Poems, in Two Volumes


STILLNESS                       
1807 The Blind        In stillness or in storm. 
     Highland Boy

STINTED                         
1807 October 1803     And minds not stinted or untill'd are given,
     ["These times"]

STIR                            
1807 To the Small     Little Flower!--I'll make a stir,
     Celandine
1807 To a Highland    Then, why should I be loth to stir?
     Girl
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  They stir us up against our Kind;
1807 Yarrow Unvisited Should we be loth to stir from home,
1807 The Blind        If this or that way he should stir,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Kitten and   That with stir of feet and wings
     Falling Leaves
1807 Stray Pleasures  If the Wind do but stir for his proper delight,
1807 With Ships the   No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir:
     sea was

STIRLING                        
1807 Yarrow Unvisited From Stirling castle we had seen

STIRR'D                         
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Thou would'st have nobly stirr'd thyself,
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  And kindle, like a fire new stirr'd,
1807 The Blind        Yet more it pleased him, more it stirr'd,
     Highland Boy
1807 Admonition       Hath stirr'd thee deeply; with its own dear brook,
1807 A Prophecy.      Stirr'd by the breeze--they rose, a Nation, true,
     February 1807

STIRRED                         
1807 Resolution and   Stirred with his Staff, and fixedly did look
     Independence

STIRRING                        
1807 Resolution and   He travelled; stirring thus about his feet
     Independence
1807 The Blind        And stirring in its bed.
     Highland Boy
1807 Fidelity         A stirring in a brake of fern;

STIRS                           
1807 To the Small     Who stirs little out of doors,
     Celandine
1807 The Kitten and   Yes, the sight so stirs and charms
     Falling Leaves
1807 Power of Music   The music stirs in him like wind through a tree.

STOCK                           
1807 Resolution and   Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
     Independence
1807 O Nightingale!   I heard a Stock-dove sing or say
     thou surely art

STOCKINGS                       
1807 The Blind        In crimson stockings, tartan plaid,
     Highland Boy

STOCKS                          
1807 How sweet it is  And Wild rose tip-toe upon hawthorn stocks,

STONE                           
1807 Resolution and   As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie
     Independence
1807 The Seven        Repeats a moan o'er moss and stone,
     Sisters
1807 Tribute to the   Or want of love, that here no Stone we raise;
     Memory of the

STONES                          
1807 Fidelity         Towards the Dog, o'er rocks and stones,

STOOD                           
1807 Resolution and   He stood alone: a minute's space I guess
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   Motionless as a Cloud the old Man stood;
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   The old Man still stood talking by my side;
     Independence
1807 Near Dover,      Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood,
     September 1802
1807 The Blind        Near which their Cottage stood. 
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        Beside a lake their Cottage stood,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        A while he stood upon his feet;
     Highland Boy
1807 Fidelity         The Shepherd stood: then makes his way
1807 The Horn of      Pale and trembling Hubert stood.
     Egremont Castle

STOOL                           
1807 The Blind        And you shall bring your Stool and rest;
     Highland Boy

STOOP                           
1807 Character of the And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
     Happy Warrior

STOOP'D                         
1807 Song at the      Stoop'd down to pay him fealty;
     Feast of

STOOPING                        
1807 Composed by the  Thou hangest, stooping, as might seem, to sink
     Sea-side, near

STOP                            
1807 To a Butterfly   Stop here whenever you are weary,
1807 Stepping         Yet who would stop, or fear to advance,
     Westward
1807 The Solitary     Stop here, or gently pass!
     Reaper
1807 Sonnet. Composed The Traveller, at this day, will stop and gaze 
     at ------ Castle
1807 The Kitten and   Now they stop and there are none--
     Falling Leaves

STOPP'D                         
1807 Alice Fell       He stopp'd his horses at the word;
1807 In the Pass of   Was stopp'd, and could not breathe beneath the load
     Killicranky
1807 The Small        I stopp'd, and said with inly muttered voice,
     Celandine

STOPPED                         
1807 Resolution and   My course I stopped as soon as I espied
     Independence
1807 Power of Music   The News-man is stopped, though he stops on the fret,

STOPS                           
1807 Incident         Little MUSIC, she stops short.
     characteristic
1807 Character of the Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, 
     Happy Warrior
1807 Power of Music   The News-man is stopped, though he stops on the fret,

STORE                           
1807 To the same      And thy store of other praise.
     Flower
1807 Power of Music   The Lass with her barrow wheels hither her store;--
1807 Personal Talk    There do I find a never-failing store
1807 To Sleep ["Fond  And thou hast had thy store of tenderest names;
     words"]

STORM                           
1807 The Blind        In stillness or in storm. 
     Highland Boy
1807 The Small        And buffeted at will by Rain and Storm.
     Celandine
1807 Character of the And faculty for storm and turbulence,
     Happy Warrior

