Poems and Extracts

by William Wordsworth

Wordsworth, 1839.

POEMS AND EXTRACTS

CHOSEN BY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

FOR AN ALBUM
PRESENTED TO LADY MARY LOWTHER
CHRISTMAS, 1819

PRINTED LITERALLY FROM THE ORIGINAL ALBUM

WITH FACSIMILES

LONDON

HENRY FROWDE

1905

OXFORD: HORACE HART

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

Chapters (not listed in original)

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• To the Lady Mary Lowther
• "In the Muse's paths I stray"
• Petition for an absolute Retreat
• Song
• "Where is that World to which the fancy flies"
• A Nocturnal Reverie
• Fragment
• Fragment
• From a Poem for the Birthday of the Lady Cathrine Tufton
• Life's Progress
• The Tree
• From a Poem on the Death of the Honble James Thynne younger Son of the Lord Viscount Weymouth
• Hope
• Song
• From a Poem in praise of the invention of Letter Writing
• "Silvia, let us from the crowd retire"
• "O King of Terrors! whose unbounded sway"
• On his Muse
• From "The Mistress of Philarete"
• Funeral Dirge for Marcello
• Ode to Peace
• Hymn on Solitude
• "Thy shades thy silence now be mine"
• Verses
• "Thus safely low, my Friend, thou canst not fall"
• Ode on Solitude
• "And now, perch'd proudly on the topmost spray"
• "Now come, ye Naiads, to the fountains lead"
• "Me though in life's sequestered vale"
• Inscription
• "Throned on the sun's descending car"
• Inscription
• The Wood Nymph
• Sonnet
• Sonnet
• Sonnet
• A Drop of Dew
• St. John the Baptist
• The Ruins of Rome
• "Go lovely Rose!"
• To the young Lady Lucy Sydney
• Sorrow
• Written it is believed, by Miss Warton on the Death of her Father Thomas Warton the Elder
• Epitaph
• Of my dear Son, Gervase Beaumont
• Dr. Doddridge on his Motto
• Lines written by Cap^t. James upon his leaving Charlton Island, where many of his Ship's Crew had died during the winter, which they passed there A.D. 1631-2
• "As those we love decay, we die in part"
• To the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland
• Lines
• Notes
• Index of first lines