that Feels the Stress 140 Mark the Concentrated Hazels that Inclose 140 Captivity 14^ Brook ! whose Society the Poet Seeks 140 Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream . . 140 Pure Element of Waters !

Wheresoeer 141 Malham Cove '41 Gordale 141 The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her Daughters, near the River Eden '41 Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire . . . I4r These Words were Uttered as in Pensive Mood 142 Earth has not Anything to Show more Fair 142 Ye Sacred Nurseries of Blooming Youth 142 Shame on this Faithless Heart that Could Allow 142 Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry VIII. Trinity Lodge, Cambridge . 142 On the Death of His Majesty George II 1 CONTENTS. X PAGE Fame tells of Groves — from England Far Away '43 A Parsonage in Oxfordshire ..... ..... 143 Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales '43 To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P *43 To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales J44 Though Narrow be that Old Man's Cares, and Near '44 Strange Visitation ! at Jemima's lip '44 When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle J44 While They, Her Playmates Once, Light-hearted Tread 144 To the Cuckoo M5 The Infant M M 145 To Rotha Q 145 To 145 In My Mind's Eye aTemple, like a Cloud 145 If these Brief Records, by the Muses' Art 14& JNemorials of a ©out in £bcotlan&. 1803.

Departure from the Vale of Grasmere I4"j To the Sons of Burns, after Visiting the Grave of their Father .... 146 Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle 147 To a Highland Girl 147 Glen-Almain, or the Narrow Glen 148 Stepping Westward 149 The Solitary Reaper 149 Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe ....... 149 Rob Roy's Grave 150 Composed at Castle 151 Yarrow Unvisited 151 In the Pass of Killicrankie 152 The Matron of Jedburgh and her Husband 152 Fly, some Kind Spirit, Fly to Grasmere-dale 153 The Blind Highland Boy 153 JNemorials of a ©our in Sbcotlanlr, i8i4- The Brownie's Cell H6 Composed at Corra Linn 157 Effusion in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld . 158 Yirrow Visited CONTENTS. 3pocms on the Naming of places. PAGE It was an April Morning ; Fresh and Clear l6° To Joanna l6r There is an Eminence, — of these our Hills 162 A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags 162 To M. H l63 When, to the Attractions of the Busy World 163 Inscriptions.

The Embowering Rose, the Acacia, and the Pine l65 Oft is the Medal Faithful to its Trust l65 Ye Lime-trees, Ranged before this Hallowed Um i°5 Beneath Yon Eastern Ridge, the Craggy bound '66 Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast Seen '** Stay, Bold Adventurer ; Rest a while thy Limbs '66 Stranger ! this Hillock of Mis-shapen Stones l67 Hopes What are They?— Beads of Morning l67 Pause, Traveller ! Whosoe'er Thou be l68 Troubled Long with Warring Notions l68 Not Seldom Clad in Radiant Vest l68 Stranger! this Shapeless Heap of Stones and Earth l63 sonnets Hktitcatcti to Htbcrtp. Fair Star of Evening, Splendour of the West lfr9 Is it a Reed that's Shaken by the Wind lfr9 Tones ! While from Calais Southward You and I J°9 I Grieved for Bonaparte, with a Vain l°' Festivals Have I Seen that were not Names 17° Once did She Hold the Gorgeous East in Fee x7° The Voice of Song from Distant Lands shall Call '7° Toussaint, the most Unhappy Man of Men 17° Driven from the Soil of France, a Female Came J7° Here, on our Native Soil we Breathe Once More '71 Inland, Within a Hollow Vale I Stood ' Two Voices are There!

One is of the Sea O Friend ! I Know not which Way I Must Look '71 Milton ! Thou Shouldst be Living at this Hour . . ■ • • l7z Great Men have been Among Us ; Hands that Penned I7I CONTENTS. PAGE It is not to be Thought of that the Flood *72 When I have Borne in Memory what has Tamed J72 One Might Believe that Natural Miseries x72 There is a Bondage Worse, Far Worse lo Bear '72 These Times Touch Moneyed Worldlings with Dismay x72 England ! the Time is Come when Thou shouldst Wean . . . . 172 When Looking on the Present Face of Things . ...... J73 Vanguard of Liberty, Ye Men of Kent *73 Shout, for a Mighty Victory is Won *73 Another Year ! another Deadly Blow x73 Ode— Who Rises on the Banks of Seine J73 A Roman Master Stands on Grecian Ground J74 When, Far and Wide, Swift as the Beams of Morn 174 Clarkson 1 It was an Obstinate Hill to Climb . . . . • • *75 High Deeds, O Germans, are to Come from You '75 Clouds, Lingering Yet, Extend in Solid Bars '75 Go Back to Antique Ages, if Thine Eyes J75 Not 'Mid the World's Vain Objects ! that Enslave 175 I Dropped My Pen ; and Listened to the Wind '75 Of Mortal Parents is the Hero Born '7°" Advance— Come Forth from Thy Tyrolean Ground 176 The Land We from Our Fathers Had in Trust 176 Alas !

