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- Close sectionMemorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837
- TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON
- I Musings near Aquapendente. April, 1837
- II The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome
- III At Rome
- IV At Rome––Regrets.––In Allusion to Niebuhr, and other Modern Historians
- V Continued
- VI Plea for the Historian
- VII At Rome
- VIII Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter's
- IX At Albano
- X Near Anio's stream I spied a gentle Dove
- XI From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome
- XII Near the Lake of Thrasymene
- XIII Near the same Lake
- XIV The Cuckoo at Laverna. May 25, 1837
- XV At the Convent of Camaldoli
- XVI Continued
- XVII At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli
- XVIII At Vallombrosa
- XIX At Florence
- XX Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence
- XXI At Florence.––From Michael Angelo
- XXII At Florence.––From Michael Angelo
- XXIII Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines
- XXIV In Lombardy
- XXV After leaving Italty
- XXVI Continued
- XXVII Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838
- XXVIII The Pillar of Trajan
- XXIX The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily
Helen Darbishire and Ernest De Selincourt (eds), The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. 3: Miscellaneous Sonnets; Memorials of Various Tours; Poems to National Independence and Liberty; The Egyptian Maid; The River Duddon Series; The White Doe and Other Narrative Poems; Ecclesiastical Sonnets (Second Edition)
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Sonnets
- DEDICATION to ——
- Close sectionPart I
- I Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room
- II Admonition
- III "Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con
- IV At Applethwaite, Near Keswick
- V Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side
- VI There is a little unpretending rill
- VII Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat
- VIII The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade
- IX Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture
- X "Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings––
- XI Aerial Rock––whose solitary brow
- XII To Sleep
- XIII To Sleep
- XIV To Sleep
- XV The Wild Duck's Nest
- XVI Written Upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler"
- XVII To The Poet, John Dyer
- XVIII On the Detraction Which Followed the Publication of a Certain Poem
- XIX Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend
- XX To S. H.
- XXI Composed in One of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday
- XXII Decay of Piety
- XXIII Composed on the Eve of a Marriage of a Friend In the Vale of Grasmere, 1812
- XXIV From the Italian of Michael Angelo
- XXV From the Same
- XXVI From the Same. To the Supreme Being
- XXVII Surprised by joy––impatient as the wind
- XXVIII Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne
- XXIX November, 1836
- XXX It's a beauteous evening, calm and free
- XXXI Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?
- XXXII With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
- XXXIII The world is too much with us; late and soon
- XXXIV A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found
- XXXV "Weak is the will of Man, his judgement blind
- XXXVI To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
- Close sectionPart II
- I Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned
- II How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks
- III To B. R. Haydon
- IV From the dark chambers of dejection freed
- V Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild
- VI I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret
- VII I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)
- VIII Retirement
- IX Not Love, Not War, nor the tumultuous swell
- X Mark the concentrated hazels that enclose
- XI Composed After a Journey Across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire
- XII Those words were uttered as in pensive mood
- XIII September, 1815
- XIV November 1
- XV Composed During a Storm
- XVI To a Snow-drop
- XVII To the Lady Mary Lowther
- XVIII To Lady Beaumont
- XIX There is a pleasure in a poetic pains
- XX The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said
- XXI When haughty expectations prostrate lie
- XXII Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!
- XXIII "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky
- XXIV Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress
- XXV The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand
- XXVI Desponding Father! mark this altered bough
- XXVII Captivity.––Mary Queen of Scots
- XXVIII St. Catherine of Ledbury
- XXIX Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near
- XXX Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein
- XXXI Brook! whose society the Poet seeks
- XXXII Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream
- XXXIII This and the Following were Suggested by Mr. Westall's Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire
- XXXIV Malham Cove
- XXXV Gordale
- XXXVI Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
- XXXVII Conclusion. To –––
- Close sectionPart III
- I Though the bold wings of Poesy affect
- II Oxford, May 30, 1820
- III Oxford, May 30, 1820
- IV Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry the Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
- V On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third)
- VI June, 1820
- VII A Parsonage in Oxfordshire
- VIII Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
- IX To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P.
