The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth

Methuen, 1908

Contents

• MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1803: 1
• At the Grave of Burns 1803: 2
• Thoughts suggested the Day following on the Banks of Nith near the Poets Residence: 4
• To the Sons of Burns after visiting the Grave of their Father: 6
• or the Braes of Kirtle: 7
• To a Highland Girl: 9
• Glen Almain or the Narrow Glen: 10
• Stepping Westward: 11
• The Solitary Reaper: 12
• Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe: 13
• Rob Roys Grave: 14
• Sonnet Composed at Castle: 17
• Yarrow Unvisited: 18
• Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranky: 20
• Fly some kind Harbinger to Grasmeredale: 22
• The Blind Highland Boy: 23
• MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1814: 30
• Composed at Cora Linn: 33
• Effusion: 34
• Yarrow Visited: 37
• POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERTY PART I: 40
• Composed near Calais on the Road leading to Ardres: 41
• AND LIBERTYcontinued VI On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic: 42
• Το Toussaint LOuverture: 43
• September 1802 Near Dover: 44
• Written in London September 1802: 45
• It is not to be thought of that the Flood: 46
• There is a bondage worse far worse to bear: 47
• England the time is come when thou shouldst wean: 48
• What if our numbers barely could defy: 49
• Anticipation October 1803: 50
• PART II: 52
• Upon the same Event: 53
• Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake 1807: 54
• Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra 1808: 55
• Advancecome forth from thy Tyrolean ground: 56
• Alas what boots the long laborious quest: 57
• On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese: 58
• The martial courage of a day is vain: 59
• Call not the royal Swede unfortunate: 60
• In due observance of an ancient rite: 61
• Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals: 62
• Indignation of a highminded Spaniard 1810: 63
• The French and the Spanish Guerillas: 64
• ΧΧΧΙΙ 1811: 65
• The French Army in Russia: 66
• On the same Occasion: 67
• November 1813: 68
• Feelings of a French Royalist on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke dEnghien: 72
• Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski: 73
• Emperors and Kings how oft have temples rung: 74
• Ode: 77
• MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT 1820: 84
• Brugès: 85
• After visiting the Field of Waterloo: 86
• Between Namur and Liege: 87
• In the Cathedral at Cologne: 88
• The Source of the Danube: 89
• The fall of the AarHandec: 90
• Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons: 91
• Scene on the Lake of Brientz: 92
• Our Lady of the Snow: 93
• Effusion in presence of the painted Tower of Tell at Altorf: 94
• The Town of Schwytz: 95
• Fort Fuentes: 96
• The Church of San Salvador seen from the Lake of Lugano: 97
• The Italian Itinerant and the Swiss Goatherd: 98
• The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in the Refec tory of the Convent of Maria della GraziaMilan: 100
• The Eclipse of the Sun 1820: 101
• The Three Cottage Girls: 103
• The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan now lying by the wayside in the Simplon Pass: 105
• Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass: 106
• Echo upon the Gemmi: 107
• Elegiac Stanzas: 109
• SkyprospectFrom the Plain of France: 111
• On being stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne: 112
• At Dover: 113
• MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY 1837: 116
• The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome: 125
• Continued: 126
• At Rome: 127
• Near Anios stream I spied a gentle Dove: 128
• Near the Lake of Thrasymene: 129
• At the Convent of Camaldoli: 132
• At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli: 133
• At Florence: 134
• Before the Picture of the Baptist by Raphael in the Gallery at Florence: 135
• At FlorenceFrom Michael Angelo: 136
• In Lombardy: 137
• Composed at Rydal on May Morning 1838: 138
• THE EGYPTIAN MAID OR THE ROMANCE OF THE WATER LILY: 141
• THE RIVER DUDDON To the Rev Dr Wordsworth: 151
• Not envying Latian shadesif yet they throw: 152
• Child of the clouds remote from every taint: 153
• Take cradled Nursling of the mountain take: 154
• Change me some God into that breathing rose: 155
• The same Subject: 156
• Hints for the Fancy: 157
