The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7

William Wordsworth

W. Paterson, 1885 - English poetry

Contents

• ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES: 2
• FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION I INTRODUCTION: 3
• CONJECTURES: 4
• TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS: 5
• DRUIDICAL EXCOMMUNICATION: 6
• PERSECUTION: 7
• RECOVERY: 8
• DISSENSIONS: 9
• STRUGGLE OF THE BRITONS AGAINST THE BARBARIANS: 10
• SAXON CONQUEST: 11
• MONASTERY OF OLD BANGOR: 12
• CASUAL INCITEMENT: 13
• GLAD TIDINGS: 14
• PAULINUS: 15
• CONVERSION: 17
• PRIMITIVE SAXON CLERGY: 18
• OTHER INFLUENCES: 19
• CONTINUed: 20
• REProof: 21
• SAXON MONASTERIES AND LIGHTS AND SHADES OF THE RELIGION 26: 22
• MISSIONS AND TRAVELS: 23
• COLDLY WE SPAKE: 29
• AS FAITH THUS SANCTIFIED THE WARRIORS: 41
• WICliffe: 47
• ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETScontinued: 48
• EDWARD VI: 57
• Elizabeth: 63
• ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETScontinued VIII ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS: 77
• WILLIAM THE THIRD: 78
• SACHEVEREL: 79
• DOWN A SWIFT STREAM THUS FAR A BOLD DESIGN: 80
• ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA I THE PILGRIM FATHERS: 81
• CONntinued: 82
• BISHOPS and Priests Blessed are ye if deep: 83
• PASTORAL CHARACTER: 84
• THE LITURGY: 85
• BAPTISM: 86
• SPONSORS: 87
• CONFIRMATION: 88
• SACRAMENT: 89
• THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY: 90
• VISITATION OF THE SICK: 91
• THE COMMINATION SERVICE: 92
• FUNERAL SERVICE: 93
• REGRETS: 94
• MUTABILITY: 95
• EMIGRANT FRENch Clergy: 96
• CONGRATULATION: 97
• CHURCH TO BE ERECTED: 98
• CONTINUED: 99
• CATHEDrals Etc: 100
• INSIDE OF KINGS COLLEGE CHAPEL CAMBRIDGE: 101
• MEMORY: 104
• ON THE SAME OCCASION: 110
• To: 116
• TO THE TORRENT at the DEVILS BRIDGE NORTH WALES 1824: 122
• EPITAPH IN THE CHAPELYARD OF LANGDALE WESTMORELAND: 128
• THE CONTRAST: 137
• TO MAY: 143
• THE MASSY WAYS CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS: 149
• MISCELLANEOUS SONNETScontinued: 154
• GO BACK TO ANTIQUE AGES IF THINE EYES: 167
• HUMANITY: 212
• THIS LAWN A CARPET ALL ALIVE: 218
• THE EGYPTIAN MAID OR THE ROMANCE OF THE WATER LILY: 243
• THE POET AND THE CAGED TURTLEDOVE: 256
• ELEGIAC MUSINGS: 261
• HAMILTON PALACE: 290
• PAGE: 295
• ROMAN ANTIQUITIES: 296
• DEVOTIONAL INCITEMENTS: 302
• CALM IS THE FRAGRANT AIR AND LOTH TO LOSE: 305
• FILIAL PIETY: 311
• THE WARNING A SEQUEL TO THE FOREGOING: 321
• IF THIS GREAT WORLD OF JOY AND PAIN: 327
• THEY CALLED THEE MERRY ENGLAND IN: 334
• IN THE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE COAST: 349
• NOT IN THE LUCID INTERVALS OF LIFE: 390
• THE REDBREAST: 397

Popular passages

Page 389 - MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none. While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon ; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.

Page 159 - Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...

Page 272 - And if, as Yarrow, through the woods And down the meadow ranging, Did meet us with unaltered face, Though we were changed and changing; If, then, some natural shadows spread Our inward prospect over, The soul's deep valley was not slow Its brightness to recover.

Page 271 - Grave thoughts ruled wide on that sweet day, Their dignity installing In gentle bosoms, while sere leaves Were on the bough, or falling; But breezes played, and sunshine gleamed The forest to embolden; Reddened the fiery hues, and shot Transparence through the golden. For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on In foamy agitation; And slept in many a crystal pool...

Page 202 - Thy hungry barkings to the hymn Of joy, that from her utmost walls The six-days' Work, by flaming Seraphim Transmits to Heaven ! As Deep to Deep Shouting through one valley calls...

Page 113 - To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye ; Convinced that there, there only, she can lay Secure foundations.

Page 177 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.

Page 105 - Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook Contented and serene ; With heart as calm as lakes that sleep, In frosty moonlight glistening ; Or mountain rivers, where they creep Along a channel smooth and deep, To their own far-off murmurs listening.

Page 75 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity = In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die!

Page 76 - Bodies fall by wild sword-law ; • But who would force the Soul, tilts with a straw Against a Champion cased in adamant.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7; The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight
• Author: William Wordsworth
• Editor: William Angus Knight
• Publisher: W. Paterson, 1885
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 14, 2008