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THE
POPITICAL WORKS
OP
Part II 93 POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS
The Brothers 93
Artegal and Elidure 98
To a Butterfly 10 1
A Farewell 102
Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of
Thomson's Castle of Indolence 103
Louisa. After accompanying her on a
Mountain Excursion 104
Strage fits of passion have I known 104
She dwelt among the untrodden ways 104
I travelled among unknown men 104
Ere with cold beads of midnight dew 104
Tbe Forsaken 105
'Tis said, that some have died lor Ipve 105
A Complaint • • '•*
To — «o6
Yes ! thou art fair, yet be not moved 06
How rich that forehead's calm expanse 106
What heavenly smiles! O Lady mme 107
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the
Eve of a New Year 107
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian woman '08
The Last of the Flock log
Repentanee. A Pastoral Ballad no
The affliction of Margaret— m
The Cottager tf) her Infant « '»
Maternal Grief IW
Contents
I'Ar.M.
The Sailor's Mother 113
The Childless Father 113
Canto III 164 I Canto IV 165
POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.
Tliere was a Boy . .
To the Cuckoo. . .
A Night-piece
Aircy-force Valley.
Yew-trees
Nutting 170
The Simplon Pass 1 70
She was a Phantom of delight 171
Nightingale ! thou surely art 171
Three years she grew in sun and shower... 171
A slumber did my spirit seal 172
1 wandered lonely as a cloud 1 72
The Reverie of Poor Susan 172
Power of Music •••• 172
Star-gazers 173
Written in March, while resting on the
Bridge at the foot of Brother's Water. . . 174 Lyre ! though such power do in thy magic
live 1 74
Beggars 174
Sequel to the foregoing, composed many
Years after 1 75
Gypsies 175
Ruth 176
Resolution and Independence 178
The Thorn 180
Hart-leap Well i8«
Part 1 183
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Part II iS4
Song at the P'cast of Brougliam Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Cliffoid, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honors of his Ancestors 1 86
Lines, composed a few miles above Tmtern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the
WAc, during a Tour, July 13, 1798 1S7
1 1 IS no Sjiiit who from heaven hath flown. 189 t'lcnch Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement. Reprinted from " The Friend " 190
Y's, it was the Mountain Echo 190
I () a Sky-lark 190
Laodamia igi
Dion 193
The Pass of Kirkstone 195
To Enterprise 196
To — , on her I-'irst Ascent to the Summit of
Helvellyn 197
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long walks m the Country.. 198
PA OR.
Water fowl 198
View from the top of Black Comb 198
Tiie Haunted Tree- To — 199
The Triad i<^
The Wisliing-gate 202
The Wishing-gate destroyed 202
The Primrose of the Rock 203
Presentiments 204
Vernal Ode 205
Devotional I ncitements 2r/)
The Cuckoo-Clock 217
To the Clouds 208
Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise. 20q
A Jewish Family 2(i.j
On the Power of Sound 2 iq
PETER BELL. -A Tale-
Prologue ■2.\\
Part 1 216
Part II 2;^o
Part I
Dedication. To — 226
N- IS fret not at tlieir Convent's narrowroom 226
Admonition 226
"Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall
At Applethwaite, near Keswick 227
Pehon and Ossa fiourish side by side 227
There is a little unpretending Rill 227
Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat.. . . 227 The fairest. Brightest, hues of ether fad. ..227
Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture 228
•' Why, Minstrel, these unluneful murmur mgs
Aerial Rock — whose solitary brow 228
Tlie Wild Duck's Nest 229
Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler 229
To the Poet, John Dyer 229
On the Detraction which followed the publication of a certain Poem 230
Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend...
ToS. H
Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday
Decay of Piety '
Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale cf Grasm.cre, 1812
From the Italian of Michael Angelo
From the Same
From the Same. To the Supreme Being.
Surprised by joy — impatient as the wind..
Methought I saw the footsteps of a Throne
Even so for me a Vision sanctified
It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free..
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go ?
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
The world is too much with us ; late and soon
A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found
•' Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind."
To the Memory Raisley Calvert
Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned : 233
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks 234
From the dark chambers of detection freed. 234
1 watch, and long have watched, with calm
regret 234
I heard (alas ! 'twas only in a dream). . ... 235
Retirement 235
Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous s^'ell 235
Fair Prime of life ! were it enough to gild. 234 I Mark the concentrated hazels that enclose, jjj
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Composed after a Journey across the Hain-
bletoti Hills, Ytjrkshirc 235
Those words were uttered as in pensive
mood 236
VVliile not a leaf seems faded, wliilc the
fields 236
How clear, how keen, how marvellously
bright 236
Composed during a Storni 236
To a Snow-drop 236
Tf) the Lady Mary Lowther 237
To Lady Beaiunont 237
TluMt" is a pleasure in poetic paiiis 237
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said 237 Wlii-n haughty expectations prostrate lie.. 237 Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st
the sky ! 238
Pagb.
Even as a dragon 's eye that feels the stress 238 The stars are mansions built by Nature's
hand 238
Desponding Father! mark this altered
bough 238
Captivity. — Mary Queen of Scots 239
St. Catherine of Ledbury 23.)
Though narrow be that old Man's cares and
Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein 239'
Brook ! whose society the Poet seeks 239
Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 240
Pure element of waters ! wheresoe'er 240
Malham Cove 240
Gordale 240
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept.
