Poems, in Two Volumes


THEATRES                        
1807 Composed upon    Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
     Westminster

THEIRS                          
1807 Ode to Duty      May joy be theirs while life shall last!
1807 The Horn of      Sons he had, saw Sons of theirs:
     Egremont Castle
1807 Stray Pleasures  It plays not for them,--what matter? 'tis theirs;
1807 Personal Talk    Oh! might my name be numbered among theirs,

THEME                           
1807 The Solitary     Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
     Reaper

THEMES                          
1807 Personal Talk    Of personal themes, and such as I love best;

THEMSELVES                      
1807 Near Dover,      Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree
     September 1802
1807 October 1803     To work against themselves such fell despite:
     ["One might
1807 Stray Pleasures  They themselves make the Reel, 
1807 Star-gazers      And are returned into themselves, they cannot but be sad? 
1807 Ode. Intimations Give themselves up to jollity,
     of Immortality

THEREFORE                       
1807 It is a          Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
     beauteous
1807 Glen Almain      And, therefore, was it rightly said
1807 England! the     Therefore the wise pray for thee, though the freight
     time is come
1807 Tribute to the   And, therefore, shalt thou be an honoured name!
     Memory of the
1807 Character of the And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
     Happy Warrior
1807 Star-gazers      Have souls which never yet have ris'n, and therefore prostrate lie?

THEREOF                         
1807 Resolution and   But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
     Independence

THEREON                         
1807 Methought I saw  Nor view of him who sate thereon allow'd;
     the footsteps

THEY'LL                         
1807 The Emigrant     'He pines,' they'll say, 'it is his doom,
     Mother

THEY'RE                         
1807 Stray Pleasures  And they're dancing merrily.
1807 Star-gazers      Doth they betray us when they're seen? or are they but a name?

THICK                           
1807 To the same      Thick as sheep in shepherd's fold!
     Flower
1807 Resolution and   And fears and fancies thick upon me came;
     Independence

THIEF                           
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  And Scotland has a Thief as good,
1807 Power of Music   If a Thief could be here he might pilfer at ease;

THING                           
1807 To the same      But a thing beneath our shoon; 
     Flower
1807 Resolution and   So that it seems a thing endued with sense:
     Independence
1807 The King of      The thing which ought to be: He stands above
     Sweden
1807 It is not to be  Which Milton held. In every thing we are sprung
     thought of
1807 To the Daisy     A thoughtless Thing! who, once unblest, 
1807 To a Highland    Thy Father, any thing to thee!
     Girl
1807 To the Cuckoo    No Bird, but an invisible Thing,
1807 The Small        In close self-shelter, like a Thing at rest.
     Celandine
1807 To a Young Lady, Shalt show us how divine a thing
     who had been
1807 Star-gazers      Or gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear?
1807 The world is too For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;
     much with us
1807 Ode. Intimations Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd:
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      The face of thing that is to be;
     Feast of

THINGS                          
1807 Written in very  Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
     Early Youth
1807 The Emigrant     Such things as she unto this Child might say:
     Mother
1807 Among all lovely Among all lovely things my Love had been;
     things
1807 Resolution and   All things that love the sun are out of doors;
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   As if all needful things would come unsought
     Independence
1807 Composed near    And now, sole register that these things were,
     Calais
1807 To the same      Of things that in the great world be,
     Flower [To the
1807 To the same      Loose types of Things through all degrees,
     Flower [To the
1807 To the Daisy     And all things suffering from all
1807 The Solitary     For old, unhappy, far-off things,
     Reaper
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  For in the principles of things
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Would all have seem'd but paltry things,
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Of old things all are over old,
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Of good things none are good enough:--
1807 October 1803     Spot rich in all things that can soothe and please!
     ["One might
1807 England! the     Old things have been unsettled; we have seen
     time is come
1807 October 1803     When, looking on the present face of things,
     ["When looking"]
1807 October 1803     Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God! 
     ["When looking"]
1807 She was a        But all things else about her drawn
     Phantom of
1807 The Affliction   If things ensued that wanted grace,
     of Margaret ----
1807 The Affliction   I question things, and do not find
     of Margaret ----
1807 The Kitten and   Of the countless living things,
     Falling Leaves
1807 The Kitten and   Even from things by sorrow wrought,
     Falling Leaves
1807 The Small        Age might but take the things Youth needed not!
     Celandine
1807 Incident         Goes to learn how all things fare;
     characteristic
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things.
1807 How sweet it is  Of all things, that at last in fear I shrink,
1807 Ode. Intimations The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations Of sense and outward things,
     of Immortality

