The Poems of William Wordsworth, Collected Reading Texts from The Cornell Wordsworth Series, Volume III

Licence and Use
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Title Page......Page 3
Copyright
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Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Note on the Text
......Page 9
“The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said”......Page 11
Sonnet on Milton......Page 12
Elegiac Stanzas (for George and Sarah Green),......Page 13
“A few bold Patriots, Reliques of the Fight”......Page 15
Composed while the Author was Engaged in Writing a Tract, Occasioned by the Convention of Cintra, 1808......Page 17
1810......Page 18
“Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid”......Page 19
Feelings of the Tyrolese......Page 20
“And is it among rude untutored Dales”......Page 21
Hôffer......Page 22
“True is it that Ambrosio Salinero”......Page 23
“Not without heavy grief of heart did He”......Page 24
“There never breathed a man who when his life”......Page 25
“Destined to war from very infancy”......Page 26
“Perhaps some needful service of the State”......Page 27
“O Lelius, beauteous flower of gentleness”......Page 28
“O flower of all that springs from gentle blood”......Page 29
“In due observance of an ancient rite”......Page 30
1810 ('O'erweening Statesmen')
......Page 31
The French, and the Spanish Guerillas......Page 32
“The martial courage of a day is vain—”......Page 33
On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History......Page 34
Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture......Page 35
Departure from the Vale of Grasmere
......Page 36
[Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-west Coast of Cumberland,—1811]......Page 37
To the Poet, Dyer......Page 41
View from the Top of Black Comb......Page 42
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. Leicestershire......Page 43
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......Page 44
Inscription for a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton......Page 45
“Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready Friend”......Page 46
“Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress”......Page 47
“Surprized by joy—impatient as the Wind”......Page 48
Maternal Grief......Page 49
November, 1813
......Page 52
“Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind”......Page 53
Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wal
lace's Tower......Page 54
The Brownie’s Cell......Page 55
Effusion in the pleasure-ground on the banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld
......Page 58
Yarrow Visited, Sept 1814
......Page 62
To ——— ("From the dark chambers of dejection freed")......Page 64
Laodamia......Page 65
“Emperors and Kings, how oft have Temples rung”......Page 70
Artegal and Elidure—......Page 71
Occasioned by the Same Battle.......Page 79
To R. B. Haydon, Esq.......Page 80
September 1815......Page 81
Ode, the morning of the day appointed for a general thanksgiving, January 18, 1816.
......Page 82
Elegiac Verses, February 1816
......Page 92
Ode,  composed in January 1816......Page 93
Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into Russia......Page 97
Ode ('Who rises on the banks of Seine ...?')......Page 98
A Fact, and an Imagination; Or, Canute and Alfred......Page 100
On the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D’enghien......Page 101
Dion......Page 102
To ———, on her first ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn
......Page 106
“A little onward lend thy guiding hand”......Page 107
“I heard (alas, ’twas only in a dream)”......Page 108
[Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year]......Page 109
Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars]......Page 111
[Ode.—1817]......Page 113
Sonnet ('The stars are mansions ...')
......Page 115
Ode to Lycoris, May, 1817
......Page 116
Addressed to ———, on the longest day
......Page 117
Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone
......Page 120
[To the Same] (Lycoris)
......Page 122
To the Same (Lycoris)......Page 123
Ode composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty......Page 124
Hint from the Mountains for certain political aspirants
......Page 126
Inscriptions supposed to be found in, and near, a hermit’s cell......Page 127
Placard for a Poll bearing an Old Shirt......Page 130
“The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae”......Page 131
The Pilgrim’s Dream, or, the Stasr and the Glow-worm......Page 132
Malham Cove......Page 134
To a Snow-drop, appearing very early in the Season.......Page 135
Composed during one of the most awful of the late Storms, Feb. 1819......Page 136
To ——— ("Those silver clouds")
......Page 137
September, 1819......Page 138
Upon the Same Occasion......Page 139
On the Death of His Late Majesty......Page 141
Oxford, May 30, 1820......Page 142
June, 1820......Page 143
The Prelude (1824–1839)......Page 144
II......Page 349
IV......Page 350
VI. Flowers
......Page 351
IX. The Stepping-stones
......Page 352
XI. The Faëry Chasm......Page 353
XIII. 
