The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8)

THE POETICAL WORKS

                                     OF



                              WILLIAM WORDSWORTH





                                  EDITED BY
                               WILLIAM KNIGHT


                                   VOL. II


                                    1896






CONTENTS



Peter Bell

Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks
of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798

There was a Boy

The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice

Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying
near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal


1799

  Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the
  Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth

  The Simplon Pass

  Nutting

  Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century

  A Poet's Epitaph

  "Strange fits of passion have I known"

  "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"

  "I travelled among unknown men"

  "Three years she grew in sun and shower"

  "A slumber did my spirit seal"

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

  Matthew

  The Two April Mornings

  The Fountain

  To a Sexton

  The Danish Boy

  Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

  Ruth


1800

  "On Nature's invitation do I come"

  "Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak"

  Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle

  Hart-Leap Well

  The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force

  The Pet-Lamb

  The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale


Poems on the Naming of Places:

  "It was an April morning: fresh and clear"

  To Joanna

  "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills"

  "A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags"

  To M. H.

  The Waterfall and the Eglantine

  The Oak and the Broom

  "'Tis said, that some have died for love"

  The Childless Father

  Song for the Wandering Jew

  The Brothers

  The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie

  Rural Architecture

  A Character

  Inscription for the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's
  Island, Derwent-Water

  Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an
  Out-House), on the Island at Grasmere

  Michael


1801

  The Sparrow's Nest

  "Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side"

  Selections from Chaucer Modernised:

    The Prioress' Tale

    The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

    Troilus and Cresida

1802

  The Sailor's Mother

  Alice Fell; or, Poverty

  Beggars

  Sequel to the Foregoing

  To a Butterfly

  The Emigrant Mother

  To the Cuckoo

  "My heart leaps up when I behold"

  Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brothers
  Water

  The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

  To a Butterfly

  Foresight

  To the Small Celandine

  To the Same Flower

  Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence"

  Resolution and Independence

  "I grieved for Buonaparte"

  A Farewell

  "The sun has long been set"

  Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

  Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802

  Calais, August, 1802

  Composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7, 1802

  Calais, August 15, 1802

  "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"

  On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

  The King of Sweden

  To Toussaint L'Ouverture

  Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing

  September 1, 1802

  September, 1802, near Dover

  Written in London, September, 1802

  London, 1802

  "Great men have been among us; hands that penned"

  "It is not to be thought of that the Flood"

  "When I have borne in memory what has tamed"

  Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire

  To H. C.

  To the Daisy

  To the Same Flower

  To the Daisy

  Louisa

  To a Young Lady, who had been Reproached for taking Long Walks in the
  Country

1803

  The Green Linnet

  Yew-Trees

  "Who fancied what a pretty sight"

  "It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown"

  Memorials of a Tour in Scotland:

    Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. August, 1803

    At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after his Death

    Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the
    Poet's Residence

    To the Sons of Burns, after Visiting the Grave of their Father

    To a Highland Girl

    Glen-Almain; or, The Narrow Glen

    Stepping Westward

    The Solitary Reaper

    Address to Kilchurn Castle

    Rob Roy's Grave

    Sonnet composed at----Castle

    Yarrow Unvisited

    The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband

    "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale"

    The Blind Highland Boy

October, 1803

"There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear"

October, 1803

"England! the time is come when thou should'st wean"

October, 1803

To the Men of Kent.