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

Chapter X. is on Wordsworth.

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1879. DESHLER, C. D. _Afternoons with the Poets._ New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo. _Wordsworth._

1871. FIELDS, J. T. _Yesterdays with Authors._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; also,

1889. _Wordsworth, A Sketch_, p. 253.

1838. FROST, JOHN. _Select Works of the British Poets, with Biographical Sketches._ Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle. _Wordsworth._

1849. GRAHAM, G. F. _English Synonyms._ New York: D. Appleton and Co. Edited with an Introduction and Illustrative Authorities. By Henry Reed.[507]

1854. GILES, H. T. _Illustrations of Genius._ Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 16mo. _William Wordsworth_, pp. 239-266.

1886. GRISWOLD, H. T. _Home Life of Great Authors._ Chicago. 18mo. _William Wordsworth_, p. 43.

1849. GRISWOLD, R. W. _Sacred Poets of England and America._ New York. _Wordsworth._

1842. GRISWOLD, R. W. _Poets and Poetry of England._ Philadelphia: Carey and Hunt. A Review and Selections.

HODGKINS, LOUISE M. _Guide to Nineteenth Century Authors._ Boston. _Wordsworth Bibliography._

1884. HUDSON, H. N. _Studies in Wordsworth._ Boston: Little, Brown and Co.[508]

1886. JOHNSON, C. F. _Three Americans and Three Englishmen._ New York. _Wordsworth._

1864. LOWELL, J. R. _The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth._ Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 4 vols. Vol. 1.--_A Sketch of Wordsworth’s Life._

1876. LOWELL, J. R. _Among my Books._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_,[509] pp. 201-251.

1887. LOWELL, J. R. _Democracy and other Addresses._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_,[510] 22 pp.

1885. MASON, E. T. _Personal Traits of British Authors._ New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. _William Wordsworth_, pp. 7-55.

What follows is due to American Enterprise, but it is, of course, not strictly American.

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1883. MACDONALD, GEORGE. _The Imagination and other Essays_ (“Wordsworth’s Poetry,” pp. 245-263). Boston: D. Lothrop and Co.

1881. MYERS, F. W. H. _William Wordsworth._ (“English Men of Letters Series.”) New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo.

1884. Same Title. New York: J. W. Lovell. 12mo.

1889. Same Title. New York. Harper and Brothers.

1838. OSBORN, LAUGHTON. _The Vision of Rubeta._[511] Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co. 8vo.

1846. OSSOLI, MARGARET FULLER. _Art, Literature, and the Drama._ Boston. _Wordsworth._[512]

1885. PHILLIPS, MAUD GILLETTE. _A Popular Manual of English Literature._ New York: Harper and Brothers. Vol. ii. pp. 217-264.

1851. REED, HENRY. _Memoirs of Wordsworth._ By C. Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.[513]

1857. REED, HENRY. _Lectures on the British Poets._ In two vols. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger. Vol. ii. pp. 199-231. Lecture XV.--_Wordsworth._

1870. REED, HENRY. _Lectures on the British Poets._ Philadelphia: Claxton, Reinsen and Haffelfinger. _Essay on the English Sonnet_, vol. ii. pp. 235-272.[514]

1887. SAUNDERS, FREDERICK. _Story of some Famous Books._ New York: Armstrong and Son. _William Wordsworth_, p. 125.

SAUNDERS, FREDERICK. _Evenings with Sacred Poets._ New York: Randolph and Co. _Wordsworth._[515]

1894. SCUDDER, HORACE E. _Childhood in Literature and Art._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. In the chapter entitled “In English Literature and Art,” Wordsworth is dealt with (chap. vi. pp. 145-157).[516]

1895. SCUDDER, VIDAD. _The Life of the Spirit in Modern English Poets._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Crown 8vo.

1892. STEDMAN, C. E. _Nature and Elements of Poetry._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.[517]

1846. TUCKERMAN, H. T. _Thoughts on the Poets._ New York. _Genius and Writings of Wordsworth._

1882. WELSH, A. H. _Development of English Literature and Language._ Chicago. _Wordsworth_, vol. ii. pp. 330-339.

1850. WHIPPLE, E. P. _Essays and Reviews._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_, vol. i. p. 222.[518]

1871. WHIPPLE, E. P. _Literature and Life._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_, p. 253.[519]

1854. WILLIS, N. P. _Famous Persons and Places._ New York: Charles Scribner.[520]

[504] A reprint of the article was published in _The Century Magazine_, 1884.

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[505] Not of much importance--the author praises Wordsworth and criticises Jeffrey.

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[506] About the same in the “Address” as in the “Complete Works.”

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[507] Contains four hundred quotations from Wordsworth.

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[508] Contains 258 pages on Wordsworth.

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[509] The same as above with some corrections, and twenty-three new pages added.

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[510] The above was first given as an address to “The Wordsworth Society,” 1884, and appeared in _Wordsworthiana_ in 1889.

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[511] In the Appendix are about twenty pages containing a ferocious criticism on “Wordsworth, his Poetry and his Misrepresentations.”

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[512] In the Memoirs of M. F. Ossoli (Boston, vol. iii. p. 84) there is a short reference to Wordsworth.

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[513] Introduction and Editorial Notes by H. R., interesting and valuable.

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[514] In the Lecture on the Sonnet, there are interesting allusions to Wordsworth’s Sonnets.

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[515] This book and the previous one have about half a dozen pages each on Wordsworth.

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[516] The substance of this chapter on Wordsworth as a revealer of Childhood, first appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, October 1885.

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[517] In this volume there are many references to Wordsworth of interest--especially at pp. 202, 206, 210 and 263--on _Subjective Interpretation, The Pathetic Fallacy_, etc.

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[518] This essay was also published in _The Complete Poetical Works_. Philadelphia: James Kay jun. and Brothers, 1837. Also in _The North American Review_, 1844.

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[519] The above appeared first in _The North American Review_. It was “written when the news came of Wordsworth’s death.” It is not given elsewhere in this list.

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[520] Letter V. contains some characteristic remarks on Wordsworth by “Christopher North,” who gave Willis a note of introduction to Wordsworth and Southey. Willis did _not_ write about Wordsworth in this book. As it is inserted in some of the lists, I include it, with this explanation.

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REVIEW AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WORDSWORTH PUBLISHED IN AMERICA

FROM 1801 TO 1840

In examining American Reviews and Magazines, for articles on Wordsworth, I find--after much laborious search--only some insignificant notices of his poems, of no critical or literary merit.

I have carefully read each article which appears in this list, and I add brief explanatory notes, indicative of the general tenor of the articles. It was disheartening to find that many of the references to Wordsworth, in Poole’s elaborate _Index to Periodical Literature_, were inaccurate and misleading; and that nearly all the articles on Wordsworth published in _Harper’s Monthly Magazine_ for 1850 were “conveyed” from contemporary English journals.

1801. _The Port Folio._ Vol. i.

Memoranda regarding the first publication of “Lyrical Ballads” in America.

1801. December, p. 407. The Original Prospectus of “Lyrical Ballads.”[521] (James Humphreys publisher.)

1801. P. 408.[522]

1802. Vol. ii. p. 62.[523]

1803. Vol. iii. p. 288.[524]

1803. P. 320. Note on the poem beginning,

“A whirl-blast from behind the hill.”

1804. Vol. iv. p. 87. Announcement that the editor wishes to obtain a copy of _Descriptive Sketches_ (1798) from some publisher or reader.

1804. P. 96.[525]

1802. _The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser._ (Published by Samuel Relf.) Friday, Jan. 15, “Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.” (The publisher’s advertisement of the First American Edition.)

1819. DANA, R. H.[526] _North American Review._ Vol. xxiii. p. 276. In review of Hazlitt’s _English Poets_.

1824. _North American Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 356.[527]

1824. _United States Literary Gazette._ Vol. i. p. 245.[528]

1825. _The Atlantic Magazine_, vol. ii. pp. 334-348.

1827. _Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol. ix. p. 244. (A short article on Wordsworth.)

1832. PRESCOTT, W. H. _North American Review._ Vol. xxxv. pp. 171, 173-176. (In a “Review of English Literature of Nineteenth Century,” is an important reference to Wordsworth.)

1836. EDWARDS, B. B. _American Biblical Repository._ Vol. vii. pp. 187-204.[529]

1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. p. 66.[530]

1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. pp. 420-442.[531]

1836. FELTON, C. C. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. xix. p. 375.[532]

1836. PORTER, NOAH. _Christian Quarterly Spectator._[533] Vol. viii. pp. 127-151.

_Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol xviii. p. 1.[534]

1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ (Edited by John J. Smith.)[535]

1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ March 21.[536]

1837. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. iii. p. 705. “By a Virginian.”[537]

1837. WHIPPLE, E. P. _The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth_[538] (1837).

1839. _New York Review._ Vol. iv. pp. 1-71.[539]

1839. _American Biblical Repository._[540] Vol. i. pp. 206-239. (Second edition.)

1839. _Boston Quarterly Review._ Vol. ii. pp. 137-169. (A review of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works,” London, 1832.)

1839. _American Methodist Review._[541] Vol. xxi. p. 449.

[521] An enthusiastic announcement.

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[522] An appreciatory and critical Introductory Note to _The Waterfall and the Eglantine_.

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[523] Editorial reporting the increasing popularity of “Lyrical Ballads,” and further commendation of the poems.

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[524] Note on _The Fountain_.

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[525] An editorial announcement that “Lyrical Ballads” had reached a third edition, and containing one of the most ardent tributes to Wordsworth in the language.

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[526] Not long, but of much interest.

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[527] An unsigned and excellent review of the 1824 (Boston) edition of the poems. The writer remarks that not a volume of Wordsworth’s poems has been published in America since 1802. Attributed to F.W.P. Greenwood.

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[528] Anonymous review of the 1824 (Boston) edition of the poems. One of the very best.

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[529] Sectarian in spirit, but on the whole fair to Wordsworth.

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[530] Anonymous. A well-written article of about twenty-four pages, reviewing _Yarrow Revisited_. It was one of the earliest reviews in an American journal that claimed for Wordsworth a high order of genius. It was probably written by Robert Walsh, the editor of the _Review_.

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[531] An article on Wordsworth’s sonnets on Capital Punishment, in an article on “The English Sonnet.” Judge Henry Reed found this to have been written by his father, Professor Henry Reed.

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[532] An appreciative criticism of eight pages.

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[533] Entitled “Wordsworth and his Poetry.” A review of the 1824 edition and of _Yarrow Revisited_, Boston, 1835. An estimate of Wordsworth’s claims as a poet, and as a man. A more comprehensive, stronger, more inviting criticism (in appealing to those to whom the poetry is unknown) has not been written. It ranks, in my opinion, among the best criticisms on Wordsworth written in America.

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[534] H. Tuckerman wrote an article on Wordsworth for his magazine. This may be the article.

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[535] The number for 7th March contains a notice of Wordsworth, in a review of Reed’s _Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth_ (1837).

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[536] Another mention of Reed’s edition, and of the discovery that “a fellow-townsman,” Dr. T. C. James, anticipated the fact of Wordsworth’s popularity. A quotation from “Memoirs of Historical Society of Pennsylvania” to prove Dr. James’ prophecy.

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[537] Writer unknown.

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[538] To class this review with others of an early date, I have placed it among Periodical Reviews. It appeared in _The North American Review_, 1844; and again, in 1850, in _Essays and Reviews_.

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[539] A review of Reed’s 1837 edition of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.” Professor Henry Reed’s son--Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia--informs me that it was written by his father.

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[540] This article is entitled “Modern English Poetry--Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth.”

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[541] By an unknown author.

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CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1840 TO 1870

Arranged as far as possible according to merit. It is difficult to distinguish between the first twelve or fifteen. After them I have placed the articles in the _Literary World_. Most of them have not been noted in other lists, and are especially interesting, as being additional tributes of Wordsworth’s intimate friend, Henry Reed. I am indebted to Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia, for more carefully examining his father’s papers, and to the _Literary World_ for ascertaining, as far as possible, all that his father wrote on Wordsworth. The criticisms that immediately follow are not without interest. The last half dozen are given, for the most part, because they appear in _Poole’s Index_, or in other lists. I have omitted two or three which are of no value whatever.

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1844. WHIPPLE, E. P. _North American Review._[542] Vol. lix. pp. 352-384.

1857. HAVEN, GILBERT. _Methodist Quarterly Review._ Vol. xxxix. p. 362.[543]

1851. PASSMORE, J. C. _The Church Review._ Vol. iv. pp. 169-188.[544]

1866. ALGER, W. R. _Monthly Religious Magazine._ Vol. xxxvi. p. 294.

1850. MUZZEY, A. B. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. xlix. p. 100. (The title of this article is “Wordsworth, the Christian Poet.”)

1851. GOODWIN, H. M. _The New Englander._ Vol. xlvii. p. 309. (Title, “Wordsworth as a Spiritual Teacher.”)

1851. _North American Review._ Vol. lxxiii. p. 473.[545]

1851. MOUNTFORD, W. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. li. p. 275.[546]

1851. PORTER, NOAH. _The New Englander Magazine._ Vol. ix. p. 583.[547]

1851. WIGHT, ORLANDO WILLIAMS. _American Whig Review._ Vol. xiv. pp. 68-81.[548]

1851. WIGHT, ORLANDO WILLIAMS. _American Whig Review._ Vol. xiii. pp. 448-458.[549]

1854. _Presbyterian Quarterly Review._ Vol. ii. pp. 643-663.[550] Article 1.

1854. _Presbyterian Quarterly Review._ Vol. iii. pp. 69-88.[551] Article 2.

1841. TUCKERMAN, H. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. vii. p. 105.

1850. _Literary World._ Vol. vi. p. 485. “William Wordsworth.”[552]

1850. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. vi. pp. 581, 582. On Wordsworth.

1850. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. vii. pp. 205, 206. A second short article.

1850. _Literary World._ “The Prelude.” Vol. vii. p. 167.[553]

1850. _Literary World._ “Visit to Wordsworth’s Grave.” Vol. vii. p. 225.[554]

1850. SPENCER, J. A. _Literary World._ “Visit to Wordsworth.” November 23.[555]

1851. _Literary World._ Vols. viii. ix. (May 24, June 14, July 12, August 2.)[556] Reviews of Christopher Wordsworth’s _Memoirs_ of his uncle.

1853. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. xii. June 25.[557]

1850. _Southern Quarterly Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 1. Review of the _Poetical Works of Wordsworth_. London: Moxon, 1845.

1856. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. vi. pp. 281-295. (New Series.) Article 1. “Of Wordsworth’s life, beginning at Bristol.”

1856. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. vi. p. 363. (New Series.) Article 2.

1850. _Graham Magazine._ Vol. i. pp. 105-116. Supposed to be written by Charles J. Peterson. (Signed P.) Review of the life and poetry of Wordsworth, written by one who confessed to an admiration for Wordsworth’s genius bordering on veneration.

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1878. _American Journal of Education._ Wordsworth and Cambridge. Vol. xxviii. p. 426.[558]

1843. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. xii. p. 158.[559]

1836-63. _Christian Review._ Vol. xvi. p. 434. “Wordsworth as a Religious Poet.”

1844. CUYLER, T. L. _Godey’s Lady’s Book._ Vol. xxviii. (January). “On the English Lakes and Wordsworth.”

1850. _International Magazine._ Vol. i. p. 271. “A Review of _The Prelude_, from _The Examiner_.”

