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A barking sound the Shepherd hears, 1807 1815

A bright-haired company of youthful slaves, 1822

A famous Man is Robin Hood, 1807 1815

A fig for your languages, German and Norse, 1800 1815

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, 1807 1815

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, 1822

A month, sweet Little-ones, is passed 1815

A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags, 1800 1815

A pleasant music floats along the Mere, 1822

A point of life between my Parent's dust, 1835

A Rock there is whose homely front 1835

A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground, 1815

------------A simple child 1815

A simple child, dear brother Jim, 1798 1800

A slumber did my spirit seal; 1800 1815

A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, 1835

A voice, from long-expectant thousands sent, 1822

A whirl-blast from behind the hill 1800 1815

A youth too certain of his power to wade 1835

Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown 1835

Advance--come forth from thy Tyrolean ground 1815

Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow 1819

Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers! 1807 1815

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen 1815

Ah, when the Frame, round which in love we clung, 1822

Aid, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light, 1822

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest 1815

All perished--all, in one remorseless year, 1815

Amid a fertile region green with wood 1835

Amid the smoke of cities did you pass 1800 1815

Among a grave fraternity of Monks, 1835

Among all lovely things my Love had been; 1807

Among the dwellings framed by birds 1835

Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream 1819

Among the mountains were we nursed, loved stream! 1835

An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold, 1807

An Orpheus! an Orpheus!--yes, Faith may grow bold, 1815

And is it among rude untutored Dales, 1815

And is this--Yarrow?--This the Stream 1815

And not in vain embodied to the sight 1822

And shall, the Pontiff asks, profaneness flow 1822

And what is Penance with her knotted thong; 1822

And what melodious sounds at times prevail! 1822

Another year!--another deadly blow! 1807 1815

Arran! a single-crested Teneriffe, 1835

Art thou a Statesman, in the van 1800 1815

Art thou the Bird whom Man loves best, 1807 1815

As often as I murmur here 1835

As star that shines dependent upon star 1822

As the cold aspect of a sunless way 1819

As with the Stream our voyage we pursue, 1822

As, when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain 1822

At early dawn,--or rather when the air 1819

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, 1800

At the corner of Wood-street, when daylight appears, 1815

Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind 1815

Avon--a precious, an immortal name! 1835

Bard of the Fleece, whose skilful Genius made 1815

Be this the chosen site--the virgin sod, 1822

Before I see another day, 1798 1800 1815

Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf, 1800 1815

Beguiled into forgetfulness of care 1835

Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, 1822

Behold her, single in the field, 1807 1815

Behold, within the leafy shade, 1815

Beloved Vale! I said, when I shall con 1807 1815

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed 1815

Beneath yon eastern Ridge, the craggy Bound, 1815

Between two sister moorland rills 1800 1815

Black Demons hovering o'er his mitred head, 1822

Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong, 1835

Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight 1815

Bright Flower! whose home is every where! 1815

Bright Flower! whose home is every where, 1807

Broken in fortune, but in mind entire 1835

Brook, whose society the Poet seeks 1815

Busk, ye, busk ye my bonny, bonny Bride, 1807 1815

But liberty, and triumphs on the Main, 1822

But what if One, thro' grove or flowery mead, 1822

But whence came they who for the Saviour Lord 1835

But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred Book, 1822

But, to remote Northumbria's royal Hall, 1822

By a blest Husband guided, Mary came 1835

By Derwent's side my Father's cottage stood 1798 1800

By such examples moved to unbought pains, 1822

By their floating mil 1815

Call not the royal Swede unfortunate 1815

Calm as an under current--strong to draw 1822

Calm is all nature as a resting wheel. 1807 1815

Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose 1835

Calvert! it must not be unheard by them 1807 1815

Can aught survive to linger in the veins 1822

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride 1835

Clarkson! it was an obstinate Hill to climb: 1815

Clarkson! it was an obstinate Hill to climb; 1807

Dark, and more dark, the shades of Evening fell; 1815

Darkness surrounds us; seeking, we are lost 1822

Dear Child of Nature, let them rail! 1807 1815

Dear fellow-Traveller! here we are once more. 1807 1815

Dear native Regions, I foretell, 1815

Dear Reliques! from a pit of vilest mold 1816

Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, 1835

Deep is the lamentation! Not alone 1822

Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord! 1807 1815

Deplorable his lot who tills the ground, 1835

Desire we past illusions to recall? 1835

Despond who will--I heard a voice exclaim, 1835

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough, 1835

Destined to war from very infancy 1815

Dishonoured Rock and Ruin! that, by law 1835

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, 1835

Driven in by Autumn's sharpening air, 1835

Earth has not anything to shew more fair: 1807 1815

Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewed 1835

England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean 1815

England! the time is come when thou should'st wean 1807

Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook, 1835

Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyes 1835

Enough! for see, with dim association 1822

Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell: 1807

Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress 1815

Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sate 1800 1815

Fair Star of evening, Splendor of the West, 1815

Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the West, 1807

Fallen, and diffus'd into a shapeless heap, 1819

Far from my dearest friend, 'tis mine to rove 1793

Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain-ground, 1815

Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree 1822

Festivals have I seen that were not names: 1807 1815