STORMS                          
1807 Lines composed   With which she speaks when storms are gone,
     at Grasmere

STORMY                          
1807 Among all lovely While riding near her home one stormy night
     things
1807 Among all lovely To bear it with me through the stormy night:
     things
1807 Glen Almain      Of stormy war, and violent death;
1807 The Seven        Like clouds in stormy weather;
     Sisters

STORY                           
1807 To the Small     They will have a place in story:
     Celandine
1807 October 1803     The great events with which old story rings
     ["When looking"]

STOUT                           
1807 The Emigrant     Limbs stout as thine, and lips as gay,
     Mother

STRAIGHT                        
1807 The Sailor's     Majestic in her person, tall and straight;
     Mother

STRAIGHTWAY                     
1807 The Horn of      Hither come thou back straightway,
     Egremont Castle

STRAIN                          
1807 The Solitary     And sings a melancholy strain;
     Reaper
1807 The Matron of    And told me, in a thoughtful strain,
     Jedborough
1807 Song at the      A festal Strain that hath been silent long.
     Feast of

STRAINS                         
1807 Louisa           And, when against the wind she strains, 

STRAND                          
1807 The Seven        Right onward to the Scottish strand
     Sisters

STRANGE                         
1807 The Emigrant     Thou troublest me with strange alarms;
     Mother
1807 Great men have   But in magnanimous meekness. France, 'tis strange,
     been among us
1807 Stepping         In a strange Land, and far from home,
     Westward
1807 Yarrow Unvisited --Strange words they seem'd of slight and scorn;
1807 The Blind        That strange adventure which befel
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        But one of mighty size, and strange;
     Highland Boy

STRANGER                        
1807 The Emigrant     Rest, little Stranger, rest thee here;
     Mother
1807 The Matron of    A Sight to make a Stranger sigh!
     Jedborough

STRATH                          
1807 Yarrow Unvisited O'er hilly path, and open Strath,

STRAW                           
1807 Gipsies          Their bed of straw and blanket-walls.

STRAWBERRY                      
1807 Foresight        Strawberry-blossoms, one and all,
1807 Foresight        Only spare the Strawberry-blossom!
1807 Foresight        Only spare the Strawberry-blossom!

STRAY                           
1807 To the Daisy     Or stray invention.
1807 Stray Pleasures  In stray gifts to be claim'd by whoever shall find.
1807 Stray Pleasures  In stray gifts to be claim'd by whoever shall find;
1807 To the Memory of That I, if frugal and severe, might stray
     Raisley Calvert

STRAYS                          
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Of thoughtful Herdsman when he strays

STREAM                          
1807 Written in March The stream is flowing,
1807 Resolution and   But now his voice to me was like a stream
     Independence
1807 It is not to be  That this most famous Stream in Bogs and Sands
     thought of
1807 To H. C. Six     To brood on air than on an earthly stream;
     years old
1807 To H. C. Six     Suspended in a stream as clear as sky,
     years old
1807 Yarrow Unvisited Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown!
1807 The Blind        Or fish in stream, or bird in bower,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Seven        The Stream that flows out of the Lake,
     Sisters
1807 Power of Music   Now, Coaches and Chariots, roar on like a stream;
1807 How sweet it is  And leap at once from the delicious stream.
1807 Ode. Intimations There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      Beside her little humble Stream;
     Feast of
1807 O mountain       O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot
     Stream!

STREAMLET                       
1807 Glen Almain      But one meek streamlet, only one:

STREAMS                         
1807 Lines composed   A mighty Unison of streams!
     at Grasmere
1807 Song at the      Our Streams proclaim a welcoming;
     Feast of

STREET                          
1807 Power of Music   In the street that from Oxford hath borrowed its name.

STRENGTH                        
1807 The Sailor's     Such strength, a dignity so fair: 
     Mother
1807 Resolution and   To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.
     Independence
1807 On the           Those titles vanish, and that strength decay,
     Extinction of
1807 Near Dover,      Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity,
     September 1802
1807 Great men have   In splendor: what strength was, that would not bend
     been among us
1807 It is no Spirit  Some ground not mine; and, strong her strength above,
1807 To the Sons of   And more than common strength and skill
     Burns
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  And wondrous length and strength of arm: 
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  By strength of prowess or of wit: 
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  And all the oppress'd, who wanted strength,
1807 The Matron of    A strength unthought of heretofore!
     Jedborough
1807 There is a       Instead of gathering strength, must droop and pine,
     bondage worse
1807 October 1803     And tremble, seeing, as I do, the strength
     ["When looking"]
1807 She was a        Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;
     Phantom of
1807 Ode to Duty      Yet find that other strength, according to their need.
1807 Fidelity         And gave that strength of feeling, great
1807 Ode. Intimations Strength in what remains
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      Hath he, a Child of strength and state!
     Feast of

STRETCHES                       
1807 The Kitten and   Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts;
     Falling Leaves
1807 Incident         From the brink her paws she stretches,
     characteristic

STRICKEN                        
1807 The Matron of    Been stricken by a twofold stroke;
     Jedborough
1807 The Horn of      Stricken by this ill assurance,
     Egremont Castle

STRICTLY                        
1807 Ode to Duty      But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may.