Open Prospect......Page 354
XVI. American Tradition
......Page 355
XVIII. Seathwaite Chapel
......Page 356
XX. The Plain of Donnerdale
......Page 357
XXII. Tradition
......Page 358
XXV......Page 359
XXVII. Journey Renewed
......Page 360
XXIX......Page 361
XXXII......Page 362
To the Rev. Dr. W——......Page 363
“Fallen, and diffus’d into a shapeless heap”......Page 366
II. Conjectures......Page 368
IV. Druidical Excommunication......Page 369
VI. Persecution......Page 370
VIII. Temptations from Roman Refinements......Page 371
XI. Saxon Conquest......Page 372
XII. Monastery of Old Bangor
......Page 373
XV. Paulinus......Page 374
XVI. Persuasion
......Page 375
XVIII. Apology......Page 376
XX. Other Influences......Page 377
XXIII. Reproof......Page 378
XXV. Missions and Travels......Page 379
XXVII. His Descendants......Page 380
XXX. Canute......Page 381
XXXII. The Council of Clermont......Page 382
XXXIV. Richard I......Page 383
XXXVII. Scene in Venice......Page 384
I. Cistertian Monastery......Page 385
III. Other Benefits......Page 386
V. Crusaders......Page 387
VII. Waldenses......Page 388
X. Wicliffe......Page 389
XII. Abuse of Monastic Power......Page 390
XIV. Dissolution of the Monasteries......Page 391
XVII. Saints......Page 392
XIX. Apology......Page 393
XXII. Translation of the Bible......Page 394
XXIV. Edward Signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent......Page 395
XXVI. General View of the Troubles of the Reformation......Page 396
XXIX. Eminent Reformers......Page 397
XXXI. Distractions
......Page 398
XXXIII. Illustration......Page 399
XXXVI. Afflictions of England......Page 400
II. Patriotic Sympathies......Page 401
IV. Latitudinarianism......Page 402
VII. Acquittal of the Bishops......Page 403
IX. Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty......Page 404
XI. Pastoral Character
......Page 405
XIV. Rural Ceremony
......Page 406
XVI. Mutability......Page 407
XVIII. Congratulation......Page 408
XXI. Continued......Page 409
XXIII. Cathedrals, &c.......Page 410
XXVI. Continued......Page 411
XXVIII. Conclusion......Page 412
Revival of Popery......Page 413
Persecution of the Scottish Convenanters......Page 414
Sacheverell......Page 415
Confirmation Continued......Page 416
Emigrant French Clergy......Page 417
“Deplorable his lot who tills the ground”......Page 418
“Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered”......Page 419
II. Continued......Page 420
“How soon—alas! did Man, created pure—”......Page 421
“As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crest”......Page 422
The Marriage Ceremony.......Page 423
Visitation of the Sick......Page 424
Funeral Service......Page 425
Fish-women - on landing at Calais......Page 427
Bruges......Page 428
Sonnet. Scenery between Namur and Liege......Page 429
In the Cathedral at Cologne 
......Page 430
In a carriage, upon the banks of the Rhine 
......Page 431
Hymn for the boatmen, as they approach the rapids, under the castle of Heidelberg......Page 432
The source of the Danube
......Page 433
Memorial near the outlet of the Lake of Thun
......Page 434
On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen
......Page 435
On the Lake of Brientz
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Our Lady of the Snow......Page 437
The town of Schwytz
......Page 438
The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano
......Page 439
Fort Fuentes—at the Head of the Lake of Como......Page 441
The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd......Page 442
The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820......Page 445
The Three Cottage Girls......Page 447
The column intended by Buonaparte for a triumphal edifice in Milan, now lying by the way-side on the Semplon Pass
......Page 449
Stanzas composed in the Semplon Pass......Page 450
Processions, suggested on a sabbath morning in the Vale of Chamouny
......Page 451
Elegiac Stanzas ('Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells)......Page 454
On being stranded near the harbour of Boulogne
......Page 456
To Enterprize......Page 457
Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the preceding sheets from the press