1855. _Brownson’s Quarterly Review._ Vol. xii. p. 525. “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.”

1850. _Graham Magazine._ Vol. i. pp. 322, 323.[560]

1842. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. x. pp. 272-288. (New Series.)[561]

1865. _North American Review._ Vol. c. p. 508. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

1850. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. xvi. p. 474.[562]

1851. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ Vol. iii. p. 502.[563]

1845. BOWEN, F. _North American Review._ Vol. lxi. p. 217.[564]

1863. ALGER, W. R. _North American Review._ Vol. xcvi. p. 141.[565]

1850. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. xvi. p. 637.[566]

1863. WARD, J. H. _North American Review._ Vol. xcvii. p. 387.

1853. _The National Magazine._ Vol. iii. No. 7, “An Estimate of Wordsworth.”

1853. _The Christian Observer._ Vol. 1. pp. 307-381.[567]

1858. “The Genius of Wordsworth,” in the “Editor’s Table” of _Russell’s Magazine_. Charleston, S.E. Vol. iii. pp. 271-274.

[542] A review of the 1837 edition of Wordsworth’s poems. Perhaps no abler or more comprehensive review of Wordsworth’s life and writings has been written than this, by America’s foremost critic.

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[543] One of the best of the early American criticisms.

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[544] A review of the 1851 edition. Contains an earnest plea for the study of Wordsworth’s poetry in America. One of the noblest criticisms written.

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[545] On the “Life and Poetry of Wordsworth.” A review of _The Prelude_. Unsigned; but the name is given elsewhere, as T. Chase.

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[546] A review of the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, by his nephew, the Bishop of Lincoln.

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[547] A review of Professor Reed’s edition of the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, Boston, 1851.

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[548] A review of the _Memoirs_, signed O. W.W.

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[549] A review of _The Prelude_.

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[550] Anonymous. A short review of _The Prelude_, and, at greater length, of _The Life_ (edited by Reed). An estimate of his work and influence.

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[551] Traces the literary life of the poet. Claims for Wordsworth the precedence to Coleridge in the utterance of a spiritual Philosophy.

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[552] A notice of Wordsworth’s death, unsigned; but Mr. Wilberforce Eames--of the Lenox Library--informs me, that their library now owns Mr. Evert A. Duyckinck’s copy of the _Literary World_, and that gentleman’s own initials are appended in pencil to this article. Mr. Duyckinck was editor of the _Literary World_.

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[553] Judge Reed, Professor Henry Reed’s son, does not attribute this article to his father. There is an impression that Professor Reed published an article on _The Prelude_. His lecture on that poem was never published.

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[554] Signed by R. F. Correspondence, _London Literary Gazette_, August 31.

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[555] Possibly the same as in that scarce number of the _Southern Literary Messenger_. Vol. xvi. p. 474.

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[556] These articles, in the opinion of Judge Henry Reed, are not by his father, Professor Henry Reed.

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[557] Notice to those who wish to subscribe to the Memorial to Wordsworth, signed.

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[558] An article on the University of Cambridge, and an account of Wordsworth’s residence at St. John’s College, 1787-1791.

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[559] Six pages on Wordsworth’s _Sonnet to Liberty_.

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[560] A brief review of _The Prelude_ and _Excursion_, and a comparison between the two poems.

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[561] On Wordsworth’s sonnets in favour of Capital Punishment.

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[562] On the house at Rydal.

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[563] An unsigned, four paged article on Wordsworth, Byron Scott, and Shelley.

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[564] In a “Review of Longfellow’s _Poets and Poetry of Europe_,” a page on Wordsworth’s influence.

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[565] In “The Origin and Uses of Poetry,” a few lines on Wordsworth.

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[566] A notice, with extracts from _The Prelude_.

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[567] “The Religion of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

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CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1870 TO 1895

These are not chronologically arranged by Mrs. St. John, but see her note to Section V.--ED.

1882. DEWITT, DR. JOHN. _Presbyterian Review._ Vol. iii. p. 241.[568]

1884. BURROUGHS, JOHN. _The Century Magazine._ Vol. v. p. 418. This is entitled “Wordsworth’s Country.”

1880. CRANCH, C. P. _The Atlantic Monthly._ Vol. xlv. p. 241. Entitled “Wordsworth.” A review of the 1880 Poetical Works (Boston). The writer notes what he considers the chief excellency as well as defects of Wordsworth’s poetry.

1888. MURRAY, J. O. _The Homiletic Review._ Vol. xvi. pp. 295-304. Title, “The Study of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

1890. PATTISON, T. H. _The Baptist Review._ Vol. xii. p. 265. “The Religious Influence of Wordsworth.”

1889. HUTTON, LAWRENCE. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ Vol. lxxviii.[569] (in Literary Notes).

1880-1. CONWAY, MONCURE D. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ “The English Lakes and their Genii.” Vol. lxii. pp. 7, 161, 339.

1883. PEDDER, H. C. _The Manhattan._ Vol. ii. pp. 418-433.[570]

1876. YARNALL, ELLIS. _Lippincott’s Magazine._ Vol. xviii. pp. 543-554, 669-683. “Walks and Visits in Wordsworth’s Country.” Written in the summer of 1855 and 1857.

1871. FIELDS, J. T. _The Atlantic Monthly._ Vol. xxviii. p. 750. On Wordsworth, in an article entitled “Our Whispering Gallery.” The same article is cut down in _Yesterdays with Authors_.[571]

1892. PARSONS, EUGENE. _The Examiner._ Vol. lxx. p. 1. On “Tennyson and Wordsworth.”

1888. WILLIAMS, T. C. _Andover Review._ Vol. ix. p. 30.

1889. NOBLE, FRED PERRY. _The Homiletic Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 306. “The Value of Wordsworth to the Preacher.”

1873. HIMES, JOHN A. _Lutheran Quarterly Review._ Vol. iii. p. 252. “The Religious Faith of Wordsworth and Tennyson as shown in their Poems.”

1881. JOHNSON, E. E. _American Church Review._ Vol. xxxiii. p. 139. “Influence of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

1886. COAN, T. M. _The New Princeton Review._ Vol. i. pp. 297-319. “Wordsworth’s Passion.”

1889. VEDDER, H. C. _The New York Examiner_, August 28. “The Decline of Wordsworth.”[572]

1877. COAN, T. M. _The Galaxy._ Vol. xxiii. pp. 322-336. “Wordsworth’s Corrections.”[573]

1881. BOWEN, F. F. _The Dial._ Vol. i. p. 21. “A Review of Myers’ Wordsworth.”

1881. GERHART, R. L. _Reformed Quarterly Review._ Vol. xxviii. p. 344. “Wordsworth and his Art.”

1887. WOODBERRY, G. E. _The Nation._ Vol. xlv. p. 487. “Wordsworth and the Beaumonts.”

1881. BROWNELL, W. C. _The Nation._ Vol. xxxii. p. 153. “Myers’ Account of Wordsworth.”

1872. CROFFUT, W. A. _Lakeside Monthly._ Vol. viii. pp. 418-425. “Wordsworth.”

1895. THORPE, F. W. _The Philadelphia Call._ “The Home of Wordsworth.” Autobiographic and critical.

1879. _Appleton’s Journal._ Vol. xxii. p. 223. “How to Popularise Wordsworth.”

1874. DE-VERE, A. _The Catholic World._ Vol. xix. p. 795. “Recollections of Wordsworth.”

1875. DE-VERE, A. _The Catholic World._ Vol. xxii. p. 329.

1891. PAGE, H. A. _The Century Magazine._ No. 1. pp. 453-864. “Wordsworth and De Quincey. With hitherto unpublished letters.”[574]

1853. _The National Magazine._ Vol. iii. pp. 36-40.

1853. _Brownson’s Quarterly Review._ Vol. xii. 525.

1896. THEODORE W. HUNT in _Bibliotheca Sacra_. No. 66. “William Wordsworth.”

1896. J. W. BRAY. _The Literary Democracy of Wordsworth_ in “Poet Love.” Vol. iii. No. 6.

[568] On “The Homiletic Value of Wordsworth’s Poetry.” One of the ablest papers ever written on Wordsworth. It contains the best reply to Matthew Arnold’s estimate of his poetry.

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[569] This is a review of Rolf’s _Wordsworth’s Selected Poems_. It contains one of the most appreciative tributes to Wordsworth’s influence which has appeared in America.

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[570] On “Wordsworth and the Modern Age.” Illustrated by W. St. J. Harper, and other artists. It deals with the especial need of Wordsworth’s “calming influence in the exacting competition for success,” and gives a comparison between Virgil and Wordsworth.

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[571] Of interest to Americans.

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[572] It aims to give some explanation of the lack of interest in Wordsworth’s poetry in later days.

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[573] An attempt, the writer says, to point out the corrections, leaving their interpretation to the reader.

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[574] Written by an Englishman, but published first in an American magazine.

C. M. ST. JOHN.

VII

VISITS TO WORDSWORTH BY EMINENT AMERICANS

The following books record visits made by eminent Americans to Wordsworth.

C. M. ST. JOHN.

1863. HAWTHORNE, N. _Our Old Home, and English Note-Books._ Vol. ii. pp. 24-56, etc.; also,

1883. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “A Visit to Wordsworth.”

1856. EMERSON, R. W. _English Traits._ Boston: James Munroe and Co. pp. 24-31; also,

1881. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Visit to Wordsworth, in chapter entitled “First Visit to England.”

1876. TICKNOR, GEORGE. _Life, Letters, and Journals._ Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 2 vols. Vol. i. pp. 287, 288, etc. Vol. ii. p. 167, etc.

1836. DEWEY, ORVILLE. _The Old World and the New._ Boston: 2 vols. pp. 89-96.

1884. BRYANT, W. C. Prose Works. In a chapter on “Poets and Poetry of the English Language” (New York: D. Appleton and Co.) a few pages deal with Wordsworth.

VIII

A FEW POEMS ON WORDSWORTH

1846. WALLACE, W. _Poem on Wordsworth._ New York: 12mo.

1850. FIELD, JAMES T. _Graham Magazine_ (October). “Wordsworth.”

1850. ALEXANDER, W. _Graham Magazine_ (November), p. 221. “Wordsworth. (A Sonnet.)”

1850. H. M. R. _Harpers Magazine._ “Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth.” Vol. i. p. 218.

1850. E. A. W. _Literary World._ “Sonnet on Wordsworth.” Vol. vii. p. 255.

1874. WHITTIER, J. G. Whittier’s Works. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “Poem on Wordsworth. Written on a blank leaf of _Wordsworth’s Memoirs_, 1851.” Vol. iv. p. 66.

1890. SCOLLARD, CLINTON (?) _Northern Christian Advocate._ “The Poet’s Seat. A Sonnet on Wordsworth. Written at Ambleside, 1890.”

1893. “To Wordsworth, after reading his XXX Ecclesiastical Sonnets” in _The Echo and the Poet_, by William Cushing Bamburgh. N. Y. 1893.

UNPUBLISHED LECTURES ON WORDSWORTH

ESSAYS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

1892. CORSON, HIRAM. “The Divine Immanence in Nature, and the relationship of the human spirit thereto, as presented in Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

WINCHESTER, C. T. “The Lake District and Wordsworth.”

PRENTISS, GEORGE L. “Hurstmonceaux Rectory and Rydal Mount.” (Personal Recollections.)

HOYT, A. S. “Wordsworth, the Man and the Poet.” (Imperfectly reported in _The Houghton Record_.)

III.--_FRANCE_

WORDSWORTH IN FRANCE

By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professeur à la Faculté de Lettres, Université de Lyon, France

BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is no separate or whole book on Wordsworth that I know of.

ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES, OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

_Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_, par Amédée Pichot (_passim_). 3 vols. in 8. Paris, 1829.[575] An English translation was published in London in 1825.

_Revue Britannique._

Mai 1827. Wordsworth, Crabbe, and Campbell, pp. 61-79, a criticism translated from the _New Monthly Magazine_.

Février 1835. Poésie domestique de la grande Bretagne, translated from the _New Monthly Magazine_.

Janvier 1836, p. 190. Compte-rendu de “Yarrow Revisited and other Poems,” translated from the _Repository of Knowledge_.

_Revue des Deux Mondes._ 1er Août 1835. William Wordsworth, par A. Fontaney.[576]

_Revue Contemporaine._ 15 Décembre 1853. Poètes contemporains de l’Angleterre: William Wordsworth et John Wilson, par L. Étienne.

_Littérature anglaise_ de H. Taine.[577] 1864. Vol. iv. pp. 311-324.

_Études sur la Littérature contemporaine_, par Éd. Schérer.[578]

_Revue critique d’histoire et de littérature._ 16 Janvier 1882. Article de James Darmesteter sur la Biographie de Wordsworth, par Myers.[579]

_Essais de Littérature anglaise_, par James Darmesteter. Paris, 1883.[580]

_Histoire de la Littérature anglaise_, par M. Léon Boucher. Paris, 1890. pp. 355-363.

_La Renaissance de la Poésie anglaise_, par Gabriel Sarrazin. 1887.

_Études et Portraits_, par Paul Bourget. Vol. ii. Études anglaises.[581] 1888.

_Étude sur la Vie et les Œuvres de Robert Burns_, par Auguste Angellier. Paris, 1892. (_Passim_, et surtout vol. ii. pp. 362-393, Étude sur le sentiment de la nature dans Wordsworth et autres poètes anglais contemporains.)

_Le général Michel Beaupuy_, par Georges Bussière et Émile Legouis. Paris, 1891.

[575] Vol. ii. pp. 363-394.--ED.

[576] This was signed Y, which was Fontaney’s pseudonym.--E.L.

[577] Wordsworth et la poésie moderne de l’Angleterre.--_Histoire de la Littérature anglaise_, par H. Taine.--ED.

[578] Vol. vi. pp. 127, 128, and vol. vii. pp. 1-59.--ED.

[579] pp. 227-236.--ED.

[580] pp. 227-236.--ED.

[581] Vol. ii. pp. 83; 126-134.--ED.

TRANSLATIONS

Pas de traduction complète, ni de volume spécial de traductions de Wordsworth.

Une traduction par Fontaney annoncée en 1837 comme devant paraître dans le _Bibliothèque anglo-française_, n’a pas paru.

En dehors des poèmes ou parties de poèmes traduit par les critiques énumérés plus haut, il n’y a guère de traduction en prose de quelque importance.

TRADUCTIONS EN VERS

MADAME AMABLE TASTU. _We are Seven._

SAINTE-BEUVE. _Joseph Delorme._ 1829.

“Le plus long jour de l’année,” p. 88. Sonnet, “Personal Talk,” p. 123. “Sonnet sur le Sonnet,” p. 124.

_Consolations._ 1830.

Sonnet, “It is a beauteous evening,” p. 234. Sonnet, “Not Love, nor War,” p. 239. Sonnet, “Quand le poète en pleurs,” p. 236.

_Pensées d’Août._ Trois sonnets imités de Wordsworth.

I. “Reposez-vous et remerciez.” II. “La Cabane du Highlander.” III. “Le Château de Bothwell.”

Sainte-Beuve cite en outre dans ses _Nouveaux Lundis_ des 21 et 22 Avril 1862, trois sonnets de Wordsworth traduits en vers, par l’Abbé Roussel. Ces traductions assez pauvres de poésie sont celles des sonnets suivants--

“Nuns fret not.…” “Dark and more dark.…” “These words were uttered as in pensive mood.”

