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William Wordsworth
- Close sectionPoems either never printed by Wordsworth or not included in the Edition 1849–50
- I From the Alfoxden Notebook
- II Chaucer Modernised. The Manciple
- III Fragments from MS. M
- IV The Tinker
- V Translation of Ariosto
- VI Translations from Metastasio
- Close sectionVII Translations from Michelangelo
- VIII Come, Gentle Sleep
- IX Translation of the Sestet of a Sonnet by Tasso
- X Inscription for the Moss-hut at Dove Cottage
- XI Distressful Gift!
- XII On seeing some Tourists of the Lakes pass by reading
- XIII The Orchard Pathway
- XIV St. Paul's
- XV George and Sarah Green
- XVI Translation of Chiabrera's Epitaph on Tasso
- XVII The Scottish Broom
- XVIII Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt
- XIX Two Epigrams on Byron's Cain
- XX Epitaph
- XXI In the first Page of an Album by one whose Handwriting is wretchedly bad
- XXII Prithee, gentle Lady, list
- XXIII The Lady whom you here behold
- XXIV Composed when a Probability existed of our being obliged to quite Rydal Mount as Residence
- XXV Written in Mrs. Field's Album
- XXVI Written in the Strangers' Book at "The Station," opposite Bowness
- XXVII To the Utilitarians
- XXVIII Epigram
- XXIX [A Squib on Colonel Evans]
- XXX Inscription on a Rock at Rydal Mount
- XXXI Let more ambitious Poets
- XXXII With a small Present
- XXXIII Though Pulpits and the Desk may fail
- XXXIV The Eagle and the Dove
- XXXV Lines inscribed in a Copy of his Poems sent to the Queen for the Royal Library at Windsor
- XXXVI Ode on the Installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, July, 1847
Helen Darbishire and Ernest De Selincourt (eds), The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. 4: Evening Voluntaries; Itinerary Poems of 1833; Poems of Sentiment and Reflection; Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty and Order; Miscellaneous Poems; Inscriptions; Selections From Chaucer; Poems Referring to the Period of Old Age; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces; Ode-Intimations of Immortality (Second Edition)
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionEvening Voluntaries
- I Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose
- II On a high Part of the Coast of Cumberland
- III By the Sea-side
- IV Not in the lucid intervals of life
- V By the Side of Rydal Mere
- VI Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge - the Mere
- VII The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill
- VIII The sun has long been set
- IX Composed upon an Evening of extraordinary Splendour and Beauty
- X Composed by the Sea-shore
- XI The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love
- XII To the Moon: Composed by the Seaside,-on the Coast of Cumberland
- XIII To the Moon: (Rydal)
- XIV To Lucca Giordano
- XV Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high
- XVI Where lies the truth? Has Man, in wisdom's creed
- Close sectionPoems Composed or Suggested During a Tour, in the Summer of 1833
- I Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown
- II Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle
- III They called thee Merry England, in old time
- IV To the River Greta, near Keswick
- V To the River Derwent
- VI In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth
- VII Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle
- VIII Nun's Well, Brigham
- IX To a Friend: On the Banks of the Derwent
- X Mary Queen of Scots: Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington
- XI Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees' Heads, on the Coast of Cumberland
- XII In the Channel, between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man
- XIII At Sea off the Isle of Man
- XIV Desire we past illusions to recal?
- XV On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man
- XVI By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man
- XVII Isle of Man
- XVIII Isle of Man
- XIX By a retired Mariner: (A Friend of the Author.)
- XX At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man: (Supposed to be written by a friend.)