THINK                           
1807 The Emigrant     I think, to help me if they could.
     Mother
1807 The Emigrant     Thou hast, I think, a look of ours,
     Mother
1807 To the same      Thou must needs, I think, have had,
     Flower
1807 To the same      Sigh'd to think, I read a book
     Flower
1807 Resolution and   I'll think of the Leech-gatherer on the lonely moor!
     Independence
1807 Composed by the  Conspicuous to the Nations. Thou, I think,
     Sea-side, near
1807 Written in       To think that now our Life is only drest
     London,
1807 When I have      Now, when I think of Thee, and what Thou art,
     borne in memory
1807 To H. C. Six     I think of thee with many fears
     years old
1807 To the Sons of   And think, and fear! 
     Burns
1807 Yarrow Unvisited And look'd me in the face, to think
1807 The Affliction   Think not of me with grief and pain:
     of Margaret ----
1807 The Kitten and   Softly, slowly: one might think, 
     Falling Leaves
1807 Fidelity         Not knowing what to think, a while
1807 Star-gazers      Or must we be constrain'd to think that these Spectators rude,
1807 Admonition       Think what the home must be if it were thine,
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  Will press me down: to think of what is gone
1807 How sweet it is  The crowd beneath her. Verily I think,
1807 To the Memory of To think how much of this will be thy praise.
     Raisley Calvert
1807 Ode. Intimations Think not of any severing of our loves!
     of Immortality

THINKING                        
1807 Written in       Plain living and high thinking are no more:
     London,
1807 October 1803     While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray,
     ["These times"]

THINKS                          
1807 Fidelity         With something, as the Shepherd thinks,

THINLY                          
1807 To the Daisy     That thinly shades his few grey hairs;
1807 Incident         Thinly by a one night's frost;
     characteristic
1807 Incident         When, lo! the ice, so thinly spread,
     characteristic

THIRST                          
1807 To the Daisy     My thirst at every rill can slake,
1807 Star-gazers      No, no, this cannot be--men thirst for power and majesty!

THIRTY                          
1807 To the Small     Thirty years or more, and yet
     Celandine
1807 Song at the      Her thirty years of Winter past,
     Feast of

THITHER                         
1807 Resolution and   By what means it could thither come, and whence;
     Independence
1807 Fidelity         Thither the Rainbow comes, the Cloud;
1807 Ode. Intimations thither,
     of Immortality

THOMAS                          
1807 The Redbreast    Their Thomas in Finland,
     chasing the

THOROUGH                        
1807 To the Daisy     The forest thorough!
1807 Yarrow Unvisited We'll wander Scotland thorough;

THOUGHT                         
1807 The Sparrow's    And love, and thought, and joy.
     Nest
1807 The Sailor's     Old times, thought I, are breathing there;
     Mother
1807 Alice Fell       And then, as if the thought would choke
1807 To the Small     Has a thought about it's nest,
     Celandine
1807 Resolution and   My whole life I have liv'd in pleasant thought,
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy,
     Independence
1807 It is a          If thou appear'st untouch'd by solemn thought,
     beauteous
1807 The King of      That thought is one which neither can appal
     Sweden
1807 Composed in the  Thought for another moment. Thou art free
     Valley near
1807 It is not to be  It is not to be thought of that the Flood
     thought of
1807 To H. C. Six     And fittest to unutterable thought
     years old
1807 To H. C. Six     I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest,
     years old
1807 To the Daisy     We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
1807 To the same      That thought comes next--and instantly
     Flower [To the
1807 It is no Spirit  And, while I gazed, there came to me a thought
1807 Stepping         A human sweetness with the thought
     Westward
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  As wise in thought as bold in deed:
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  But thought how wide the world, the times
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  As might have been, then, thought of joy!
1807 The Blind        She thought of him with constant care,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        His Mother often thought, and said,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        But say, what was it? Thought of fear!
     Highland Boy
1807 I wandered       I gaz'd--and gaz'd--but little thought
     lonely as a
1807 The Affliction   From that ill thought; and, being blind,
     of Margaret ----
1807 The Seven        Their Father, took of them no thought,
     Sisters
1807 The Kitten and   Matter for a jocund thought;
     Falling Leaves
1807 Ode to Duty      But in the quietness of thought:
1807 Character of the Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought:
     Happy Warrior
1807 Character of the Nor thought of tender happiness betray;
     Happy Warrior
1807 The Horn of      Whence, then, could it come the thought,
     Egremont Castle
1807 The Horn of      Thus Hubert thought in his dismay,
     Egremont Castle
1807 Star-gazers      Does, then, a deep and earnest thought the blissful mind employ
1807 Personal Talk    Smooth passions, smooth discourse, and joyous thought:
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  Will be an awful thought, if life have one.
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  Deep thought, or dread remembrance, I had none.
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  To see the Trees, which I had thought so tall,
1807 Those words were But now upon this thought I cannot brood:
     uttered
1807 To Sleep ["A     I've thought of all by turns; and still do lie
     flock of sheep"]
1807 Methought I saw  Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone;
     the footsteps
1807 Ode. Intimations To me alone there came a thought of grief:
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations A place of thought where we in waiting lie;
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations The thought of our past years in me doth breed
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations We in thought will join your throng,
     of Immortality