- X To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales, 1824
- XI In the Woods of Rydal
- XII When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle
- XIII While Anna's peers and early playmates tread
- XIV To the Cuckoo
- XV To –––
- XVI The Infant M––– M–––
- XVII To –––, in her Seventieth Year
- XVIII To Rotha Q–––
- XIX A Gravestone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral
- XX Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire
- XXI 1830
- XXII A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire
- XXIII Filial Piety
- XXIV To the Author's Portrait
- XXV Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
- XXVI To B. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena
- XXVII A Poet!––He hath put his heart to school
- XXVIII The most alluring clouds that mount the sky
- XXIX On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon
- XXX Composed on a May Morning, 1838
- XXXI Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance
- XXXII To a Painter
- XXXIII On the Same Subject
- XXXIV Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest
- XXXV Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain
- XXXVI Oh what a Wreck! How changed in mien and speech!
- XXXVII Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake
- XXXVIII A Plea for Authors, May 1838
- XXXIX Valedictory Sonnet
- XL To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D., Master of Harrow School
- XLI To the Planet Venus
- XLII Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot
- XLIII While beams of orient light shoot wide and high
- XLIV In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud
- XLV On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway
- XLVI Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old
- XLVII At Furness Abbey
- XLVIII At Furness Abbey
- Close sectionMemorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803
- I Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. August, 1803
- II At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after his death
- III Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence
- IV To the Sons of Burns after visiting the Grave of their Father
- V Ellen Irwin: or, The Braes of Kirtle
- VI To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond
- VII Glen Almain: or, The Narrow Glen
- VIII Stepping Westward
- IX The Solitary Reaper
- X Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe
- XI Rob Roy's Grave
- XII Sonnet. Composed at ––– Castle
- XIII Yarrow Unvisited
- XIV Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky
- XV The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband
- XVI Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!
- XVII The Blind Highland Boy. A Tale told by the Fireside, after returning to the Vale of Grasmere
- Close sectionMemorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1814
- Close sectionPoems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty
- Close sectionPart I
- I Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802
- II Calais, August, 1802
- III Composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7, 1802
- IV 1801
- V Calais, August 15, 1802
- VI On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
- VII The King of Weden
- VIII To Toussaint l'Ouverture
- IX September 1, 1802
- X Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing
- XI September, 1802. Near Dover
- XII Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
- XIII Written in London, September, 1802
- XIV London, 1802
- XV Great men have been among us; hands that penned
- XVI It is not to be thought of that the Flood
- XVII When I have borne in memory what has tamed
- XVIII October, 1803
- XIX There is bondage worse, far worse, to bear
- XX October, 1803
- XXI England! The time is come when thou should'st wean
- XXII October, 1803
- XXIII To the Men of Kent. October, 1803
- XXIV What if our numbers barely could defy
- XXV Lines on the Expected Invasion 1803
- XXVI Anticipation. October, 1803
- XXVII November, 1806
- XXVIII Ode
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- Close sectionPart II
- I On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History
- II Upon the same Event
- III To Thomas Clarkson, on the final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. March, 1807
- IV A Prophecy. February, 1807
- V Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake
- VI Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes
- VII Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra
- VIII Composed at the same Time and on the same Occasion
- IX Hofer
- X Advance––come forth from thy Tyrolean ground
- XI Feelings of the Tyrolese
- XII Alas! what boots the long laborious quest
- XIII And is it among rude untutored Dales
- XIV O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain
- XV On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese
- XVI Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
- XVII Say, what is Honour?––'Tis the finest sense
- XVIII The martial courage of a day is vain
