Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads,
and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a New
Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In Two Volumes. 1815
Contents of Volume I.
POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD
OF CHILDHOOD
My heart leaps up
To a Butterfly
Foresight
Characteristics of a Child
Address to a Child
The Mother's return
Lucy Gray
Alice Fell
We are Seven
Anecdote for Fathers
Rural Architecture
The Pet Lamb
The Idle Shepherd Boys
To H. C.
Influence of Natural objects
The Blind Highland Boy
JUVENILE PIECES
Extract from a Poem on leaving
School
---- from An Evening Walk
---------- Descriptive Sketches
Female Vagrant
POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS
The Brothers
The Sparrow's Nest
To a Butterfly
Farewell thou little Nook
Written in my Pocket Copy of the Castle of
Indolence
Ellen Irwin
Strange fits of passion
[She dwelt among the untrodden ways]
[I travelled among unknown men]
I met Louisa
'Tis said that some
The Complaint of an Indian
The last of the Flock
A Complaint
Ruth
The Cottager to her Infant
The Sailor's Mother
The Childless Father
The Affliction of ----
Once in a lonely Hamlet
Her eyes are wild
The Idiot Boy
Michael, a Pastoral Poem
Laodamia
POEMS OF THE FANCY
To the Daisy
A whirl-blast
With how sad steps
The Green Linnet
To the small Celandine
To the same Flower
The Waterfall and the Eglantine
The Oak and the Broom
The Redbreast and the Butterfly
To the Daisy
To the same Flower
To a Sky-lark
To a Sexton
Who fancied what a pretty sight
Song for the Wandering Jew
The seven Sisters
By their floating Mill
The Kitten and falling Leaves
A Fragment
Address to my Infant Daughter
POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION
There was a Boy
To the Cuckoo
A Night Piece
Yew Trees
View from the Top of Black Comb
Nutting
She was a Phantom
O Nightingale
Three Years she grew
A slumber
The Horn of Egremont Castle
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
I wandered lonely
Reverie of Poor Susan
Power of Music
Stepping Westward
Glen Almain
Contents of Volume II.
POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION
CONTINUED
To a Highland Girl
The Solitary Reaper
The Cock is crowing
Gipsies
Beggars
Yarrow Unvisited
Yarrow Visited
Star Gazers
Resolution and Independence
The Thorn
Hart-leap well
Song at the Feast of Brougham
Yes! full surely
French Revolution
It is no Spirit
Tintern Abbey
POEMS PROCEEDING FROM SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION
Lines left upon a Seat, &c.
Character of the Happy Warrior
Rob Roy's Grave
A Poet's Epitaph
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
To the Sons of Burns
To the Spade of a Friend
Written in Germany
Lines written at a small distance from my
House, &c.
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for
taking long walks, &c.
Lines written in early spring
Simon Lee
Andrew Jones
Lines written on a Tablet in a School
The two April mornings
The Fountain
Lines written in a Boat
Remembrance of Collins
I am not one of those, &c.
Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog
Tribute to the memory of the same Dog
The Force of Prayer, or the Founding of Bolton
Abbey
Fidelity
Ode to Duty
MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
Prefatory Sonnet
Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture
The fairest, brightest
Weak is the will of Man
Hail Twilight
The Shepherd looking eastward
How sweet it is, when
Where lies the Land
Even as a dragon's eye
Mark the concentred
Composed after a journey across the Hamilton
Hills
These words
Degenerate Douglas
To the Poet Dyer
To Sleep
To Sleep
To Sleep
With Ships
To the River Duddon
From the Italian of M. Angelo
From the same
From the same
To the Lady ----
The World is too much with
Written in very early Youth
Composed upon Westminster bridge
Pelion and Ossa
Brook whose
Admonition
Beloved Vale
Methought I saw
Surprized by joy
It is a beauteous
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend
On approaching Home
To ----
To Raisley Calvert
SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY
FIRST PART
Published in 1807
Composed by the Sea shore near
Calais
Calais
To a Friend
I grieved for Buonaparte
Festivals have I seen
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
The King of Sweden
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
We had a Fellow-passenger
Composed in the Valley near Dover
Inland, within a hollow Vale
Thought of a Briton, &c.
Written in London
Milton!----
Great Men have been
It is not to be thought of
When I have borne
One might believe
There is a bondage
These times
England! the time is come
When looking
To the Men of Kent
Six thousand Veterans
Anticipation
Another year!
SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY
SECOND PART
From the Year 1807 to 1813
On a celebrated Event in Ancient
History
On the same Event
To Thomas Clarkson
A Prophecy
Composed while the Author was engaged in Writing
a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra
On the same occasion
Hoffer
Advance--come forth!
Feelings of the Tyrolese
Alas! what boots
And is it among rude
O'er the wide earth
On the final submission of the Tyrolese
Hail Zaragoza!
Say what is Honour?
The martial courage
Brave Shill!
Call not the royal Swede
Look now on that Adventurer
Is there a Power
Ah where is Palafox!
In due observance
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan
The Oak of Guernica
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard
Avaunt all specious
O'er-weening Statesmen
The French and the Spanish Guerillas
Spanish Guerillas
The power of Armies
Conclusion
Added
POEMS ON THE NAMING OF
PLACES
It was an April morning
To Joanna
There is an Eminence
A narrow girdle
To M. H.
When from the attractions
INSCRIPTIONS
Lines written upon a stone, &c.
Upon a stone on the side of Black Comb
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir
George Beaumont, Bart.
In a Garden of the same
Upon an Urn in the same Grounds
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton
Written with a pencil upon the wall of the
house on the Island at Grasmere
POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE
The old Cumberland Beggar
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
The small Celandine
Animal Tranquillity
The two Thieves
The Matron of Jedborough
Sonnet
Inscription
EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC POEMS
1st, Epitaph translated from
Chiabrera
2d,
3d,
4th,
5th,
6th,
Lines composed at Grasmere
Written on a blank leaf in a Copy of the Excursion
Elegiac Stanzas
To the Daisy
ODE.--Intimations, &c.
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