......Page 462
Effusion in presence of the painted tower of Tell, at Altorf
......Page 465
After-thought......Page 466
Incident at Brugès......Page 467
At Dover......Page 468
Yarrow Revisited......Page 469
1. On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples......Page 472
4. Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a storm......Page 473
6. 'The Pibroch's note ...'......Page 474
8. Composed after reading a newspaper of the day......Page 475
10. In the Sound of Mull......Page 476
12. The Earl of Breadalbane’s ruined mansion, and family burial-place, near Killin......Page 477
14. Highland hut......Page 478
16. To the planet Venus, an evening star. Composed at Loch Lomond......Page 479
18. Picture of Daniel in the lion’s den, at Hamilton Palace......Page 480
20. Suggested by a view from an eminence in Inglewood Forest......Page 481
22. Countess’s Pillar
......Page 482
Apology......Page 483
The Highland Broach......Page 484
The Modern Athens......Page 487
1. Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown......Page 488
4. To the River Greta, near Keswick 
......Page 489
6. In sight of Cockermouth 
......Page 490
8. Nun's Well, Brigham 
......Page 491
10. Mary Queen of Scots 
......Page 492
12. At sea off the Isle of Man
......Page 493
14. On entering Douglas Bay......Page 494
16. Isle of Man
......Page 495
18. By a retired mariner (a friend of the author) 
......Page 496
20. Tynwald Hill
......Page 497
22. In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. (July 17, 1833.)
......Page 498
24. On Revisiting Dunolly Castle
......Page 499
26. Cave of Staffa (“We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd”)......Page 500
28
. Cave of Staffa (“Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims”)......Page 501
30. On to Iona!—What can she afford 
......Page 502
32. The Black Stones of Iona 
......Page 503
35. "There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride
......Page 504
37. The River Eden, Cumberland
......Page 505
39. Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou
......Page 506
41. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
......Page 507
43. To the Earl of Lonsdale
......Page 508
45. Conclusion
......Page 509
Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson’s Ossian......Page 510
The Somnambulist......Page 513
Stanzas suggested in a steam-boat off St. Bees’ heads
......Page 518
Musings Near Aquapendente, April 1837
......Page 524
2. At Rome . Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill?......Page 535
4. Continued
......Page 536
6. At Rome . They—who have seen the noble Roman’s scorn......Page 537
9. Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove
......Page 538
11. Near the Lake of Thrasymene
......Page 539
The Cuckoo at Laverna......Page 540
13. At the Convent of Camaldoli
......Page 543
15. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli
......Page 544
At Vallombrosa......Page 545
16. At Florence 
......Page 546
18. At Florence.—From Michael Angelo (“Rapt above earth ...")......Page 547
Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines......Page 548
21. Continued
......Page 549
24. After leaving Italy
......Page 550
The Pillar of Trajan......Page 551
Composed on May-morning, 1838
......Page 553
I, II......Page 555
III, IV, V......Page 556
VI, VII......Page 557
VIII, IX, X......Page 558
XI, XII......Page 559
XIV. Apology......Page 560
II. Upon the late general fast.......Page 561
III, IV......Page 562
VI. Continued......Page 563
VIII......Page 564
X. At Bologna ... 1831
......Page 565
XII. Concluded......Page 566
XIV. 'Feel for the wrongs ...' 
......Page 567
“Not Love, nor War, nor the tumultuous swell”......Page 568
[Translation of the Sestet of a Sonnet by Tasso]......Page 569
“Queen and Negress chaste and fair!”......Page 570
“By Moscow self–devoted to a blaze”......Page 571
“These Vales were saddened with no common gloom”......Page 572
To the Lady ———, on seeing the foundation preparing for the erection of ----- Chael, Westmorland
......Page 573
On the Same Occasion ('When in the antique age of bow and spear')
......Page 575
Memory......Page 577
“How rich that forehead’s calm expanse!”......Page 578
A Flower Garden......Page 579
To ——— ('Let other Bards')
......Page 580
To Rotha Q ———......Page 581
To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. Composed in the grounds of Plass Newidd, near Llangollin, 1824
......Page 582
To ———......Page 583
The Contrast......Page 584
The Infant M——— M———......Page 585
Elegiac Stanzas. 1824
......Page 586
A Morning Exercise......Page 588
“While they, her Playmates once, light-hearted tread”......Page 590
“Ere with cold beads of midnight dew”......Page 591
“Strange visitation! at Jemima’s lip”......Page 592
Retirement......Page 593
“Go back to antique Ages, if thine eyes”......Page 594
Ode, composed on May Morning
......Page 595
To May......Page 597
“Once I could hail (howe’er serene the sky)”......Page 600
“The Lady whom you here behold”......Page 601
“Prithee gentle Lady list”......Page 602
Conclusion [to Miscellaneous Sonnets in Poetical Works 1827]
......Page 603
Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe
......Page 604
“Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned”......Page 605
“In my mind’s eye a Temple, like a cloud”......Page 606
On Seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp,......Page 607
“Her only Pilot the soft breeze the Boat”......Page 608
Extract from the Strangers bookStation Winandermere. [and] On seeing the above
......Page 609
“Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein”......Page 610
St. Catherine of Ledbury......Page 611
Filial Piety......Page 612
The Wishing-gate......Page 613
A Tradition of Darley Dale, Derbyshire......Page 615
The Gleaner (Suggested by a Picture)......Page 616
The Triad
......Page 617
On the Power of Sound......Page 623
The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily 
......Page 630
A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)
......Page 641
The Poet and the Caged Turtledove......Page 642
The Russian Fugitive......Page 643
The Primrose of the Rock......Page 656
The Armenian Lady’s Love......Page 657
Rural Illusions......Page 663
This Lawn, &c.......Page 664
Presentiments
......Page 665
Gold and Silver Fishes, in a vase
......Page 667
Liberty (Sequel to the above)
......Page 669
Humanity (Written in the Year 1829)......Page 673
Inscription intended for a stone in the grounds of Rydal M
ount......Page 676
Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, the seat of the late Sir George Beaumont, Bart.
