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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH VOL. VIII
CONTENTS
PREFATORY NOTE
1834
LINES Suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone
THE FOREGOING SUBJECT RESUMED
TO A CHILD Written in her Album[8]
LINES Written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale,[11] Nov. 5, 1834
1835
“WHY ART THOU SILENT? IS THY LOVE A PLANT”
TO THE MOON (COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE,—ON THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND)
TO THE MOON (RYDAL)
WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB
EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG
UPON SEEING A COLOURED DRAWING OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE IN AN ALBUM
“DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH”
“FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN”
TO ——
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORDSHIRE
ST. CATHERINE OF LEDBURY
“BY A BLEST HUSBAND GUIDED, MARY CAME”[53]
“OH WHAT A WRECK! HOW CHANGED IN MIEN AND SPEECH!”
1836
NOVEMBER 1836
TO A REDBREAST—(IN SICKNESS)
1837
“SIX MONTHS TO SIX YEARS ADDED HE REMAINED”
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY 1837
TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON[60]
I MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE
II THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO[103] AT ROME
III AT ROME
IV AT ROME—REGRETS—IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR AND OTHER MODERN HISTORIANS
V CONTINUED
VI PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN
VII AT ROME
VIII NEAR ROME, IN SIGHT OF ST. PETER’S
IX AT ALBANO[116]
X “NEAR ANIO’S STREAM, I SPIED A GENTLE DOVE”
XI FROM THE ALBAN HILLS, LOOKING TOWARDS ROME
XII NEAR THE LAKE OF THRASYMENE
XIII NEAR THE SAME LAKE
XIV THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA[130]
XV AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI
XVI CONTINUED
XVII AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI
XVIII AT VALLOMBROSA[145]
XIX AT FLORENCE
XX BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, IN THE GALLERY AT FLORENCE[155]
XXI AT FLORENCE—FROM MICHAEL ANGELO
XXII AT FLORENCE—FROM M. ANGELO
XXIII AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES
XXIV IN LOMBARDY
XXV AFTER LEAVING ITALY
XXVI CONTINUED
AT BOLOGNA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTIONS, 1837[161][162]
I
II CONTINUED
III CONCLUDED
“WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY”
A NIGHT THOUGHT
THE WIDOW ON WINDERMERE SIDE
1838
TO THE PLANET VENUS Upon its Approximation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth, January 1838
“HARK! ’TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST”
“’TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING’S HIGH DISDAIN”
COMPOSED AT RYDAL ON MAY MORNING, 1838[175]
COMPOSED ON A MAY MORNING, 1838[182]
A PLEA FOR AUTHORS, MAY 1838
“BLEST STATESMAN HE, WHOSE MIND’S UNSELFISH WILL”
VALEDICTORY SONNET[196]
1839
SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IN SERIES
I SUGGESTED BY THE VIEW OF LANCASTER CASTLE (ON THE ROAD FROM THE SOUTH)
II[198] “TENDERLY DO WE FEEL BY NATURE’S LAW”
III[200] “THE ROMAN CONSUL DOOMED HIS SONS TO DIE”
IV “IS DEATH, WHEN EVIL AGAINST GOOD HAS FOUGHT”
V “NOT TO THE OBJECT SPECIALLY DESIGNED”
VI[202] “YE BROOD OF CONSCIENCE—SPECTRES! THAT FREQUENT”
VII “BEFORE THE WORLD HAD PAST HER TIME OF YOUTH”
VIII[204] “FIT RETRIBUTION, BY THE MORAL CODE”
IX “THOUGH TO GIVE TIMELY WARNING AND DETER”
X “OUR BODILY LIFE, SOME PLEAD, THAT LIFE THE SHRINE”
XI[207] “AH, THINK HOW ONE COMPELLED FOR LIFE TO ABIDE”