• From this deep chasm where quivering sunbeams play: 158
• Return: 159
• The Plain of Donnerdale: 160
• Tradition: 161
• Methinks twere no unprecedented feat: 162
• Fallen and diffused into a shapeless heap: 163
• Who swerves from innocence who makes divorce: 164
• Conclusion: 165
• YARROW REVISITED AND OTHER POEMS I The gallant Youth who may have gained: 166
• On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford for Naples: 169
• On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland: 170
• The Trosachs: 171
• Eagles: 172
• Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm: 173
• Highland Hut: 174
• The Brownie: 177
• Bothwell Castle: 178
• Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest: 179
• Fancy and Tradition: 180
• Roman Antiquities: 181
• THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE OR THE FATE OF THE NORTONS: 183
• ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS PART I: 229
• Trepidation of the Druids: 230
• Uncertainty: 231
• Recovery: 232
• Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians: 233
• Monastery of Old Bangor: 234
• Glad Tidings: 235
• Conversion: 236
• Primitive Saxon Clergy: 237
• Seclusion: 238
• Saxon Monasteries and Lights and Shades of the Religion: 239
• Alfred: 240
• Danish Conquests: 241
• The Norman Conquest: 242
• Crusades: 243
• An Interdict: 244
• Papal Dominion: 245
• From false assumption rose and fondly hailed: 246
• Deplorable his lot who tills the ground: 247
• Continued: 248
• As faith thus sanctified the warriors crest: 249
• The Vaudois: 250
• Waldenses: 251
• Wicliffe: 252
• Abuse of Monastic Power: 253
• The same Subject: 254
• Saints: 255
• Imaginative Regrets: 256
• Translation of the Bible: 257
• Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent: 258
• Latimer and Ridley: 259
• English Reformers in Exile: 260
• Eminent Reformers: 261
• Gunpowder Plot: 262
• Troubles of Charles the First: 263
• Afflictions of England: 264
• Charles the Second: 265
• Waltons Book of Lives: 266
• Acquittal of the Bishops: 267
• Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty: 268
• Aspects of Christianity in America1 The Pilgrim Fathers: 269
• Concluded American Episcopaсу: 270
• Pastoral Character: 271
• Baptism: 272
• Confirmation: 273
• Sacrament: 274
• Visitation of the Sick: 275
• Forms of Prayer at Sea: 276
• Rural Ceremony: 277
• Old Abbeys: 278
• Congratulation: 279
• Continued: 280
• Cathedrals etc: 281
• Continued: 282
• Conclusion: 283
• EVENING VOLUNTARIES I Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose: 284
• On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland: 285
• Not in the lucid intervals of life: 286
• By the Side of Rydal Mere: 287
• Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridgethe Mere: 288
• The leaves that rustled on this oakcrowned hill: 289
• The sun has long been set: 290
• Composed by the Seashore: 292
• The Crescentmoon the Star of Love: 293
• To the Moon: 295
• To Lucca Giordano: 296
• Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high: 297
• POEMS COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833: 298
• They call Thee Merry England in old time: 299
• In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth: 300
• Nuns Well Brigham: 301
• Stanzas Suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees Heads on the Coast of Cumberland: 302
• In the Channel between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man: 306
• Desire we past illusions to recall?: 307
• Isle of Man: 308
• By a Retired Mariner: 309
• Despond who willI heard a voice exclaim: 310
• On the Frith of Clyde: 311
• Written in a Blank Leaf of Macphersons Ossian: 312
• Cave of Staffa: 314
• Cave of Staffa: 315
• Iona: 316
• Homeward we turn Isle of Columbas Cell: 317
• There said a Stripling pointing with meet pride: 318
• Suggested by the Foregoing: 319
• Steamboats Viaducts and Railways: 320
• To the Earl of Lonsdale: 321
• To Cordelia M: 325
• Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes: 326
• POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION I Expostulation and Reply: 327
• The Tables turned an Evening Scene on the same Subject: 328
• Lines written in Early Spring: 329
• To my Sister: 330
• Simon Lee the Old Huntsman: 331
• Written in Germany on one of the Coldest Days of the Century: 334
• A Poets Epitaph: 335
• To the Daisy: 336
• Matthew: 337
• The Two April Mornings: 338
