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

“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!”

NOVEMBER 1836

TO A REDBREAST—(IN SICKNESS)

“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

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]

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”

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]

EPITAPH In the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland

“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”

“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.

“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

“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”

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

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

“SWEET WAS THE WALK ALONG THE NARROW LANE”

“WHEN LOVE WAS BORN OF HEAVENLY LINE”

THE CONVICT

“THE SNOW-TRACKS OF MY FRIENDS I SEE”

THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR

ANDREW JONES

“THERE IS A SHAPELESS CROWD OF UNHEWN STONES”

“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”

“I FIND IT WRITTEN OF SIMONIDES”

“NO WHIMSEY OF THE PURSE IS HERE”

“PEACEFUL OUR VALLEY, FAIR AND GREEN”

“AH! IF I WERE A LADY GAY”

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

GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN

“THE SCOTTISH BROOM ON BIRD-NEST BRAE”[392]

PLACARD FOR A POLL BEARING AN OLD SHIRT

“CRITICS, RIGHT HONOURABLE BARD, DECREE”

“THROUGH CUMBRIAN WILDS, IN MANY A MOUNTAIN COVE”

“MY SON! BEHOLD THE TIDE ALREADY SPENT”

AUTHOR’S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE (THIRTY YEARS AGO)

“THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM”

TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ÆNEID

“ARMS AND THE MAN I SING, THE FIRST WHO BORE”

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”

TO MY NIECE DORA

“MY LORD AND LADY DARLINGTON”

TO THE UTILITARIANS

“THRONED IN THE SUN’S DESCENDING CAR”

“AND OH! DEAR SOOTHER OF THE PENSIVE BREAST”

“SAID RED-RIBBONED EVANS”

ON AN EVENT IN COL. EVANS’S REDOUBTED PERFORMANCES IN SPAIN

“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]

ON A PORTRAIT OF I.F., PAINTED BY MARGARET GILLIES[410]

TO I.F.[411]

“OH BOUNTY WITHOUT MEASURE, WHILE THE GRACE”

THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE[413]

GRACE DARLING[414]

“WHEN SEVERN’S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN”

THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN

“DEIGN, SOVEREIGN MISTRESS! TO ACCEPT A LAY”

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”

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