......Page 677
“Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride”......Page 678
Epitaph......Page 679
Devotional Incitements......Page 680
i. “For Lubbock vote—no legislative Hack”......Page 682
iv. Question and Answer......Page 683
A Wren’s Nest......Page 684
1. 'Calm is the fragrant air ...'......Page 686
2. 'Not in the lucid intervals of life'
......Page 687
3. (By the side of Rydal Mere)......Page 688
4. 'Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge'
......Page 689
5. 'The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill'......Page 690
7. (by the sea-side)......Page 691
8. 'The sun has long been set'......Page 692
Composed by the Sea-shore......Page 693
To ———, upon the birth of her first-born child, March 1833
......Page 694
The Warning. A sequel to the foregoing. March, 1833
......Page 697
To the Utilitarians......Page 701
The Labourer’s Noon-day Hymn......Page 702
Companion to the Foregoing......Page 703
Lines suggested by a portrait from the pencil of F. Stone
......Page 704
The Foregoing Subject Resumed......Page 708
Lines written in the album of the countess of ———. Nov. 5, 1834
......Page 709
The Redbreast (suggested in a Westmoreland cottage)
......Page 712
Upon Seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album......Page 714
Airey-force Valley......Page 715
To the Moon (composed by the sea-side,—on the coast of Cumberland)
......Page 716
To the Moon (Rydal) 
......Page 718
“To a good Man of most dear memory”......Page 719
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg......Page 723
At the Grave of Burns, 1803
......Page 724
Thoughts suggested the day following on the banks of Nith, near the poet’s residence
......Page 727
November, 1836......Page 729
The Widow on Windermere Side......Page 730
“Wouldst Thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock”......Page 731
Valedictory Sonnet
......Page 732
“Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest”......Page 733
A Plea for Authors. May, 1838......Page 734
Composed on the same Morning......Page 735
i. “Grateful is Sleep; more grateful still to be”......Page 736
“Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance”......Page 737
On the same Subject......Page 738
Upon the sight of the Portrait of a female Friend—......Page 739
Poor Robin
......Page 740
The Cuckoo-clock......Page 741
The Norman Boy......Page 743
Sequel to the Norman Boy......Page 744
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon
......Page 746
Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland......Page 747
The Wishing-gate Destroyed......Page 748
Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise......Page 750
“Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live”......Page 751
Prelude [to Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years]......Page 752
'When Severn's sweeping Flood had overthrown'......Page 754
To a Redbreast—(In Sickness)......Page 755
“Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake”......Page 756
“Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot”......Page 757
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......Page 758
“While beams of orient light shoot wide and high”......Page 759
Grace Darling......Page 760
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.......Page 763
Sonnet on the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway
......Page 764
The Westmoreland Girl
......Page 765
“Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved”......Page 768
At Furness Abbey......Page 769
“I know an aged Man constrained to dwell”......Page 770
To an Octogenarian......Page 771
Written upon a fly leaf in the Copy of the Author’s Poems which was sent to her Majesty Queen Victoria......Page 772
“Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed”......Page 773
Illustrated Books and Newspapers......Page 774
Ode, Performed in the Senate-house, Cambridge, on the Sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII. At the first Commencement afterthe Installation of His Royal Highness The Prince Albert,Chancellor of the University
......Page 775
Thanksgiving Ode, 1816
......Page 779
The River Duddon 
......Page 781
Postscript to The River Duddon
......Page 785
Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)
......Page 786
The Church of San Salvador......Page 789
Highland Hut......Page 790
Bothwell Castle......Page 792
To the River Greta......Page 794
Stanzas Suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees’ Heads......Page 795
At the Convent of Camaldoli......Page 796
The sun has long been set and Thron’d in the Sun’s descending car......Page 797
Index of Titles, first lines and series titles (Volume 3)......Page 798
Cumulative Index to Volumes 1, 2, 3
......Page 829
Wordsworth from Humanities-Ebooks
......Page 873