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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I BIBLIOGRAPHY
- II TRANSLATIONS
- III INFLUENCE
ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST
INDEX TO THE POEMS
INDEX TO FIRST LINES