JEAN AICARD a traduit _We are Seven_ dans _La Chanson de l’Enfant_.

PAUL BOURGET (_Études et Portraits_, vol. ii. _op. cit._) a traduit l’un des sonnets au Duddon.

“What aspect bore the Man …?”

III

INFLUENCE

Wordsworth’s influence on French literature was altogether very slight, nor did it make itself felt till about 1830; when, after a very limited period, it silently died away.

Wordsworth was but little known by his contemporary Châteaubriand, who merely names him among other poets in his _Essai sur la Littérature anglaise_. Byron, Walter Scott, and in a lesser degree Thomas Moore, were the only writers of Great Britain whose works told on our literature at that time. Villemain, in his criticism of Byron, contemptuously dismisses all the so-called lake-poets to fix on his hero. He calls them: “Des métaphysiciens, raisonneurs sans invention, mélancoliques sans passion, qui, dans l’éternelle rêverie d’une vie étroite et peu agitée, n’avaient produit que des singularités sans puissance sur l’imagination des autres hommes. Tel était Woodsworth (_sic_) et le subtil mais non touchant Coléridge.”

To Byron also, and to him alone (Ossian being excepted) among the poets of England, was Lamartine indebted. I am not sure that he names Wordsworth once; but still the striking analogy between the ideas and imaginative style of both cannot fail to be noticed by the reader. Without insisting on a parallel that might be drawn between many pages of _The Excursion_ and of _Jocelyn_, I will only point out two short pieces of Lamartine that bear strong resemblance to two poems of Wordsworth, so much so that they almost read like free imitations--

Lamartine Wordsworth’s

Victor Hugo, so far as I know, only names Wordsworth once, in _L’Âne_--

…Young le pleureur des nuits, Wordsworth l’esprit des lacs …

M. Sully Prudhomme when he wrote _A l’Hirondelle_ (stanzas, la vie intérieure) appears to have borne in mind _To a Skylark_, “Ethereal minstrel,” etc.

M. Coppée has often been called a French Wordsworth, owing to his poetical collection called _Les Humbles_, wherein he shows the same partiality as the English Poet does for humble themes and characters, together with a bold attempt to naturalise trivial or ludicrous details in serious poetry; but there is no proof, as far as I know, of Wordsworth’s influence having been strong upon him.

If we except two or three disciples of Wordsworth, neither he, nor the lake-poets taken as a whole, seem to have been much thought of, or even read, by our contemporary verse-writers. The word _Lakist_ has generally been used as a synonym for “weak and doleful mysticism.” Ex.:--

(_a_) _Revue Encyclopédique._ 1831. Article de Pierre Leroux, sur la “Poésie de notre Époque.” “L’Angleterre a entendu autour de ses lacs bourdonner comme des ombres plaintives un essaim de poètes abîmés dans une mystique contemplation.”

(_b_) _Journal d’un Poète_, par Alfred de Vigny. (Ed. Michel Lévy. 1867. p. 80.) “Barbier vient de publier _Il Pianto_. Les délices de Capone ont amolli son caractère de poésie et Brizeux a déteint sur lui ses douces couleurs virgiliennes et laquistes (_sic_) dérivant de Sainte-Beuve.”

(_c_) THÉOPHILE GAUTIER (_Portraits Contemporains_, p. 174) almost seems to derive the word _Lakiste_ from Lamartine’s poem called _Le Lac_. He has just mentioned the poem and goes on: “Il ne faut pas croire que Lamartine, parce qu’il y a toujours chez lui une vibration et une résonnance de harpe éolienne, ne soit qu’un mélodieux _lakiste_ et ne sache que soupirer mollement la mélancolie et l’amour. S’il a le soupir, il a la parole et le cri …” (_Journal Officiel_, 8 Mars 1869.)

I now come to the man who, first and foremost among our poets and critics, paid due homage to Wordsworth, _i.e._ Sainte-Beuve. I have already enumerated his several translations in verse from Wordsworth. Strange to say, the voluminous critic has no single article with Wordsworth for its main subject; but, whoever will go through his many volumes will find many judicious and admiring references to the poet.

Moreover, as a poet, Sainte-Beuve has endeavoured to naturalise in France the poetic style that has been associated with the name of Wordsworth. He expressly claims Wordsworth as one of his masters in his _Consolations_ xviii. “A Antony Deschamps.” Among his bosom-poets he reckons--

…Wordsworth peu connu, qui des lacs solitaires Sait tòus les bleus reflets, les bruits et les mystères, Et qui, depuis trente ans vivant au même lieu, En contemplation devant le même Dieu, A travers les soupirs de la mousse et de l’onde, Distingue, au soir, des chants venus d’un meilleur monde.

The original attempt of Sainte-Beuve (for he was original in his very choice of Wordsworth as a model at a time when Byron engrossed all the admiration of the French poets) has been ably characterised by Théophile Gautier in his “Portraits Contemporains” (pp. 208, 209), an article reprinted from _La Gazette de Paris_, 19 Novembre 1871:--

“(Sainte-Beuve) avait été en poésie un inventeur. Il avait donné une note nouvelle et toute moderne, et de tout le cénacle c’était à coup sûr le plus réellement romantique. Dans cette humble poésie qui rappelle par la sincérité du sentiment et la minutie du détail observé sur nature, les vers de Crabbe, de Wordsworth, et de Cowper, Sainte-Beuve s’est frayé de petits sentiers à mi-côte, bordés d’humbles fleurettes, où nul en France n’a passé avant lui. Sa facture un peu laborieuse et compliquée vient de la difficulté de réduire à la forme métrique des idées et des images non exprimées encore ou dédaignées jusque-là, mais que de morceaux merveilleusement venus où l’effort n’est plus sensible!”

Sainte-Beuve’s admiration of Wordsworth is a well-known fact. Less generally known is the influence of this admiration on several poets of that time (_circa_ 1830-40), who, either through Sainte-Beuve’s imitations, or with a direct knowledge of Wordsworth’s poems, to the reading of which they had thus been stimulated, offer great marks of resemblance with Wordsworth. I have quoted a judgment of De Vigny that considers Brizeux and Barbier as having turned _laquistes_ through Sainte-Beuve. I know no other immediate proof of this influence. Perhaps Barbier and Brizeux have consigned it somewhere. Anyhow Brizeux with his glorification of his youthful years and school-time, with his intense love of his native Brittany, his fond attachment to local customs and habits, his lamentations on the death of the poetical poet as embodied in his own province (_Élégie de la Bretagne_), is to all extent and purposes the most thoroughly Wordsworthian of all our poets. There may be more of Wordsworth’s _philosophy_ in Lamartine, but there is more of his _poetry_ proper in Brizeux.

The influence of Wordsworth on Maurice de Guérin and Hippolyte de la Morvonnais, is more easily ascertained than the preceding. Here, again, Sainte-Beuve appears to have been the intermediate agent.[582]

In 1832-33 Maurice de Guérin, fresh from the reading of the _Consolations_, and De la Morvonnais, who came to be a direct admirer of the Lake Poets, and chiefly of Wordsworth, set to write short poems which they aspired to make as little different from prose as possible, rejecting all traditional ornaments, and making little of the rhythmical improvements of the _Romantiques_ proper. Some of those pieces were inserted in a local paper as downright prose (no stop intervening at the end of the lines), whereas the said paper would not have made room for verse.[583] This looks like trifling, but the earnestness of this attempted revolution is shown in the interesting poems of Maurice de Guérin. Another outcome of this was an intended publication on Wordsworth, of which it is impossible to say whether it was to be a criticism, or a translation, of the English Poet. It is thus mentioned in a letter of Guérin to De la Morvonnais of June 30, 1836: “Nous avons adressé des circulaires à un grand nombre d’éditeurs pour l’impression Wordsworth. Nous attendons la réponse d’un moment à l’autre.” The answer must have been unfavourable, as nothing more was heard of the intended publication.

The early death of Guérin left it for De la Morvonnais alone to spread the influence of Wordsworth’s poetry in France. Of him we read in Sainte-Beuve’s _Étude sur Maurice de Guérin_:--

“La Morvonnais, vers ce temps même (1834), en était fort préoccupé (des lakistes et de leur poésie), au point d’aller visiter Wordsworth à sa résidence de Rydal Mount, près des lacs du Westmoreland, et de rester en correspondance avec ce grand et pacifique esprit, avec ce patriarche de la Muse intime. Guérin, sans tant y songer, ressemblait mieux aux Lakistes en ne visant nullement à les imiter.”

Of the supposed correspondence between Wordsworth and De la Morvonnais no trace remains. M. Hippolyte de la Blanchardière, De la Morvonnais’ grandson, has informed me that in the collection of his grandfather’s letters there is no letter of Wordsworth to be found. That at least a Study of Wordsworth existed at the time is proved by the following preface to his poem _La Thébaïde des Grèves_, written by his friend A. Duquesnel (ed. by Didier, Quai des Augustins. 1864. p. xxvii.)

“Nous avons trouvé dans les _Reliquiae_ du poète de l’Arguenon[584] de précieuses études sur les lakistes. Il s’était passionné pour ces hommes dans les dix dernières années de sa vie (1843-53).[585] Wordsworth lui semblait plus grand que Byron, qu’il trouvait trop emphatique, trop solennel, pas assez près de la nature. L’auteur de _l’Excursion_ a exercé une pénétrante influence sur l’esprit et le cœur de la Morvonnais, nous trouvons dans ses cahiers des traductions en vers de Wordsworth, de Coléridge, de Crabbe, qui, lui, ne faisait pas partie de ce groupe. Nous les publierons peut-être un jour; elles ont d’autant plus d’intérêt que l’on ne connaît guère les lakistes en France, que par de rares extraits. Il s’était livré, comme on le verra, à une étude approfondie de la littérature anglaise. Son admiration pour Walter Scott était inexprimable.”

The study and translations above-mentioned have also been lost, many manuscripts of De la Morvonnais having been destroyed.

It remains for me to point out some allusions to, or imitations of, Wordsworth in the existing verse of De la Morvonnais.

In the _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), “Le Petit Patour” is a close imitation of _We are Seven_, the conclusion being--

Cet enfant en sait plus que moi sur l’existence; Savoir vivre est savoir souffrir avec constance.

“Le Vagabond,” a story of a vagrant by whom the poet is taught resignation, is an imitation of _Resolution and Independence_.

In “A Sainte-Beuve” are found these two lines--

J’ai posé sous mon bras mon penseur solitaire, Mon Wordsworth tant aimé de l’amant du mystère.

In “Dispersion, à Mistress Hemans,” etc., we read this--

Nous primes un poète, une femme angélique Dont peu savent chez nous la voix mélancolique, Disciple de Wordsworth, le sublime penseur, Des lakistes chéris je la nomme la sœur.

In “Dernières Paroles” we find this praise of Wordsworth--

Or, ce soir-là, je lus un homme de génie; Celui dont la mystique et profonde harmonie Sonne pour les élus des poétiques dons, Et soulève notre âme en ses grands abandons … …Oh! ne pourrai-je voir Ces lacs du Westmoreland, mon désir, mon espoir? … Cet homme est honoré des puissances secrètes; Lui mort, à ses beaux lacs, romantiques retraites, Des pèlerins viendront, penseurs religieux. Le monde méconnut l’homme mélodieux.

I pass over many sonnets, and divers other poems, in which the influence of Wordsworth is unmistakable, and come to a last quotation which is useful to elucidate an allusion in Wordsworth’s _The Poet’s Dream: Sequel to the Norman Boy_. In this poem, written in 1842, Wordsworth says--

But oh! that Country-man of thine, whose eye, loved Child, can see A pledge of endless bliss in acts of early piety, In verse, which to thy ear might come, would treat this simple theme, Nor leave untold our happy flight in that adventurous dream.

As Wordsworth read very little French poetry in his old age, I think he here alludes to a poem of his admirer De la Morvonnais, who very likely sent him that _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), in which Wordsworth was so highly praised. The passage alluded to is taken from “Solitude,” and reads thus--

Enfant, Il (Dieu) te promet le domaine de l’ange Si tu gardes l’amour et la foi des aïeux, Et sa mère, aujourd’hui loin de l’humaine fange, Que tu n’as pas connue et qui t’attend aux cieux.

As a whole, De la Morvonnais, though he imitates Wordsworth, is very unlike him. Of course I do not mean to compare the two, but even in like subjects he differs from Wordsworth, owing to a sort of constitutional nervousness and brooding melancholy.[586]

[582] Voir Maurice de Guérin, _Journal, Lettres et Poèmes_, publiés par J. S. Trébutien avec Préface de Sainte-Beuve (1860).--E.L.

[583] In the above work--_Séjour de M. de Guérin en Bretagne; Impressions et Souvenirs de M. François du Breil de Marzan_, pp. 434-441.--E.L.

[584] H. de la Morvonnais.--E.L.

[585] A mistake: his admiration of Wordsworth began before 1832.--E.L.

[586] In _Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_, par Amédée Puchot, Lettre XXIV. there are numerous references to Wordsworth. It begins with a quotation from _Tintern Abbey_. In Lettre LXV. there is additional critical reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge. In the _Album poétique des jeunes personnes_, par Mme. Tastu, there is a “Sonnet imité de Wordsworth,” by St. Beuve, pp. 101, 102.

C’est un beau soir, un soir paisible et solennel, A la fin du saint jour la nature en prière Le tait, comme Marie à genoux sur la pierre, etc.--ED.

See also the _Nouveaux Lundis_ of St. Beuve, 21 and 22 Avril 1862, where there are “trois sonnets traduits en vers par l’Abbé Roussel” from Wordsworth.

ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST

REFERRING TO VOLUMES I. TO VIII.

1. _Inistar omnium._--I wish to explain the accidental omission of Mr. T. Hutchinson’s name amongst those who helped me in Volumes I. and II. (see the prefatory note to this volume), and also that of Mr. Hill. It was due to my returning, “for press,” an uncorrected copy of my Preface.

2. Vol. ii. p. 106, _Ruth_, l. 54--The following extract from Bartram’s _Travels_, etc., illustrates Wordsworth’s debt to him:--

Proceeding on our return to town in the cool of the evening … we enjoyed a most enchanting view; … companies of young innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native bowers … disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze … whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions, tantalising them, staining their lips and cheeks with the ripe fruit.

3. In vol. ii. p. 348, the date of publication should be Sept. 17, 1802, not 1803.

4. In _The Prelude_ (vol. iii. p. 202, book v. l. 26) the quotation which I could not trace is from Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 64--

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

5. Vol. v. p. 113 (_The Excursion_, book iii. l. 187).--Mr. William E. Walcott--Laurence, Mass. U.S.A.--sends me the following variant readings, which he has found in a copy of the edition of 1814--

… crystal tube Be lodged therein …

P. 151, book iv. l. 187--

Nor sleep, nor …

6. Vol. vii. p. 276.--This sonnet first appeared in the _New Monthly Magazine_, part ii. p. 26, under the title, _To B. R. Haydon. Composed on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena_; and it is dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”

7. Vol. vii. p. 336.--This poem was published in the _Saturday Magazine_, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is--

Woe to the purblind men who fill.

8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted, unfortunately, where it occurs)--

Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,

is from _Paradise Lost_, book xii. l. 645. See also _An Elegy delivered at the Hot Wells_, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous verse” is from _Paradise Lost_, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet--

O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay Softest on sorrow’s wound.