What Boots the Long, Laborious Quest 176 And is it Among Rude Untutored Dales !76 O'er the Wide Earth on Mountain and on Plain ... . 177 On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese 177 Say, what is Honour ? — 'Tis the Finest Sense 177 The Martial Courage of a Day is Vain 177 Call not the Royal Swede Unfortunate 178 Look now on that Adventurer who hath Paid 178 Is there a Power that can Sustain and Cheer 178 Ah I where is Palafox ? Nor Tongue nor Pen 178 In Due Observance of an Ancient Rite 178 Yet, yet, Biscayans ! we must Meet our Foes 179 Oak of Guernica ! Tree of Holier Power 179 We can Endure that He should Waste our Lands 179 Avaunt all Specious Pliancy of Mind 179 O'erweening Statesmen have full long Relied 179 Hunger, and Sultry Heat, and Nipping Blast 180 They Seek, are Sought ; to Daily Battle Led 180 The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing 180 Here Pause : the Poet Claims at Least this Praise 180 Humanity, Delighting to Behold 180 Ye Storms, Resound the Praises of your King iS-t Abruptly Paused the Strife ;— the Field throughout 181 Now that all Hearts are Glad, all Faces Bright 1&2 Dear Reliques ! from a Pit of Vilest Mould .

CONTENTS. XIII PAGE Intrepid Sons of Albion ! not by You 182 Oh ! for a Kindling Touch of that Pure Flame 182 The Bard, whose Soul is Meek as Dawning Day 182 Emperors and Kings, how oft have Temples Rung 183 Ode— When the Soft Hand of Sleep had Closed the Latch . . . .183 Thanksgiving Ode 184 iftlcmort'als of a ©our on tfje Continent. 1820. Fish-Women on Landing at Calais 190 Bruges 190 Bruges 191 After Visiting the Field of Waterloo 191 Scenery between Namur and Liege . . 191 Aix-la-Chapelle ............ 191 In the Cathedral at Cologne .......... 192 In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine ....... 192 Hymn, for the Boatmen as they Approach the Rapids, under the Castle of Heidelberg . ........... 192 The Source of the Danube 192 Memorial near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun 193 Composed in One of the Catholic Cantons of Switzerland .... 193 On Approaching the Staub-Bach, Lauterbrunnen 193 The Fall of the Aar.— Handec .194 Scene on the Lake of Brientz 19^ Engelberg, the Hill of Angels 194 Our Lady of the Snow 194 Effusion in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altore .... 195 The Town of Schwytz 195 On Hearing the " Ranz des Vaches" on the Top of the Pass of St. Gothard . 193 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano . . . .195 Fort Fuentes 196 The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd 197 The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci '98 The Eclipse of the Sun. 1820 198 The Three Cottage Girls '99 The Column, intended by Bonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan . . 200 Stanzas Composed in the Simplon Pass 200 Echo upon the Gemmi 200 Processions.

Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny . 201 Elegiac Stanzas 2°2 Sky-Prospect. From the Plain of France 203 On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 2°3 After Landing. The Valley of Dover ao3 Desultory Stanzas, upon Receiving the Preceding Sheets from the Press . . 203 To Enterprise . . CONTENTS. XIV (Ecclesiastical Sbfectcfjes.

Introduction

OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN, TO THE CONSUMMATION

OF THE PAPAL DOMINION. PAGE Introduction 207 Conjectures 207 Trepidation of the Druids 208 Druidical Excommunication 208 Uncertainty 208 Persecution 208 Recovery 209 Temptations from Roman Refinements 209 Dissensions . 209 Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians 209 Saxon Conquest ............ 209 Monastery of Old Bangor 210 Casual Incitement ............ 210 Glad Tidings 210 Paulinus 2ro Persuasion 211 Conversion 211 Apology 211 Primitive Saxon Clergy 211 Other Influences ;.... 212 Seclusion .............. 21a Reproof 212 Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion .... 212 Missions and Travels 213 Alfred 213 His Descendants 2I, Influence Abused 2I, Danish Conquests , 213 Canute 214 The Norman Conquest \ 214 The Council of Clermont 214 Crusades 2I, Richard I. 2IA An Interdict „.- nn lnieruict , . . . , . . . , t t . 21s Papal Abuses 2I_ rapai -Mouses . . . . . . . . . , # # .21- Scene in Venice „Tocene in vemce . a , .211; Papal Dominion m m 2I„ 2IS CONTENTS. XV

Part II. To The Close Of The Troubles In The Reign Of

CHARLES I. PAGE Cistertian Monastery 215 Monks and Schoolmen 216 Other Benefits 216 Crusaders 216 Transubstantiation 216 Waldenses 217 Archbishop Chicheley to Henry V 217 Wars of York and Lancaster 217 Wicliffe 217 Corruptions of the Higher Clergy 218 Abuse of Monastic Power 218 Monastic Voluptuousness 218 Dissolution of the Monasteries 218 Saints 219 The Virgin 219 Apology 219 Imaginative Regrets 219 Reflections 219 Translation of the Bible 220 The Point at Issue 220 Edward VI 220 Edward Signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent . . . 220 Revival of Popery 220 Latimer and Ridley 221 Cranmer 221 General View of the Troubles of the Reformation 221 English Reformers in Exile 221 Elizabeth 222 Eminent Reformers 222 Distractions 222 Gunpowder Plot 223 Illustration 223 Troubles of Charles the First 223 Laud «3 Afflictions of England a»4