- XIX Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
- XX Call not the royal Swede unfortunate
- XXI Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid
- XXII Is there a power that can sustain and cheer
- XXIII 1810
- XXIV In due observance of an ancient rite
- XXV Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals. 1810
- XXVI The Oak of Guernica. Supposed Address to the same. 1810
- XXVII Indignation of a High-minded Spaniard. 1810
- XXVIII Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind
- XXIX 1810
- XXX The French and the Spanish Guerillas
- XXXI Spanish Guerillas. 1811
- XXXII 1811
- XXXIII 1811
- XXXIV The French Army in Russia. 1812–13
- XXXV On the same Occasion
- XXXVI By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze
- XXXVII The Germans on the Heights of Hochheim
- XXXVIII November, 1813
- XXXIX Ode. 1814
- XL Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien
- XLI Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo, February, 1816
- XLII Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski, February, 1816
- XLIII Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo
- XLIV Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung
- XLV Ode. 1815
- XLVI Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving, January 18, 1816
- Close sectionPart I
- Close sectionMemorials of a Tour on the Continent. 1820
- Dedication
- I Fish-women.––On landing at Calais
- II Brugès
- III Brugès
- IV Incident at Brugès
- V After visiting the Field of Waterloo
- VI Between Namur and Liège
- VII Aix-la-Chapelle
- VIII In the Cathedral at Cologne
- IX In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine
- X Hymn for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg
- XI The Source of the Danube
- XII On approaching the Staub-Bach, Lauterbrunnen
- XIII The Fall of the Aar––Handec
- XIV Memorial near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun.
- XV Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons
- XVI After-thought
- XVII Scene on the Lake of Brientz
- XVIII Engelberg, the Hill of Angels
- XIX Our Lady of the Snow
- XX Effusion in the Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altdorf
- XXI The Town of Schwytz
- XXII On hearing the 'Ranz des Vaches' on the Top of the Pass of St. Gothard
- XXIII Fort Fuentes
- XXIV The Church of San Salvador seen from the Lake of Lugano
- XXV The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd
- XXVI The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria della Grazia, Milan
- XXVII The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820
- XXVIII The Three Cottage Girls
- XXIX The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan, now lying by the Way-side in the Simplon Pass
- XXX Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass
- XXXI Echo, upon the Gemmi
- XXXII Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny
- XXXIII Elegiac Stanzas
- XXXIV Sky-Prospect––from the Plain of France
- XXXV On being stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne
- XXXVI After landing––the Valley of Dover, November, 1820
- XXXVII At Dover
- XXXVIII Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the Preceding Sheets from the Press
- Close sectionMemorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837
- TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON
- I Musings near Aquapendente. April, 1837
- II The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome
- III At Rome
- IV At Rome––Regrets.––In Allusion to Niebuhr, and other Modern Historians
- V Continued
- VI Plea for the Historian
- VII At Rome
- VIII Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter's
- IX At Albano
- X Near Anio's stream I spied a gentle Dove
- XI From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome
- XII Near the Lake of Thrasymene
- XIII Near the same Lake
- XIV The Cuckoo at Laverna. May 25, 1837
- XV At the Convent of Camaldoli
- XVI Continued
- XVII At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli
- XVIII At Vallombrosa
- XIX At Florence
- XX Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence
- XXI At Florence.––From Michael Angelo
- XXII At Florence.––From Michael Angelo
- XXIII Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines
- XXIV In Lombardy
- XXV After leaving Italty
- XXVI Continued
- XXVII Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838
- XXVIII The Pillar of Trajan
- XXIX The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily
- Close sectionThe River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets
- To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth (with the Sonnets to the River Duddon, and other Poems in this Collection), 1820
- I Not envying Latian shades––if yet they throw
- II Child of the clouds! Remote from every taint
- III How shall I paint thee?––Be this naked stone
- IV Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take
- V Sole listener, Duddon! To the breeze that played
- VI Flowers
- VII "Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!"
