William Wordsworth

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Chronology......Page 32
A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering......Page 36
FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798)......Page 42
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree......Page 44
The Female Vagrant......Page 45
Goody Blake and Harry Gill......Page 52
Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House......Page 56
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman......Page 57
Anecdote for Fathers......Page 60
We Are Seven......Page 62
Lines Written in Early Spring......Page 64
The Thorn......Page 65
The Last of the Flock......Page 71
The Idiot Boy......Page 74
Expostulation and Reply......Page 87
The Tables Turned......Page 88
Old Man Travelling......Page 89
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey......Page 90
FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800)......Page 96
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800 and 1802)......Page 98
Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800 and 1802)......Page 119
Hart-Leap Well......Page 124
The Brothers......Page 129
‘Strange fits of passion I have known’......Page 143
‘A slumber did my spirit seal’......Page 144
The Oak and the Broom......Page 145
Lucy Gray......Page 148
The Idle Shepherd-Boys......Page 150
Poor Susan......Page 153
Lines written on a Tablet in a School......Page 154
The Two April Mornings......Page 155
The Fountain......Page 156
Nutting......Page 159
‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’......Page 160
The Old Cumberland Beggar......Page 161
A Poet’s Epitaph......Page 166
Poems on the Naming of Places......Page 168
Michael......Page 175
OTHER POEMS 1798–1800......Page 188
The Ruined Cottage [MS B]......Page 190
A Night Piece......Page 203
The Two-Part Prelude......Page 205
Home at Grasmere......Page 229
FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807)......Page 256
To the Daisy (‘In youth’)......Page 258
‘She was a Phantom of delight’......Page 260
The Sailor’s Mother......Page 261
Character of the Happy Warrior......Page 262
To H.C., Six Years Old......Page 264
‘I travelled among unknown Men’......Page 265
Ode to Duty......Page 266
Beggars......Page 268
To a Sky-Lark......Page 269
Alice Fell......Page 270
Resolution and Independence......Page 271
‘Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?’......Page 276
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge......Page 277
‘The world is too much with us’......Page 278
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais......Page 279
To a Friend, Composed near Calais......Page 280
Calais, August 15th, 1802......Page 281
To Toussaint L’Ouverture......Page 282
Composed in the Valley, near Dover......Page 283
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland......Page 284
London, 1802......Page 285
‘It is not to be thought of that the Flood’......Page 286
October, 1803 (‘One might believe’)......Page 287
‘England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean’......Page 288
To the Men of Kent......Page 289
Anticipation, October, 1803......Page 290
Rob Roy’s Grave......Page 291
The Solitary Reaper......Page 294
Stepping Westward......Page 295
Glen-Almain......Page 296
The Matron of Jedborough and Her Husband......Page 297
To a Highland Girl......Page 300
Address to the Sons of Burns......Page 302
Yarrow Unvisited......Page 303
‘My heart leaps up when I behold’......Page 305
‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’......Page 306
Gipsies......Page 307
To the Cuckoo......Page 308
To a Butterfly (‘I’ve watched you’)......Page 309
The Green Linnet......Page 310
‘By their floating Mill’......Page 311
Star Gazers......Page 312
Power of Music......Page 313
To the Daisy (‘With little here’)......Page 314
A Complaint......Page 316
‘I am not One who much or oft delight’......Page 317
‘Yes! full surely ’twas the Echo’......Page 318
Lines. Composed at Grasmere . . .......Page 319
Elegiac Stanzas......Page 320
Ode (‘There was a time’)......Page 322
OTHER POEMS 1800–1808......Page 328
‘When first I journeyed hither’......Page 330
‘Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain ground’......Page 333
Ejaculation at the Grave of Burns......Page 334
To the Daisy (‘Sweet Flower!’)......Page 335
‘I only looked for pain and grief’......Page 337
‘Distressful gift! this Book receives’......Page 339
St Paul’s......Page 341
The Prelude (1805)......Page 343
FROM THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA (1809)......Page 558
FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810)......Page 576
FROM THE EXCURSION (1814)......Page 594
Prospectus to The Recluse......Page 596
Book One......Page 598
From Book Three......Page 624
From Book Four......Page 626
From Book Seven......Page 640
From Book Nine......Page 642
FROM POEMS (1815)......Page 646
From the Preface to Poems (1815)......Page 648
From Essay, Supplementary to the Preface to Poems (1815)......Page 656
Yew-Trees......Page 661
Yarrow Visited......Page 662
‘Surprized by joy—impatient as the Wind’......Page 665
FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816)......Page 666
FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820)......Page 680
Composed at Cora Linn......Page 682
To the Rev. Dr. W—. (With the Sonnets to the River Duddon)......Page 684
Ode. Composed Upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty......Page 686
Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone......Page 688
Ode.—1817......Page 691
From Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes......Page 695
OTHER POEMS 1815–1846......Page 724
November 1, 1815......Page 726
Sequel to [Beggars]......Page 727
Bruges (‘Bruges I saw attired’)......Page 728
To the Torrent at the Devil’s Bridge, North Wales......Page 729
Incident at Bruges......Page 730
Yarrow Revisited......Page 731
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples......Page 734
‘Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose’......Page 735
Airey-Force Valley......Page 736
From ‘Postscript’ to Yarrow Revisited......Page 737
Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg......Page 745
Thoughts. Suggested the Day Following . . . (‘Too frail to keep the lofty vow’)......Page 746
At Furness Abbey (‘Here, where, of havoc tired’)......Page 748
Sonnet. On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway (‘Is then’)......Page 749
At Furness Abbey (‘Well have yon Railway Labourers to THIS ground’)......Page 750
‘I know an aged Man constrained to dwell’......Page 751
Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads......Page 752
Notes......Page 762
E......Page 836
J......Page 837
P......Page 838
T......Page 839
W......Page 840
Y......Page 841