THOUGHTFUL                      
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Of thoughtful Herdsman when he strays
1807 The Matron of    And told me, in a thoughtful strain,
     Jedborough
1807 She was a        A Being breathing thoughtful breath;
     Phantom of

THOUGHTLESS                     
1807 To the Daisy     A thoughtless Thing! who, once unblest, 
1807 The Kitten and   Even as ye do, thoughtless Pair! 
     Falling Leaves

THOUGHTS                        
1807 The Sailor's     When from these lofty thoughts I woke,
     Mother
1807 To the Small     In the lanes my thoughts pursuing,
     Celandine
1807 Resolution and   Dim sadness, and blind thoughts I knew not nor could name.
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   And I with these untoward thoughts had striven,
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   My former thoughts return'd: the fear that kills;
     Independence
1807 Resolution and   While I these thoughts within myself pursued,
     Independence
1807 I grieved for    Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
     Buonaparte
1807 When I have      Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart
     borne in memory
1807 To the same      Thoughts of thy raising:
     Flower [To the
1807 The Green Linnet My thoughts they all by turns employ;
1807 To a Highland    Of thoughts, that lie beyond the reach 
     Girl
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  For Thou, although with some wild thoughts,
1807 October 1803     Of such poor Instruments, with thoughts sublime
     ["When looking"]
1807 The Affliction   Sometimes with thoughts of very bliss!
     of Margaret ----
1807 To the Supreme   Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind
     Being
1807 Tribute to the   Not only for a thousand thoughts that were,
     Memory of the
1807 Tribute to the   Old household thoughts, in which thou hadst thy share;
     Memory of the
1807 To a Young Lady, Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die,
     who had been
1807 Character of the directed the Author's thoughts to the subject. His respect for the
     Happy Warrior             memory
1807 How sweet it is  Or map of the whole world: thoughts, link by link,
1807 To Sleep ["A     Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
     flock of sheep"]
1807 To Sleep ["Fond  All anguish; Saint that evil thoughts and aims
     words"]
1807 Ode. Intimations In the soothing thoughts
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
     of Immortality
1807 To Lady Beaumont Becoming thoughts, I trust, of solemn gloom 
1807 Song at the      No thoughts hath he but thoughts that pass
     Feast of
1807 Song at the      Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead:
     Feast of

THOUSAND                        
1807 Yarrow Unvisited There are a thousand such elsewhere
1807 In the Pass of   Six thousand veterans practis'd in War's game,
     Killicranky
1807 To the Cuckoo    Which made me look a thousand ways
1807 I wandered       Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.
     lonely as a
1807 The Kitten and   Of a thousand Standers-by,
     Falling Leaves
1807 Tribute to the   Not only for a thousand thoughts that were,
     Memory of the
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  By thousand petty fancies I was cross'd,
1807 Ode. Intimations In a thousand vallies far
     of Immortality

THOUSANDS                       
1807 Composed after a Of prospect, whereof many thousands tell.
     Journey
1807 October 1803     While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray,
     ["These times"]
1807 Lines composed   And many thousands now are sad,
     at Grasmere

THRALL                          
1807 There is a       Pent in, a Tyrant's solitary Thrall:
     bondage worse

THREAT'NING                     
1807 Alice Fell       For threat'ning clouds the moon had drown'd;

THREATEN                        
1807 To the same      Staring to threaten and defy,
     Flower [To the

THREES                          
1807 The Sun has long The Stars are out by twos and threes;
     been set

THRELKELD                       
1807 Song at the      --Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise!
     Feast of

THREW                           
1807 A Prophecy.      She rose,--and off at once the yoke she threw.
     February 1807

THRICE                          
1807 To the Cuckoo    Thrice welcome, Darling of the Spring!