XII “SEE THE CONDEMNED ALONE WITHIN HIS CELL”
XIII[208] CONCLUSION
XIV APOLOGY
“MEN OF THE WESTERN WORLD! IN FATE’S DARK BOOK”
1840
TO A PAINTER
ON THE SAME SUBJECT
POOR ROBIN[214]
ON A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON UPON THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, BY HAYDON[219]
1841
EPITAPH In the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland
1842
“INTENT ON GATHERING WOOL FROM HEDGE AND BRAKE”
PRELUDE, Prefixed to the Volume entitled “Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years”
FLOATING ISLAND
“THE CRESCENT-MOON, THE STAR OF LOVE”
“A POET!—HE HATH PUT HIS HEART TO SCHOOL”
“THE MOST ALLURING CLOUDS THAT MOUNT THE SKY”
“FEEL FOR THE WRONGS TO UNIVERSAL KEN”
IN ALLUSION TO VARIOUS RECENT HISTORIES AND NOTICES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CONTINUED
CONCLUDED
“LO! WHERE SHE STANDS FIXED IN A SAINT-LIKE TRANCE”
THE NORMAN BOY
THE POET’S DREAM[227] Sequel To the Norman Boy
SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE
TO THE CLOUDS[241]
AIREY-FORCE VALLEY
“LYRE! THOUGH SUCH POWER DO IN THY MAGIC LIVE”
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
“THEY CALL IT LOVE LIES BLEEDING! RATHER SAY”
COMPANION TO THE FOREGOING
THE CUCKOO-CLOCK
“WANSFELL! THIS HOUSEHOLD HAS A FAVOURED LOT”
“THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT”
“GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD”
1843
“WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH”
INSCRIPTION For a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick
COPY OF THE PRINTED INSCRIPTION
TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D., MASTER OF HARROW SCHOOL[271] After the perusal of his Theophilus Anglicanus, recently published.
1844
“SO FAIR, SO SWEET, WITHAL SO SENSITIVE”
ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY
“PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD”
AT FURNESS ABBEY
1845
“FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE”
THE WESTMORELAND GIRL[290] To my Grandchildren
AT FURNESS ABBEY
“YES! THOU ART FAIR, YET BE NOT MOVED”
“WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE”
TO A LADY, In Answer to a Request that I would write her a Poem upon some Drawings that she had made of Flowers in the Island of Madeira
TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS
“YOUNG ENGLAND—WHAT IS THEN BECOME OF OLD”
1846
SONNET[301]
“WHERE LIES THE TRUTH? HAS MAN, IN WISDOM’S CREED”
TO LUCCA GIORDANO[305]
“WHO BUT IS PLEASED TO WATCH THE MOON ON HIGH”
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS
SONNET To an Octogenarian
“I KNOW AN AGED MAN CONSTRAINED TO DWELL”
“THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS”
“HOW BEAUTIFUL THE QUEEN OF NIGHT, ON HIGH”
ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM
ODE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
1787
SONNET, ON SEEING MISS HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS WEEP AT A TALE OF DISTRESS[337]
LINES WRITTEN BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AS A SCHOOL EXERCISE AT HAWKSHEAD, ANNO ÆTATIS 14
1792 (or earlier)
“SWEET WAS THE WALK ALONG THE NARROW LANE”
“WHEN LOVE WAS BORN OF HEAVENLY LINE”
THE CONVICT
1798
“THE SNOW-TRACKS OF MY FRIENDS I SEE”
THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR
1800
ANDREW JONES
“THERE IS A SHAPELESS CROWD OF UNHEWN STONES”
1802
“AMONG ALL LOVELY THINGS MY LOVE HAD BEEN”
“ALONG THE MAZES OF THIS SONG I GO”
“THE RAINS AT LENGTH HAVE CEAS’D, THE WINDS ARE STILL’D”
“WITNESS THOU”
WILD-FOWL
WRITTEN IN A GROTTO
HOME AT GRASMERE
“SHALL HE WHO GIVES HIS DAYS TO LOW PURSUITS”
