Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 1

by William Wordsworth

To face the title, Vol. 1.

Engraved by J. C. Bromley, from a picture by Sir George Beaumont Bar ^t.

vide p. 14.

London: Published by Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. March 1, 1815.

POEMS

BY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:

INCLUDING

LYRICAL BALLADS,

AND THE

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR.

WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS,

A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY.

 

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

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VOL. I.

 

 

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

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1815.

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T. DAVISON, Lombard-street,
Whitefriars, London.

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Dedication

Preface

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

 

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POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD.
Page		Com­posed	Pub­lished
3	My heart leaps up		1807
4	To a Butterfly		1807
5	Foresight		1807
7	Characteristics of a Child
8	Address to a Child
11	The Mother's return
14	Lucy Gray		1800
18	Alice Fell		1807
22	We are Seven		1798
26	Anecdote for Fathers		1798
30	Rural Architecture		1800
32	The Pet Lamb		1800
37	The Idle Shepherd Boys		1800
42	To H. C.		1807
44	Influence of Natural objects		1810
48	The Blind Highland Boy		1807
	JUVENILE PIECES.
63	Extract from a Poem on leaving School	1786
64	—from An Evening Walk		1793
70	——Descriptive Sketches		1793
85	Female Vagrant	1793	1798
POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS.
95	The Brothers		1800
115	The Sparrow's Nest		1807
116	To a Butterfly		1807
117	Farewell thou little Nook	1802
121	Written in my Pocket Copy of the Castle of Indolence	1802
125	Ellen Irwin		1800
128	Strange fits of passion		1800
132	I met Louisa		1807
134	'Tis said that some		1800
137	The Complaint of an Indian		1798
141	The last of the Flock		1798
147	A Complaint		1807
148	Ruth		1800
160	The Cottager to her Infant
161	The Sailor's Mother		1800
163	The Childless Father		1800
165	The Affliction of ——		1807
169	Once in a lonely Hamlet		1807
175	Her eyes are wild		1798
179	The Idiot Boy		1798
203	Michael, a Pastoral Poem		1800
225	Laodamia
	POEMS OF THE FANCY.
235	To the Daisy		1807
240	A whirl-blast		1800
242	With how sad steps		1807
243	The Green Linnet		1807
245	To the small Celandine		1807
248	To the same Flower		1807
251	The Waterfall and the Eglantine		1800
255	The Oak and the Broom		1800
261	The Redbreast and the Butterfly		1807
263	To the Daisy		1807
266	To the same Flower		1807
268	To a Sky-lark		1807
270	To a Sexton		1800
272	Who fancied what a pretty sight		1807
273	Song for the Wandering Jew		1800
275	The seven Sisters		1807
279	By their floating Mill		1807
281	The Kitten and falling Leaves		1807
287	A Fragment		1800
290	Address to my Infant Daughter	1804
	POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.
297	There was a Boy		1800
299	To the Cuckoo		1807
301	A Night Piece
303	Yew Trees
305	View from the Top of Black Comb
307	Nutting		1800
310	She was a Phantom		1807
312	O Nightingale		1807
313	Three Years she grew		1800
315	A slumber		1800
316	The Horn of Egremont Castle		1807
322	Goody Blake and Harry Gill		1798
328	I wandered lonely		1807
330	Reverie of Poor Susan		1800
331	Power of Music		1807
334	Stepping Westward	1803	1807
336	Glen Almain	1803	1807

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

 