Conclusion. To 241
Part III
Though the bold wings of Poesy affect. . , . Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming youth ! . . Shame on this faithless heart ! that could
allow
Recoilecfion of tiie Portrait of King Henry
F^ighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
On the Death of His Majesty (George
the Third)....,
Fame tells of groves — from England far
away—
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire
Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in
North Wales
To the I,ady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P., To the Torrent at the I)evirs Bridge,
North Wales, 1S24 '. .
In the Woods of Rydal
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle
While Anna's peers and early playmates
tread
To the Cuckoo
To
The Infant M M
To , in her seventieth year
To Rotha O
A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral
Romiii Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire
Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the jnidc
A TraHitioii of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, I )erbvsliire
Filial Piety
To the Author's Portrait
Why art thou silent ! Is thy love a jilant. .
To B. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of
Napoleon Bonaparte on the Island of St.
Helena 247
A Port ! — He hatli put iiis heart to school 247 The most alluring clouds that mount the
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
upon the field of Waterloo, by Haydon.. 247
Composed on a May Morning, 1S38 247
Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like
trance 248
To a Painter 248
On the same Subject 248
Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, unde-
prest 248
"Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain 24S
Oil what a Wreck ! how changed in mien
and speech 249
Intent on gathering wool from hedge and
brake 249
A Plea for Authors, May, 1838 249
Valedictory Sonnet • 249
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth,
D.D., Master of Harrow School 250
To the Planet Venus 250
Wansfell ! this household has a favored
lot
.••••-. ; 250
While beams of orient light shoot wide and
high 250
In my mind's eye a Temple like a cloud. . • 250 On the projected Kendal and Windermere
Proud were ye. Mountains, when, in times
of old 251
At Furness Abbey 251
At Furness Abbey 251
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M.EMOKIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803.
Page. tJ'epa.tu.e ?rom the Vale of Grasmere,
At the Gnive of Burns, 1803. Seven Years
after liis Death 252
Tl>i)Ut;hts suggested tbe Day following, on the Banks of Niih, nta. toe Poet's Residence , 253
To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the
Grave of their Father 254
Ellen Irwin ; or the Braes of Kirtle 254
To a Highland Girl 255
Glen-Almain ; or, the Narrow Glen 256
Stepping Westward 256
Pack.
The Solitary Reaper 257
Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch
Awe 257
Rob Roy's Grave 25S
Sonnet. Composed at Castle 259
Yarrow Unvisited 259
Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranky 2(kj
The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband 260
Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-
dale 261
The Blind Highland Boy 261
The Brownie's Cell 2651
Composed at Cora Liini, in sight of Wallace's Tower 266 1
Effusion, in tlie Pleasure-ground on the
banks of the Bran, near ])unkeld 266
Yarrow Visited, September, 18 14 26>»
POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND
LIBERTY.
PART I, Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1 802 2('>f)
Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind 269
Composed near Calais, on the Road leading
to Ardres, August 7, 1802 269
I grieved for Bonaparte, with a vain 270
Festivals have I seen that were not names. 270 On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 270
The King of Sweden 270
To Toussaiiit L'Ouverture 271
We had a female Passenger who came 271
Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the
day of landing 271
Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood 271
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of
Switzerland 271
Written in London, September, 1S02 272
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour 272
Great men have been among us ; hands
that penned 272
It is not to be thought of that the Flood.. 272 When I have borne in memory what has
tamed 272
One might believe that natural miseiies.. . 273 There is a bondage worse, far worse, to
bear • 273
Those times strike monied worldlings with dismay.
England ! the time is come when ihou
should'st wean 273
When, lookmg on the present face of things 274
To the Men of Keiit. October, 1803 274
What if our numbers barely could defy 274
Lines on the expected Invasion. 1803 274
Anticipation. October, 1S03 274
Another year !— another deadly blow ! 271,
Ode. Who rises on the banks of Seine... 275
PART II. On a celebrated Event in Ancient History 276
Upon the same Event 276
To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade 276
A Prophecy. February, 1807 276
Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake.. 277
Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes 277
Composed while tlie Author was engaged in Writing a Tract, occasioned by the
Convention of Cintra 277
Composed at the same Time and on the
same occasion 277
Hoffer 27S
Advance— come forth from thy Tyrolean
ground 278
Feelings of tlie Tyrolcse 27^
Alas! what boots the long laboiiou? quest 278
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And is it among rude untutored Dales. . . . 278 O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on
plain 279
On the Final Submission of the Tyrolesc 279
Hail, Zaragoza I 1{ with unwet eye 279
Say, what IS Honor? — 'Tis the finest sense. 279
'I'iie martial courage of a day is vain 279
lirave Schill ! by death delivered, take thy
flight 280
Call not the royal Swede unfortunate 280
Look now on tttat Adventurer who hath
paid 280
Is tliere a Power that can sustain and cheer 280 Ah ! where is Palafox ? Nor tongue nor
pen 280
In due observance of an ancient rite 280
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of
those Funerals 281
The Oak of Guernica 281
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard — 281
Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind 2S1
O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied 282
The French and the Spanish Guerillas 282
Pagb.
Spanish Guerillas 282
The power of Armies is a visible thing 282
Here pause : the poet claims at least this
praise 282
The French Army in Russia 283
On the same Occasion 283
By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze 283
The Germans on the Heights of Hockheim 2S4 Now that all l-,earts are glad, all faces
bright 284
Ode, 1814. — Wiien the soft hand of sleep
had closed the latch 284
Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke
d'Enghlen 286
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 286
Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski.. 2S6
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 280
Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples
rung 287
Ode, 1815. — Imagination — ne'er before content 2S7
Ode. — The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. 1S16 788
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820
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