1803
“I FIND IT WRITTEN OF SIMONIDES”
1804
“NO WHIMSEY OF THE PURSE IS HERE”
1805
“PEACEFUL OUR VALLEY, FAIR AND GREEN”
“AH! IF I WERE A LADY GAY”
1806
TO THE EVENING STAR OVER GRASMERE WATER, JULY 1806
MICHAEL ANGELO IN REPLY TO THE PASSAGE UPON HIS STATUE OF NIGHT SLEEPING
“COME, GENTLE SLEEP, DEATH’S IMAGE THO’ THOU ART”
“BROOK, THAT HAST BEEN MY SOLACE DAYS AND WEEKS”
TRANSLATION FROM MICHAEL ANGELO
1808
GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN
1818
“THE SCOTTISH BROOM ON BIRD-NEST BRAE”[392]
PLACARD FOR A POLL BEARING AN OLD SHIRT
“CRITICS, RIGHT HONOURABLE BARD, DECREE”
1819
“THROUGH CUMBRIAN WILDS, IN MANY A MOUNTAIN COVE”
“MY SON! BEHOLD THE TIDE ALREADY SPENT”
1820
AUTHOR’S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE (THIRTY YEARS AGO)
1822
“THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM”
TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ÆNEID
1823
“ARMS AND THE MAN I SING, THE FIRST WHO BORE”
1826
LINES ADDRESSED TO JOANNA H. FROM GWERNDWFFNANT IN JUNE 1826
HOLIDAY AT GWERNDWFFNANT, MAY 1826 IRREGULAR STANZAS
COMPOSED WHEN A PROBABILITY EXISTED OF OUR BEING OBLIGED TO QUIT RYDAL MOUNT AS A RESIDENCE
“I, WHOSE PRETTY VOICE YOU HEAR”
1827
TO MY NIECE DORA
1829
“MY LORD AND LADY DARLINGTON”
1833
TO THE UTILITARIANS
1835
“THRONED IN THE SUN’S DESCENDING CAR”
“AND OH! DEAR SOOTHER OF THE PENSIVE BREAST”
1836
“SAID RED-RIBBONED EVANS”
1837
ON AN EVENT IN COL. EVANS’S REDOUBTED PERFORMANCES IN SPAIN
1838
“WOULDST THOU BE GATHERED TO CHRIST’S CHOSEN FLOCK”
PROTEST AGAINST THE BALLOT, 1838[404]
“SAID SECRECY TO COWARDICE AND FRAUD”
A POET TO HIS GRANDCHILD (SEQUEL TO THE FOREGOING)[407]
1840
ON A PORTRAIT OF I.F., PAINTED BY MARGARET GILLIES[410]
TO I.F.[411]
“OH BOUNTY WITHOUT MEASURE, WHILE THE GRACE”
1842
THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE[413]
GRACE DARLING[414]
“WHEN SEVERN’S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN”
THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN
1846
“DEIGN, SOVEREIGN MISTRESS! TO ACCEPT A LAY”
1847
ODE, PERFORMED IN THE SENATE-HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, ON THE 6TH OF JULY 1847, AT THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT AFTER THE INSTALLATION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY.[429]
INSTALLATION ODE
TO MISS SELLON
“THE WORSHIP OF THIS SABBATH MORN”
A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY
I.—GREAT BRITAIN
I EDITIONS PUBLISHED DURING WORDSWORTH’S LIFETIME
II EDITIONS OF THE POEMS, AND OF SELECTIONS FROM THEM, PUBLISHED AFTER THE POET’S DEATH.
III ESTIMATES OF WORDSWORTH IN VARIOUS BOOKS[476]
IV CRITICAL ESTIMATES IN BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, AND REVIEWS
V PARODIES ON WORDSWORTH
VI POEMS ADDRESSED TO WORDSWORTH, AND ALLUSIONS TO HIM BY CONTEMPORARY AND SUBSEQUENT POETS
II.—AMERICA
PREFATORY NOTE
I AMERICAN EDITIONS OF WORDSWORTH
II REPRINTS, AND BOOKS, BOTH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
III BOOKS CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND CRITICAL ESSAYS
IV REVIEW AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WORDSWORTH PUBLISHED IN AMERICA
V CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1840 TO 1870
VI CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1870 TO 1895
VII VISITS TO WORDSWORTH BY EMINENT AMERICANS
VIII A FEW POEMS ON WORDSWORTH
IX UNPUBLISHED LECTURES ON WORDSWORTH
III.—FRANCE
I BIBLIOGRAPHY
II TRANSLATIONS
III INFLUENCE
ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST
INDEX TO THE POEMS
INDEX TO FIRST LINES
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