- VIII What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled
- IX The Stepping-stones
- X The same subject
- XI The Faery Chasm
- XII Hints for the Fancy
- XIII Open Prospect
- XIV O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot
- XV From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play
- XVI American Tradition
- XVII Return
- XVIII Seathwaite Chapel
- XIX Tributary Stream
- XX The Plain Donnerdale
- XXI Whence that low voice?––A whisper from the heart
- XXII Tradition
- XXIII Sheep-washing
- XXIV The Resting-place
- XXV Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat
- XXVI Return, Content! for fondly I pursued
- XXVII Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap
- XXVIII Journey Renewed
- XXIX No record tells of lance opposed to lance
- XXX Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
- XXXI The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye
- XXXII Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep
- XXXIII Conclusion
- XXXIV After-thought
- Close sectionYarrow Revisited, and Other Poems
- to SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.,
- I Yarrow Revisited
- II On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
- III A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland
- IV On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland
- V Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a Storm
- VI The Trosachs
- VII The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute
- VIII Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive
- IX Eagles
- X In the Sound of Mull
- XI Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm
- XII The Earl of Breadalbane's ruined Mansion, and Family Burial-place, near Killin
- XIII "Rest and be Thankful." At the Head of Glencroe
- XIV Highland Hut
- XV The Highland Broach
- XVI The Brownie
- XVII To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star
- XVIII Bothwell Castle
- XIX Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton Palace
- XX The Avon
- XXI Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest
- XXII Hart's-horn Tree, near Penrith
- XXIII Fancy and Tradition
- XXIV Countess' Pillar
- XXV Roman Antiquities
- XXVI Apology
- The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons
- Close sectionEcclesiastical Sonnets. In Series
- Close sectionPart I. From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion
- I Introduction
- II Conjectures
- III Trepidation of the Druids
- IV Druidical Excommunication
- V Uncertainty
- VI Persecution
- VII Recovery
- VIII Temptations from Roman Refinements
- IX Dissensions
- X Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians
- XI Saxon Conquest
- XII Monastery of Old Bangor
- XIII Casual Incitement
- XIV Glad Tidings
- XV Paulinus
- XVI Persuasion
- XVII Conversion
- XVIII Apology
- XIX Primitive Saxon Clergy
- XX Other Influences
- XXI Seclusion
- XXII Continued
- XXIII Reproof
- XXIV Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion
- XXV Missions and Travels
- XXVI Alfred
- XXVII His Descendants
- XXVIII Influence abused
- XXIX Danish Conquests
- XXX Canute
- XXXI The Norman Conquest
- XXXII Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered
- XXXIII The Council of Clermont
- XXXIV Crusades
- XXXV Richard I
- XXXVI An Interdict
- XXXVII Papal Abuses
- XXXVIII Scene in Venice
- XXXIX Papal Dominion
- Close sectionPart II. To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I
- I How soon––alas! did Man, created pure
- II From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd
- III Cistertian Monastery
- IV Deplorable his lot who tills the ground
- V Monks and Schoolmen
- VI Other Benefits
- VII Continued
- VIII Crusaders
- IX As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest
- X Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root
- XI Transubstantiation
- XII The Vaudois
- XIII Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs
- XIV Waldenses
- XV Archbishop Chicheley to Henry V
- XVI Wars of York and Lancaster
- XVII Wicliffe
- XVIII Corruptions of the Higher Clergy
- XIX Abuse of Monastic Power
- XX Monastic Voluptuousness
- XXI Dissolution of the Monasteries
- XXII The same subject
- XXIII Continued
- XXIV Saints
- XXV The Virgin
- XXVI Apology
- XXVII Imaginative Regrets
- XXVIII Reflections
- XXIX Translation of the Bible
- XXX The Point at Issue
- XXXI Edward VI
- XXXII Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent
- XXXIII Revival of Popery
- XXXIV Latimer and Ridley