Amongst those which I have failed to trace are the following:

_Ecclesiastical Sonnets_, II. xxxiv.--

… murtherer’s chain partake, Corded, and burning at the social stake.

xlv.--

… in the painful art of dying

_The Russian Fugitive_, Part II. l. 51--

… if house it be or bower.

_Elegiac Musings_, l. 41--

Let praise be mute where I am laid.

_Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees’ Heads_, l. 37--

Cruel of heart were they, bloody of hand.

INDEX TO THE POEMS

VOL. PAGE

Aar, The Fall of the vi 308

Abbeys, Old vii 100

Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle vii 347

Address to a Child iv 50

Address to Kilchurn Castle ii 400

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora iii 14

Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ---- ii 84

Admonition iv 34

Æneid, Translation of Part of the First Book of the viii 276

“Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow” vi 187

Affliction of Margaret--, The iii 7

Afflictions of England vii 72

After-Thought (Duddon) vi 263

After-Thought (Tour on the Continent) vi 315

Airey-Force Valley viii 146

Aix-la-Chapelle vi 295

“Alas! what boots the long laborious quest” iv 216

Alban Hills, From the viii 65

Albano, At viii 64

Alfred vii 24

Alfred, His Descendants vii 25

Alice Fell; or, Poverty ii 272

Aloys Reding vi 310

Ambleside viii 156

America, Aspects of Christianity in (Three Sonnets) vii 84

American Episcopacy vii 85

American Tradition vi 246

Ancient History, On a celebrated Event in (Two Sonnets) iv 242

Andrew Jones viii 221

Anecdote for Fathers i 234

Animal Tranquillity and Decay i 307

Anticipation (October 1803) ii 436

Anticipation of leaving School, Composed in i 1

Apennines, Among the Ruins of a Convent in the viii 82

Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1st part) vii 18

Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 2nd part) vii 55

Apology (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 112

Apology (Yarrow Revisited) vii 309

Applethwaite, At iii 23

Aquapendente, Musings near viii 42

Armenian Lady’s Love, The vii 232

Artegal and Elidure vi 45

Authors, A plea for, viii 99

Author’s Portrait, To the vii 318

Autumn (September) vi 64

Autumn (Two Poems) vi 201

Avarice, The last Stage of ii 60

Avon, The (Annan) vii 303

Bala-Sala, At vii 365

Balbi iv 237

Ballot, Protest against the viii 304

Bangor, Monastery of Old vii 13

Baptism vii 89

Barbara ii 178

Beaumont, Sir George, Epistle to iv 256

Beaumont, Sir George, Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle to iv 267

Beaumont, Sir George, Picture of Peele Castle, painted by iii 54

Beaumont, Sir George, Beautiful Picture, painted by iv 271

Beaumont, Sir George, Elegiac Stanzas addressed to vii 132

Beaumont, To Lady iv 57

Beggar, The Old Cumberland i 299

Beggars (Two Poems) ii 276

“‘Beloved Vale!’ I said, ‘when I shall con’” iv 35

Benefits, Other (Two Sonnets) vii 40

Bible, Translation of the vii 58

Binnorie, The Solitude of ii 204

Bird of Paradise, Coloured Drawing of the viii 29

Bird of Paradise, Suggested by a Picture of viii 140

Biscayan Rite (Two Sonnets) iv 241

Bishops, Acquittal of the vii 79

Bishops and Priests vii 86

Black Comb, Inscription on a Stone on the side of iv 281

Black Comb, View from the top of iv 279

“Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will” viii 101

Bologna, At (Three Sonnets) viii 85

Bolton Priory, The Founding of iv 204

Books and Newspapers, Illustrated viii 184

Borderers, The i 112

Bothwell Castle vii 299

Boulogne, On being stranded near the Harbour of vi 378

Bran, Effusion on the Banks of the vi 28

Breadalbane, Ruined Mansion of the Earl of vii 295

Brientz, Scene on the Lake of vi 315

Brigham, Nun’s Well vii 347

Britons, Struggle of the vii 11

Brothers, The ii 184

Brothers Water, Bridge at the foot of ii 293

Brougham Castle, Song at the Feast of iv 82

Brownie’s Cell vi 16

Brownie, The vii 297

Brugès (Two Poems) vi 288

Brugès, Incident at vii 198

Buonaparté ii 323

Buonaparté ii 331

Buonaparté iv 228

Burial in the South of Scotland, A Place of vii 285

Burns, At the Grave of ii 379

Burns, Thoughts suggested near the Residence of ii 383

Burns, To the Sons of ii 386

Butterfly, To a ii 383

Butterfly, To a ii 297

Calais, August 1802 ii 331

Calais, August 15, 1802 ii 334

Calais, Composed by the Seaside, near ii 330

Calais, Composed near ii 332

Calais, Composed on the Beach, near ii 335

Calais, Fish-women at vi 286

Calvert, Raisley iv 44

Camaldoli, At the Convent of (Three Sonnets) viii 72

Canute vii 27

Canute and Alfred vi 130

Castle, Composed at ---- ii 410

“Castle of Indolence,” Written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson’s ii 305

Casual Incitement vii 14

Catechising vii 91

Cathedrals, etc. vii 105

Catholic Cantons, Composed in one of the (Two Poems) vi 312

Celandine, The Small iii 21

Celandine, To the Small (Two Poems) ii 300

Cenotaph (Mrs. Fermor) vii 135

Chamouny, Processions in the Vale of vi 363

Character, A ii 208

Charles the First, Troubles of vii 71

Charles the Second vii 75

Chatsworth vii 272

Chaucer, Selections from (Three Poems) ii 238

Chiabrera, Epitaphs translated from iv 229

Chichely, Archbishop, to Henry V. vii 47

Child, Address to a iv 50

Child, Characteristics of a, three years old iv 252

Child, To a (Written in her Album) viii 7

Childless Father, The ii 181

Christianity in America, Aspects of (Three Sonnets) vii 84

Churches, New vii 102

Church to be erected (Two Sonnets) vii 103

Churchyard, New vii 104

Cintra, Convention of (Two Sonnets) iv 210

Cistertian Monastery vii 37

Clarkson, Thomas, To iv 62

Clergy, Corruptions of the Higher vii 49

Clergy, Emigrant French vii 101

Clerical Integrity vii 78

Clermont, The Council of vii 30

Clifford, Lord iv 82

Clouds, To the viii 142

Clyde, In the Frith of, Ailsa Crag vii 369

Clyde, On the Frith of vii 370

Cockermouth Castle, Address from the Spirit of vii 347

Cockermouth, In sight of vii 346

Coleorton, Elegiac Musings in the grounds of vii 269

Coleorton, A Flower Garden at vii 125

Coleorton, Inscription for an Urn in the grounds of iv 78

Coleorton, Inscription for a Seat in the groves of iv 80

Coleorton, Inscription in a garden of iv 76

Coleorton, Inscription in the grounds of iv 74

Coleridge, Hartley, To ii 351

Collins, Remembrance of i 33

Cologne, In the Cathedral at vi 297

Commination Service vii 96

Complaint, A iv 17

“Complete Angler,” Written on a blank leaf in the vi 190

Conclusion (Duddon) vi 262

Conclusion (Ecclesiastical Sonnets) vii 108

Conclusion (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 177

Conclusion (Prelude) iii 367

Conclusion (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 111

Confirmation (Two Sonnets) vii 92

Congratulation vii 102

Conjectures vii 5

Contrast, The. The Parrot and the Wren vii 141

Convent in the Apennines viii 82

Convention of Cintra, Composed while writing a Tract occasioned by the (Two Sonnets) iv 210

Conversion vii 17

Convict, The viii 217

Cora Linn, Composed at vi 26

Cordelia M----, To vii 400

Cottage Girls, The Three vi 351

Cottager to her Infant, The iii 74

Council of Clermont, The vii 30

Countess’ Pillar vii 307

Covenanters, Persecution of the Scottish vii 79

Cranmer vii 62

Crosthwaite Church viii 157

Crusaders vii 41

Crusades vii 31

Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The ii 250

Cuckoo at Laverna, The viii 67

Cuckoo Clock, The viii 151

Cuckoo, To the ii 289

Cuckoo, To the vii 169

Cumberland Beggar, The Old i 299

Cumberland Beggar, The Old, MS. Variants viii 220

Cumberland, Coast of (In the Channel) vii 358

Cumberland, On a high part of the coast of vii 337

Daffodils, The iii 4

Daisy, To the (Two Poems) ii 353

Daisy, To the ii 360

Daisy, To the iii 51

Daniel, Picture of (Hamilton Palace) vii 303

Danish Boy, The ii 96

Danish Conquests vii 27

Danube, The Source of the vi 303

Dati, Roberto iv 234

Dedication (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 159

Dedication (Tour on the Continent) vi 285

Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) iv 102

Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) vi 42

Departure from the Vale of Grasmere ii 377

“Deplorable his lot who tills the ground” vii 38

Derwent, To the River vi 193

Derwent, To the River vii 345

Descriptive Sketches i 35

Descriptive Sketches i 309

Desultory Stanzas vi 382

Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem, On the vi 212

Devil’s Bridge, To the Torrent at the vii 129

Devotional Incitements vii 314

Dion vi 116

Dissensions vii 10

Distractions vii 68

Dog, Incident characteristic of a favourite iii 48

Dog, Tribute to the Memory of the same iii 49

Donnerdale, The Plain of vi 251

Dora, To (A little onward) vi 132

Dora, To my Niece viii 297

Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, On entering vii 360

Dover, Composed in the Valley near ii 341

Dover, Near ii 343

Dover, The Valley of (Two Sonnets) vi 380

Druidical Excommunication vii 7

Druids, Trepidation of the vii 6

Duddon, The River vi 225

Dungeon-Ghyll Force ii 138

Dunollie Castle (Eagles) vii 292

Dunolly Castle, On Revisiting vii 371

Dunolly Eagle, The vii 372

Duty, Ode to iii 37

Dyer, To the Poet John iv 273

Eagle and the Dove, The viii 309

Eagles (Dunollie Castle) vii 292

Eagle, The Dunolly vii 372

Easter Sunday, Composed on vi 194

Ecclesiastical Sonnets vii 2

Echo, The Mountain iv 25

Echo upon the Gemmi vi 360

Eclipse of the Sun, The vi 345

Eden, The River (Cumberland) vii 385

Edward VI. vii 59

Edward VI. signing the Warrant vii 60

Egremont Castle, The Horn of iv 12

Egyptian Maid, The vii 252

Ejaculation vii 107

Elegiac Musings (Coleorton Hall) vii 269

Elegiac Stanzas (Goddard) vi 371

Elegiac Stanzas (Mrs. Fermor) vii 132

Elegiac Stanzas (Peele Castle) iii 54

Elegiac Verses (John Wordsworth) iii 58

Elizabeth vii 65

Ellen Irwin ii 124

Emigrant French Clergy vii 101

Emigrant Mother, The ii 284

Eminent Reformers (Two Sonnets) vii 66

Emma’s Dell ii 153

Engelberg vi 316

Enghien, Duke d’ vi 114

“England! the time is come when thou should’st wean” ii 432

England, Afflictions of vii 72

Enterprise, To vi 218

Episcopacy, American vii 85

Epistle to Sir George Beaumont iv 256

Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, Upon perusing the foregoing iv 267

Epitaph, A Poet’s ii 75

Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale viii 120

Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera iv 229

“Ere with cold beads of midnight dew” vii 145

“Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress” vi 69

Evening of extraordinary splendour, Composed upon an vi 176

Evening Star over Grasmere Water, To the viii 263

Evening Walk, An i 4

Event in Ancient History, On a celebrated (Two Sonnets) iv 242

Excursion, The v 1

Expostulation and Reply i 272

Fact, A, and an Imagination vi 130

Faery Chasm, The vi 241

Fancy iv 36

Fancy and Tradition vii 306

Fancy, Hints for the vi 242

Farewell, A ii 324

Farewell Lines vii 155

Farewell (Tour, 1833) vii 341

Farmer of Tilsbury Vale, The ii 147

Far-Terrace, The vii 154

Father, The Childless ii 181

Fathers, Anecdote for i 234

Fermor, Mrs. (Cenotaph) vii 135

Fermor, Mrs. (Elegiac Stanzas) vii 132

Fidelity iii 44

Filial Piety vii 231

Fir Grove (John Wordsworth) iii 66

Fishes in a Vase, Gold and Silver vii 214

Fish-women vi 286

Flamininus, T. Quintius (Two Sonnets) iv 242

Fleming, To the Lady (Rydal Chapel), (Two Poems) vii 109

Floating Island (D. W.) viii 125

Florence (Four Sonnets) viii 78

Flower Garden, A (Coleorton) vii 125

Flowers vi 235

Flowers (Cave of Staffa) vii 378

Flowers in the Island of Madeira viii 177

“Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!” ii 419

Foresight, or Children gathering Flowers ii 298

Forms of Prayer at Sea vii 97

Forsaken Indian Woman, Complaint of a i 275

Forsaken, The iii 10

Fort Fuentes vi 328

Fountain, The ii 91

Fox, Mr., Lines composed on the expected death of iv 47

France, Sky-prospect from the Plain of vi 377

Francesco Pozzobonnelli iv 236

French Army in Russia (Two Poems) vi 107

French Clergy, Emigrant vii 101

French Revolution ii 34

French Revolution, In allusion to Histories of the (Three Sonnets) viii 130

French Royalist, Feelings of a vi 114

Friend, To a (Banks of the Derwent) vii 348

Funeral Service vi 97

Furness Abbey, At viii 168

Furness Abbey, At viii 176

Gemmi, Echo upon the vi 360

General Fast, Upon the late (1832) vii 323

George the Third (November, 1813) iv 282

George the Third, On the death of vi 209

Germans on the Heights of Hockheim, The vi 216

Germany, Written in ii 73

Gillies, Margaret, To (Two Poems) viii 114

Gillies, Margaret viii 306

Gillies, Robert Pearce vi 33

Gipsies iv 65

Glad Tidings vii 15

Gleaner, The vii 202

Glen-Almain, or, The Narrow Glen ii 393

Glencroe, At the Head of vii 295

Glowworm, The viii 231

Goddard, Elegiac Stanzas vi 371

Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase (Two Poems) vii 214

Goody Blake and Harry Gill i 253

Gordale vi 185

Grace Darling viii 310

Grasmere, Departure from the Vale of (August 1803) ii 377

Grasmere, Home at viii 235

Grasmere, Inscription on the Island at ii 213

Grasmere, Return to ii 419

Grasmere Lake, Composed by the side of iv 73

Grave-stone, A (Worcester Cathedral) vii 201

“Great men have been among us; hands that penned” ii 346

Green, George and Sarah viii 266

Green Linnet, The ii 367

Greenock vii 383

Greta, To the River vii 344

“Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend” vi 195

Grotto, Written in a viii 234

Guernica, Oak of iv 245

Guilt and Sorrow i 77

Gunpowder Plot vii 69

Gustavus IV iv 227

Gwerndwffnant, Holiday at viii 284

H. C., Six years old, To ii 351

Hambleton Hills, After a journey across the ii 349

Happy Warrior, Character of the iv 7

Hart-Leap Well ii 128

Hart’s-Horn Tree vii 305

Haunted Tree, The vi 199

Hawkshead, Written as a School Exercise at viii 211

Hawkshead School, In anticipation of leaving i 1

Hawkshead School, Address to the Scholars of ii 84

Haydon, To B. R. vi 61

Haydon, To B. R. (Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte) vii 276