• The Fountain: 340
• Personal Talk: 342
• Illustrated Books and Newspapers: 343
• To the Spade of a Friend: 344
• A Night Thought: 345
• Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog: 346
• Fidelity: 347
• Ode to Duty: 349
• Character of the Happy Warrior: 351
• The Force of Prayer or the Founding of Bolton Priory: 353
• A Fact and an Imagination or Canute and Alfred on the Seashore: 355
• A little onward lend thy guiding hand: 356
• Ode to Lycoris: 357
• To the Same: 358
• September 1819: 360
• Upon the same Occasion: 361
• Memory: 362
• This Lawn a carpet all alive: 363
• Humanity: 364
• The unremitting voice of nightly streams: 366
• Thoughts on the Seasons: 367
• The Warning: 369
• If this great world of joy and pain: 373
• Ode: 374
• To May: 376
• Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F Stone: 378
• The Foregoing Subject resumed: 382
• Upon seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album: 383
• SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER I Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day: 385
• Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud: 386
• Continued: 387
• Men of the Western World in Fates dark book: 388
• Continued: 389
• Young Englandwhat is then become of Old: 390
• SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH I Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle on the Road from the South: 391
• The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die: 392
• Ye brood of ConscienceSpectres that frequent: 393
• Though to give timely warning and deter: 394
• Ah think how one compelled for life to abide: 395
• Apology: 396
• MISCELLANEOUS POEMS I Epistle: 397
• Upon perusing the Foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after its Composition: 403
• Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase: 404
• Liberty: 405
• Poor Robin: 409
• The Gleaner: 410
• To a Redbreast: 411
• Sonnet: 412
• Floating Island: 413
• How beautiful the Queen of Night on high: 414
• To the Lady Fleming: 415
• On the same Occasion: 418
• The Horn of Egremont Castle: 419
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill: 422
• Prelude: 425
• MISCELLANEOUS SONNETScontinued XVII To a Child: 426
• Lines: 427
• Grace Darling: 429
• The Russian Fugitive: 431
• In the Grounds of Coleorton the Seat of Sir George Beau mont Bart Leicestershire: 441
• Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont Bart and in his Name for an Urn placed by him at the Termination of a newlyplanted Avenue in the s...: 442
• Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House an Outhouse on the Island at Grasmere: 443
• Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb: 444
• In these fair vales hath many a Tree: 445
• The massy Ways carried across these heights: 446
• Inscribed upon a Rock: 447
• Hast thou seen with flash incessant: 448
• Not seldom clad in radiant vest: 449
• On the Banks of a Rocky Stream: 450
• SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER I The Prioress Tale: 451
• The Cuckoo and the Nightingale: 458
• Troilus and Cresida: 468
• POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE I The Old Cumberland Beggar: 473
• The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale: 477
• The Small Celandine: 480
• The Two Thieves or the Last Stage of Avarice: 481
• Animal Tranquillity and Decay: 482
• August 7 1802 41: 483
• Calais August 15 1802 41: 484

Popular passages

Page 12 - THE SOLITARY REAPER. Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.

Page 332 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

Page 43 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

Page 346 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.

Page 44 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, — • That this most famous stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever.

Page 345 - STERN Daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove...

Page 346 - Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.

Page 180 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...

Page 332 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

Page 348 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2; The Poems of William Wordsworth, Nowell Charles Smith
• Author: William Wordsworth
• Editor: Nowell Charles Smith
• Publisher: Methuen, 1908
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Apr 15, 2008