- XXXV Cranmer
- XXXVI General View of the Troubles of the Reformation
- XXXVII English Reformers in Exile
- XXXVIII Elizabeth
- XXXIX Eminent Reformers
- XL The Same
- XLI Distractions
- XLII Gunpowder Plot
- XLIII Illustration. The Jung-Frau and the Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhausen
- XLIV Troubles of Charles the First
- XLV Laud
- XLVI Afflictions of England
- Close sectionPart III. From the Restoration to the Present Times
- I I saw the figure of a lovely Maid
- II Patriotic Sympathies
- III Charles the Second
- IV Latitudinarianism
- V Walton's Book of Lives
- VI Clerical Integrity
- VII Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters
- VIII Acquittal of the Bishops
- IX William the Third
- X Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty
- XI Sacheverel
- XII Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design
- XIII Aspects of Christianity in America.: I. The Pilgrim Fathers
- XIV Aspects of Christianity in America: II. Continued
- XV Aspects of Christianity in America: III. Concluded.––American Episcopacy
- XVI Bishops and Priests blessèd are ye, if deep
- XVII Places of Worship
- XVIII Pastoral Character
- XIX The Liturgy
- XX Baptism
- XXI Sponsors
- XXII Catechising
- XXIII Confirmation
- XXIV Confirmation continued
- XXV Sacrament
- XXVI The Marriage Ceremony
- XXVII Thanksgiving after Childbirth
- XXVIII Visitation of the Sick
- XXIX The Commination Service
- XXX Forms of Prayer at Sea
- XXXI Funeral Service
- XXXII Rural Ceremony
- XXXIII Regrets
- XXXIV Mutability
- XXXV Old Abbeys
- XXXVI Emigrant French Clergy
- XXXVII Congratulation
- XXXVIII New Churches
- XXXIX Church to be erected
- XL Continued
- XLI New Church-yard
- XLII Cathedrals, etc
- XLIII Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
- XLIV The same
- XLV Continued
- XLVI Ejaculation
- XLVII Conclusion
- Close sectionPart I. From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion
- Close section
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- Close sectionAPPENDIX
- Close sectionSonnets, etc, not Included in the Edition of 1849–50; Some of them hitherto Unpublished
- I I find it written of Simonides
- II From the Italian of Michael Angelo
- III On Milton
- IV Through Cumbrian Wilds
- V Author's Voyage down the Rhine (Thirty Years ago)
- VI The Modern Athens
- VII A Poet to his Grandchild. Sequel to 'A Plea for Authors'
- VIII Protest against the Ballot (1838)
- IX On a Portrait of I. F. painted by Margaret Gillies
- X To I. F.
- XI [On a Portrait of I. F. ?]
- XII When Severn's sweeping flood had overthrown
- XIII Assigned to Wordsworth. Written in a Grotto
- XIV Just Vengeance claims thy Soul for Rights invaded
- XV Sonnet to a Picture by Luca Giordano
- Pelayo
- Close sectionSonnets, etc, not Included in the Edition of 1849–50; Some of them hitherto Unpublished
- NOTES
- Close sectionADDENDUM
- INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
- Close sectionAPPENDIX
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Editor’s NoteEditor’s NoteVIIat rome
- Critical Apparatus1They—who have seen the noble Roman's scorn
- 2Break forth at thought of laying down his head,
- 3When the blank day is over, garreted
- 4In his ancestral palace, where, from morn
- 5To night, the desecrated floors are worn
- 6By feet of purse-proud strangers; they—who have read
- 7In one meek smile, beneath a peasant's shed,
- 8How patiently the weight of wrong is borne;
- Critical Apparatus9They—who have heard some learned Patriot treat
- 10Of freedom, with mind grasping the whole theme
- 11From ancient Rome, downwards through that bright dream
- 12Of Commonwealths, each city a starlike seat
- 13Of rival glory; they—fallen Italy—
- 14Nor must, nor will, nor can, despair of Thee!
Editor’s Note
p. 215. VII. At Rome. "I have a private interest in this Sonnet, for I doubt whether it would ever have been written but for the lively picture given me by Anna Ricketts of what they had witnessed of the indignation and sorrow expressed by some Italian noblemen of their acquaintance on the surrender, which circumstances had obliged them to make, of the best portion of their family mansions to strangers." —I. F. (Anna Ricketts was a friend whose acquaintance W. had made through Sir Henry Taylor and Miss Fenwick.)
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… the Noble weak in scorn Stung by the
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9 some learned Patriot 1845: thy lettered sages MS., 1842