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POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION CONTINUED.
Page		Com­posed	Pub­lished
3	To a Highland Girl	1803	1807
7	The Solitary Reaper	1803	1807
9	The Cock is crowing		1807
11	Gipsies		1807
13	Beggars		1807
16	Yarrow Unvisited	1803	1807
20	Yarrow Visited	1814
24	Star Gazers		1807
27	Resolution and Independence		1807
35	The Thorn		1798
47	Hart-leap well		1800
58	Song at the Feast of Brougham		1807
67	Yes! full surely		1807
69	French Revolution		1810
72	It is no Spirit		1807
73	Tintern Abbey		1798
	POEMS PROCEEDING FROM SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.
81	Lines left upon a Seat, &c.	1795	1798
87	Character of the Happy Warrior		1807
91	Rob Roy's Grave	1803	1807
98	A Poet's Epitaph		1800
102	Expostulation and Reply		1798
104	The Tables Turned		1798
106	To the Sons of Burns	1803	1807
108	To the Spade of a Friend		1807
110	Written in Germany	1798	1800
113	Lines written at a small distance from my House, &c.		1798
116	To a Young Lady who had been reproached for taking long walks, &c.		1807
117	Lines written in early spring		1798
119	Simon Lee		1798
124	Andrew Jones		1800
126	Lines written on a Tablet in a School		1800
128	The two April mornings		1800
132	The Fountain		1800
136	Lines written in a Boat		1798
137	Remembrance of Collins		1798
139	I am not one of those, &c.		1807
142	Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog		1807
141	Tribute to the memory of the same Dog		1807
146	The Force of Prayer, or the Founding of Bolton Abbey	1808
150	Fidelity		1807
154	Ode to Duty		1807
	MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
159	Prefatory Sonnet		1807
160	Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture
161	The fairest, brightest
162	Weak is the will of Man
163	Hail Twilight
164	The Shepherd looking eastward
165	How sweet it is, when		1807
166	Where lies the Land		1807
167	Even as a dragon's eye
168	Mark the concentred
169	Composed after a journey across the Hamilton Hills	1802	1807
170	These words		1807
171	Degenerate Douglas		1807
172	To the Poet Dyer
173	To Sleep		1807
174	To Sleep		1807
175	To Sleep		1807
176	With Ships		1807
177	To the River Duddon		1807
178	From the Italian of M. Angelo
179	From the same
180	From the same
181	To the Lady ——		1807
182	The World is too much with		1807
183	Written in very early Youth
184	Composed on Westminster bridge		1807
185	Pelion and Ossa		1807
186	Brook whose
187	Admonition		1807
188	Beloved Vale		1807
189	Methought I saw		1807
191	Surprized by joy
191	It is a beauteous		1807
192	Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend
193	On approaching Home	1803
194	To ———
195	To Raisley Calvert		1807
	SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. FIRST PART. Published in 1807.
199	Composed by the Sea shore near Calais
200	Calais
201	To a Friend
202	I grieved for Buonaparte
203	Festivals have I seen
204	On the extinction of the Venetian Republic
205	The King of Sweden
206	To Toussaint L'Ouverture
207	We had a Fellow-passenger
208	Composed in the Valley near Dover
209	Inland, within a hollow Vale
210	Thought of a Briton, &c.
211	Written in London
212	Milton!——
213	Great Men have been
214	It is not to be thought of
215	When I have borne
216	One might believe
217	There is a bondage
218	These times
219	England! the time is come
220	When looking
221	To the Men of Kent
222	Six thousand Veterans
223	Anticipation
224	Another year!
	SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. SECOND PART. From the Year 1807 to 1813.
227	On a celebrated Event in Ancient History
228	On the same Event
229	To Thomas Clarkson
230	A Prophecy
231	Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra
232	On the same occasion
233	Hoffer
234	Advance—come forth!
235	Feelings of the Tyrolese
236	Alas! what boots
237	And is it among rude
238	O'er the wide earth
239	On the final submission of the Tyrolese
240	Hail Zaragoza!
241	Say what is Honour?
242	The martial courage
243	Brave Schill!
244	Call not the royal Swede
245	Look now on that Adventurer
246	Is there a Power
247	Ah where is Palafox!
248	In due observance
249	Feelings of a Noble Biscayan
250	The Oak of Guernica
251	Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard
252	Avaunt all specious
253	O'er-weening Statesmen
254	The French and Spanish Guerillas
255	Spanish Guerillas
256	The power of Armies
257	Conclusion	1811
258	Added	1813
	POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES.
261	It was an April morning		1800
264	To Joanna		1800
268	There is an Eminence		1800
269	A narrow girdle		1800
273	To M. H.		1800
275	When from the attractions	1802
	INSCRIPTIONS.
283	Lines written upon a stone, &c.		1800
285	Upon a stone on the side of Black Comb
287	In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.
289	In a Garden of the same
290	Upon an Urn in the same Grounds
291	For a Seat in the groves of Coleorton
292	Written with a pencil upon the wall of the house on the Island at Grasmere		1800
	POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE.
297	The old Cumberland Beggar	1798	1800
316	The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
301	The small Celandine		1807
313	Animal Tranquillity	1798	1798
314	The two Thieves		1800
317	The Matron of Jedborough	1803	1807
321	Sonnet		1807
322	Inscription		1807
	EPITAPHS AND ELIGAIC POEMS.
327	1st, Epitaph translated from Chiabrera
328	2d,
329	3d,
331	4th,
332	5th,
334	6th,
335	Lines composed at Grasmere		1807
336	Written on a blank leaf in a Copy of the Excursion
337	Elegiac Stanzas		1807
341	To the Daisy	1805
347	ODE.—Intimations, &c.		1807

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Errata and Corrections

Notes to Volume I

Essay, supplementary to the Preface