Five years have passed; five summers, with the length 1798 1800 1815

Five years have passed; five summers, with the length 1798 1800 1815

Flattered with promise of escape 1835

Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep! 1807 1815

For ever hallowed be this morning fair, 1822

Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein 1835

From Bolton's old monastic tower 1815

From early youth I ploughed the restless Main, 1835

from his fellows only man may learn 1835

From little down to least--in due degree, 1822

From low to high doth dissolution climb, 1822

From the dark chambers of dejection freed, 1815

Genius of Raphael! if thy wings 1835

Glide gently, thus for ever glide, 1800 1815

Glory to God! and to the Power who came 1822

Go, faithful Portrait! and where long hath knelt 1835

Grant, that by this unsparing Hurricane 1822

Great Men have been among us; hands that penn'd 1807 1815

Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stones 1835

Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready Friend 1819

Hail Twilight,--sovereign of one peaceful hour! 1815

Hail, universal Source of pure delight! 1816

Hail, Virgin Queen! o'er many an envious bar 1822

Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye 1815

Harp! could'st thou venture, on thy boldest string, 1822

Hast thou then survived, 1815

Her eyes are wild, her head is bare, 1798 1800 1815

Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall 1822

Here on their knees men swore: the stones were black, 1835

Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise, 1815

Here stood an Oak, that long had borne affixed 1835

High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you! 1807 1815

High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate, 1807 1815

High is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art 1816

His simple truths did Andrew glean 1800 1815

Holy and heavenly Spirits as they were, 1822

Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell, 1835

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, 1835

How beautiful your presence, how benign, 1822

How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright 1816

How disappeared he? Ask the newt and toad; 1835

How profitless the relics that we cull, 1835

How rich the wave, in front, imprest 1798 1800

How richly glows the water's breast 1815

How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks 1807 1815

Humanity, delighting to behold 1816

Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast 1815

I am not One who much or oft delight 1807 1815

I dropped my pen;--and listened to the wind 1815

I griev'd for Buonaparte, with a vain 1807

I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain 1815

I hate that Andrew Jones: he'll breed 1800 1815

I have a boy of five years old 1798 1800

I have a Boy of five years old; 1815

I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream) 1819

I heard a thousand blended notes, 1798 1800 1815

I marvel how Nature could ever find space 1800

I met Louisa in the shade; 1807 1815

I saw an aged Beggar in my walk; 1800 1815

I saw the figure of a lovely Maid 1822

I travell'd among unknown Men, 1807 1815

I wandered lonely as a Cloud 1807 1815

I was thy Neighbour once, thou rugged Pile! 1807 1815

I watch, and long have watch'd, with calm regret 1819

I, who descended with glad step to chase 1822

If from the public way you turn your steps 1800 1815

If Life were slumber on a bed of down, 1835

If Nature, for a favorite Child, 1800 1815

If there be Prophets on whose spirits rest 1822

If this great world of joy and pain 1835

If thou in the dear love of some one friend 1800

If to Tradition faith be due, 1835

Immured in Bothwell's Towers, at times the Brave 1835

In Brugs town is many a street 1835

In distant countries have I been, 1815

In distant countries I have been, 1798 1800

In due observance of an ancient rite, 1815

In the sweet shire of Cardigan, 1798 1800 1815

In these fair vales hath many a Tree 1835

In this still place, remote from men, 1807 1815

In trellis'd shed with clustering roses gay, 1815

In youth from rock to rock I went, 1807 1815

Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood, 1807

Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood; 1815

Intrepid sons of Albion!--not by you 1816

Is it a Reed that's shaken by the wind, 1807 1815

Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer 1815

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free, 1807

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free; 1815

It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath flown, 1807 1815

It is not to be thought of that the Flood 1807 1815

It is the first mild day of March: 1798 1800 1815

---------------------It seems a day, 1800 1815

It was a moral end for which they fought; 1815

It was an April morning: fresh and clear 1800 1815

I've watch'd you now a full half hour; 1807

I've watch'd you now a full half-hour, 1815

Jones! as from Calais southward you and I 1807 1815

Lady! a Pen, perhaps with thy regard, 1835

Lady! the songs of Spring were in the grove 1807 1815

Lament! for Diocletian's fiery sword 1822

Lance, shield, and sword relinquished--at his side 1822

Last night, without a voice, this Vision spake 1822

Let thy wheel-barrow alone-- 1815

Let thy wheel-barrow alone. 1800

Lie here sequester'd:--be this little mound 1807

Lie here sequestered:--be this little mound 1815

Like a shipwreck'd Sailor tost 1835

List, the winds of March are blowing; 1835

List, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower* 1835

Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they 1819

Lonsdale! it were unworthy of a Guest, 1835

Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid 1815

Look, five blue eggs are gleaming there! 1807

Loud is the Vale! the Voice is up 1807 1815

Loving she is, and tractable, though wild; 1815

Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen 1835

Man's life is like a Sparrow7, mighty King! 1822

Mark the concentred Hazels that enclose 1815

Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy 1822

Mercy and Love have met thee on thy road, 1822

Methinks that I could trip o'er heaviest soil, 1822

Methinks that to some vacant hermitage 1822

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne 1807 1815

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: 1807 1815

Mine ear has rung, my spirits sunk subdued, 1822

Monastic Domes! following my downward way, 1822

Monument of Mrs. Howard 1835

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes 1835

Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost 1822

Motions and Means, on land and sea at war 1835

My heart leaps up when I behold 1807 1815


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