Category: Poetry
PAGE THE EXCURSION-- PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 20 BOOK FIRST--THE WANDERER 26 BOOK SECOND--THE SOLITARY 67 BOOK THIRD--DESPONDENCY 105 BOOK FOURTH--DESPONDENCY CORRECTED 142 BOOK FIFTH--THE PASTOR 195 BOOK SIXTH--THE CHURCH-YARD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS 235 BOOK SEVENTH--THE C...
The next character, to whom the priest is led by contrast with the resoluteness displayed by the foregoing, is taken from a person born and bred in Grasmere, by name Dawson; and...
1. Part 1PAGE THE EXCURSION-- PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 20 BOOK FIRST--THE WANDERER 26 BOOK SECOND--THE SOLITARY 67 BOOK THIRD--DESPONDENCY 105 BOOK FOURTH--DESPONDENCY CORRECTED 14...
10. Part 10[Footnote BT: Bowfell, Great End, Shelter Crags, and Pike o' Blisco to the west straight before them, the Langdale Pikes to the north on the right, with Wrynose, Wetherlam, and...
34. Part 34"Siquod verò Natura nobis dedit spectaculum, in hâc tellure, verè gratum, et philosopho dignum, id semel mihi contigisse arbitror; cùm ex celsissimâ rupe speculabundus ad oram m...
5. Part 5He spake with somewhat of a solemn tone: 605 But, when he ended, there was in his face Such easy cheerfulness, a look so mild,[BA] That for a little time it stole away All recol...
21. Part 21[Footnote GC: The sledge used for bringing down peats or bracken from the uplands. The "sledge" has not yet entirely given way to the "wheel," many of the Westmoreland peasants...
3. Part 3Oft, through thy fair domains,[K] illustrious Peer! In youth I roamed, on youthful pleasures bent; And mused in rocky cell or sylvan tent, Beside swift-flowing Lowther's current...
23. Part 23"Two passions, both degenerate, for they both Began in honour, gradually obtained Rule over her, and vexed her daily life; An unremitting,[578] avaricious thrift; And a strange...
32. Part 32"O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm 295 While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An ob...
29. Part 29_Pastor's apology and apprehensions[726] that he might have detained his Auditors too long, with the Pastor's invitation to his house_[727]--_Solitary disinclined to comply--ral...
15. Part 15"A piteous lot it were to flee from Man-- 575 Yet not rejoice in Nature. He, whose hours Are by domestic pleasures uncaressed And unenlivened; who exists whole years Apart from...
31. Part 31[Footnote KC: The foundation of Thebes was ascribed to the mythical Manes. The ground on which it stood was large enough to contain a city equal in extent with ancient Rome, or...
11. Part 11"Is this," the grey-haired Wanderer mildly said, "The voice, which we so lately overheard, 226 To that same child, addressing tenderly The consolations of a hopeful mind? '_His...
14. Part 14"Those fervent raptures are for ever flown;[EB] And, since their date, my soul hath undergone Change manifold, for better or for worse: 125 Yet cease I not to struggle, and aspi...
13. Part 13[Footnote CT: The local allusions in this passage, and in what follows, are most exact and literal. The three men are supposed to leave the cottage, and to cross to the west sid...
22. Part 22"That prayer were not superfluous," said the Priest, "Amid the noblest relics, proudest dust, That Westminster, for Britain's glory, holds Within the bosom of her awful pile, 26...
28. Part 28... of their fate. Not one would have his pitiful regard, For prized accommodation, pleasant use, For dignity, for old acquaintance sake, For ancient custom or distinguished nam...
25. Part 25[Footnote HD: "His story is here truly related. He was a schoolfellow of mine for some years. He came to us when he was at least seventeen years of age, very tall, robust, and f...
26. Part 26"'All gone, all vanished! he deprived and bare, 'How will he face the remnant of his life? 'What will become of him?' we said, and mused 265 In sad conjectures--'Shall we meet h...
17. Part 17Once more to distant ages of the world Let us revert and contemplate the face, That face which rural solitude might wear To the unenlightened sons of pagan Greece. C.
27. Part 27"On a bright day--so calm and bright, it seemed[JF] To us, with our sad spirits, heavenly-fair-- 696 These mountains echoed to an unknown sound;[700] A volley, thrice repeated o...
19. Part 19"How gay the habitations that bedeck[455] This fertile valley! Not a house but seems To give assurance of content within;[GN] Embosomed happiness, and placid love; As if the sun...
18. Part 18_Farewell to the Valley--Reflections--A large and populous Vale described[417]--The Pastor's Dwelling, and some account of him[418]--Church and Monuments--The Solitary musing, a...
7. Part 7_The Author describes his travels with the Wanderer, whose character is further illustrated--Morning scene, and view of a Village Wake--Wanderer's account of a Friend whom he pu...
8. Part 8So, to a steep and difficult descent Trusting ourselves, we wound from crag to crag, Where passage could be won;[CB] and, as the last 405 Of the mute train, behind[154] the heat...
6. Part 6... had impressed Great objects on his mind, with portraiture And colour so distinct, that on his mind They lay like substances, and almost seemed To haunt the bodily sense. He...
12. Part 12"What followed cannot be reviewed in thought; 680 Much less, retraced in words. If she, of life Blameless, so intimate with love and joy And all the tender motions of the soul,...
16. Part 16"O blest seclusion! when the mind admits 1035 The law of duty; and can therefore move[393] Through each vicissitude of loss and gain, Linked in entire complacence with her choic...
4. Part 4A Herdsman on the lonely mountain tops, Such intercourse was his, and in this sort 220 Was his existence oftentimes _possessed_. O then how beautiful, how bright, appeared The w...
9. Part 9"I, who weep little, did, I will confess, The moment I was seated here alone, Honour my little cell with some few tears Which anger and[202] resentment could not dry. All night...
33. Part 33This vesper-service closed, without delay, 755 From that exalted station to the plain Descending, we pursued our homeward course, In mute composure, o'er the shadowy lake, Under...
30. Part 30This ardent[782] sally pleased the mild good Man, To whom the appeal couched in its[783] closing words 435 Was pointedly addressed; and to the thoughts That,[784] in assent or o...
20. Part 20"Yes!" said the Solitary with a smile That seemed to break from an expanding heart, "The untutored bird may found, and so construct, 840 And with such soft materials line, her n...
24. Part 24"Brought from the woods the honeysuckle twines Around the porch, and seems, in that trim place, 1150 A plant no longer wild; the cultured rose There blossoms, strong in health,...
35. Part 35Since receiving Mr. Heard's letter, I have found that Wordsworth possessed a copy of Thomas Taylor's translation of Pausanias's _Description of Greece_, published in 1794, a cop...