STRIFE                          
1807 To H. C. Six     But, at the touch of wrong, without a strife
     years old
1807 To a Highland    A bondage sweetly brook'd, a strife
     Girl
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  With them no strife can last; they live
1807 The Matron of    The strife of happiness and pain,
     Jedborough
1807 Ode to Duty      From strife and from despair; a glorious ministry.
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Elysian quiet, without toil or strife;
1807 Character of the Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,
     Happy Warrior
1807 Yes, it was the  Slaves of Folly, Love, or Strife,
     mountain Echo
1807 Ode. Intimations To dialogues of business, love, or strife;
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
     of Immortality
1807 Gipsies          Regard not her:--oh better wrong and strife
1807 Song at the      The two that were at strife are blended,
     Feast of

STRIKES                         
1807 The Matron of    She strikes upon him with the heat
     Jedborough
1807 The Kitten and   Strikes a solitary sound.
     Falling Leaves
1807 Fidelity         Nor shout, nor whistle strikes his ear;

STRIVEN                         
1807 Resolution and   And I with these untoward thoughts had striven,
     Independence
1807 Thought of a     Thou fought'st against Him; but hast vainly striven:
     Briton on the

STRODE                          
1807 With Ships the   And lustily along the Bay she strode,
     sea was

STROKE                          
1807 The Matron of    Been stricken by a twofold stroke;
     Jedborough
1807 Tribute to the   And ready for the gentlest stroke of death. 
     Memory of the

STROKES                         
1807 The Horn of      And where'er their strokes alighted
     Egremont Castle

STRONG                          
1807 Alice Fell       Her very heart, her grief grew strong;
1807 Who fancied what That prompts such work, a Spirit strong,
     a pretty sight
1807 It is no Spirit  Some ground not mine; and, strong her strength above,
1807 To the Sons of   Strong-bodied if ye be to bear
     Burns
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Forgive me if the phrase be strong;--
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Thus nothing here provokes the Strong
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  For Polity was then too strong--
1807 The Matron of    A trouble in her strong black eye;
     Jedborough
1807 The Blind        And rivers large and strong: 
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        Strong is the current; but be mild,
     Highland Boy
1807 Ode to Duty      Or strong compunction in me wrought,
1807 Ode to Duty      And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.
1807 To a Skylark     For thy song, Lark, is strong;
1807 To a Skylark     With a soul as strong as a mountain River,
1807 Louisa           That she is ruddy, fleet, and strong;
1807 Star-gazers      Or is it rather that Conceit rapacious is and strong,
1807 Personal Talk    Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
1807 To Sleep ["Fond  When thankfulness of heart is strong and deep!
     words"]
1807 From the Italian Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace,
     of Michael
1807 Ode. Intimations And I again am strong.
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      Our Strong-abodes and Castles see
     Feast of
1807 Song at the      Alas! when evil men are strong
     Feast of
1807 Song at the      I said, when evil Men are strong,
     Feast of

STRONGEST                       
1807 Written in March Are at work with the strongest;

STROWN                          
1807 Methought I saw  But all the steps and ground about were strown
     the footsteps

STRUGGLE                        
1807 November 1806    The last that dares to struggle with the Foe.

STRUGGLING                      
1807 Incident         And doth her best her struggling Friend to save.
     characteristic

STUCK                           
1807 Beggars          With leaves of laurel stuck about:

STUDENT'S                       
1807 When I have      The Student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
     borne in memory

STUDENTS                        
1807 Nuns fret not    And Students with their pensive Citadels;

STUFF                           
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  A world of other stuff.

STUN                            
1807 Anticipation.    Make merry, Wives! ye little Children stun
     October 1803

STYLED                          
1807 Who fancied what Whose brows, the day that she was styled
     a pretty sight

SUBDUES                         
1807 Character of the Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
     Happy Warrior

SUBJECT                         
1807 Character of the directed the Author's thoughts to the subject. His respect for the
     Happy Warrior             memory

SUBLIME                         
1807 Calais, August   The senselessness of joy was then sublime!
     15, 1802
1807 October 1803     Of such poor Instruments, with thoughts sublime
     ["When looking"]
1807 Fidelity         He knows, who gave that love sublime,
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
1807 To Thomas        Didst first lead forth this pilgrimage sublime,
     Clarkson

SUBMISSIVE                      
1807 Song at the      That learn'd of him submissive ways;
     Feast of

SUBMISSIVENESS                  
1807 Ode to Duty      That my submissiveness was choice:

SUBMIT                          
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  And who is to submit.

