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Transcriber's Note:

THE POETICAL WORKS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED BY

WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. IV

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.

NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO. 1896

CONTENTS

1806

1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813

WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS 1806 TO THE SPADE OF A FRIEND

(An Agriculturist)

CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR THE HORN OF EGREMONT CASTLE A COMPLAINT STRAY PLEASURES POWER OF MUSIC STAR-GAZERS "YES, IT WAS THE MOUNTAIN ECHO" "NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT'S NARROW ROOM" PERSONAL TALK ADMONITION "'BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON'" "HOW SWEET IT IS, WHEN MOTHER FANCY ROCKS" "THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD" "WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON, THOU CLIMB'ST THE SKY" "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON" "WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED FAR AND NIGH" "WHERE LIES THE LAND TO WHICH YON SHIP MUST GO?" TO SLEEP TO SLEEP TO SLEEP TO THE MEMORY OF RAISLEY CALVERT "METHOUGHT I SAW THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THRONE" LINES NOVEMBER, 1806 ADDRESS TO A CHILD

During a Boisterous Winter Evening

"BROOK! WHOSE SOCIETY THE POET SEEKS" "THERE IS A LITTLE UNPRETENDING RILL" 1807 TO LADY BEAUMONT A PROPHECY. FEBRUARY, 1807 THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND TO THOMAS CLARKSON, ON THE FINAL PASSING OF THE BILL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE, MARCH, 1807 THE MOTHER'S RETURN GIPSIES "O NIGHTINGALE! THOU SURELY ART" "THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN'S CARES, AND NEAR" COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE LAKE. 1807 IN THE GROUNDS OF COLEORTON, THE SEAT OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART., LEICESTERSHIRE IN A GARDEN OF THE SAME WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART., AND IN HIS NAME, FOR AN URN, PLACED BY HIM AT THE TERMINATION OF A NEWLY-PLANTED AVENUE, IN THE SAME GROUNDS FOR A SEAT IN THE GROVES OF COLEORTON SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE, 1808 THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;

Or, The Fate of the Nortons

THE FORCE OF PRAYER;[A]

Or, The Founding of Bolton Priory

A Tradition

COMPOSED WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS ENGAGED IN WRITING A TRACT, OCCASIONED BY THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA. 1808 COMPOSED AT THE SAME TIME AND ON THE SAME OCCASION 1809 TYROLESE SONNETS I

HOFFER

"ADVANCE—COME FORTH FROM THY TYROLEAN GROUND"

III

FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE

"ALAS! WHAT BOOTS THE LONG LABORIOUS QUEST"

ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE

"THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN" 1 Andreas Hofer. 2[B] 3 Gefühle der Tiroler. 4 5 Auf die schließliche Unterwerfung der Tiroler.

"AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES" "O'ER THE WIDE EARTH, ON MOUNTAIN AND ON PLAIN" "HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE" "SAY, WHAT IS HONOUR?—'TIS THE FINEST SENSE" "BRAVE SCHILL! BY DEATH DELIVERED, TAKE THY FLIGHT" "CALL NOT THE ROYAL SWEDE UNFORTUNATE" "LOOK NOW ON THAT ADVENTURER WHO HATH PAID" "IS THERE A POWER THAT CAN SUSTAIN AND CHEER" EPITAPHS TRANSLATED FROM CHIABRERA

I "WEEP NOT, BELOVÈD FRIENDS! NOR LET THE AIR" II "PERHAPS SOME NEEDFUL SERVICE OF THE STATE" III "O THOU WHO MOVEST ONWARD WITH A MIND" IV "THERE NEVER BREATHED A MAN WHO, WHEN HIS LIFE" V "TRUE IS IT THAT AMBROSIO SALINERO" VI "DESTINED TO WAR FROM VERY INFANCY" VII "O FLOWER OF ALL THAT SPRINGS FROM GENTLE BLOOD" VIII "NOT WITHOUT HEAVY GRIEF OF HEART DID HE" IX "PAUSE, COURTEOUS SPIRIT!—BALBI SUPPLICATES"[A]

1810 "AH! WHERE IS PALAFOX? NOR TONGUE NOR PEN" "IN DUE OBSERVANCE OF AN ANCIENT RITE" FEELINGS OF A NOBLE BISCAYAN AT ONE OF THOSE FUNERALS, 1810 ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY UPON THE SAME EVENT THE OAK OF GUERNICA INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD, 1810 "AVAUNT ALL SPECIOUS PLIANCY OF MIND" "O'ERWEENING STATESMEN HAVE FULL LONG RELIED" THE FRENCH AND THE SPANISH GUERILLAS MATERNAL GRIEF 1811 CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE YEARS OLD SPANISH GUERILLAS, 1811 "THE POWER OF ARMIES IS A VISIBLE THING" "HERE PAUSE: THE POET CLAIMS AT LEAST THIS PRAISE" EPISTLE

TO SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART.

FROM THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OF CUMBERLAND.—1811

UPON PERUSING THE FOREGOING EPISTLE THIRTY YEARS AFTER ITS COMPOSITION UPON THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE,

Painted by Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart.

TO THE POET, JOHN DYER 1812 SONG FOR THE SPINNING WHEEL

COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND IN THE VALE OF GRASMERE, 1812 WATER-FOWL[A] 1813 VIEW FROM THE TOP OF BLACK COMB WRITTEN WITH A SLATE PENCIL ON A STONE, ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF BLACK COMB NOVEMBER, 1813