Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)

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Also available at the Wordsworth Variorum Archive are volume-specific concordances, which you can use to find specific words in individual editions of Wordsworth’s poetry. For example, did you know that in the Poems in Two Volumes, Wordsworth’s 1807 publication of his poems, the word "liberty" occurs eleven times, "freedom" occurs eight times and "nation" occurs ten times? Did you also know that the words "liberty" and "nation" never appear in the comparably sized second edition of Lyrical Ballads (published in 1800) and "freedom" occurs only three times?

[Volume I]

To the Daisy ('In youth') 250

'She was a Phantom of delight' 292

The Sailor's Mother 239

To the Small Celandine 257

To the Same Flower ('Pleasures newly found') 259

Character of the Happy Warrior 320

To H.C., Six Years Old 246

'Among all lovely things my Love had been' 247

‘I traveled among unknown Men 237

*Ode to Duty 295

 

Poems Composed During a Tour, Chiefly on Foot

Beggars 243

Alice Fell 241

*Resolution and Independence 260

 

Sonnets

'*Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room' 286

 

Part the First: Miscellaneous Sonnets

'How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks' 268

'Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?' 271

Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills 287

'These words were uttered in a pensive mood' 287

'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh' 272

To the River Duddon 306

*Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 285

"'Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con" , 274

'Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne' 273

*'The world is too much with us' 270

'*It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free' 281

To the Memory of Raisley Calvert 271

 

Part the Second. Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty

Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais 281

Calais, August, 1802 280

To a Friend, Composed near Calais 282

*'I grieved for Buonaparte' 267

Calais, August 15th, 1802 283

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 268

To Toussaint L'Ouverture 282

September 1st, 1802 283

Composed in the Valley, near Dover 284

September, 1802 284

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 330

Written in London, September, 1802 285

*London, 1802 286

'Great Men have been among us' 276

 

'It is not to be thought of that the Flood' 276

'When 1 have borne in memory what has tamed' 277

October, 1803 ('One might believe') 293

'There is a bondage which is worse to bear' 277

October, 1803 ('These times') 294

'England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean' 275

October, 1803 ('When, looking on') 294

To the Men of Kent 289

Anticipation. October, 1803 290

November, 1806 331

 

[Volume II]

 

Poems Written During a Tour in Scotland

Rob Roy's Grave 314

*The Solitary Reaper 319

*Stepping Westward 313

Glen-Almain 312

Address to the Sons of Burns 318

The Matron of Jedborough and Her Husband 304

 

Moods of My Own Mind

*To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') 244

'The Sun has long been set' 280

'O Nightingale! thou surely art' 331

*'My heart leaps up when I behold' 246

Written in March 248

The Small Celandine 288

*'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' 303

'Who fancied what a pretty sight' 303

*The Sparrow's Nest 239

Gipsies 332

*To the Cuckoo 245

To a Butterfly ('I've watched you') 254

'It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath flown' 272

 

The Blind Highland Boy; with Other Poems

Star Gazers 322

To the Daisy ('With little here') 252

To the Same Flower ('Bright Flower') 253

Sonnet to Thomas Clarkson (Longman 208)

A Complaint 330

'I am not One who much or oft delight' 269

'Yes! full surely 'twas the Echo' 328

Lines, Composed at Grasmere 329

*Elegiac Stanzas 326

*Ode [Intimations of Immortality] 297

 

* Texts marked with an asterisk are generally considered to be key Wordsworth texts.