Heidelberg, Castle of (Hymn for Boatmen) vi 301

Helvellyn, To ----, on her first ascent of vi 135

Henry Eighth, Portrait of vii 166

Her eyes are wild i 258

Hermitage (St. Herbert’s Island) ii 210

Hermitage, Near the Spring of the vi 175

Hermit’s Cell, Inscriptions in and near vi 170

Highland Boy, The Blind ii 420

Highland Broach, The vii 310

Highland Girl, To a ii 389

Highland Hut vii 296

Hint from the Mountains vi 156

Hints for the Fancy vi 242

Historian, Plea for the viii 61

Hoffer iv 213

Hogg, James, Extempore Effusion upon the death of viii 24

Holiday at Gwerndwffnant viii 284

Home at Grasmere viii 235

Horn of Egremont Castle, The iv 12

Howard, Mrs., Monument of (Wetheral), (Two Sonnets) vii 386

Humanity vii 222

Hutchinson, Sarah, To vii 162

Hymn for Boatmen (Heidelberg) vi 301

Hymn, The Labourer’s Noon-day vii 408

I.F., To viii 307

Idiot Boy, The i 283

Illustrated Books and Newspapers viii 184

Illustration (The Jung-Frau) vii 70

Imagination vi 67

Immortality, Ode, Intimations of viii 189

Indian Woman, Complaint of a Forsaken i 275

Infant Daughter, Address to my iii 14

Infant M---- M----, To the vii 170

Infant, The Cottager to her iii 74

Influence Abused vii 26

Influence of Natural Objects ii 66

Influences, Other vii 19

Inglewood Forest, Suggested by a View in vii 304

Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church (Southey) viii 157

Inscription for a Stone (Rydal Mount) vii 269

Inscriptions (Coleorton) iv 74

Inscriptions (Hermit’s Cell) vi 170

Installation Ode viii 320

Interdict, An vii 32

Introduction (Ecclesiastical Sonnets) vii 4

Introduction (Prelude) iii 132

Invasion, Lines on the expected ii 437

Inversneyde ii 389

Invocation to the Earth vi 95

Iona (Two Sonnets) vii 379

Iona, The Black Stones of vii 381

Isle of Man (Two Sonnets) vii 362

Isle of Man, At Bala-Sala vii 365

Isle of Man, At Sea off the vii 359

Isle of Man, By the Sea-shore vii 361

Isle of Man (Douglas Bay) vii 360

Italian Itinerant, The vi 338

Italy, After leaving (Two Sonnets) viii 84

“It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown” ii 375

“I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret” vi 197

Jedborough, The Matron of ii 414

Jewish Family, A vii 195

Joanna, To ii 157

Joanna H., Lines addressed to viii 282

Joan of Kent, Warrant for Execution of vii 60

Jones, Rev. Robert vi 257

Journey Renewed vi 257

June, 1820 vi 214

Jung-Frau, The, and the Fall of the Rhine vii 70

Kendal, Upon hearing of the death of the Vicar of vi 40

Kendal and Windermere Railway, On the projected viii 166

Kent, To the Men of (October, 1803) ii 434

Kilchurn Castle, Address to ii 400

Killicranky, In the Pass of ii 435

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Inside of (Three Sonnets) vii 106

Kirkstone, The Pass of vi 158

Kirtle, The Braes of ii 124

Kitten and Falling Leaves, The iii 16

Laborer’s Noon-day Hymn, The vii 408

Lady, To a, upon Drawings she had made of Flowers in Madeira viii 177

Lady E. B., and the Hon. Miss P., To the vii 128

Lamb, Charles, Written after the death of viii 17

Lancaster Castle, Suggested by the view of viii 103

Langdale, Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of viii 120

Laodamia vi 1

Last of the Flock, The i 279

Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, The vi 343

Latimer and Ridley vii 61

Latitudinarianism vii 76

Laud vii 71

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper vi 343

Lesbia viii 32

Liberty (Gold and Silver Fishes) vii 216

Liberty (Tyrolese Sonnets) iv 214

Liberty, Obligations of Civil to Religious vii 81

Liege, Between Namur and vi 293

Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ii 51

Lines composed on the expected death of Mr. Fox iv 47

Lines, Farewell vii 155

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree i 108

Lines on the expected Invasion, 1803 ii 437

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone (Two Poems) viii 1

Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead viii 211

Lines written in Early Spring i 268

Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale viii 8

Lines written upon a Stone, upon one of the Islands at Rydal ii 63

Lines written upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal vi 40

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening i 32

Liturgy, The vii 88

Loch Etive, Composed in the Glen of vii 291

Lombardy, In viii 83

London, Written in (1802), (Two Sonnets) ii 344

Longest Day, The vi 153

Long Meg and her Daughters vii 390

Lonsdale, The Countess of (Album) viii 8

Lonsdale, To the Earl of v 20

Lonsdale, To the Earl of vii 392

Louisa ii 362

Love, The Birth of viii 215

Love lies bleeding (Two Poems) viii 148

Loving and Liking vii 320

Lowther vii 391

Lowther, To the Lady Mary vi 211

Lucca Giordano viii 183

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude ii 99

Lucy (Three Poems) ii 78

Lucy (Three years she grew) ii 81

Lycoris, Ode to (Two Poems) vi 145

M. H., To ii 167

Madeira, Flowers in the Island of viii 177

Malham Cove vi 184

Manse, On the sight of a (Scotland) vii 286

March, Written in ii 293

Margaret ----, The Affliction of iii 7

Mariner, By a Retired vii 364

“Mark the concentred hazels that enclose” vi 71

Marriage Ceremony vii 94

Marriage of a Friend, Composed on the Eve of the iv 276

Marshall, To Cordelia vii 400

Mary Queen of Scots, Captivity of vi 191

Mary Queen of Scots, Lament of vi 162

Mary Queen of Scots (Workington) vii 349

Maternal Grief iv 248

Matron of Jedborough, The ii 414

Matthew ii 87

May Morning, Composed on (1838) viii 97

May Morning, Ode composed on vii 146

May, To vii 148

Meditation vii 401

Memory vii 117

“Men of the Western World!” viii 112

Mental Affliction viii 36

Merry England vii 343

Michael ii 215

Michael Angelo, From the Italian of (Three Sonnets) iii 380

Michael Angelo, Translation from viii 265

“Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour” ii 346

Missions and Travels vii 23

Monasteries, Dissolution of the (Three Sonnets) vii 52

Monasteries, Saxon vii 22

Monastery, Cistertian vii 37

Monastery of Old Bangor vii 13

Monastic Power, Abuse of vii 50

Monastic Voluptuousness vii 51

Monkhouse, Mary vii 170

Monks and Schoolmen vii 39

Monument of Mrs. Howard (Two Sonnets) vii 386

Monument (Long Meg and her Daughters) vii 390

Moon, The (The Shepherd, looking eastward) vi 68

Moon, The (With how sad steps, O Moon) iv 38

Moon (The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love) viii 127

Moon, The (Sea-side) viii 13

Moon, The (Rydal) viii 15

Moon, The (Who but is pleased to watch) viii 184

Moon, The (How beautiful the Queen of Night) viii 188

Moon, The (Once I could hail) vii 152

Morning Exercise, A vii 178

Mosgiel Farm (Burns) vii 383

Mother, The Mad i 258

Mother’s Return, The iv 63

Mountains, Hint from the vi 156

Mull, In the Sound of vii 293

Music, Power of iv 20

Mutability vii 100

Naming of Places, Poems on the ii 153

Namur and Liege, Between vi 293

Natural Objects, Influence of ii 66

“Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove” viii 65

Needlecase in the form of a Harp, On seeing a vii 157

Negro Woman ii 342

Newspaper, Composed after reading a vii 290

Nightingale, The vi 214

Nightingale, The Cuckoo and the ii 250

Night Piece, A i 227

Night-thought, A viii 88

Nith, On the Banks of ii 383

Norman Boy, The viii 132

Norman Conquest, The vii 28

North Wales, Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in vii 131

Nortons, The Fate of the iv 100

November, 1806 iv 49

November, 1813 iv 282

November 1 (1815) vi 63

Nunnery vii 388

Nun’s Well, Brigham vii 347

Nutting ii 70

Oak and the Broom, The ii 174

Oak of Guernica iv 245

Octogenarian, To an viii 185

Ode, Installation viii 320

Ode, Vernal vi 138

Ode (Who rises on the Banks of Seine) vi 104

Ode (1814) (When the soft hand) vi 96

Ode (1815) (Imagination--ne’er before content) vi 88

Ode, The Morning of the Day of Thanksgiving vi 74

Ode to Duty iii 37

Ode to Lycoris (Two Poems) vi 145

Ode composed on May Morning vii 146

Ode, Intimations of Immortality viii 189

Oker Hill in Darley Dale, A Tradition of vii 230

“O Nightingale! thou surely art” iv 67

“On Nature’s invitation do I come” ii 118

Open Prospect vi 243

Ossian, Written in a blank leaf of Macpherson’s vii 373

Our Lady of the Snow vi 318

Oxford, May 30, 1820 (Two Sonnets) vi 213

Painter, To a (Two Sonnets) viii 114

Palafox iv 222

Palafox iv 228

Palafox iv 240

Papal Abuses vii 33

Papal Dominion vii 34

Papal Power vii 36

Papal Unity vii 42

Parrot and the Wren, The vii 141

Parsonage in Oxfordshire, A vi 217

Pastoral Character vii 87

Patriotic Sympathies vii 74

Paulinus vii 15

Peele Castle, Suggested by a Picture of iii 54

Pelion and Ossa ii 238

Pennsylvanians, To the viii 179

Persecution vii 8

Personal Talk iv 30

Persuasion vii 16

Peter Bell ii 1

Peter Bell, On the detraction which followed vi 212

Pet-Lamb, The ii 142

Philoctetes vii 167

Picture, Upon the sight of a beautiful iv 271

Piety, Decay of vii 163

Piety, Filial vii 231

Pilgrim Fathers (Two Sonnets) vii 84

Pilgrim’s Dream, The vi 167

Pillar of Trajan, The vii 137

Places of Worship vii 87

Plea for Authors, A viii 99

Plea for the Historian viii 61

Poet and the Caged Turtledove, The vii 265

Poet’s Dream, The viii 135

Poet’s Epitaph, A ii 75

Poet to his Grandchild, A viii 305

Point at issue, The vii 58

Point Rash Judgment ii 163

Poor Robin viii 116

Poor Susan, The Reverie of i 226

Popery, Revival of vii 61

Portrait, Lines suggested by a (Two Poems) viii 1

Portrait of I.F., On a viii 306

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, On a viii 118

Portrait, To the Author’s vii 318

Postscript (John Dyer) vi 264

Power of Music iv 20

Power of Sound, On the vii 203

Prayer at Sea, Forms of vii 97

Prayer, The Force of iv 204

Prelude, Prefixed to “Poems of Early and Late Years” viii 123

Prelude, The iii 121

Presentiments vii 266

Primrose of the Rock, The vii 274

Prioress’ Tale, The ii 240

Processions (Chamouny) vi 363

Prophecy, A. February, 1807 iv 59

Punishment of Death, Sonnets upon the viii 103

Queen, To the viii 319

Quillinan, To Rothay vii 171

Railway, On the projected Kendal and Windermere viii 166

Railways, etc. vii 389

Rainbow, The ii 291

Ranz des Vaches, On hearing the vi 326

Recovery vii 9

Redbreast chasing the Butterfly, The ii 295

Redbreast, The vii 410

Redbreast, To a viii 38

Reflections vii 57

Reformation, General view of the Troubles of the vii 64

Reformers, Eminent (Two Sonnets) vii 66

Reformers in Exile, English vii 64

Regrets vii 99

Regrets, Imaginative vii 56

Repentance iii 11

Reproof vii 21

Resolution and Independence ii 312

Rest and be thankful vii 295

Resting-place, The (Two Sonnets) vi 254

Retirement vii 165

Return vi 248

Return, The Mother’s iv 63

Reverie of Poor Susan i 226

Rhine, Author’s Voyage down the viii 273

Rhine, Upon the Banks of the vi 299

Richard I vii 31

Richmond Hill (Thomson) vi 214

Ridley, Latimer and vii 61

Robinson, To Henry Crabb (Tour in Italy, 1837) viii 41

Rob Roy’s Grave ii 403

Rock, Inscribed upon a vi 173

Rocks, Two heath-clad viii 170

Rocky Stream, Composed on the Banks of a vi 208

Rocky Stream, On the Banks of a viii 188

Rogers, Samuel, To vii 280

Roman Antiquities viii 33

Roman Antiquities (Old Penrith) vii 308

Roman Refinements, Temptations from vii 10

Romance of the Water Lily vii 252

Rome (Two Sonnets) viii 62

Rome, At (Three Sonnets) viii 59

Rome, The Pine of Monte Mario at viii 58

Roslin Chapel, Composed in vii 287

Rotha Q----, To vii 171

Ruins of a Castle in North Wales vii 131

Rural Architecture ii 206

Rural Ceremony vii 98

Rural Illusions vii 319

Russian Fugitive, The vii 239

Ruth ii 104

Rydal, At, on May Morning (1838) viii 94

Rydal Chapel vii 109

Rydal, Written upon a Stone at ii 63

Rydal, In the woods of vii 176

Rydal Mere, By the side of vii 403

Rydal Mount, Inscription for a Stone in the Grounds of vii 269

S. H., To vii 162

Sacheverel vii 82

Sacrament vii 93

Sailor’s Mother, The ii 270

Saint Bees’ Head, In a Steam-boat off vii 351

Saint Catherine of Ledbury viii 34

Saint Gothard (Ranz des Vaches on the Pass of) vi 326

Saint Herbert’s Island, Derwent-water (Hermitage) ii 210

Saints vii 54

Salinero, Ambrosio iv 233

Salisbury Plain, Incidents upon i 77

San Salvador, The Church of vi 332

Saxon Clergy, Primitive vii 19

Saxon Conquest vii 12

Saxon Monasteries vii 22

Saxons vii 29

“Say, what is Honour?--’Tis the finest sense” iv 225

Schill iv 226

Scholars of the Village School of ----, Address to the ii 84

School, Composed in anticipation of leaving i 1

School Exercise at Hawkshead, Written As a viii 211

Schwytz vi 324

Scottish Covenanters, Persecution of the vii 79

Scott, Sir Walter, Departure of vii 284

Sea-shore, Composed by the vii 340

Sea-side, Composed by the ii 330

Sea-side, By the vii 338

Seasons, Thoughts on the vii 229

Seathwaite Chapel vi 249

Seclusion (Two Sonnets) vii 20

Sellon, To Miss viii 325

September 1, 1802 ii 342

September, 1815 vi 64

September, 1819 vi 201

Seven Sisters, The ii 204

Sexton, To a ii 95

Sheep-washing vi 253

Shepherd-Boys, The Idle ii 138

“She was a Phantom of delight” iii 1

Simon Lee i 262

Simplon Pass, Column lying in the vi 356

Simplon Pass, Stanza’s composed in the vi 357

Simplon Pass, The ii 69

Sister, To my i 270

Skiddaw ii 238

Sky-lark, To a iii 42

Sky-lark, To a vii 143

Sky-prospect--From the Plain of France vi 377

Sleep, To (Three Sonnets) iv 42

Snow-drop, To a vi 191

Sobieski, John vi 110

Solitary Reaper, The ii 397

Solitude (The Duddon) vi 245

Somnambulist, The vii 393

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle iv 82

Song for the Spinning Wheel iv 275

Song for the Wandering Jew ii 182

Sonnet, The vii 163

Sonnet, June, 1820 (Fame tells of groves) vi 214

Sonnet, September 1, 1802 (We had a female Passenger) ii 342

Sonnet, September, 1802 (Inland, within a hollow vale) ii 343

Sonnet, September, 1815 (While not a leaf seems faded) vi 64

Sonnet, October, 1803 (One might believe) ii 430

Sonnet, October, 1803 (These times strike monied worldlings) ii 432

Sonnet, October, 1803 (When, looking on the present face of things) ii 433

Sonnet, November, 1806 (Another year!) iv 49

Sonnet, November, 1813 (Now that all hearts are glad) iv 282

Sonnet, November 1, 1815 (How clear, how keen) vi 63

Sonnet, November, 1836 (Even so for me a Vision) viii 37

Sound of Mull, In the vii 293

Sound, The Power of vii 203

Southey, Edith May vii 157

Southey, (Inscription for monument) viii 157

Spade of a Friend, To the iv 2

Spaniards (Three Sonnets) iv 246

Spanish Guerillas, The French and the iv 248

Spanish Guerillas iv 253

Sparrow’s Nest, The ii 236

Spinning Wheel, Song for the iv 275

Sponsors vii 90

Spring, Lines written in Early i 268

Staffa, Cave of (Four Sonnets) vii 376

Star and the Glow-worm, The vi 167

Star-gazers iv 22

Staubbach, On approaching the vi 306

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways vii 389

Stepping-stones, The (Two Sonnets) vi 239

Stepping Westward ii 396

Stone, F., Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of (Two Poems) viii 1

