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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: wordsworth, william Matches Found: 941 Wordsworth, William Poet's Biography 941 poems available by this author 11/1/2013 First Line: How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright 1810 (1) Poem Text First Line: Ah! Where is palafox? Nor tongue nor pen Last Line: On rampart, and the banks of all her streams. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain 1810 (2) Poem Text First Line: O'erweening statesmen have full long relied Last Line: To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars 1811 Poem Text First Line: Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise Last Line: O wretched man, the throne of tyranny! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Liberty A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.] Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors A CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: I marvel how nature could ever find space Last Line: Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he. Subject(s): Thought A COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: There is a change -- and I am poor Last Line: Of my fond heart, hath made me poor. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Pain; Absense A FACT, AND AN IMAGINATION Poem Text First Line: The danish conqueror, on his royal chair Last Line: "until they reach the bounds by heaven assigned." Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England A FLOWER GARDEN AT COLEORTON HALL, LEICESTERSHIRE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, ye zephyrs! That unfold Last Line: Though entering but as fancy's shade. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A GRAVESTONE UPON THE FLOOR IN THE CLOISTERS Poem Text First Line: Miserrimus!' and neither name nor date Last Line: Softly! -- to save the contrite, jesus bled. Subject(s): Graves; Epitaphsd A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR Poem Text First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings Last Line: And proud jerusalem! Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism A NARROW GIRDLE OF ROUGH STONES AND CRAGS Poem Text Last Line: And point rash-judgement is the name it bears Subject(s): Humility; Charity A NATION'S POWER NOT IN ARMIES Poem Text First Line: The power of armies is a visible thing Last Line: In every nook a lip that it may cheer. Subject(s): Soldiers A NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: The sky is overcast / with a continuous cloud of texture close Last Line: Is left to muse upon the solemn scene. Subject(s): Night A NIGHT THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Lo! Where the moon along the sky Last Line: And be forgiven. Subject(s): Night A PARSONAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE Poem Text First Line: Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends Last Line: To saints accorded in their mortal hour. Subject(s): Cemeteries A PLACE OF BURIAL IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep Last Line: With 'jubilate' from the choirs of spring! Subject(s): Cemeteries A PLEA FOR AUTHORS Poem Text First Line: Failing impartial measure to dispense Last Line: Source! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship A POET Poem Text First Line: A poet! He hath put his heart to school Last Line: But from its 'own' divine vitality. Variant Title(s): Thy Art Be Nature Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POET TO HIS GRANDCHILD Poem Text First Line: Son of my buried son, while thus thy hand ...' Last Line: "my careless little-one, for thee and thine!" Subject(s): Grandchildren A POET'S EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Art thou a statesman [or, statist], in the van Last Line: Or build thy house upon this grave. Subject(s): Epitaphs A PROPHESY Poem Text First Line: High deeds, o germans, are to come from you Last Line: First open traitor to the german name! Subject(s): Germany A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL Poem Text Last Line: With rocks, and stones, and trees Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A TRADITION OF OKER HILL IN DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE Poem Text First Line: Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill Last Line: That to itself takes all, eternity. Subject(s): Trees; Absence; Brothers A VISION Poem Text First Line: In my mind's eye a temple, like a cloud Last Line: "hell-gates are powerless phantoms when 'we' build." Subject(s): God; Imagination A VOLANT TRIBE OF BARDS ON EARTH ARE FOUND Poem Text Last Line: Of silent hills, and more than silent sky Subject(s): Sky A WHIRL-BLAST FROM BEHIND THE HILL Poem Text Last Line: Were dancing to the minstrelsy Subject(s): Leaves; Storms A WREN'S NEST Poem Text First Line: Among the dwellings framed by birds Last Line: In foresight, or in love. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Wrens ABOUT THE SHELLEYS First Line: Twas not my wish ADDRESS FROM THE SPIRIT OF COCKERMOUTH CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think ...' Last Line: "still round my shattered brow in beauty wave." Subject(s): Time; Transience ADDRESS TO KILCHURN CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Child of loud-throated war! The mountain stream Last Line: Lost on the aerial heights of the crusades! Subject(s): Castles ADDRESS TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, DORA Poem Text First Line: Hast thou then survived Last Line: And reason's godlike power be proud to own. Variant Title(s): Asked And Answered Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters ADIEU, RYDALIAN LAURELS! THAT HAVE GROWN Poem Text Last Line: Or musing sits forsaken halls among Subject(s): Farewell ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] Poem Text First Line: Well may'st thou halt, and gaze with brightening eye Last Line: On which it should be touched, would melt away. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ADVANCE - COME FORTH FROM THY TYROLEAN GROUND Poem Text Last Line: Here, there, and in all places at one hour Subject(s): Alps AERIAL ROCK - WHOSE SOLITARY BROW Poem Text Last Line: Of golden sunset, ere it fade and die Subject(s): Nature AFTER LANDING - THE VALLEY OF DOVER Poem Text First Line: Where be the noisy followers of the game Last Line: And makes this rural stillness more profound. AFTER LEAVING ITALY (1) Poem Text First Line: Fair land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few Last Line: Mother of heroes, from thy death-like sleep! Subject(s): Italy; Italians AFTER LEAVING ITALY (2) Poem Text First Line: As indignation mastered grief, my tongue Last Line: My heart, and filled that heart with conflict strong. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AFTER VISITING THE FIELD OF WATERLOO Poem Text First Line: A winged goddess - clothed in vesture wrought Last Line: And horror breathing from the silent ground! Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo AFTER-THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Oh life! Without thy chequered scene Last Line: A portion of god's peace. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Poem Text First Line: Was it to disenchant, and to undo Last Line: Where unremitting frosts the rocky crescent bleach. Subject(s): Aachen, Germany; Aix-la-chapelle ALICE FELL; OR, POVERTY Poem Text First Line: The post-boy drove with fierce career Last Line: The little orphan, alice fell! Variant Title(s): Alice Fell AMONG ROYALISTS: BLOIS, SPRING 1792 First Line: A knot of military officers Last Line: Of peaceful houses with uniquiet sounds! AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES Poem Text First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN APRIL MORNING Poem Text First Line: It was an april morning: fresh and clear Last Line: May call it by the name of emma's dell. Variant Title(s): Poems On The Naming Of Places: It Was An April Morning Subject(s): April AN EVENING WALK Poem Text First Line: Far from my dearest friend, 'tis mine to rove Last Line: Or yell, in the deep woods, of lonely hound. AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES Poem Text Last Line: The bread which without industry they find Subject(s): Spain; Napoleonic Wars ANDREW JONES Poem Text First Line: I hate that andrew jones: he'll breed Last Line: And sweep him from the village. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: I have a boy of five years old Last Line: Of what from thee I learn. Subject(s): Fathers ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH Poem Text First Line: The little hedgerow birds Last Line: And there is dying in an hospital. --' Variant Title(s): Old Man Travelling Subject(s): Animals ANOTHER MAID THERE WAS Last Line: Are piety, her life is blessedness ANTICIPATION. OCTOBER, 1803 Poem Text First Line: Shout, for a mighty victory is won! Last Line: In glory will they sleep and endless sanctity. APOLOGY. FOR THE FOREGOING POEMS (YARROW REVISTED) Poem Text First Line: No more: the end is sudden and abrupt Last Line: For prompt forgiveness will not sue in vain. ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE Poem Text First Line: Where be the temples, which in britain's isle Last Line: "he bore the lasting name of ""pious elidure." Subject(s): Great Britain ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: 3 Poem Text First Line: Patriots informed with apostolic light Last Line: The purest stream of patient energy. Subject(s): Protestantism; U.s. - Colonial Period AT ALBANO Poem Text First Line: Days passed - and monte calvo would not clear Last Line: For by her son's blest hand the seed was sown. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AT APPLETHWAITE, NEAR KESWICH Poem Text First Line: Beaumont! It was thy wish that I should rear Last Line: With pride, the muses love it evermore. AT BALA-SALA, ISLE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: Broken in fortune, but in mind entire Last Line: "shine so, my aged brow, at all hours of the day!" Subject(s): Isle Of Man AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 1 Poem Text First Line: Ah why deceive ourselves! By no mere fit Last Line: The light of knowledge, and the warmth of love. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 2 Poem Text First Line: Hard task! Exclaim the undisciplined, to lean Last Line: She scans the future with the eye of gods. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 3 Poem Text First Line: As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow Last Line: Tossed on the bosom of a stormy sea. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT DOVER Poem Text First Line: From the pier's head, musing, and with increase Last Line: "the shouts of folly, and the groans of sin." Subject(s): Dover, England AT FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: Under the shadow of a stately pile Last Line: And, for a moment, filled that empty throne. Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT FURNESS ABBEY (1) Poem Text First Line: Here, where, of havoc tired and rash undoing Last Line: Where, cavendish, 'thine' seems nothing but a name! Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Abbey Of St. Mary AT FURNESS ABBEY (2) Poem Text First Line: Well have yon railway labourers to this ground Last Line: While thus these simple-hearted men are moved? Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Railroads; Abbey Of St. Mary; Railways; Trains AT MOSGIEL Poem Text First Line: There!' said a stripling, pointing with meet pride Last Line: The tender charm of poetry and love. AT ROME (1) Poem Text First Line: They - who have seen the noble roman's scorn Last Line: Nor must, nor will, nor can, despair of thee! Subject(s): Rome, Italy AT ROME (2) Poem Text First Line: Is this, ye gods, the capitolian hill? Last Line: Change, with a brow not insolent, though stern. Subject(s): Rome, Italy AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (1) Poem Text First Line: Those old credulities, to nature dear Last Line: Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (2) Poem Text First Line: Complacent fictions were they, yet the same Last Line: For the blood-thirsty mead of odin's riotous hall. Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians AT SEA OFF THE ISLE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong Last Line: With will, and to their work by passion linked. Subject(s): Isle Of Man AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI Poem Text First Line: Grieve for the man who hither came bereft Last Line: The most profound repose his cell can give. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI (CONTINUED) Poem Text First Line: The world foresaken, all its busy cares Last Line: Give him a soul that cleaveth unto thee. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI Poem Text First Line: What aim had they, the pair of monks, in size Last Line: Meet on the solid ground of waking life. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH Poem Text First Line: I shiver, spirit fierce and bold Last Line: By seraphim. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THIS FAREWELL; COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: Dear native regions, I foretell Last Line: On the dear hills where first he rose. Subject(s): Schools; Students AT VALLOMBROSA Poem Text First Line: Vallombrosa - I longed in thy shadiest wood' Last Line: To the fountain whence time and eternity flow. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AVAUNT ALL SPECIOUS PLIANCY OF MIND Poem Text Last Line: Her arts, her strength, her iron, and her gold Subject(s): Spain BAKER'S CART First Line: I have seen the baker's horse Last Line: And the rebellious heart to its own will %fashions the laws of nature BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL Poem Text First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!" Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520) BEGGARS Poem Text First Line: She had a tall man's height or more Last Line: Off to some other play the joyous vagrants flew! BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON' Poem Text Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories BETWEEN NAMUR AND LIEGE Poem Text First Line: What lovelier home could gentle fancy choose? Last Line: From the smooth meadow-ground, serene and still! Subject(s): Liege, Belgium BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND BLEAK Poem Text Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?” Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity BLEST STATESMAN HE, WHOSE MIND'S UNSELFISH WILL Poem Text Last Line: Perilous is sweeping change, all chance unsound Subject(s): Politics BOTHWELL CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Immured in bothwell's towers, at times the brave Last Line: How little that she cherishes is lost! Subject(s): Castles; Scotland BOY'S FEAR AFTER STEALING A TRAPPED BIRD First Line: Low breathings coming after men, and sounds Last Line: Almost as silent as the turf they trod BRUGES Poem Text First Line: Bruges I saw attired with golden light Last Line: Of nun-like females, with soft motion, glide! Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium BRUGES (2) Poem Text First Line: The spirit of antiquity - enshrined Last Line: A deeper peace than that in deserts found! Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium BUONAPARTE Poem Text First Line: I grieved for buonaparte, with a vain Last Line: True power doth grow on; and her rights are these. Variant Title(s): 1801;i Grieved For Buonaparte Subject(s): Government; Napoleon I (1769-1821) BY A BLEST HUSBAND GUIDED, MARY CAME Poem Text Last Line: Of resignation find a hallowed place Subject(s): Death – Children; Mothers BY A RETIRED MARINER Poem Text First Line: From early youth I ploughed the restless main Last Line: Though poor to sea I went, and poor I still remain. BY MOSCOW SELF-DEVOTED TO A BLAZE Poem Text Last Line: Finish the strife by deadliest victory! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Moscow; Victory BY THE SEA-SHORE, ISLE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine Last Line: And revelling in long embrace with thee. Subject(s): Isle Of Man BY THE SEASIDE Poem Text First Line: The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest Last Line: "with a full heart; ""our thoughts are 'heard' in heaven." Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE SIDE OF RYDAL MERE Poem Text First Line: The linnet's warble, sinking towards a close Last Line: In thankful bosoms to a modest pride. CALAIS, AUGUST 15, 1802 Poem Text First Line: Festivals have I seen that were not names Last Line: The destiny of man, and live in hope. Subject(s): France CALAIS, AUGUST, 1802 Poem Text First Line: Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind Last Line: Shame on you, feeble heads, to slavery prone! Subject(s): France CALL NOT THE ROYAL SWEDE UNFORTUNATE Poem Text Last Line: In thankful joy and gratulation pure Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Sweden CAPTIVITY. - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Poem Text First Line: As the cold aspect of a sunless way ...' Last Line: "and, like mine eyes that stream with sorrow, blind!" Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart CAVE OF STAFFA (1) Poem Text First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art! Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (2) Poem Text First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED Poem Text First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CENOTAPH Poem Text First Line: By vain affections unenthralled Last Line: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: Loving she is, and tractable, though wild Last Line: Upon the bosom of a placid lake. CHATSWORTH! THY STATELY MANSION, AND THE PRIDE Poem Text Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both Subject(s): Country Life CHILD OF MY PARENTS Last Line: That went before my steps CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Air sleeps - from strife or stir the clouds. Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CLIMBING OF SNOWDON First Line: It was a summer's night, a close warm night Last Line: Or vast in its own being COME, YE LITTLE NOISY CREW Poem Text First Line: I come, ye little noisy crew Last Line: Will make a touching melody. Variant Title(s): Address To The Scholars COMPANION TO THE FOREGOING ['LOVE LIES BLEEDING'] Poem Text First Line: Never enlivened with the liveliest ray Last Line: Called the dejected lingerer, 'loves lies bleeding'. COMPOSED AFTER A JOURNEY ACROSS THE HAMBLETON HILLS, YORKSHIRE Poem Text First Line: Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell Last Line: And from our earthly memory fade away. Variant Title(s): "ere We Had Reached The Wished-for Place""; COMPOSED AFTER READING A NEWSPAPER OF THE DAY Poem Text First Line: People! Your chains are severing link by link ...' Last Line: Thou wilt provoke a heavier penalty. COMPOSED AMONG THE RUINS OF A CASTLE IN NORTH WALES Poem Text First Line: Through shattered galleries, 'mid roofless halls Last Line: A soothing recompence, his gift, is thine! Subject(s): Castles; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen COMPOSED AT CORA LINN; IN SIGHT OF WALLACE'S TOWER Poem Text First Line: Lord of the vale! Astounding flood Last Line: That day the tyrant fell. Subject(s): Cora Linn, Scotland COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 Poem Text First Line: Degenerate douglas! O the unworthy lord! Last Line: And the green silent pastures, yet remain. Subject(s): Scotland COMPOSED AT RYDAY ON MAY MORNING, 1838 Poem Text First Line: If with old love of you, dear hills! I share Last Line: Chant in full choir their innocent te deum. COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SHORE Poem Text First Line: What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret Last Line: Sigh for the obscurities of happiness. COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] Poem Text First Line: Fair star of evening, splendor of the west Last Line: Among men who do not love her, linger here. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars Last Line: "ravage the world, tranquillity is here!" Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lakes; Pools; Ponds COMPOSED DURING A STORM Poem Text First Line: One who was suffering tumult in his soul Last Line: Of providential goodness ever nigh! COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC CANTONS Poem Text First Line: Doomed as we are our native dust Last Line: And feel, if we would know. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND ON EASTER SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: With each recurrence of this glorious morn Last Line: And benefits were weighed in reason's scales! Subject(s): Bible; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology COMPOSED IN ROSLIN CHAPEL DURING A STORM Poem Text First Line: The wind is now thy organist; - a clank Last Line: Though mute, of all things blending into one. COMPOSED IN THE GLEN OF LOCH ETIVE Poem Text First Line: This land of rainbows spanning glens whose walls Last Line: Where the all-conquering roman feared to tread. COMPOSED IN THE VALLEY NEAR DOVER Poem Text First Line: Here, on our native soil, we breathe once more Last Line: With such a dear companion at my side. COMPOSED NEAR CALAIS, ON THE ROAD LEADING TO ARDRES, 1802 Poem Text First Line: Jones! As from calais southward you and I Last Line: Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare. Variant Title(s): To A Friend, Composed Near Calais COMPOSED ON A MAY MORNING, 1838 Poem Text First Line: Life with you lambs, like day, is just born Last Line: Feed to the last on pleasures ever new? COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM Poem Text First Line: Dogmatic teachers, of the snow-white fur! Last Line: But surely less so than your far-fetched themes! COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay Last Line: To her indulgent lord become more dear. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802 Poem Text First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English COMPOSED WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS ENGAGED IN WRITING A TRACT (1) Poem Text First Line: Not 'mid the world's vain objects that enslave Last Line: Triumph, and thoughts no bondage can restrain. COMPOSED WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS ENGAGED IN WRITING A TRACT (2) Poem Text First Line: I dropped my pen; and listened to the wind Last Line: Tells also of bright calms that shall succeed. CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: If these brief records, by the muse's art Last Line: And honour rest upon the senseless clay. COUNTESS'S PILLAR Poem Text First Line: While the poor gather round, till the end of time Last Line: "has ended, though no clerk, with ""god be praised!" DAFFODILS Poem Text Recitation First Line: I wandered lonely as a cloud Last Line: And dances with the daffodils. Variant Title(s): The Daffodils Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers DEAF DALESMAN First Line: Almost at the root of that tall pine DECADENCE OR THE UMBRELLA Poem Text First Line: The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute Last Line: If not, o mortals, better cease to live! DECAY OF PIETY Poem Text First Line: Oft have I seen, ere time had ploughed my cheek Last Line: Their pensive light from a departed sun! Subject(s): Piety DEDICATED SPIRIT First Line: In a throng, %a festal company of maids and youths Last Line: In blessedness, which even yet remains DEDICATION. SENT WITH THESE POEMS, IN MS., TO -. Poem Text First Line: Dear fellow-travellers! Think not that the muse Last Line: "shall lack not power the ""meeting soul to pierce!" DEDICATION. TO - Poem Text First Line: Happy the feeling from the bosom thrown Last Line: Wilt smile upon this gift with more than mild content! DEPARTURE. FROM THE VALE OF GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: The gentlest shade that walked elysian plains Last Line: That winds into itself for sweet return. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES Poem Text First Line: Were there, below, a spot of holy ground Last Line: The first whose footsteps print the mountain dew. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty DESIRE WE PAST ILLUSIONS TO RECALL Poem Text Last Line: Flesh to exalt than prove its nothingness Subject(s): Knowledge; Science DESPOND WHO WILL - I HEARD A VOICE EXCLAIM Poem Text Last Line: Toss in the fanning wind a humbler plume Subject(s): Great Britain DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH Poem Text Last Line: To hope—in parents, sinful above all Subject(s): Hope; Fathers; Children DESTINY Poem Text First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802 Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty DESULTORY STANZAS Poem Text First Line: Is then the final page before me spread Last Line: That treasures, yet untouched, may grace some future lay. Subject(s): Books; Reading DEVOTIONAL INCITEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Where will they stop, those breathing powers Last Line: From morn to eve, with hallowed rest. DION Poem Text First Line: Serene, and fitted to embrace Last Line: "whose means are fair and spotless as his ends." DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Mourn shepherd, near thy old grey stone Last Line: Shining upon thy happy grave. DISTRESSFUL GIFT! THIS BOOK RECEIVES (FR. ELEGIES J.W.) Last Line: Beneath thy chast'ning rod EAGLES: COMPOSED AT DUNOLLY CASTLE IN THE BAY OF OBAN Poem Text First Line: Dishonored rock and ruin! That, by law Last Line: His power, his beauty, and his majesty. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Scotland ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS (COMPLETE) Subject(s): Religion ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1. 6. PERSECUTION Poem Text First Line: Lament! For diocletian's fiery sword Last Line: By nature decked for holiest sacrifice. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1. 9. DISSENSIONS Poem Text First Line: That heresies should strike (if truth be scanned) Last Line: Than heartless misery called them to repel. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 1. INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: I, who accompanied with faithful pace Last Line: Immortal amaranth and palms abound. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 10. BRITONS VS. BARBARIANS Poem Text First Line: Rise! - they have risen: of brave aneurin ask Last Line: And everlasting deeds to burning words! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 11. SAXON CONQUEST Poem Text First Line: Nor wants the cause the panic-striking aid Last Line: Of long-drawn rampart, witness what they were. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 12. MONASTERY OF OLD BANGOR Poem Text First Line: The opression of the tumult - wrath and scorn' Last Line: When laws, and creeds, and people all are lost! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 13. CASUAL INCITEMENT Poem Text First Line: A bright-haired company of youthful slaves Last Line: Glad halle-lujahs to the eternal king! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 14. GLAD TIDINGS Poem Text First Line: For ever hallowed be this morning fair Last Line: And calm with fear of god's divinity. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 15. PAULINUS Poem Text First Line: But to remote northumbria's royal hall Last Line: And what a pensive sage doth utter, hear! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 16. PERSUASION Poem Text First Line: Man's life is like a sparrow, mighty king Last Line: "his be a welcome cordially bestowed!" Subject(s): Birds ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 17. CONVERSION Poem Text First Line: Prompt transformation works the novel lore Last Line: Shall, by regenerate life, the promise claim. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 18. APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Nor scorn the aid which fancy oft doth lend Last Line: That even imperfect faith to man affords? ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 19. PRIMITIVE SAXON CLERGY Poem Text First Line: How beautiful your presence, how benign Last Line: And vows, that bind the will, in silence made. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 2. CONJECTURES Poem Text First Line: If there be prophets on whose spirits rest Last Line: The precious current they had taught to flow? ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 20. OTHER INFLUENCES Poem Text First Line: Ah, when the body, round which in love we cling Last Line: Of your own mighty instruments beware! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 21. SECLUSION Poem Text First Line: Lance, shield, and sword relinquished Last Line: For recompence -- their own perennial bower. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 22. SECLUSION (CONTINUED) Poem Text First Line: Methinks that to some vacant hermitage Last Line: Tired of the world and all its industry. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 23. REPROOF Poem Text First Line: But what if one, through grove or flowery mead Last Line: The last dear service of thy passing breath! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 24. SAXON MONASTERIES Poem Text First Line: By such examples moved to unbought pains Last Line: Lives black with guilt, ferocity it calms. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 25. MISSIONS AND TRAVELS Poem Text First Line: Not sedentary all: there are who roam Last Line: By these religious saved for all posterity. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED Poem Text First Line: Behold a pupil of the monkish gown Last Line: In sacred converse gifts with alfred shares. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 27. HIS DESCENDANTS Poem Text First Line: When thy great soul was freed from mortal chains Last Line: The fostered hyacinths spread their purple bloom. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 28. INFLUENCE ABUSED Poem Text First Line: Urged by ambition, who with subtlest skill Last Line: And sorceries of talent misapplied. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 29. DANISH CONQUESTS Poem Text First Line: Woe to the crown that doth the cowl obey Last Line: And widening circuit of ethereal sky. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 3. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS Poem Text First Line: Screams round the arch-druids brow the sea-mew - white Last Line: Receive the faith, and in the hope abide. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 30. CANUTE Poem Text First Line: A pleasant music floats along the mere Last Line: Of heaven-descended piety and song. Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Piety ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 31. THE NORMAN CONQUEST Poem Text First Line: The woman-hearted confessor prepares Last Line: To creed or ritual brings no fatal change. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 32. Poem Text First Line: Coldly we spake. The saxons, overpowered Last Line: Scooped from the sacred earth where his dear relics lie. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 33. THE COUNCIL OF CLERMONT Poem Text First Line: And shall,' the pontiff asks, 'profaneness flow ...' Last Line: "through ""nature's hollow arch"" that voice resounds." ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 34. CRUSADES Poem Text First Line: The turbaned race are poured in thickening swarms Last Line: The precious tomb, their haven of salvation. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 35. RICHARD Poem Text First Line: Redoubted king, of courage leonine Last Line: To giddier heights hath clomb the papal sway. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 36. AN INTERDICT Poem Text First Line: Realms quake by turns: proud arbitress of grace Last Line: And comfortless despairs the soul benumb. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 37. PAPAL ABUSES Poem Text First Line: As with the stream our voyage we pursue Last Line: And angry ocean roars a vain appeal. Subject(s): Popes; Papacy ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 38. SCENE IN VENICE Poem Text First Line: Black demons hovering o'er his mitred head Last Line: In abject sympathy with power is lost. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 39. PAPAL DOMINION Poem Text First Line: Unless to peter's chair the viewless wind Last Line: Or smooth his front, our world is in his hand! Subject(s): Popes; Papacy ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 4. DRUIDICAL EXCOMMUNICATION Poem Text First Line: Mercy and love have met thee on thy road Last Line: That fills the soul with unavailing ruth. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 5. UNCERTAINTY Poem Text First Line: Darkness surrounds us; seeking, we are lost Last Line: In vain, upon the growing rill may gaze. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 7. RECOVERY Poem Text First Line: As, when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain Last Line: For all things are less dreadful than they seem. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 8. TEMPTATIONS ... ROMAN Poem Text First Line: Watch, and be form! For, soul-subduing vice Last Line: And instruments of deadliest servitude! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 1. Poem Text First Line: How soon - alas! Did man, created pure - Last Line: Pronounces, ne'er abandons charity. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 10. Poem Text First Line: Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root Last Line: Confirmed alike in progress and decline. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 11. TRANSUBSTANTIATION Poem Text First Line: Enough! For see, with dim association Last Line: From rites that trample upon soul and sense. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 12. THE VAUDOIS Poem Text First Line: But whence came they who for the savior lord Last Line: Aliens, is god's good winter for their haunts. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 13. Poem Text First Line: Praised be the rivers, from their mountain springs Last Line: Blest prisoners they, whose spirits were at large! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 14. WALDENSES Poem Text First Line: Those had given earliest notice, as the lark Last Line: Of the new flame, not suffered to expire. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 15. AB. CHICHELY TO HENRY V Poem Text First Line: What beast in the wilderness or cultured field ...' Last Line: But one that leaps to meet the fanning breeze. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 16. WARS OF YORK & LANCASTER Poem Text First Line: Thus is the storm abated by the craft Last Line: Gathers unblighted strength from hour to hour. Subject(s): War Of The Roses ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 17. WICLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Once more the church is seized with sudden fear Last Line: "by truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed." Subject(s): Wycliffe, John (1330-1384) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 18. CORRUPTIONS ... CLERGY Poem Text First Line: Woe to you, prelates! Riding in ease ...' Last Line: Of justice armed, and pride to be laid low. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 19. ABUSE OF MONASTIC POWER Poem Text First Line: And what is penance with her knotted thong Last Line: Who on the good of others builds his own! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 2. Poem Text First Line: From false assumption rose, and fondly hailed Last Line: By blind ambition, be this tribute paid. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 20. MONASTIC VOLUPTUOUSNESS Poem Text First Line: Yet more, - round many a convent's blazing fire Last Line: "whose votive burthen is -- ""our kingdom's here!" ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 21. DISSOLUTION MONASTERIES Poem Text First Line: Threats come which no submission may asuage Last Line: Arimathean joseph's wattled cells. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 22. DISSOLUTION MONASTERIES Poem Text First Line: The lovely nun (submissive, but more meek Last Line: And the green vales lie hushed in sober light! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 23. DISSOLUTION MONASTERIES Poem Text First Line: Yet many a novice of the cloistral shade Last Line: To keep this new and questionable road? ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 24. SAINTS Poem Text First Line: Ye, too, must fly before a chasing hand Last Line: Gales sweet as those that over eden blew! Subject(s): Saints ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN Poem Text First Line: Mother! Whose virgin bosom was uncrost Last Line: Of high with low, celestial with terrene! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Virgin Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 26. APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Not utterly unworthy to endure Last Line: Than the bare axe more luminous and keen. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 27. IMAGINATIVE REGRETS Poem Text First Line: Deep is the lamentation! Not alone Last Line: And stalking pillars built of fiery sand. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 28. REFLECTIONS Poem Text First Line: Grant that by this unsparing hurricane Last Line: Of reckless mastery, hitherto unknown. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 29. TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE Poem Text First Line: But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred book Last Line: Beneath their feet, detested and defiled. Subject(s): Bible ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 3. CISTERTIAN MONASTERY Poem Text First Line: Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall Last Line: And aery harvests crown the fertile lea. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 30. THE POINT AT ISSUE Poem Text First Line: For what contend the wise? - for nothing less Last Line: And worship him in spirit and in truth. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 31. EDWARD VI Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the holiness of youth' - so felt Last Line: Piercing the papal darkness from afar! Subject(s): Edward Vi, King Of England (1537-1553) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 32. EXECUTION JOAN OF KENT Poem Text First Line: The tears of man in various measure gush Last Line: To pen the mandates, nature doth disown. Subject(s): Edward Vi, King Of England (1537-1553) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 33. THE REVIVAL OF POPERY Poem Text First Line: The saintly youth has ceased to rule, discrowned Last Line: Runs through blind channels of an unknown tongue. Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 34. LATIMER AND RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: How fast the marian death-list is unrolled! Last Line: In constancy, in fellowship more fair! Subject(s): Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 35. CRANMER Poem Text First Line: Outstretching flameward his upbraided hand Last Line: Emblem of faith untouched, miraculous attestation! Subject(s): Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop Canterbury ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 36. TROUBLES REFORMATION Poem Text First Line: Aid, glorious martyres, from your fields of light Last Line: And victory sickens, ignorant where to rest! Subject(s): Reformation ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 37. ENGLISH REFORMERS EXILE Poem Text First Line: Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler's net Last Line: The peace of god within his single breast! Subject(s): Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 38. ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Hail, virgin queen! O'er many an envious bar Last Line: By men and angels blest, the glorious light? Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 39. EMINENT REFORMERS (1) Poem Text First Line: Methinks that I could trip o'er heaviest soil Last Line: From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest. Subject(s): Anglican Church; Hooker, Richard (1553-1600); Jewel, John (1522-1571) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 4. Poem Text First Line: Deplorable his lot who tills the ground Last Line: "which fellow-feeling doth not mitigate!" ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 40. EMINENT REFORMERS (2) Poem Text First Line: Holy and heavenly spirits as they are Last Line: And prophesy to ears that will not hear. Subject(s): Anglican Church ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 41. DISTRACTIONS Poem Text First Line: Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy Last Line: For every wave against her peace unites. Subject(s): Anglican Church ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 42. GUNPOWDER PLOT Poem Text First Line: Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree Last Line: The blood of huguenots through paris streamed. Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 44. TROUBLES OF CHARLES I Poem Text First Line: Even such the contrast that, where'er we move Last Line: Her blessings cursed -- her glory turned to shame! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 45. LAUD Poem Text First Line: Prejudged by foes determined not to spare Last Line: All wounds, all perturbations doth allay? Subject(s): Laud, William. Archbiship Of Canterbury ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 46. AFFLICTIONS OF ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Harp! Couldst thou venture, on thy boldest string Last Line: His statutes like the chambers of the deep. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 5. MONKS AND SCHOOLMEN Poem Text First Line: Record we too, with just and faithful pen Last Line: With orb and cycle girds the starry throng. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 6. OTHER BENEFITS Poem Text First Line: And, not in vain embodied to the sight Last Line: Of offices dispensing heavenly grace! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 7. OTHER BENEFITS -CONTINUED Poem Text First Line: And what melodious sounds at times prevail Last Line: And near the flame-eyed eagle sits the dove. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 8. CRUSADERS Poem Text First Line: Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oars Last Line: For their high guerdon not in vain have panted! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 9. Poem Text First Line: As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest Last Line: The unconverted soul with awe submit. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 1. Poem Text First Line: I saw the figure of a lovely maid Last Line: Of dissolution, melted into air. Subject(s): Love ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 10. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Ungrateful country, if thou e'er forget Last Line: And, if dissevered thence, its course is short. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 11. SACHEVEREL Poem Text First Line: A sudden conflict rises from the swell Last Line: Of truths that soften hatred, temper strife. Subject(s): Sacheverell, Henry (1674-1724) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 12. Poem Text First Line: Down a swift stream, thus far, a bold design Last Line: How widely spread the interests of our theme. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 13. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS Poem Text First Line: Well worthy to be magnified are they Last Line: But in his glory who for sinners died. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; U.s. - Colonial Period ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 14. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS Poem Text First Line: From rite and ordinance abused they fled Last Line: Concord and charity in circles move. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; U.s. - Colonial Period ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 16. Poem Text First Line: Bishops and priests, blessed are ye, if deep Last Line: Who framed the ordinance by your lives disowned! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 17. PLACES OF WORSHIP Poem Text First Line: As star that shines dependent upon star Last Line: Find solace which a busy world disdains. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 18. PASTORAL CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: A genial hearth, a hospitable board Last Line: The stubborn spirit of rebellious man? ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 19. THE LITURGY Poem Text First Line: Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear Last Line: Shall dissipate the seas and mountains hoary. Subject(s): Anglican Church ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 2. PATRIOTIC SYMPATHIES Poem Text First Line: Last night, without a voice, that vision spake Last Line: And sorrow bartered for exceeding joy. Subject(s): Patriotism ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 20. BAPTISM Poem Text First Line: Dear be the church that, watching o'er the needs Last Line: With what man hopes from heaven, yet fears from earth. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 21. SPONSORS Poem Text First Line: Father! To god himself we cannot give Last Line: An idle form, the word an empty sound! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 22. CATECHISING Poem Text First Line: From little down to least, in due degree Last Line: And ill requited by this heartfelt sigh! Subject(s): Catechism ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 23. CONFIRMATION Poem Text First Line: The young-ones gathered in from hill and dale Last Line: That ere the sun goes down their childhood sets. Subject(s): Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 24. CONFIRMATION (CONTINUED) Poem Text First Line: I saw a mother's eye intensely bent Last Line: The summer-leaf had faded, passed to heaven. Subject(s): Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 25. SACRAMENT Poem Text First Line: By chain yet stronger must the soul be tied Last Line: Armour divine, and conquer in your cause! Subject(s): Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 26. THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: The vested priest before the altar stands Last Line: Weep not, meek bride! Uplift thy timid brow. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 27. THANKSGIVING CHILDBIRTH Poem Text First Line: Woman! The power who left his throne on high Last Line: Of thee thus kneeling, safety he may find. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 28. VISITATION OF THE SICK Poem Text First Line: The sabbath bells renew the inviting peal Last Line: With a bad world, and foil the tempter's arts. Subject(s): Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 29. THE COMMINATION SERVICE Poem Text First Line: Shun not the rite, neglected, yea abhorred Last Line: Yield timely fruit of peace and love and joy. Subject(s): Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 3. CHARLES THE SECOND Poem Text First Line: Who comes - with rapture greeted, and caressed Last Line: By poets loathed; from which historians shrink! Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 30. FORMS OF PRAYER AT SEA Poem Text First Line: To kneeling worshippers no earthly floor Last Line: Will listen, and ye know that he is just. Subject(s): Prayer; Sea; Worship; Ocean ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 31. FUNERAL SERVICE Poem Text First Line: From the baptismal hour, thro' weal and woe Last Line: "where is thy sting? -- o grave, where is thy victory?" Subject(s): Funerals; Sacraments; Burials ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 32. RURAL CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: Closing the sacred book which long has fed Last Line: And hooker's voice the spectacle approves! Subject(s): Country Life; Sacraments ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 33. REGRETS Poem Text First Line: Would that our scrupulous sires had dared to leave Last Line: Strains offered only to the genial spring. Variant Title(s): Church Decking At Christmas Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 34. MUTABILITY Poem Text First Line: From low to high doth dissolution climb Last Line: Or the unimaginable touch of time. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 35. OLD ABBEYS Poem Text First Line: Monastic domes! Following my down-ward way Last Line: Your spirit freely let me drink, and live! Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 36. EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY Poem Text First Line: Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of france Last Line: Give to their faith a fearless resting-place. Subject(s): Clergy; France; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 37. CPNGRATULATION Poem Text First Line: Thus all things lead to charity, secured Last Line: Licence and slavish order, dares be free. Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 38. NEW CHURCHES Poem Text First Line: But liberty, and triumphs on the main Last Line: That vale or hill prolongs or multiplies! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 39. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (1) Poem Text First Line: Be this the chosen site; the virgin soil Last Line: That shall protect from blasphemy the land. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 4. LATITUDINARIANISM Poem Text First Line: Yet truth is keenly sought for, and the wind Last Line: "of things invisible to mortal sight." ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 40. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (2) Poem Text First Line: Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued Last Line: Creep round its arms through centuries unborn. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 41. NEW CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: The encircling ground, in native turf arrayed Last Line: That to the almighty father looks through all. Subject(s): Churchyards ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 42. NEW CATHEDRALS, ETC. Poem Text First Line: Open your gates, ye everlasting piles! Last Line: Isis and cam, to patient science dear! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 43. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(1) Poem Text First Line: Tax not the royal saint with vain expense Last Line: That they were born for immortality. Variant Title(s): Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge;king's College Chapel;within King's College Chapel, Cambridge Subject(s): Cambridge University ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 44. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(2) Poem Text First Line: What awful perspective! While from our sight Last Line: Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy! Subject(s): Cambridge University ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 45. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(3) Poem Text First Line: They dreamt not of a perishable home Last Line: Of grateful england's overflowing dead. Subject(s): Cambridge University ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 46. EJACULATION Poem Text First Line: Glory to god! And to the power who came Last Line: At the approach of all-involving night. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 47. CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled Last Line: For the perfected spirit of the just! Variant Title(s): "why Sleeps The Future, As A Snake Enrolled""; ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE Poem Text First Line: There are no colors in the fairest sky Last Line: Around meek walton's heavenly memory. Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 6. CLERICAL INTEGRITY Poem Text First Line: Nor shall the eternall roll of praise reject Last Line: Lures not from what they deem the cause of god. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 7. SCOTTISH COVENANTERS Poem Text First Line: When alpine valleys threw forth a suppliant cry Last Line: Against a champion cased in adamant. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 8. ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS Poem Text First Line: A voice, from long-expecting thousands sent Last Line: A prelate's blessing ask on bended knees. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 9. WILLIAM THE THIRD Poem Text First Line: Calm as an under-current, strong to draw Last Line: Shrinks from the verdict of his stedfast eye. Subject(s): Sea; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Ocean ECHO, UPON THE GEMMI Poem Text First Line: What beast of chase hath broken from the cover? Last Line: A thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed! Subject(s): Gemmi (mountain), Switzerland EFFUSION IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER OF TELL Poem Text First Line: What though the italian pencil wrought not here Last Line: And to his father give its own unerring aim. Subject(s): Altorf, Switzerland EFFUSION. IN THE PLEASURE-GROUND ON THE BANKS OF THE BRAN Poem Text First Line: What he - who, mid the kindred throng Last Line: Recoiled into the wilderness. Subject(s): Scotland EINSIEDELN ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Mid savage rocks, and seas of snow that shine Last Line: In mute devotion on the thankful breast! Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ELEGIAC MUSINGS IN THE GROUNDS OF COLEORTON HALL Poem Text First Line: With copious eulogy in prose or rhyme Last Line: The god upon whose mercy they are thrown. ELEGIAC STANZAS Poem Text First Line: Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells Last Line: The rising pang to smother. Subject(s): Drowning; Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); Zurich (lake), Switzerland ELEGIAC STANZAS ADDRESSED TO SIR G.H.B Poem Text First Line: O for a dirge! But why complain? Last Line: That tempts us to adore. Subject(s): Beaumont, Sir George Howland (1753-1827) ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM Poem Text First Line: I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile! Last Line: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. Variant Title(s): On A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm;nature And The Poet;peele Castle Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Paintings & Painters; Wordsworth, John ELEGIAC VERSES IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER, JOHN WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: The sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo! Last Line: On any earthly hope, however pure! ELLEN IRWIN; OR THE BRAES OF KIRTLE Poem Text First Line: Fair ellen irwin, when she sate Last Line: "and its forlorn ""hie jacet""!" EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG Poem Text Last Line: Than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed Subject(s): Vanity; Peace; Courts & Couriers ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS Poem Text First Line: For gentlest uses, oftimes nature takes Last Line: Whose skirts the glowing mountain thirsted to detain! Subject(s): Engelberg, Switzerland ENGLISH VOLUNTARIES: 1 Poem Text First Line: Calm is the fragrant air and loathe to lose Last Line: As a last token of man's toilsome day! EPISTLE TO SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART Poem Text First Line: Far from our home by grasmere's quiet lake Last Line: Farewell. EPITAPH IN THE CHAPEL-YARD OF LANGDALE, WESTMORELAND Poem Text First Line: By playful smiles, (alas! Too oft) Last Line: For peace on earth and bliss in heaven. ERE WITH COLD BEADS OF MIDNIGHT DEW Poem Text Last Line: A subject, not a