- XXI Tynwald Hill
- XXII Despond who will––I heard a voice exclaim
- XXIII In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag: (during an Eclipse of the Sun, July 17)
- XXIV On the Frith of Clyde: (In a Steamboat)
- XXV On revisiting Dunolly Castle
- XXVI The Dunolly Eagle
- XXVII Written in a Blank Leaf of MacPherson's Ossian
- XXVIII Cave of Staffa
- XXIX Cave of Staffa: (After the Crowd had departed)
- XXX Cave of Staffa
- XXXI Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the Cave
- XXXII Iona
- XXXIII Iona: (Upon Landing)
- XXXIV The Black Stones of Iona
- XXXV Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell
- XXXVI Greenock: per me si va nella Città dolente
- XXXVII "There!" said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride
- XXXVIII The River Eden, Cumberland
- XXXIX Monument of Mrs. Howard: (by Nollekens), in Wetheral Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden
- XL Suggested by the foregoing
- XLI Nunnery
- XLII Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
- XLIII The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her Daughters, near the River Eden
- XLIV Lowther
- XLV To the earl of Lonsdale. : "Magistratus indicat virum"
- XLVI The Somnambulist
- XLVII To Cordelia M––: Hallsteads, Ullswater
- XLVIII Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
- Close sectionPoems of Sentiment and Reflection
- I Expostulation and Reply
- II The Tables Turned: an Evening Scene on the same Subject
- III Lines written in early Spring
- IV A Character
- V To my Sister
- VI Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which he was concerned
- VII Written in Germany: on one of the coldest Days of the Century
- VIII A Poet's Epitaph
- IX To the Daisy
- X Matthew
- XI The two April Mornings
- XII The Fountain: a Conversation
- XIII Personal Talk
- XIV Illustrated Books and Newspapers
- XV To the Spade of a Friend (An Agriculturalist).: Composed while we were labouring together in his Pleasure-ground
- XVI A Night Thought
- XVII Incident: characteristic of a favourite Dog
- XVIII Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog
- XIX Fidelity
- XX Ode to Duty
- XXI Character of the Happy Warrior
- XXII The Force of Prayer: or, the Founding of Bolton Priory: a Tradition
- XXIII A Fact, and an Imagination;: or, Canute and Alfred, on the Sea-shore
- XXIV "A little onward lend thy guiding hand"
- XXV Ode to Lycoris.: May, 1817
- XXVI To the same
- XXVII September, 1819
- XXVIII Upon the same Occasion
- XXIX Memory
- XXX This Lawn, a carpet all alive
- XXXI Humanity
- XXXII The unremitting voice of nightly streams
- XXXIII Thoughts on the Seasons
- XXXIV To ––– : upon the Birth of her First-born Child, March, 1833
- XXXV The Warning: a Sequel to the foregoing
- XXXVI If this great world of joy and pain
- XXXVII The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn
- XXXVIII Ode: composed on May Morning
- XXXIX To May
- XL Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone
- XLI The foregoing Subject resumed
- XLII So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive
- XLIII Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album
- Close sectionSonnets Dedicated to Liberty and Order
- I Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day
- II Upon the late General Fast. March, 1832
- III Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud
- IV Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will
- V In Allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution
- VI Continued
- VII Concluded
- VIII Men of the Western World! In Fate's dark book
- IX To the Pennsylvanians
- X At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837
- XI Continued
- XII Concluded
- XIII Young England––what is then become of Old
- XIV Feel for the wrongs to universal ken
- Close sectionSonnets Upon the Punishment of Death: In Series
- I Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road from the South)
- II Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law
- III The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die
- IV Is Death, when evil against good has fought
- V Not to the object specially designed
- VI Ye brood of conscience––Spectres! that frequent
- VII Before the world had past her time of youth
- VIII Fit retribution, by the moral code
- IX Though to give timely warning and deter
- X Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine
- XI Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide
- XII See the Condemned alone within his cell
- XIII Conclusion
- XIV Apology
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems
- I Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.: From the South-west Coast of Cumberland. - 1811
- Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty Years after its Composition
- II Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase
- III Liberty: Sequel to the preceding
- IV Poor Robin
- V The Gleaner: suggested by a Picture
- VI To a Redbreast (in Sickness)
- VII I know an aged Man constrained to dwell
- VIII Sonnet to an Octogenarian
- IX Floating Island
- X How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high
- XI Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)
- XII To the Lady Fleming: on seeing the Foundation preparing for the Erection of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland
- XIII On the same Occasion
- XIV The Horn of Egremont Castle
- XV Goody Blake and Harry Gill: a true Story
- XVI Prelude: prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years"
- XVII To a Child: written in her Album
- XVIII Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale
- XIX Grace Darling
- XX The Russian Fugitive
- Close sectionInscriptions
- I In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire
- II In a garden of the Same
- III Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by him at the Termination of a newly-planted Avenue, in the same Grounds
- IV For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton
- V Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an Out-house), on the Island at Grasmere
- VI Written with a slate Pencil on a Stone, on the side of the Mountain of Black Comb
- VII Written with a slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal
- VIII In these fair vales hath many a Tree
- IX The massy Ways, carried across these heights
- X Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell. I. Hopes what are they? - Beads of morning
- XI II. Inscribed upon a Rock
- XII III. Hast thou seen, with flash incessant
- XIII IV. Near the Spring of the Hermitage
- XIV V. Not seldom, clad in radiant vest
- XV For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
- XVI On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
- Close sectionSelections from Chaucer: Modernised
- Close sectionPoems Referring to the Period of Old Age
- Close sectionEpitaphs and Elegiac Pieces
- Close sectionEpitaphs [I–IX] translated from Chiabrera
- I Weep not, belovèd Friends! nor let the air
- II Perhaps some needful service of the State
- III O Thou who movest onward with a mind
- IV There never breathed a man who, when his life
- V True is it that Ambrosio Salinero
- VI Destined to war from very infancy
- VII O flower of all that springs from gentle blood
- VIII Not without heavy grief of heart did He
- IX Pause, courteous Spirit!––Baldi supplicates
- I By a blest Husband guided, Mary came
- II Six months to six years added he remained
- III Cenotaph in affectionate Remembrance of Frances Fermor
- IV Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland
- V Address to the Scholars of the Village School of –––, 1798
- VI Elegiac Stanzas: suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont
- VII To the Daisy
- VIII Elegiac Verses: in Memory of my Brother, John Wordsworth
- IX Sonnet
- X Lines: composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Evening, after a stormy day, the Author having just read in a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was hourly expected
- XI Invocation to the Earth. February, 1816
- XII Lines: written on a blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem "The Excursion", upon hearing of the Death of the late Vicar of Kendal
- XIII Elegiac Stanzas: (Addressed to Sir G. H. B. upon the Death of his Sister-in-law)
- XIV Elegiac Musings: in the Grounds of Coleorton Hall, the Seat of the late Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart.
- XV Written after the Death of Charles Lamb
- XVI Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
- XVII Inscription: for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick
- Close sectionEpitaphs [I–IX] translated from Chiabrera
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- Close section
End Matter
- Close sectionAPPENDIX A Translations of Virgil's Æneid I, II, and III, and other passages
- Close sectionAPPENDIX B
- Close sectionPoems either never printed by Wordsworth or not included in the Edition 1849–50
- I From the Alfoxden Notebook
- II Chaucer Modernised. The Manciple
- III Fragments from MS. M
- IV The Tinker
- V Translation of Ariosto
- VI Translations from Metastasio
- Close sectionVII Translations from Michelangelo
- VIII Come, Gentle Sleep
- IX Translation of the Sestet of a Sonnet by Tasso
- X Inscription for the Moss-hut at Dove Cottage
- XI Distressful Gift!
- XII On seeing some Tourists of the Lakes pass by reading
- XIII The Orchard Pathway
- XIV St. Paul's
- XV George and Sarah Green
- XVI Translation of Chiabrera's Epitaph on Tasso
- XVII The Scottish Broom
- XVIII Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt
- XIX Two Epigrams on Byron's Cain
- XX Epitaph
- XXI In the first Page of an Album by one whose Handwriting is wretchedly bad
- XXII Prithee, gentle Lady, list
- XXIII The Lady whom you here behold
- XXIV Composed when a Probability existed of our being obliged to quite Rydal Mount as Residence
- XXV Written in Mrs. Field's Album
- XXVI Written in the Strangers' Book at "The Station," opposite Bowness
- XXVII To the Utilitarians
- XXVIII Epigram
- XXIX [A Squib on Colonel Evans]
- XXX Inscription on a Rock at Rydal Mount
- XXXI Let more ambitious Poets
- XXXII With a small Present
- XXXIII Though Pulpits and the Desk may fail
- XXXIV The Eagle and the Dove
- XXXV Lines inscribed in a Copy of his Poems sent to the Queen for the Royal Library at Windsor
- XXXVI Ode on the Installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, July, 1847
- Close sectionPoems either never printed by Wordsworth or not included in the Edition 1849–50
- NOTES
- INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
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Editor’s NoteEditor’s NoteXXV. WRITTEN IN MRS. FIELD'S ALBUMopposite a pen-and-ink sketch in the manner of a rembrandt etching done by edmund field
[Composed 1828–9.]
- That gloomy cave, that gothic nich,
- Those trees that forward lean
- As if enamoured of the brook—
- How soothing is the scene!
- No witchery of inky words
- Can such illusions yield;
- Yet all (ye Landscape Poets blush!)
- Was penned by Edmund Field.
Editor’s Note
p. 387. XXV. Written in Mrs. Field's Album, etc.: On Dec. 24, 1828, Barron Field wrote to W. asking him to write in Mrs. Field's Album; on Feb. 26, 1829, he wrote: "Mrs. Field thanks you for writing in her Album, and my Brother is very proud of your praise." Underneath W.'s lines in the Album B. F. wrote:
- Words inky! They're worth more than that,
- I can't let that go forth;
- The line that would detract from words
- Itself shews a Word's-worth.
