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- 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
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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- 1Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
- 2To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
- pg 553While a fair region round the traveller lies
- 4Which he forbears again to look upon;
- 5Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,
- 6The work of Fancy, or some happy tone
- 7Of meditation, slipping in between
- 8The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
- 9If Thought and Love desert us, from that day
- 10Let us break off all commerce with the Muse:
- 11With Thought and Love companions of our way,
- 12Whate'er the senses take or may refuse,
- 13The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews,
- 14Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
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