Storm, Composed during a vi 187

Stray Pleasures iv 18

Stream, Composed on the Banks of a Rocky vi 208

Stream, On the Banks of a Rocky viii 188

Stream, Tributary vi 250

Streams (The Duddon) vi 255

Streams, The unremitting voice of nightly viii 187

Swan, The vi 198

Sweden, The King of ii 338

Sweden, The King of iv 227

Switzerland, Subjugation of iv 60

Tables Turned, The i 274

Tell, Effusion in presence of the Tower of vi 321

Temptations from Roman Refinements vii 10

Thanksgiving after Childbirth vii 95

Thanksgiving Ode vi 74

“The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill” vii 406

“There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear” ii 431

“There is a little unpretending Rill” iv 53

There was a Boy ii 57

“The Stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand” vi 210

“This Lawn, a carpet all alive” vii 228

Thomson’s “Castle of Indolence,” Stanzas written in ii 305

Thorn, The i 239

Thrasymene, Near the Lake of (Two Sonnets) viii 66

Thrush, The (Two Sonnets) viii 93

Thun, Memorial near the Lake of vi 310

Tillbrook, Rev. Samuel vi 65

Tilsbury Vale, The Farmer of ii 147

Tintern Abbey, Lines, composed a few miles above ii 51

To ---- in her seventieth year vii 172

To ---- Upon the birth of her First-born Child vii 328

To ---- (Mrs. Wordsworth), (Two Poems) vii 121

To ---- (Look at the fate of summer flowers) vii 124

To ---- (Miscellaneous Sonnets--Dedication) vii 159

To ---- (Miscellaneous Sonnets--Conclusion) vii 177

To ---- (Wait, prithee, wait!) viii 32

To ---- on her First Ascent of Helvellyn vi 135

To ---- (The Haunted Tree) vi 199

Torrent at Devil’s Bridge vii 129

Tour among the Alps (1791-2), (Descriptive Sketches) i 35

Tour among the Alps (1791-2), (Descriptive Sketches) i 309

Tour in Italy (1837), Memorials of a viii 39

Tour in Scotland (1803), Memorials of a ii 377

Tour in Scotland (1814), Memorials of a vi 15

Tour in Scotland (1831) vii 278

Tour in the Summer of 1833 vii 341

Tour on the Continent (1820), Memorials of a vi 285

Toussaint L’Ouverture, To ii 339

Tradition vi 253

Tradition, American vi 246

Tradition, Fancy and vii 306

Tradition of Oker Hill vii 230

Trajan, The Pillar of vii 137

Translation of the Bible vii 58

Transubstantiation vii 44

Triad, The vii 181

Tributary Stream vi 250

Troilus and Cresida ii 264

Trosachs, The vii 288

Turtledove, The Poet and the Caged vii 265

Twilight vi 67

Two April Mornings, The ii 89

Two Thieves, The ii 60

Tyndrum, Suggested at vii 294

Tynwald Hill vii 366

Tyrolese, Feelings of the iv 215

Tyrolese, On the final submission of the iv 217

Tyrolese Sonnets iv 213

Ulpha, Kirk of vi 260

Uncertainty vii 7

Utilitarians, To the viii 299

Valedictory Sonnet (Miscellaneous Sonnets) viii 102

Vallombrosa, At viii 75

Vaudois, The (Two Sonnets) vii 44

Vaudracour and Julia iii 24

Venetian Republic, On the Extinction of ii 336

Venice, Scene in vii 34

Venus, To the Planet (January 1838) viii 92

Venus, To the Planet (Loch Lomond) vii 299

Vernal Ode vi 138

Vienna, Siege of, raised by John Sobieski vi 110

Virgin, The vii 54

Visitation of the Sick vii 96

Waggoner, The iii 76

Waldenses vii 46

Wallace’s Tower vi 26

Walton, Isaac vi 190

Walton’s Book of Lives vii 77

Wandering Jew, Song for the ii 182

Wansfell viii 153

Warning, The vii 330

Wars of York and Lancaster vii 48

Waterfall and the Eglantine, The ii 170

Water-fowl iv 277

Waterloo, After visiting the Field of vi 292

Waterloo, Occasioned by the Battle of (Three Sonnets) vi 111

We are Seven i 228

Wellington, On a Portrait of the Duke of viii 118

Westall, Mr. W., Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire, by (Three Poems) vi 183

Westminster Bridge, Composed upon ii 328

Westmoreland Girl, The viii 172

“Whence that low voice?--A whisper from the heart” vi 252

“Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed” viii 182

“While Anna’s peers and early playmates tread” vii 169

Whirl-blast, The i 238

Whistlers, The Seven iv 68

White Doe of Rylstone iv 100

“Who fancied what a pretty sight?” ii 374

“Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings” vii 161

Wicliffe vii 49

Widow on Windermere Side, The viii 89

Wild Duck’s Nest, The vi 189

Wild-Fowl viii 234

William the Third vii 80

Winter (French Army), (Two Poems) vi 107

Wishing-gate, The vii 189

Wishing-gate Destroyed, The vii 192

Worcester Cathedral, A Grave-Stone in vii 201

Wordsworth, Catherine vi 72

Wordsworth, Dora vi 132

Wordsworth, John, Elegiac Verses in memory of iii 58

Wordsworth, John (Fir Grove) iii 66

Wordsworth, To the Rev. Christopher viii 162

Wordsworth, To the Rev. Dr. (Duddon) vi 227

Wordsworth, Thomas viii 39

Wren’s Nest, A vii 325

Yarrow Unvisited ii 411

Yarrow Visited vi 35

Yarrow Revisited vii 278

Yew-trees ii 369

Yew-tree Seat i 108

York and Lancaster, Wars of vii 48

Young England viii 180

Young Lady, To a ii 365

Youth, Written in very early i 3

Zaragoza iv 224

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A barking sound the Shepherd hears, iii 44