THRIFT                          
1807 To the Spade of  His thrift thy uselessness will never scorn;
     a Friend

THRIFTY                         
1807 To the Small     But the thrifty Cottager,
     Celandine

THROBBING                       
1807 The Redbreast    His little heart is throbbing:
     chasing the

THRONE                          
1807 Methought I saw  Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne
     the footsteps

THRONG                          
1807 Ode. Intimations I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng,
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations We in thought will join your throng,
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      On this great throng, this bright array!
     Feast of

THROUGHOUT                      
1807 Ode to Duty      Yet not the less would I throughout

THROW                           
1807 Yarrow Unvisited Why throw away a needful day

THROWN                          
1807 The Affliction   Or thou upon a Desart thrown
     of Margaret ----
1807 Ode. Intimations Ere this be thrown aside,
     of Immortality
1807 Song at the      He hath thrown aside his Crook, 
     Feast of

THROWS                          
1807 The Matron of    Our Human-nature throws away
     Jedborough

THRUSH                          
1807 To the Small     In the time before the Thrush
     Celandine

THRUSHES                        
1807 The Sun has long There's a Cuckoo, and one or two thrushes;
     been set

THUNDER                         
1807 It is a          A sound like thunder--everlastingly.
     beauteous
1807 Thought of a     That mountain Floods should thunder as before,
     Briton on the

THUNDERING                      
1807 In the Pass of   And Garry thundering down his mountain-road
     Killicranky

THYSELF                         
1807 To the Small     Bold, and lavish of thyself,
     Celandine
1807 To Toussaint     Though fallen Thyself, never to rise again,
     L'Ouverture
1807 The Green Linnet Thyself thy own enjoyment.
1807 Rob Roy's Grave  Thou would'st have nobly stirr'd thyself,

TIDE                            
1807 The Blind        And, with the coming of the Tide,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        Still sounding with the sounding tide,
     Highland Boy
1807 The Blind        The tide retreating more and more
     Highland Boy
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  No motion but the moving tide, a breeze,

TIDINGS                         
1807 The Affliction   No tidings of an only child;
     of Margaret ----
1807 The Affliction   Some tidings that my woes may end;
     of Margaret ----
1807 Character of the after tidings had been received of the Death of Lord Nelson, which
     Happy Warrior             event
1807 The Horn of      Nor of him were tidings heard;
     Egremont Castle

TIE                             
1807 The Affliction   Chains tie us down by land and sea;
     of Margaret ----

TIGER                           
1807 The Kitten and   With a tiger-leap half-way
     Falling Leaves

TILL'D                          
1807 To the Spade of  Spade! with which Wilkinson hath till'd his Lands,
     a Friend

TILLAGE                         
1807 O mountain       Of tillage-ground, that seemeth like a spot
     Stream!

TIME                            
1807 I travelled      A second time; for still I seem
     among unknown
1807 The Sailor's     A foggy day in winter time)
     Mother
1807 To a Butterfly   The time, when, in our childish plays,
1807 To the Small     In the time before the Thrush
     Celandine
1807 Calais, August   His business as he likes. Another time
     15, 1802
1807 It is a          The holy time is quiet as a Nun
     beauteous
1807 To the Sons of   'Tis twilight time of good and ill,
     Burns
1807 The Solitary     In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
     Reaper
1807 England! the     England! the time is come when thou should'st wean
     time is come
1807 England! the     Fair seed-time, better harvest might have been
     time is come
1807 October 1803     I tremble at the sorrow of the time.
     ["When looking"]
1807 To the Men of    Now is the time to prove your hardiment!
     Kent. October
1807 To the Cuckoo    That golden time again.
1807 She was a        From May-time and the chearful Dawn;
     Phantom of
1807 The Kitten and   They are sober'd by this time.
     Falling Leaves
1807 The Kitten and   That, when time brings on decay,
     Falling Leaves
1807 Fidelity         How nourish'd here through such long time
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Such Picture would I at that time have made: 
1807 Elegiac Stanzas  Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,
1807 The Horn of      At this time, and on this spot,
     Egremont Castle
1807 The Horn of      None could tell if it were night-time,
     Egremont Castle
1807 Power of Music   What matter! he's caught--and his time runs to waste--
1807 "Beloved Vale!"  A Juggler's balls old Time about him toss'd;
1807 Where lies the   From time to time, like Pilgrims, here and there
     Land
1807 From the Same    His heart to aught which doth on time depend.
     ["No mortal
1807 Ode. Intimations There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
     of Immortality
1807 Ode. Intimations Filling from time to time his humourous stage
     of Immortality
1807 To Thomas        First roused thee.--O true yoke-fellow of Time
     Clarkson
1807 To Lady Beaumont The dream, to time and nature's blended powers
1807 Song at the      The words of ancient time I thus translate,
     Feast of
1807 Song at the      Oh! it was a time forlorn
     Feast of
1807 Song at the      And thankful through a weary time,
     Feast of