The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 8

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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

Title

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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English poetry -- 18th century

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52836

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August 18, 2016

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH VOL. VIII
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFATORY NOTE
4. 4.1834 — 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
5. 5.1835 — “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!”
6. 6.1836 — NOVEMBER 1836 — TO A REDBREAST—(IN SICKNESS)
7. 7.1837 — “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
8. 8.1838 — 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]
9. 9.1839 — 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”
10. 10.1840 — 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]
11. 11.1841 — EPITAPH In the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland
12. 12.1842 — “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”
13. 13.1843 — “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.
14. 14.1844 — “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
15. 15.1845 — “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”
16. 16.1846 — 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
17. 17.1787 — 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
18. 18.1792 (or earlier) — “SWEET WAS THE WALK ALONG THE NARROW LANE” — “WHEN LOVE WAS BORN OF HEAVENLY LINE” — THE CONVICT
19. 19.1798 — “THE SNOW-TRACKS OF MY FRIENDS I SEE” — THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR
20. 20.1800 — ANDREW JONES — “THERE IS A SHAPELESS CROWD OF UNHEWN STONES”
21. 21.1802 — “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”
22. 22.1803 — “I FIND IT WRITTEN OF SIMONIDES”
23. 23.1804 — “NO WHIMSEY OF THE PURSE IS HERE”
24. 24.1805 — “PEACEFUL OUR VALLEY, FAIR AND GREEN” — “AH! IF I WERE A LADY GAY”
25. 25.1806 — 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
26. 26.1808 — GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN
27. 27.1818 — “THE SCOTTISH BROOM ON BIRD-NEST BRAE” [392] — PLACARD FOR A POLL BEARING AN OLD SHIRT — “CRITICS, RIGHT HONOURABLE BARD, DECREE”
28. 28.1819 — “THROUGH CUMBRIAN WILDS, IN MANY A MOUNTAIN COVE” — “MY SON! BEHOLD THE TIDE ALREADY SPENT”
29. 29.1820 — AUTHOR’S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE (THIRTY YEARS AGO)
30. 30.1822 — “THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM” — TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ÆNEID
31. 31.1823 — “ARMS AND THE MAN I SING, THE FIRST WHO BORE”
32. 32.1826 — 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”
33. 33.1827 — TO MY NIECE DORA
34. 34.1829 — “MY LORD AND LADY DARLINGTON”
35. 35.1833 — TO THE UTILITARIANS
36. 36.1835 — “THRONED IN THE SUN’S DESCENDING CAR” — “AND OH! DEAR SOOTHER OF THE PENSIVE BREAST”
37. 37.1836 — “SAID RED-RIBBONED EVANS”
38. 38.1837 — ON AN EVENT IN COL. EVANS’S REDOUBTED PERFORMANCES IN SPAIN
39. 39.1838 — “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]
40. 40.1840 — ON A PORTRAIT OF I.F., PAINTED BY MARGARET GILLIES [410] — TO I.F. [411] — “OH BOUNTY WITHOUT MEASURE, WHILE THE GRACE”
41. 41.1842 — THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE [413] — GRACE DARLING [414] — “WHEN SEVERN’S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN” — THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN
42. 42.1846 — “DEIGN, SOVEREIGN MISTRESS! TO ACCEPT A LAY”
43. 43.1847 — 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”
44. 44.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
45. 45.ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST
46. 46.INDEX TO THE POEMS
47. 47.INDEX TO FIRST LINES

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