SUBMITTED                       
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  I have submitted to a new controul:

SUBSTANTIAL                     
1807 Personal Talk    Are a substantial world, both pure and good:

SUBSTANTIALLY                   
1807 Composed after a Substantially distinct, a place for Bell
     Journey

SUBTERRANEOUS                   
1807 The Matron of    He breathes a subterraneous damp;
     Jedborough

SUCCEED                         
1807 Character of the Or if an unexpected call succeed,
     Happy Warrior

SUCK'D                          
1807 The Blind        Had suck'd, and suck'd him in.
     Highland Boy

SUCKLED                         
1807 The world is too A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 
     much with us

SUDDEN                          
1807 Character of the With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired;
     Happy Warrior

SUDDENLY                        
1807 Alice Fell       When suddenly I seem'd to hear
1807 The Matron of    When suddenly I seem'd to espy
     Jedborough

SUFFER                          
1807 The Blind        If she should suffer this: My Son,
     Highland Boy
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. 
1807 Character of the aware that the Verses must suffer from any connection in the Reader's
     Happy Warrior             mind

SUFFER'D                        
1807 The Affliction   Neglect me! no, I suffer'd long
     of Margaret ----

SUFFERING                       
1807 To the Daisy     And all things suffering from all
1807 The Matron of    Who from disease and suffering
     Jedborough
1807 Character of the As more expos'd to suffering and distress;
     Happy Warrior
1807 To Sleep ["Fond  In rich reward all suffering; Balm that tames
     words"]
1807 Ode. Intimations Out of human suffering;
     of Immortality

SUFFICETH                       
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Sufficeth them, the simple Plan,

SUFFICIENT                      
1807 October 1803     Men unto whom sufficient for the day
     ["These times"]

SUIT                            
1807 To the same      Are all, as seems to suit thee best,
     Flower [To the

SULLEN                          
1807 Ode. Intimations sullen
     of Immortality

SUMMER                          
1807 To a Butterfly   And summer days, when we were young,
1807 The Redbreast    Beneath the summer sky
     chasing the
1807 The Redbreast    He is the Friend of our summer gladness:
     chasing the
1807 Foresight        Summer knows but little of them:
1807 Resolution and   As if life's business were a summer mood;
     Independence
1807 To the Daisy     Whole summer fields are thine by right;
1807 Tribute to the   I saw thee stagger in the summer breeze,
     Memory of the
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:
1807 Methought I saw  A lovely Beauty in a summer grave!
     the footsteps
1807 Song at the      And quit the Flowers that Summer brings
     Feast of

SUMMER'S                        
1807 The Emigrant     And countenance like a summer's day,
     Mother
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Through summer's heat and winter's snow:

SUMMERS                         
1807 Foresight        Do not touch it! summers two

SUMMONED                        
1807 The Affliction   Or hast been summoned to the Deep,
     of Margaret ----

SUN                             
1807 Written in March The green field sleeps in the sun;
1807 To the Small     Long as there's a sun that sets
     Celandine
1807 To the Small     Telling tales about the sun,
     Celandine
1807 To the same      When the rising sun he painted,
     Flower
1807 Resolution and   But now the sun is rising calm and bright;
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   All things that love the sun are out of doors;
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   Raises a mist; which, glittering in the sun,
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
     Independence
1807 The Sun has long The Sun has long been set:
     been set
1807 Composed upon    Never did sun more beautifully steep
     Westminster
1807 It is a          Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
     beauteous
1807 To the Daisy     Thy course, bold lover of the sun,
1807 To the same      That breath'st with me in sun and air,
     Flower [To the
1807 It is no Spirit  First admonition that the sun is down!
1807 The Matron of    Upon a sun-bright morn of May,
     Jedborough
1807 The Blind        The sun, the day; the stars, the night;
     Highland Boy
1807 October 1803     But 'tis a chosen soil, where sun and breeze
     ["One might
1807 There is a       To see the Sun how brightly it will shine, 
     bondage worse
1807 October 1803     Are cheerful as the rising Sun in May.
     ["These times"]
1807 Anticipation.    And left them lying in the silent sun,
     October 1803
1807 The Kitten and   (In the sun or under shade,
     Falling Leaves
1807 The Small        And, the first moment that the sun may shine,
     Celandine
1807 The Small        Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again!
     Celandine
1807 Fidelity         And Sun-beams; and the sounding blast,
1807 Stray Pleasures  Of the Sun going down to his rest,
1807 Ode. Intimations sun shines warm,
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
     of Immortality
1807 Gipsies          The weary Sun betook himself to rest.
1807 To Lady Beaumont Yes! when the sun of life more feebly shines,