THE POETICAL WORKS OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT
VOL. VI
London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO. 1896
CONTENTS
1814
PAGE Laodamia 1
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland--
The Brownie's Cell 16
Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower 26
Effusion, in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld 28
"From the dark chambers of dejection freed" 33
Yarrow Visited 35
Lines written on a blank leaf in a copy of the author's poem The Excursion, upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal 40
1815
Dedication to the White Doe of Rylstone 42
Artegal and Elidure 45
To B.R. Haydon 61
November 1 63
September, 1815 64
"The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade" 65
"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind" 67
"Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!" 67
"The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said" 68
"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress" 69
"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose" 71
"Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind" 72
1816
Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816 74
Ode 88
Invocation to the Earth 95
Ode 96
Ode 104
The French Army in Russia, 1812-13 107
On the Same Occasion 109
Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski 110
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 111
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 112
"Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung" 113
Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D'Enghien 114
Dion 116
A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on the Sea-shore 130
"A little onward lend thy guiding hand" 132
To -----, on her first Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 135
1817
Vernal Ode 138
Ode to Lycoris 145
To the Same 149
The Longest Day 153
Hint from the Mountains, for certain Political Pretenders 156
The Pass of Kirkstone 158
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots 162
1818
The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glow-worm 167
Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell 170
Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty 176
1819
This, and the two following, were suggested by Mr. W. Westall's Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire 183
Malham Cove 184
Gordale 185
Composed during a Storm 187
"Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow" 187
The Wild Duck's Nest 189
Written upon a blank leaf in "The Complete Angler" 190
Captivity--Mary Queen of Scots 191
To a Snow-Drop 191
"When haughty expectations prostrate lie" 192
To the River Derwent 193
Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday 194
"Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend" 195
"I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret" 197
"I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)" 198
The Haunted Tree 199
September, 1819 201
Upon the Same Occasion 202
1820
Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 208
On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third) 209
"The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand" 210
To the Lady Mary Lowther 211
On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem 212
Oxford, May 30, 1820 213
Oxford, May 30, 1820 214
June, 1820 214
The Germans on the Heights of Hock Heim 216
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 217
To Enterprise 218
The River Duddon--
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth 227
"Not envying Latian shades--if yet they throw" 230
"Child of the clouds! remote from every taint" 231
"How shall I paint thee?--Be this naked stone" 232
"Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take" 233
"Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played" 234
Flowers 235
"Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!" 237
"What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled" 237
The Stepping-Stones 239
The Same Subject 240
The Faëry Chasm 241
Hints for the Fancy 242
Open Prospect 243
"O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot" 245
"From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play" 245
American Tradition 246
Return 248
Seathwaite Chapel 249
Tributary Stream 250
The Plain of Donnerdale 251
"Whence that low voice?--A whisper from the heart" 252
Tradition 253
Sheep-Washing 253
The Resting-Place 254
"Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat" 255
"Return, Content! for fondly I pursued" 255
"Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap" 256
Journey Renewed 257
"No record tells of lance opposed to lance" 258
"Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce" 260
"The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye" 260
"Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep" 261