A Book came forth of late, called PETER BELL; vi 212

A bright-haired company of youthful slaves, vii 14

Abruptly paused the strife;--the field throughout vi 216

A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew, vi 248

Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown vii 342

Advance--come forth from thy Tyrolean ground, iv 214

Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow vi 188

A famous man is Robin Hood, ii 403

Affections lose their object; Time brings forth, viii 185

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, iv 43

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, vii 87

A German Haggis from receipt viii 272

Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers, ii 414

Ah! if I were a lady gay viii 262

Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide, viii 110

A humming Bee--a little tinkling rill-- v 106

Ah, when the Body, round which in love we clung, vii 19

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen iv 240

Ah why deceive ourselves! by no mere fit, viii 86

Aid, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light, vii 64

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest iv 216

“_A little onward lend thy guiding hand_” vi 133

All praise the Likeness by thy skill portrayed, viii 114

Along the mazes of this song I go, viii 233

A love-lorn Maid, at some far-distant time, vi 253

Ambition--following down this far-famed slope vi 356

Amid a fertile region green with wood vii 301

Amid the smoke of cities did you pass ii 157

Amid this dance of objects sadness steals vi 299

Among a grave fraternity of Monks, viii 6

Among all lovely things my Love had been, viii 232

Among the dwellers in the silent fields, viii 310

Among the dwellings framed by birds vii 325

Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream! vi 193

Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream! vii 345

A month, sweet Little-ones, is past iv 63

An age hath been when Earth was proud vi 146

A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags, ii 164

And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven, viii 211

And is it among rude untutored Dales, iv 222

And is this--Yarrow?--_This_ the Stream vi 36

And, not in vain embodied to the sight, vii 40

“And shall,” the Pontiff asks, “profaneness flow” vii 30

And what is Penance with her knotted thong; vii 50

And what melodious sounds at times prevail! vii 40

An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold, iv 20

Another year!--another deadly blow! iv 49

A pen--to register; a key-- vii 117

A Pilgrim, when the summer day vi 167

A plague on your languages, German and Norse! ii 73

A pleasant music floats along the Mere, vii 27

_A Poet!_--He hath put his heart to school, viii 128

A point of life between my Parents’ dust, vii 346

Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore viii 281

Army of Clouds! ye wingèd Host in troops, viii 142

A Rock there is whose homely front vii 274

A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground, iv 242

Around a wild and woody hill vi 310

Arran! a single-crested Teneriffe, vii 370

Art thou a Statist in the van ii 75

Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, ii 295

As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crest vii 42

A simple Child, i 231

As indignation mastered grief, my tongue, viii 85

As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow, viii 87

A slumber did my spirit seal; ii 83

As often as I murmur here vii 265

As star that shines dependent upon star vii 87

“As the cold aspect of a sunless way” vi 191

A Stream, to mingle with your favourite Dee, vii 129

A sudden conflict rises from the swell vii 82

As, when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain vii 9

As with the Stream our voyage we pursue, vii 33

At early dawn, or rather when the air vi 185

A Traveller on the skirt of Sarum’s Plain i 79

A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, vii 284

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, i 226

A twofold harmony is here viii 282

Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind iv 247

Avaunt this œconomic rage! viii 299

A voice, from long-expecting thousands sent vii 79

A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found, vii 119

Avon--a precious, an immortal name! vii 303

A weight of awe, not easy to be borne, vii 390

A whirl-blast from behind the hill i 238

A wingèd Goddess--clothed in vesture wrought vi 292

A Youth too certain of his power to wade vii 362

Bard of the Fleece, whose skilful genius made iv 273

Beaumont! it was thy wish that I should rear iii 23

Before I see another day, i 276

Before the world had past her time of youth, viii 107

“Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,” ii 170

Beguiled into forgetfulness of care, viii 2

Behold an emblem of our human mind, viii 188

Behold a pupil of the monkish gown, vii 24

Behold her, single in the field, ii 397

Behold, within the leafy shade, ii 237

“Beloved Vale!” I said, “when I shall con” iv 35

Beneath the concave of an April sky, vi 138

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed ii 367

Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound, iv 80

Be this the chosen site; the virgin sod, vii 103

Between two sister moorland rills ii 96

Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep vii 86

Black Demons hovering o’er his mitred head, vii 34

Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak, ii 121

Blest is this Isle--our native Land; vii 109

Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will, viii 101

Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong vii 359

Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight iv 226

Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere, ii 360

Bright was the summer’s noon when quickening steps iii 186

Broken in fortune, but in mind entire vii 365

Brook and road ii 69

Brook, that hast been my solace days and weeks, viii 265

Brook! whose society the Poet seeks, iv 52

Brugès I saw attired with golden light vi 288

But Cytherea, studious to invent, viii 277

But here no cannon thunders to the gale; vi 262

But liberty, and triumphs on the Main, vii 102

But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred Book, vii 58

But, to remote Northumbria’s royal Hall, vii 15

But what if One, through grove or flowery mead, vii 21

But whence came they who for the Saviour Lord vii 44

By a blest Husband guided, Mary came, viii 35

By antique Fancy trimmed--though lowly, bred vi 324

By Art’s bold privilege Warrior and War-Horse stand, viii 118

By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied: vii 93

By playful smiles, (alas, too oft, viii 120

By such examples moved to unbought pains, vii 22

By their floating mill, iv 18

By vain affections unenthralled, vii 135

Call not the royal Swede unfortunate, iv 227

Calm as an under-current, strong to draw, vii 80

Calm is all nature as a resting wheel i 4

Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose vii 317

Calvert! it must not be unheard by them iv 44

“Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!” vi 237

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride vii 273

Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream ii 401

Child of the clouds! remote from every taint vi 231

Clarkson! it was an obstinate hill to climb: iv 62

Closing the sacred Book which long has fed vii 98

Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars iv 73

Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered vii 29

Come, gentle Sleep, Death’s image tho’ thou art, viii 264

Come ye--who, if (which Heaven avert!) the Land ii 437

Companion! by whose buoyant Spirit cheered, viii 41

Complacent Fictions were they, yet the same, viii 61

Confiding hopes of youthful hearts, viii 297

Critics, right honourable Bard, decree viii 272

Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell; ii 349

Darkness surrounds us: seeking, we are lost vii 7

Days passed--and Monte Calvo would not clear, viii 64

Days undefiled by luxury or sloth, viii 179

Dear be the Church, that, watching o’er the needs vii 89

Dear Child of Nature, let them rail! ii 366

Dear Fellow-travellers! think not that the Muse, vi 285

Dear native regions, I foretell, i 2

Dear Reliques! from a pit of vilest mould vi 114

Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, vii 350

Deep is the lamentation! Not alone vii 56

Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord! ii 410

Deign, Sovereign Mistress, to accept a lay, viii 319

Departed Child! I could forget thee once iv 249

Departing summer hath assumed vi 202

Deplorable his lot who tills the ground, vii 38

Desire we past illusions to recal? vvii 360

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough viii 31

Despond who will--_I_ heard a voice exclaim, vii 368

Destined to war from very infancy iv 234

Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen, vii 363

Discourse was deemed Man’s noblest attribute, viii 184

Dishonoured Rock and Ruin! that, by law, vii 292

Dogmatic Teachers, of the snow-white fur! vi 208

Doomed as we are our native dust vi 312

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, vii 295

Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design vii 83

Dread hour! when, upheaved by war’s sulphurous blast, vi 329

Driven in by Autumn’s sharpening air vii 410

Earth has not any thing to show more fair: ii 328

Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewed vii 385

Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung vi 113

England! the time is come when thou should’st wean ii 433

Enlightened Teacher, gladly from thy hand viii 162

Enough! for see, with dim association vii 44

Enough of climbing toil!--Ambition treads vi 149

Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook, vii 294

Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyes vii 239

Ere the Brothers through the gateway iv 12

Erewhile to celebrate this glorious morn vi 195

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew vii 145

Ere yet our course was graced with social trees vi 235

Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load, viii 81

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! vii 143

Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress vi 69

Even as a river,--partly (it might seem) iii 293

Even so for me a Vision sanctified viii 37

Even such the contrast that, where’er we move, vii 71

Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of France vii 101

Excuse is needless when with love sincere vii 162

Failing impartial measure to dispense viii 99

Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sate ii 124

Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing vi 116

Fair Lady! can I sing of flowers viii 177

Fair Land! Thee all men greet with joy; bow few, viii 84

Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild vii 165

Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the west, ii 330

Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap, vi 256

Fame tells of groves--from England far away-- vi 214

Fancy, who leads the pastimes of the glad, vii 178

“Farewell, deep Valley, with thy one rude House,” v 196

Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain-ground, ii 324

Far from my dearest Friend, ’tis mine to rove i 6

Far from our home by Grasmere’s quiet Lake, iv 259

Father! to God himself we cannot give vii 90

Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree vii 69

Feel for the wrongs to universal ken viii 129

Festivals have I seen that were not names: ii 334

Fit retribution, by the moral code viii 108

Five years have past; five summers, with the length ii 51

Flattered with promise of escape vii 229

Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale! ii 419

Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep! iv 43

For action born, existing to be tried, viii 67

Forbear to deem the Chronicler unwise, viii 61

For ever hallowed be this morning fair, vii 15

For gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takes vi 316

Forgive, illustrious Country! these deep sighs, viii 65

Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base viii 170

For thirst of power that Heaven disowns, viii 320

Forth rushed from Envy sprung and Self-conceit, viii 304

For what contend the wise?--for nothing less vii 58

Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein viii 32

From Bolton’s old monastic tower iv 106

From early youth I ploughed the restless Main, vii 364

From false assumption rose, and fondly hail’d vii 36

From Little down to Least, in due degree, vii 91

From low to high doth dissolution climb, vii 100

From Nature doth emotion come, and moods iii 355

From Rite and Ordinance abused they fled vii 85

From Stirling castle we had seen ii 411

From that time forth, Authority in France iii 330

From the Baptismal hour, thro’ weal and woe, vii 97

From the dark chambers of dejection freed, vi 34

From the fierce aspect of this River, throwing vi 308

From the Pier’s head, musing, and with increase vi 381

From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play vi 245

Frowns are on every Muse’s face, vii 157

Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oars vii 41

Genius of Raphael! if thy wings vii 195

Giordano, verily thy Pencil’s skill viii 183

Glad sight wherever new with old viii 154

Glide gently, thus for ever glide, i 33

Glory to God! and to the Power who came vii 107

Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes vii 174

Go, faithful Portrait! and where long hath knelt vii 318

Grant, that by this unsparing hurricane vii 57

Grateful is Sleep, my life, in stone bound fast, viii 264

Great men have been among us; hands that penned ii 346

Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stones vii 344

Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready friend vi 196

Grieve for the Man who hither came bereft, viii 72

Had this effulgence disappeared vi 177

Hail, orient Conqueror of gloomy Night! vi 78

Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird v 235

Hail to the fields--with Dwellings sprinkled o’er vi 243

Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! vi 67

Hail, Virgin Queen! o’er many an envious bar vii 65

Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye iv 224

Happy the feeling from the bosom thrown vii 159

Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined, to lean viii 86

Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest, viii 93

Harmonious Powers with Nature work viii 125

Harp! could’st thou venture, on thy boldest string vii 72

Hast thou seen, with flash incessant, vi 174

Hast thou then survived-- iii 14

Haydon! let worthier judges praise the skill vii 277

Here closed the Tenant of that lonely vale v 145

_Here Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall_, vii 37

Here, on our native soil, we breathe once more ii 341

Here on their knees men swore; the stones were black, vii 381

Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise, iv 255

Here stood an Oak, that long had borne affixed vii 305

Here, where, of havoc tired and rash undoing, viii 168

Her eyes are wild, her head is bare, i 258

Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat vii 160

“High bliss is only for a higher state,” vii 156

High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you! iv 59

High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate, iv 83

High is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art vi 61

High on a broad unfertile tract of forest-skirted Down, viii 133

High on her speculative tower vi 345

His simple truths did Andrew glean ii 174

Holy and heavenly Spirits as they are, vii 67

Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba’s Cell, vii 382

Hope rules a land for ever green: vii 190

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, vii 378

Hopes, what are they?--Beads of morning vi 170

How art thou named? In search of what strange land, vii 129

How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high viii 188

How beautiful, when up a lofty height viii 90

How beautiful your presence, how benign, vii 19

How blest the Maid whose heart--yet free vi 351

How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright vi 63

“How disappeared he?” Ask the newt and toad; vii 297

How fast the Marian death-list is unrolled! vii 61

How profitless the relics that we cull, vii 308

How richly glows the water’s breast i 32

How rich that forehead’s calm expanse! vii 123

How sad a welcome! To each voyager vii 380

How shall I paint thee?--Be this naked stone, vi 232

How soon--alas! did Man, created pure-- vii 35

How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks iv 36

Humanity, delighting to behold vi 107

Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast iv 248

I am not One who much or oft delight iv 31

I come, ye little noisy Crew, ii 84

I dropped my pen; and listened to the Wind iv 211

I find it written of Simonides, viii 258

If from the public way you turn your steps ii 215

If Life were slumber on a bed of down, vii 351

If money’s slack, viii 271

If Nature, for a favourite child, ii 88

If there be prophets on whose spirits rest vii 5

If these brief Records, by the Muses’ art vii 177

If the whole weight of what we think and feel, vii 165

If this great world of joy and pain vii 336

If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, vii 175

If thou in the dear love of some one Friend ii 210

If to Tradition faith be due vii 311

If with old love of you, dear Hills! I share viii 95

I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vain ii 323

I hate that Andrew Jones; he’ll breed viii 221

I have a boy of five years old; i 234

I heard (alas! ’twas only in a dream) vi 198

I heard a thousand blended notes, i 269

I know an aged Man constrained to dwell viii 186

I listen--but no faculty of mine, vi 326

Imagination--ne’er before content, vi 88

I marvel how Nature could ever find space ii 208

I met Louisa in the shade, ii 362

Immured in Bothwell’s Towers, at times the Brave vii 299

In Brugès town is many a street vii 198

In days of yore how fortunately fared v 67

In desultory walk through orchard grounds, viii 123

In distant countries have I been, i 279

In due observance of an ancient rite, iv 241

Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood; ii 343

Inmate of a mountain-dwelling, vi 135

In my mind’s eye a Temple, like a cloud vii 173

In one of those excursions (may they ne’er iii 367

Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake viii 122

In these fair vales hath many a Tree vii 269

In the sweet shire of Cardigan, i 262

In this still place, remote from men, ii 393

In trellised shed with clustering roses gay, iv 102

Intrepid sons of Albion! not by you vi 111

In youth from rock to rock I went, ii 353

I rose while yet the cattle, heat-opprest, vi 257

I saw a Mother’s eye intensely bent vii 92

I saw an aged Beggar in my walk; i 300

I saw far off the dark top of a Pine, viii 58

I saw the figure of a lovely Maid vii 74

Is _Death_, when evil against good has fought, viii 106

I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold, ii 379

Is it a reed that’s shaken by the wind, ii 331

Is then no nook of English ground secure, viii 166

Is then the final page before me spread, vi 382

Is there a power that can sustain and cheer iv 228

Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill, viii 59

_I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide_, vi 263

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, ii 335

It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown, ii 376

It is not to be thought of that the Flood ii 347

It is the first mild day of March: i 271

I travelled among unknown men, ii 80

It seems a day ii 70

It was a beautiful and silent day iii 311

It was a dreary morning when the wheels iii 168

It was a _moral_ end for which they fought; iv 217

It was an April morning: fresh and clear ii 154

I’ve watched you now a full half-hour, ii 297

I wandered lonely as a cloud iii 4

I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile! iii 54

I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret vi 197

I, who accompanied with faithful pace vii 4

I, whose pretty Voice you hear, viii 295

I will relate a tale for those who love viii 224

Jesu! bless our slender Boat, vi 301

Jones! I as from Calais southward you and I ii 332

Just as those final words were penned, the sun broke out in power, viii 135

Keep for the Young the Impassioned smile vi 218

Lady! a Pen (perhaps with thy regard, viii 8

Lady! I rifled a Parnassian cave vi 211

Lady! the songs of Spring were in the grove iv 58

Lament! for Diocletian’s fiery sword vii 8

Lance, shield, and sword relinquished--at his side vii 20

Last night, without a voice, that Vision spake vii 74

Let other bards of angels sing, vii 121

Let thy wheel-barrow alone ii 95

Let us quit the leafy arbour, vi 153

Lie here, without a record of thy worth, iii 50

Life with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun, viii 97

Like a shipwreck’d Sailor tost vii 328

List, the winds of March are blowing; vii 331

List--’twas the Cuckoo.--O with what delight, viii 68

List, ye who pass by Lyulph’s Tower vii 394

Lo! in the burning west, the craggy nape vi 377

Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they vi 191

Long-favoured England! be not thou misled, viii 131

Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn, viii 63

Long time have human ignorance and guilt iii 345

Lonsdale! it were unworthy of a Guest, vii 392

Look at the fate of summer flowers, vii 124

Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid iv 228

Lord of the vale! astounding Flood; vi 26

Loud is the Vale! the Voice is up iv 47

Loving she is, and tractable, though wild; iv 252

Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance, viii 132

Lo! where the Moon along the sky, viii 88

Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen vii 392

Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells, vi 372

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live, viii 147

“Man’s life is like a Sparrow, mighty King!” vii 16

Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood, iv 278

Mark the concentred hazels that enclose vi 71

Meek Virgin Mother, more benign vi 318

Men of the Western World! in Fate’s dark book, viii 112

Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy vii 68

Mercy and Love have met thee on thy road, vii 7

Methinks that I could trip o’er heaviest soil, vii 66

Methinks that to some vacant hermitage vii 21

Methinks ’twere no unprecedented feat vi 255

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne iv 46

’Mid crowded obelisks and urns ii 387

Mid-noon is past;--upon the sultry mead vi 254

Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour: ii 346

Mine ear has wrung, my spirit sunk subdued, vii 104

“_Miserrimus!_” and neither name nor date, vii 201

Monastic Domes! following my downward way, vii 100

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes vii 401

Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost, vii 54

Motions and Means, on land and sea at war, vii 389

My frame hath often trembled with delight vi 250

My heart leaps up when I behold ii 292

My Lord and Lady Darlington viii 298

My Son! behold the tide already spent, viii 273

Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands i 109

Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove, viii 65

Never enlivened with the liveliest ray, viii 150

Next morning Troilus began to clear ii 264

No fiction was it of the antique age: vi 241

No more: the end is sudden and abrupt, vii 309

No mortal object did these eyes behold iii 381

No record tells of lance opposed to lance, vi 258

Nor scorn the aid which Fancy oft doth lend vii 18

Nor shall the eternal roll of praise reject vii 78

Nor wants the cause the panic-striking aid vii 12

Not a breath of air, viii 146

Not envying Latian shades--if yet they throw vi 230

Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep; vi 261

Not in the lucid intervals of life vii 402

Not in the mines beyond the western main, vii 400

Not, like his great Compeers, indignantly vi 303

Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell vii 118

Not ’mid the World’s vain objects that enslave iv 210

Not sedentary all: there are who roam vii 23

Not seldom, clad in radiant vest, vi 175

Not so that Pair whose youthful spirits dance vi 240

Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard vii 169

Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew; vii 372

Not to the object specially designed, viii 106

Not utterly unworthy to endure vii 55

Not without heavy grief of heart did He iv 236

No whimsey of the purse is here, viii 259

Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright, iv 282

Now that the farewell tear is dried, vi 338

Now we are tired of boisterous joy, ii 420

Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, viii 116

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; iv 28

Oak of Guernica! Tree of holier power iv 245

O blithe New-comer! I have heard, ii 289

O dearer far than light and life are dear, vii 122

O’er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain, iv 223

O’erweening Statesmen have full long relied iv 247

O Flower of all that springs from gentle blood, iv 235

Of mortal parents is the Hero born iv 214

O for a dirge! But why complain? vii 132

O, for a kindling touch from that pure flame, vi 110

O for the help of Angels to complete vi 297

O Friend! I know not which way I must look ii 345

Oft have I caught, upon a fitful breeze, vii 373

Oft have I seen, ere Time had ploughed my cheek, vii 163

Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: ii 99

Oft is the medal faithful to its trust iv 77

Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer! v 20

O gentle Sleep! do they belong to thee, iv 42

O happy time of youthful lovers (thus iii 24

Oh Bounty without measure, while the Grace viii 308

Oh Life! without thy chequered scene vi 315

Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! iii 35

Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech, viii 36

Oh! what’s the matter? what’s the matter? i 254

“O Lord, our Lord! how wondrously,” (quoth she) ii 240

O Moon! if e’er I joyed when thy soft light viii 235

O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot vi 245

Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; ii 336

Once I could hail (howe’er serene the sky) vii 152

Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned ii 285

Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear, vii 49

Once on the top of Tynwald’s formal mound vii 366

Once to the verge of yon steep barrier came viii 236

One might believe that natural miseries ii 431

One morning (raw it was and wet-- ii 270

One who was suffering tumult in his soul vi 187

On his morning rounds the Master iii 48

O Nightingale! thou surely art iv 67

On, loitering Muse--the swift Stream chides us--on! vi 242

“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,” v 23

On Nature’s invitation do I come, ii 118

O now that the genius of Bewick were mine, ii 60

On to Iona!--What can she afford vii 379

Open your gates, ye everlasting Piles! vii 105

O there is blessing in this gentle breeze, iii 132

O thou who movest onward with a mind iv 231

O thou! whose fancies from afar are brought; ii 351

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine, viii 109

Our walk was far among the ancient trees: ii 167

Outstretching flame-ward his upbraided hand vii 62

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, ii 301

Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep vii 286

Pastor and Patriot!--at whose bidding rise vii 349

Patriots informed with Apostolic light vii 85

Pause, courteous Spirit!--Balbi supplicates iv 237

Pause, Traveller! whosoe’er thou be vi 173

Peaceful our valley, fair and green; viii 259

Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side, ii 238

“People! your chains are severing link by link;” vii 290

Perhaps some needful service of the State iv 230

Pleasures newly found are sweet ii 303

Portentous change when History can appear, viii 130

Praised be the Art whose subtle power could stay iv 272

Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs vii 45

Prejudged by foes determined not to spare, vii 71

Presentiments! they judge not right vii 266

Prompt transformation works the novel Lore; vii 17

Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old, viii 167

Pure element of waters! wheresoe’er vi 184

Queen of the Stars!--so gentle, so benign, viii 15

Ranging the heights of Scawfell or Black-Comb, vii 358

Rapt above earth by power of one fair face, viii 81

Realms quake by turns: proud Arbitress of grace, vii 32

Record we too, with just and faithful pen, vii 39

Redoubted King, of courage leonine, vii 31

Reluctant call it was; the rite delayed; vii 323

“Rest, rest, perturbèd Earth!” vi 95

Return, Content! for fondly I pursued, vi 255

Rid of a vexing and a heavy load, viii 265

Rise!--they _have_ risen: of brave Aneurin ask vii 11

Rotha, my Spiritual Child! this head was grey vii 171

Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen ii 213

Sacred Religion! “mother of form and fear,” vi 249

Sad thoughts, avaunt!--partake we their blithe cheer vi 253

Said red-ribboned Evans: viii 302

Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud, viii 304

Say, what is Honour?--’Tis the finest sense iv 225

Say, ye far-travelled clouds, far-seeing hills-- vii 287

Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler’s net, vii 64

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, vii 163

Screams round the Arch-druid’s brow the seamew--white vii 6

Seek who will delight in fable, viii 172

See the Condemned alone within his cell, viii 110

See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built Cot, vii 296

See, where his difficult way that Old Man wins, viii 83

Serene, and fitted to embrace, vi 117

Serving no haughty Muse, my hands have here, viii 102

Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald, ii 204

Shade of Caractacus, if spirits love, viii 309

Shall he who gives his days to low pursuits viii 257

Shame on this faithless heart! that could allow vi 214

She dwelt among the untrodden ways ii 79

She had a tall man’s height or more; ii 278

She was a Phantom of delight iii 2

She wept.--Life’s purple tide began to flow viii 209

Shout, for a mighty Victory is won! ii 436

Show me the noblest Youth of present time, vii 181

Shun not this rite, neglected, yea abhorred, vii 96

Since risen from ocean, ocean to defy, vii 369

Six changeful years have vanished since I first iii 247

Six months to six years added he remained, viii 39

Six thousand veterans practised in war’s game, ii 435

Small service is true service while it lasts, viii 8

Smile of the Moon!--for so I name vi 163

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, viii 164

Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge--the Mere vii 405

Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played vi 234

Son of my buried Son, while thus thy hand, viii 305

Soon did the Almighty Giver of all rest iv 267

Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands, iv 3

Stay, bold Adventurer; rest awhile thy limbs iv 281

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, viii 38

Stay near me--do not take thy flight! ii 283

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! iii 38

Strange fits of passion have I known: ii 78

Stranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stones ii 63

Stretched on the dying Mother’s lap, lies dead vii 387

Such age how beautiful! O Lady bright, vii 172

Such fruitless questions may not long beguile vi 246

Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind vi 72

Sweet Flower, belike one day to have iii 51

Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower ii 390

“Sweet is the holiness of Youth”--so felt vii 59

Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane, viii 215

Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! iv 275

Sylph was it? or a Bird more bright vii 319

Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take vi 233

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense, vii 106

Tell me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold, vii 125

Tenderly do we feel by Nature’s law, viii 104

Thanks for the lessons of this Spot--fit school vii 377

That happy gleam of vernal eyes, vii 202

That heresies should strike (if truth be scanned vii 10

That is work of waste and ruin-- ii 298

That way look, my Infant, lo! iii 16

The Baptist might have been ordained to cry, viii 80

The Bard--whose soul is meek as dawning day, vi 112

The captive Bird was gone;--to cliff or moor vii 371

The cattle crowding round this beverage clear vii 348

The Cock is crowing, ii 293

The confidence of Youth our only Art, viii 273

The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love, viii 127

The Danish Conqueror, on his royal chair, vi 130

The days are cold, the nights are long, iii 74

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink; ii 143

The doubt to which a wavering hope had clung viii 289

The embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine, iv 74

The encircling ground, in native turf arrayed, vii 104

The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade; vi 66

The feudal Keep, the bastions of Cohorn, vii 360

The fields which with covetous spirit we sold, iii 12

The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary; vii 388

The forest huge of ancient Caledon vii 304

The formal World relaxes her cold chain, viii 112

The gallant Youth, who may have gained, vii 281

The gentlest Poet, with free thoughts endowed, viii 141

The gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains ii 378

The glory of evening was spread through the west; viii 217

The God of Love--_ah, benedicite!_ ii 250

The imperial Consort of the Fairy-king vi 189

The imperial Stature, the colossal stride, vii 166

The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim’s eye vi 260

The Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor ii 129

The Lake is thine, viii 263

The Land we from our fathers had in trust, iv 215

The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill, vii 407

The leaves were fading when to Esthwaite’s banks iii 222

The linnet’s warble, sinking towards a close, vii 403

The little hedgerow birds, i 307

The lovely Nun (submissive, but more meek vii 52

The Lovers took within this ancient grove vii 306

The martial courage of a day is vain, iv 217

The massy Ways, carried across these heights vii 154

The Minstrels played their Christmas tune vi 227

The most alluring clouds that mount the sky, viii 128

The old inventive Poets, had they seen, vi 251

_The oppression of the tumult--wrath and scorn--_ vii 13

The order’d troops viii 234

The peace which others seek they find; iii 11

The pensive Sceptic of the lonely vale v 327

The pibroch’s note, discountenanced or mute; vii 290

The post-boy drove with fierce career, ii 273

The power of Armies is a visible thing, iv 254

The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed iii 382

The rains at length have ceas’d, the winds are still’d, viii 233

There are no colours in the fairest sky vii 77

There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear ii 431

There is a change--and I am poor; iv 17

There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine, iii 21

There is a little unpretending Rill iv 53

There is an Eminence,--of these our hills ii 162

_There is a pleasure in poetic pains_ vii 166

There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones viii 223

There is a Thorn--it looks so old, i 242

There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, ii 370

There never breathed a man who, when his life iv 232

“There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride vii 384

There’s George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore, ii 207

There’s more in words than I can teach: vii 321

There’s not a nook within this solemn Pass, vii 289

There’s something in a flying horse, ii 3

There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs ii 57

There was a roaring in the wind all night; ii 314

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, viii 190

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die, viii 105

The Sabbath bells renew the inviting peal; vii 96

The saintly Youth has ceased to rule, discrowned vii 61

The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae viii 270

These times strike monied worldlings with dismay: ii 432

These Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must live ii 184

These vales were saddened with no common gloom viii 275

The Sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo! iii 58

The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said, vi 68

The sky is overcast i 227

The snow-tracks of my friends I see, viii 219

The soaring lark is blest as proud vii 214

The Spirit of Antiquity--enshrined vi 290

The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand, vi 210

The star which comes at close of day to shine, viii 307

The struggling Rill insensibly is grown vi 239

The sun has long been set, ii 327

The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest; vii 338

The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire, vii 337

The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields vi 201

The tears of man in various measure gush vii 60

The Troop will be impatient; let us hie i 114

The turbaned Race are poured in thickening swarms vii 31

The unremitting voice of nightly streams, viii 187

The valley rings with mirth and joy; ii 138

The vestal priestess of a sisterhood who knows viii 325

The Vested Priest before the Altar stands; vii 94

The Virgin Mountain, wearing like a Queen vii 70

The Voice of song from distant lands shall call ii 338

The wind is now thy organist;--a clank vii 288

The woman-hearted Confessor prepares vii 28

The world forsaken, all its busy cares, viii 73

The world is too much with us; late and soon, iv 39

The worship of this Sabbath morn, viii 326

They called Thee MERRY ENGLAND, in old time; vii 343

They call it Love lies bleeding! rather say, viii 150

They dreamt not of a perishable home vii 107

The Young-ones gathered in from hill and dale, vii 92

They seek, are sought; to daily battle led, iv 253

They--who have seen the noble Roman’s scorn, viii 62

This Height a ministering Angel might select: iv 271

“This Land of Rainbows spanning glens whose walls,” vii 299

This Lawn, a carpet all alive vii 228

This Spot--at once unfolding sight so fair, viii 103

Those breathing Tokens of your kind regard, vii 217

Those had given earliest notice, as the lark vii 46

Those old credulities, to nature dear, viii 60

Those silver clouds collected round the sun vi 199

Those words were uttered as in pensive mood iv 37

Though I beheld at first with blank surprise viii 115

Though joy attend Thee orient at the birth vii 299

Though many suns have risen and set vii 148

Though narrow be that old Man’s cares, and near, iv 69

Tho’ searching damps and many an envious flaw vi 343

Though the bold wings of Poesy affect viii 154

Though the torrents from their fountains ii 182

Though to give timely warning and deter viii 109

“Thou look’st upon me, and dost fondly think,” vii 347

Thou sacred Pile! whose turrets rise vi 333

Threats come which no submission may assuage, vii 52

Three years she grew in sun and shower, ii 81

Throned in the Sun’s descending Car viii 300

Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove, viii 272

Through shattered galleries, ’mid roofless halls, vii 131

Thus all things lead to Charity, secured vii 102

Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much iii 153

Thus is the storm abated by the craft vii 48

Thy functions are ethereal, vii 204

’Tis eight o’clock,--a clear March night, i 283

’Tis gone--with old belief and dream vii 192

’Tis He whose yester-evening’s high disdain viii 94

’Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined, ii 147

’Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold vi 286

’Tis said, that some have died for love: ii 178

’Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill vii 230

’Tis spent--this burning day of June! iii 76

To a good Man of most dear memory viii 18

To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield; vi 363

To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen, vi 16

“To every Form of being is assigned,” v 353

To kneeling Worshippers no earthly floor vii 97

Too frail to keep the lofty vow ii 383

To public notice, with reluctance strong, vi 40

Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men! ii 339

Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw vii 293

Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou vii 387

Troubled long with warring notions vi 175

True is it that Ambrosio Salinero iv 233

’Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high: v 26

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea, iv 61

Under the shadow of a stately Pile, viii 78

Ungrateful Country, if thou e’er forget vii 81

Unless to Peter’s Chair the viewless wind vii 34

Unquiet Childhood here by special grace vii 170

Untouched through all severity of cold; vii 231

“Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away!” ii 181

Up to the throne of God is borne vii 408

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; i 274

Up with me! up with me into the clouds! iii 42

Urged by Ambition, who with subtlest skill vii 26

Uttered by whom, or how inspired--designed vi 306

Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood vi 357

“Vallombrosa--I longed in thy shadiest wood” viii 76

Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent, ii 434

“Wait, prithee, wait!” this answer Lesbia threw viii 32

Wanderer! that stoop’st so low, and com’st so near viii 13

Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot, viii 153

Ward of the Law!--dread Shadow of a King! vi 209

Was it to disenchant, and to undo, vi 295

Was the aim frustrated by force or guile, vi 184

Watch, and be firm! for, soul-subduing vice, vii 10

“Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind;” vi 67

We can endure that He should waste our lands, iv 246

Weep not, belovèd Friends! nor let the air iv 230

We gaze--nor grieve to think that we must die, viii 306

We had a female Passenger who came ii 342

_We_ have not passed into a doleful City, vii 383

Well have yon Railway Labourers to THIS ground viii 176

Well may’st thou halt--and gaze with brightening eye! iv 34

Well sang the Bard who called the grave, in strains vii 295

Well worthy to be magnified are they vii 84

Were there, below, a spot of holy ground i 37

Were there, below, a spot of holy ground, i 310

We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd, vii 376

We talked with open heart, and tongue ii 91

We walked along, while bright and red ii 89

What aim had they, the Pair of Monks, in size viii 74

What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled, vi 237

What awful pérspective! while from our sight vii 106

“What beast in wilderness or cultured field” vii 47

What beast of chase hath broken from the cover? vi 360

What crowd is this? what have we here! we must not pass it by iv 22

What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine viii 177

What He--who, mid the kindred throng vi 29

What if our numbers barely could defy viii 87

“What is good for a bootless bene?” iv 205

“What know we of the Blest above” vi 315

What lovelier home could gentle Fancy choose? vi 294

What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret, vii 340

What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay, iv 276

What sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard iii 270

What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides, viii 92

What though the Accused, upon his own appeal vii 223

What though the Italian pencil wrought not here, vi 321

What way does the Wind come? What way does he go? iv 50

“_What, you are stepping westward?_”--“_Yea._” ii 396

When Alpine Vales threw forth a suppliant cry, vii 79

Whence that low voice?--A whisper from the heart, vi 252

When Contemplation, like the night-calm felt iii 201

When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn iv 244

When first descending from the moorlands, viii 27

When haughty expectations prostrate lie, vi 192

When here with Carthage Rome to conflict came, viii 66

When human touch (as monkish books attest), viii 34

When I have borne in memory what has tamed ii 348

When in the antique age of bow and spear vii 115

When, looking on the present face of things, ii 433

When Love was born of heavenly line, viii 216

When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle vii 167

When Ruth was left half desolate, ii 104

When Severn’s sweeping flood had overthrown, viii 314

When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch vi 97

When thy great soul was freed from mortal chains, vii 25

When, to the attractions of the busy world, iii 66

When years of wedded life were as a day vi 43

Where are they now, those wanton Boys? ii 281

Where art thou, my beloved Son, iii 7

Where be the noisy followers of the game vi 380

Where be the temples which, in Britain’s Isle, vi 45

Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends, vi 217

Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? iv 41

Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed, viii 182

Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root vii 43

Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weeds vii 137

Where will they stop, those breathing Powers, vii 314

While Anna’s peers and early playmates tread, vii 169

While beams of orient light shoot wide and high, viii 156

While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport, vi 190

While from the purpling east departs vii 146

While Merlin paced the Cornish sands, vii 252

While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields, vi 65

While poring Antiquarians search the ground, viii 33

While the Poor gather round, till the end of time vii 307

While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed, v 283

“Who but hails the sight with pleasure” vi 156

Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high, viii 184

Who comes--with rapture greeted, and caress’d vii 75

Who fancied what a pretty sight ii 374

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he iv 8

Who ponders National events shall find, viii 131

Who rashly strove thy Image to portray, viii 29

Who rises on the banks of Seine, vi 104

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce vi 260

Who weeps for strangers? Many wept, viii 267

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant, viii 12

Why cast ye back upon the Gallic shore, vi 378

“Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings--” vii 161

Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle, vii 343

Why should we weep or mourn, Angelic boy, viii 181

Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled, vii 108

Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine, vii 361

“Why, William, on that old grey stone,” i 272

Wild Redbreast! hadst thou at Jemima’s lip vii 176

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! ii 66

With copious eulogy in prose or rhyme vii 270

With each recurrence of this glorious morn vi 194

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the sky, iv 38

Within her gilded cage confined, vii 142

Within our happy Castle there dwelt One ii 306

Within the mind strong fancies work, vi 158

With little here to do or see ii 358

“With sacrifice before the rising morn” vi 2

With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh, iv 40

Witness thou, viii 234

Woe to the Crown that doth the Cowl obey! vii 27

“Woe to you, Prelates! rioting in ease” vii 49

Woman! the Power who left his throne on high, vii 95

Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock, viii 303

Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight, viii 151

Would that our scrupulous Sires had dared to leave vii 99

Ye Apennines! with all your fertile vales, viii 45

Ye brood of conscience--Spectres! that frequent, viii 107

Ye Lime-trees, ranged before this hallowed Urn, iv 78

Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth! vi 213

Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims vii 377

Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace, iii 381

Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear vii 88

Yes, it was the mountain Echo, iv 25

Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved, viii 176

Yes, though He well may tremble at the sound, viii 111

Ye Storms, resound the praises of your King! vi 109

Yet are they here the same unbroken knot iv 65

Yet many a Novice of the cloistral shade, vii 53

Yet more,--round many a Convent’s blazing fire vii 51

Ye, too, must fly before a chasing hand, vii 54

Ye torrents, foaming down the rocky steeps, viii 161

Ye Trees! whose slender roots entwine, viii 82

Yet Truth is keenly sought for, and the wind vii 76

Yet, yet, Biscayans! we must meet our Foes iv 242

Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew, viii 157

You call it, “Love lies bleeding,”--so you may, viii 149

You have heard “a Spanish Lady” vii 232

YOUNG ENGLAND--what is then become of Old, viii 180

You’re here for one long vernal day; viii 284

END OF VOL. VIII

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