slave! Subject(s): Love – Nature Of ETERNAL JUSTICE : MORECAMBE SANDS, AUG. 1794 First Line: Oh friend, few happier moments have been mine Last Line: The mighty renovation would proceed EVEN AS A DRAGON'S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS Poem Text Last Line: While hearts and voices in the song unite Subject(s): Family Life; Mountains EVENING BY THE THAMES Poem Text First Line: How richly glows the water's breast Last Line: Though grief and pain may come to-morrow? EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH Poem Text First Line: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not. Variant Title(s): Sonnet;by The Sea;sunset And Sea;holy Calm;on The Sea-shore Near Calais;composed Upon The Beach, Near Calais;the Holiness Of Childhood;composed Upon The Beach Near Calais, August, 1802 Subject(s): God; Nature; Pantheism; Travel; Journeys; Trips EVENING VOLUNTARIES: 3 Poem Text First Line: Not in the lucid intervals of life Last Line: His gracious help, or give what we abuse. EVENING VOLUNTARIES: TO LUCCA GIORDANO Poem Text First Line: Giordano, verily thy pencil's skill Last Line: Or lured along where greenwood paths he trod. Variant Title(s): Endymion Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giordano, Luca (1632-1705); Paintings And Painters EVENING VOLUNTARY Poem Text First Line: Had this effulgence disappeared Last Line: And night approaches with her shades. Variant Title(s): Composed Upon An Evening Of Extraordinary Splendor [and Beauty];ode. An Evening Of Extraordinary Splendor And Beauty;ode: Composed Upon Evening Of Extraordinary Splendour/beauty Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EXCURSION, SELS. EXCURSION: PROSPECTUS First Line: On man, on nature, and on human life Last Line: Guide, and support, and cheer me to the end! Variant Title(s): The Recluse: Prospectu EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY Poem Text First Line: Why, william, on that old grey stone Last Line: "and dream my time away," EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG Poem Text First Line: When first, descending from the moorlands Last Line: And ettrick mourns with her their poet dead. Variant Title(s): Memories Of Departed Friends;on The Death Of James Of James Hogg Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Yarrow (water), Scotland FAIR PRIME OF LIFE! WERE IT ENOUGH TO GILD Poem Text Last Line: Of grateful memory, bid that joy depart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FANCY AND TRADITION Poem Text First Line: The lovers took within this ancient grove Last Line: Studied alike in palace and in cot. FAREWELL LINES Poem Text First Line: High bliss is only for a higher state' Last Line: With hope that we, dear friends! Shall meet again. FEEL FOR THE WRONGS TO UNIVERSAL KEN Poem Text Last Line: Each from his fountain of self-sacrifice! Subject(s): Sympathy FEELINGS OF A FRENCH ROYALIST, ON THE DISINTERMENT Poem Text First Line: Dear reliques! From a pit of vilest mould Last Line: Of justice sent to earth from highest heaven! Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) FEELINGS OF A NOBLE BISCAYAN AT ONE OF THOSE FUNERALS Poem Text First Line: Yet, yet biscayans! We must meet our foes Last Line: Descend on all that issues from our blood. FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE Poem Text First Line: The land we from our fathers had in trust Last Line: Our virtue, and to vindicate mankind. Subject(s): Freedom; Hofer, Andreas (1767-1810); Tyrol, Austria; Liberty FEMALE VAGRANT, SELS First Line: Four years each day with daily bread was blest Last Line: And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food' FIDELITY Poem Text First Line: A barking sound the shepherd hears Last Line: Above all human estimate! Variant Title(s): Helvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England FILIAL PIETY Poem Text First Line: Untouched through all severity of cold Last Line: And red-breasts warble when sweet sounds are rare. Subject(s): Piety FIRST OF MAY Poem Text First Line: While from the purpling east departs Last Line: The sovereignty of may. Subject(s): May (month) FISH-WOMEN - ON LANDING AT CALAIS Poem Text First Line: Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold Last Line: The undisturbed abodes where sea-nymphs dwell! Subject(s): Calais, France; Sea; Ocean FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE Poem Text First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns FLY, SOME KIND HARBINGER, TO GRASMEREDALE! Poem Text Last Line: Smile on his mother now with bolder cheer Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOR THE SPOT WHERE THE HERMITAGE STOOD ON ST. HERBERT'S Poem Text First Line: If thou in the dear love of some one friend Last Line: Those holy men both died in the same hour. FORESIGHT Poem Text First Line: That is work of waste and ruin Last Line: And for that promise spare the flower! FORT FUENTES Poem Text First Line: Dread hour! When, upheaved by war's sulphurous blast Last Line: Our tumults appeased, and our strifes passed away! FORTH FROM A JUTTING RIDGE, AROUND WHOSE BASE Poem Text Last Line: From age to age in blended memory Subject(s): Sisters; Mountains; Death FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN Poem Text Last Line: Gaze on the moon by parting clouds revealed Subject(s): Horses; Lake District, England FRAGMENT: REDUNDANCE Poem Text First Line: Not the more / failed I to lengthen out my watch Last Line: Of movement and creation doubly felt. FRAGMENT: THE QUANTOCKS Poem Text First Line: These populous slopes Last Line: Of peopled solitude. Subject(s): Quantock, England; Solitude; Loneliness FRENCH REVOLUTION; AS IT APPEARED TO ENTHUSIASTS AT ITS COMMENCEMENT Poem Text First Line: Oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy! Last Line: We find our happiness, or not at all! Variant Title(s): The Prelude': Book Xi, 105-143 Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) FROM THE ALBAN HILLS, LOOKING TOWARDS ROME Poem Text First Line: Forgive, illustrious country! These deep sighs Last Line: On the third stage of thy great destiny. Subject(s): Rome, Italy GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN Poem Text First Line: Who weeps for strangers? Many wept Last Line: That may not be untied! GEORGE III Poem Text First Line: Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright Last Line: The triumphs of this hour; for they are thine! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) GIPSIES Poem Text First Line: Yet are they here the same unbroken knot Last Line: Wild outcasts of society! Subject(s): Gypsies GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD Poem Text Last Line: We gaze, we also learn to love. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception GLEN-ALMAIN, THE NARROW GLEN Poem Text First Line: In this still place, remote from men Last Line: Lies buried in this lonely place. Subject(s): Death GO BACK TO ANTIQUE AGES, IF THINE EYES Poem Text Last Line: While, to dislodge his game, cities are sacked! Subject(s): History GOLD AND SILVER FISHES IN A VASE Poem Text First Line: The soaring lark is blest as proud Last Line: Delight resembling love. Subject(s): Fish GOLDEN HOURS': CALAIS AND THE RHONE, JULY 1790 First Line: Twas a time when europe was rejoiced Last Line: And round and round the board they danced again! GOODY BLAKE AND HARRY GILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, what's the matter? What's the matter? Last Line: Of goody blake and harry gill! Subject(s): Poverty GORDALE Poem Text First Line: At early dawn, or rather when the air Last Line: And force their passage to the salt-see tides! Subject(s): Cliffs GRACE DARLING Poem Text First Line: Among the dwellers in the silent fields Last Line: Yea, to celestial choirs, grace darling's name! Subject(s): Women GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN AMONG US Poem Text First Line: Great men have been among us; hands that penned Last Line: But equally a want of books and men! Subject(s): Greatness; France GREEN LINNET First Line: The may is come again: -- how sweet Last Line: Of leaves among the bushes GREENOCK Poem Text First Line: We have not passed into a doleful city Last Line: The poor, the lonely, herdsman's joy and pride. Subject(s): Greenock, Scotland GRIEF, THOU HAST LOST AN EVER-READY FRIEND Poem Text Last Line: The mantling triumphs of a day too blest Subject(s): Loss; Spinning & Spinners GUILT AND SORROW Poem Text First Line: A traveller on the skirt of sarum's plain Last Line: And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance. Variant Title(s): Salisbury Plain And Stonehenge Subject(s): Landscape; Salisbury, England; Stonehenge HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE Poem Text Last Line: And law was from necessity received Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain HARK! 'TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST Poem Text Last Line: Thrilled by loose snatches of the social lay Subject(s): Thrushes HART'S HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH Poem Text First Line: Here stood an oak, that long had borne affixed Last Line: Verse that would guard thy memory, hart's-horn tree! Subject(s): Oak Trees; Scotland HART-LEAP WELL Poem Text First Line: The knight had ridden down from wensley moor Last Line: "with sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." Subject(s): Wells; Monuments HER EYES ARE WILD Poem Text First Line: Her eyes are wild, her head is bare Last Line: "and there, my babe, we'll live for aye." Subject(s): Eyes HER ONLY PILOT THE SOFT BREEZE, THE BOAT Poem Text Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HESPERUS Poem Text First Line: It is no spirit who from heaven hath flown Last Line: Tread there with steps that no one shall reprove! Subject(s): Soul; Starts HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS FOR CERTAIN POLITICAL PRETENDERS Poem Text First Line: Who but hails the sight with pleasure' Last Line: "its endeavouring!" Subject(s): Politics & Government HOFER Poem Text First Line: Of mortal parents is the hero born Last Line: The tyrant, and confound his cruelty. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HOME AT GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: On nature's invitation do I come Last Line: Perfect contentment, unity entire. Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Home HOMEWARD WE TURN. ISLE OF COLUMBA'S CELL Poem Text Last Line: Thy whereabout, to warn the approaching sail Subject(s): Homecoming HONOR Poem Text First Line: Say, what is honor? 'tis the finest sense Last Line: Are forfeited; but infamy doth kill. Subject(s): Honor HOW BEAUTIFUL THE QUEEN OF NIGHT, ON HIGH Poem Text Last Line: Break forth,—again to walk the clear blue sky Subject(s): Moon; Night HOW RICH THAT FOREHEADS CALM EXPANSE! Poem Text Last Line: Their sanctity revealing! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty HUMANITY Poem Text First Line: What though the accused, upon his own appeal Last Line: Which nothing less than infinite power could give. Subject(s): Humanity HYMN FOR THE BOATMEN, AS THEY APPROACH THE RAPIDS Poem Text First Line: Jesu! Bless our slender boat Last Line: Miserere domine!' Subject(s): Boats; Rivers; God I CANNOT DOUBT THAT THEY WHOM YE DEPLORE I HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE MOON-LIGHT Last Line: And the stream was still roaring away I HAVE THOUGHTS THAT ARE FED BY THE SUN Last Line: Be but thou ever as now, %peace, peace, peace I KNOW AN AGED MAN CONSTRAINED TO DWELL Poem Text Last Line: That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken! Subject(s): Old Age; Poverty; Robins; Prisons & Prisoners ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS Poem Text First Line: Discourse was deemed man's noblest attribute Last Line: Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage! Subject(s): Magazines; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE Poem Text First Line: Amid this dance of objects sadness steals Last Line: And in fit measure cheers autumnal days. Subject(s): Germany; Germans IN A GARDEN; AT COLEORTON Poem Text First Line: Oft is the medal faithful to its trust Last Line: Were shaped to cheer dark winter's lonely hours. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (1) Poem Text First Line: Portentous change when history can appear Last Line: The sacred limits of humanity. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (2) Poem Text First Line: Who ponders national events shall find Last Line: Is to control and check disordered powers? Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (3) Poem Text First Line: Long-favoured england! Be not thou misled Last Line: Not scourge, to save the people -- not destroy. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians IN DUE OBSERVANCE OF AN ANCIENT RITE Poem Text Last Line: And joy returns, to brighten fortitude Subject(s): Death – Children; Faith IN PATTERDALE First Line: The mind of man is framed even like the breath Subject(s): Men IN SIGHT OF THE TOWN OF COCKERMOUTH Poem Text First Line: A point of life between my parent's dust Last Line: And only love keep in your hearts a place. Subject(s): Cockermouth, England IN THE CATHEDRAL AT COLOGNE Poem Text First Line: O for the help of angels to complete Last Line: Of penetrating harps and voices sweet! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany IN THE CHANNEL, BETWEEN THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: Ranging the heights of scawfell or blackcomb Last Line: To cope with sages undevoutly free. Subject(s): English Channel IN THE FRITH OF CLYDE, AILSA CRAG Poem Text First Line: Since risen from ocean, ocean to defy Last Line: For her mute powers, fixed forms, or transient shows. IN THE GROUNDS OF COLEORTON; THE SEAT OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine Last Line: Fletcher's associate, jonson's friend beloved. IN THE PASS OF KILLICRANKIE, AN INVASION BEING EXPECTED Poem Text First Line: Six thousand veterans practised in war's game Last Line: And her foes find a like inglorious grave. IN THE SIMPLON PASS Poem Text First Line: Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood Last Line: Of love in the heart made more happy by tears? Variant Title(s): Stanzas Composed In The Simplon Pass Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE SOUND OF MULL Poem Text First Line: Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw Last Line: "yon towering peaks, ""shepherds of etive glen?" Subject(s): Violence IN THE WOODS OF RYDAL Poem Text First Line: Wild redbreast! Hadst thou at jemima's lip Last Line: To trust a poet in still musings bound. Subject(s): Forests; Woods INCIDENT AT BRUGES Poem Text First Line: In bruges town is many a street Last Line: Of english liberty? Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOG Poem Text First Line: On his morning rounds the master Last Line: Until her fellow sinks to re-appear no more. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD Poem Text First Line: We can endure that he should waste our lands Last Line: That he has power to inflict what we lack strength to bear. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Anger INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN CROSTHWAITE CHURCH Poem Text First Line: Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew Last Line: Calmed in his soul the fear of change and death. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals INSCRIPTION FOR A SEAT IN THE GROVES OF COLEORTON Poem Text First Line: Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound Last Line: From airy words alone, a pile that ne'er decays. INSCRIPTION ON A ROCK AT RYDAL MOUNT Poem Text First Line: Wouldst thou be gathered to christ's chosen flock Last Line: The living rock of god's eternal word. INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 1 Poem Text First Line: Hopes what are they? - beads of morning Last Line: That precedes the passing knell! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 2. UPON A ROCK Poem Text First Line: Pause, traveller! Whosoe'er thou be Last Line: With shapeless ruin spread around! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 3 Poem Text First Line: Hast thou seen, with flash incessant Last Line: From the rock eternity! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 4. NEAR SPRING Poem Text First Line: Troubled long with warring notions Last Line: Of divine tranquillity! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 5 Poem Text First Line: Not seldom, clad in radiant vest Last Line: But faith sublimed to ecstasy! INTENDED FOR A STONE IN THE GROUNDS OF RYDAL MOUNT Poem Text First Line: In these fair vales hath many a tree Last Line: As one of the departed Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self INTENT ON GATHERING WOOL FROM HEDGE AND BRAKE Poem Text Last Line: And faith--these only yield secure relief Subject(s): Farm Life; Children INVOCATION TO THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: Rest, rest, perturbed earth! Last Line: And the pure vision closed in darkness infinite. Subject(s): Earth; World IONA Poem Text First Line: On to iona! - what can she afford Last Line: While heaven's vast sea of voices chants their praise. Subject(s): Iona, Scotland IONA. UPON LANDING Poem Text First Line: How sad a welcome! To each voyager Last Line: "shall gild their passage to eternal rest." Subject(s): Iona, Scotland IS THERE A POWER THAT CAN SUSTAIN AND CHEER Poem Text Last Line: When he himself was tried in open light ISLAND ON THE LAKE First Line: Grateful task! - to me ISLE OF MAN (1) Poem Text First Line: A youth too certain of his power to wade Last Line: The power that saved him in his strange distress. Subject(s): Isle Of Man ISLE OF MAN (2) Poem Text First Line: Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen Last Line: Shrink from the daily sight of earth and sky! Subject(s): Isle Of Man JUNE, 1820 Poem Text First Line: Fame tells of groves - from england far away Last Line: Ye heavenly birds! To your progenitors. JUNGFRAU Poem Text First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood. Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KITTEN AND FALLEN LEAVES Poem Text First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: For the plaudits of the crowd? Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAKE URI Poem Text First Line: From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake! Last Line: To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Uri (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LAMENT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Poem Text First Line: Smile of the moon! - for so I name Last Line: Reposed upon the block! Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart LAODAMIA Poem Text First Line: With sacrifice before the rising morn Last Line: A constant interchange of growth and blight! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Those breathing tokens of your kind regard Last Line: Shall with a thankful tear bedrop its latest page. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LINES AFTER TEA AT GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: The sun has long been set Last Line: On such a night as this is! Variant Title(s): "a Night In June;""the Sun Has Long Been Set""; LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology LINES COMPOSED AT GRASMERE Poem Text First Line: Loud is the vale! The voice is up Last Line: Then wherefore should we mourn? Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806) LINES INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF HIS POEMS SENT TO THE QUEEN First Line: Deign, sovereign mistress! To accept a lay Last Line: And help life onward in its noblest aim Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE Poem Text First Line: Nay, traveller! Rest. This lonely yew-tree stands Last Line: In lowliness of heart. LINES ON THE EXPECTED INVASION Poem Text First Line: Come ye - who, if (which heaven avert!) the land Last Line: But british reason and the british sword. LINES SUGGESTED BY A PORTRAIT FROM THE PENCIL OF F. STONE Poem Text First Line: Beguiled into forgetfulness of care Last Line: My song's inspirer, once again farewell! Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841) LINES WRITTEN AS A SCHOOL EXERCISE Poem Text First Line: And has the sun his flaming chariot driven Last Line: "smiled like the morn, and vanished into air." LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING Poem Text Recitation First Line: I heard a thousand blended notes Last Line: What man has made of man? Variant Title(s): What Man Has Made Of Man;written In Early Spring Subject(s): Religion; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE Poem Text First Line: Lady! A pen (perhaps with thy regard Last Line: For everlasting glory won by faith. LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THAMES, AT EVENING First Line: How rich the wave, in front, imprest LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S Poem Text First Line: To public notice, with reluctance strong Last Line: Which good men take with them from earth to heaven. LO! WHERE SHE STANDS FIXED IN A SAINT-LIKE TRANCE Poem Text Last Line: For health, and time in obvious duty spent Subject(s): Women LONDON, 1802 (1) Poem Text Recitation First Line: O friend! I know not which way I must look Last Line: And pure religion breathing household laws. Variant Title(s): Written In London, September, 1802;the Times That Are;in London, Setpember 1802;london, 1802 Subject(s): London; Milton, John (1608-1674); Social Protest LONDON, 1802 (2) Poem Text First Line: Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour Last Line: The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Variant Title(s): Ideal;to Milton;london, 1802 Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Liberty LOOK NOW ON THAT ADVENTURER WHO HATH PAID Poem Text Last Line: By violent and ignominious death LOUISA Poem Text First Line: I met louisa in the shade Last Line: To hunt the waterfalls. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LOVE LIES BLEEDING Poem Text First Line: You call it, 'love lies bleeding,' - so you may Last Line: Bear. LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: Lowther! In thy majestic pile are seen Last Line: Will say, ye disappeared with england's glory! LUCY (1) Poem Text First Line: I travelled among unknown men Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed. Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men""; Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips LUCY (2) Poem Text Recitation First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: The difference to me! Variant Title(s): "the Lost Love;when Lucy Ceased To Be;song;""she Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways""; Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LUCY (4) Poem Text First Line: Strange fits of passion have I known Last Line: "if lucy should be dead!" Variant Title(s): "if Lucy Should Be Dead;a Lover's Dark Fancy;""strange Fits Of Passion I Have Known""; Subject(s): Love; Passion LUCY (5) Poem Text First Line: Three years she grew in sun and shower Last Line: And never more will be. Variant Title(s): The Education Of Nature;four Natural Women Subject(s): Death - Children; Nature; Death - Babies LUCY GRAY; OR, SOLITUDE Poem Text First Line: Oft I had heard of lucy gray Last Line: That whistles in the wind. Variant Title(s): Lucy Gray LYRE! THOUGH SUCH POWER DO IN THY MAGIC LIVE Poem Text Last Line: The liquid veil that seeks not to hide them MALHAM COVE Poem Text First Line: Was the aim frustrated by force or guile Last Line: Than noblest objects utterly decayed. MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE Last Line: To mimic time's forlorn humanities. Subject(s): Nature; Stones MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Poem Text First Line: Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed Last Line: Stilled by the ensanguined block of fotheringay! Subject(s): Cumbria, England; Derwent (river) Great Britain; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart MATERNAL GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Departed child! I could forget thee once Last Line: Immortal as the love that gave it being. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies MATTHEW Poem Text First Line: If nature, for a favorite child Last Line: Are all that must remain of thee? Variant Title(s): "if Nature, For A Favorite Child""; MEMORIAL. NEAR THE OUTLET OF THE LAKE OF THUN Poem Text First Line: Around a wild and woody hill Last Line: Touched by his golden finger. Subject(s): Thun (lake), Switzerland MEMORIALS OF A TOUR: IN LOMBARDY Poem Text First Line: See, where his difficult way that old man wins Last Line: To bliss unbounded, glory without end. Subject(s): Lombardy, Italy MEMORY Poem Text First Line: A pen - to register; a key Last Line: To their own far-off murmurs listening. Subject(s): Memory MICHAEL; A PASTORAL POEM Poem Text First Line: If from the public way you turn your steps Last Line: Beside the boisterous brook of greenhead ghyll. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses MIND DEBARRED First Line: O'er paths and fields Last Line: A march of glory, which does put to shame %these vain regrets MIST OPENING IN THE HILLS First Line: ... A step Subject(s): Immortality MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS Poem Text First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MOUNT RIGHI Poem Text First Line: Meek virgin mother, more benign Last Line: Sufficient for the wise. Variant Title(s): Our Lady Of The Snow Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE Poem Text First Line: Ye apennines! With all your fertile vales Last Line: Rise, and to-morrow greet magnificent rome. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NEAR ANIO'S STREAM I SPIED A GENTLE DOVE Last Line: In what alone is ours, the living now Subject(s): Hope; Doves NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802 Poem Text First Line: Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood Last Line: Only, the nations shall be great and free. Variant Title(s): English Channel;france And England;september, 1802 Subject(s): English Channel NEAR ROME, IN SIGHT OF ST. PETER'S Poem Text First Line: Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn Last Line: And yon resplendent church are proud to bear. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEAR THE LAKE OF THYRASYEME Poem Text First Line: When here with carthage rome to conflict came Last Line: That gave them being, vanish to a sound. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEAR THE SAME LAKE [THRASYMENE] Poem Text First Line: For action born, existing to be tried Last Line: This spot -- his shadowy death-cup in his hand. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NOVEMBER, 1806 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Another year! - another deadly blow / another mighty empire overthrown! Last Line: And honour which they do not understand. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Liberty NOVEMBER, 1836 Poem Text First Line: Even so for me a vision sanctified Last Line: Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. NUN'S WELL, BRIGHAM Poem Text First Line: The cattle crowding round this beverage clear Last Line: "into the shedding of ""too soft a tear." NUNNERY Poem Text First Line: The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary Last Line: Canal, and viaduct, and railway, tell! Subject(s): Nuns NUTTING Poem Text First Line: It seems a day Last Line: Touch -- for there is a spirit in the woods. Subject(s): Forests; Woods O'ER THE WIDE EARTH, ON MOUNTAIN AND ON PLAIN Last Line: Of man converse with immortality? Subject(s): Human Behavior OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Poem Text First Line: Intrepid sons of albion! Not by you Last Line: Your country rears this sacred monument! Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, FEBRUARY 1816 Poem Text First Line: The bard - whose soul is meek as dawning day Last Line: Angels might welcome with a choral shout! Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo OCTOBER, 1803 (1) Poem Text First Line: One might believe that natural miseries Last Line: Of liberty that yet remains on earth! OCTOBER, 1803 (2) Poem Text First Line: When, looking on the present face of things Last Line: I tremble at the sorrow of the time. OCTOBER, 1803 (3) Poem Text First Line: These times strike monied worldlings with dismay Last Line: To fear, to change, to cowardice, and death? ODE Poem Text First Line: Who rises on the banks of seine Last Line: And by the power, of wrong. ODE ON THE INSTALLATION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT Poem Text First Line: For thirst of power that heaven disowns Last Line: The pride of the islands, victoria the queen. Subject(s): Albert, King Of The Belgians (1875-1934); Cambridge University ODE TO DUTY Poem Text First Line: Stern daughter of the voice of god Last Line: And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! Variant Title(s): To Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology ODE TO LYCORIS (1) Poem Text First Line: An age hath been when earth was proud Last Line: Be hopeful spring the favourite of the soul! ODE TO LYCORIS (2) Poem Text First Line: Enough of climbing toil! - ambition treads Last Line: Are the domains of tender memory! Subject(s): Ambition ODE, 1814 Poem Text First Line: When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch Last Line: By works of spirit high and passion pure! ODE, 1815 Poem Text First Line: Imagination - ne'er before content Last Line: Thy law, and live henceforth in peace, in pure good will. ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: There was a time when meadow, grove and stream Last Line: Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Variant Title(s): Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood;immortality;intimations Of Immortality Subject(s): Death; God; Immortality; Nature; Dead, The ODE: THE MORNING OF THE DAY APPOINTED Poem Text First Line: Hail, orient conqueror of gloomy night! Last Line: Throne of grace! OH WHAT A WRECK! HOW CHANGED IN MIEN AND SPEECH! Last Line: In them—in her our sins and sorrows past Subject(s): Insanity OLD MAN BY THE BROOK First Line: Down to the vale this water steers; how merrily it goes! ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (1) Poem Text First Line: A roman master stands on grecian ground Last Line: By all the blended powers of earth and heaven. Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (2) Poem Text First Line: When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn Last Line: "which, at jove's will, descends on pelion's top." Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty ON A HIGH PART OF THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: The sun, that seemed so mildly to retire Last Line: From finite cares, to rest absorbed in thee! Variant Title(s): Evening Voluntaries: 2 Subject(s): Middle Age ON A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON Poem Text First Line: By art's bold privilege warrior and warhorse stand Last Line: Conqueror, 'mid some sad thoughts, divinely blest! Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Battle Of Waterloo; Wellington, Duke Of ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH, LAUTERBRUNNEN Poem Text First Line: Uttered by whom, or how inspired - designed Last Line: This bold, this bright, this sky-born waterfall! Subject(s): Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Waterfalls ON BEING STRANDED NEAR THE HARBOUR OF BOULOGNE Poem Text First Line: Why cast ye back upon the gallic shore Last Line: Such ground I from my very heart enjoy! ON ENTERING DOUGLAS BAY, ISLE OF MAN Poem Text First Line: The feudal keep, the bastions of cohorn Last Line: And they are led by noble hillary. Subject(s): Isle Of Man ON HEARING THE RANZ DES VACHES ON THE TOP OF THE PASS Poem Text First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE Poem Text First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads! Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish ON SEEING A NEEDLECASE IN THE FORM OF A HARP Poem Text First Line: Frowns are on every muse's face Last Line: "love 'stoops' as fondly as he soars." Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres ON SEEING A TUFT OF SNOWDROPS IN A STORM Poem Text First Line: When haughty expectations prostrate lie Last Line: Might overwhelm, but could not separate! ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM Poem Text First Line: Behold an emblem of our human mind Last Line: Fall on thy knees and sue for help divine. ON THE DEATH OF HIS MAJESTY (GEORGE THE THIRD) Poem Text First Line: Ward of the law! - dread shadow of a king! Last Line: An unexampled voice of awful memory! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE DETRACTION WHICH FOLLOWED THE PUBLICATION Poem Text First Line: A book came forth of late, called peter bell Last Line: In the just tribute of thy poet's pen! ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee Last Line: Of that which once was great, is passed away. Variant Title(s): Venice Subject(s): Freedom; Venice, Italy; Liberty ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE Poem Text First Line: It was a moral end for which they fought Last Line: For perfect triumph o'er your enemies. ON THE FIRTH OF CLYDE Poem Text First Line: Arran! A single-crested teneriffe Last Line: And lofty springs give birth to lowly streams. ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY Poem Text First Line: Is then no nook of english ground secure Last Line: And constant voice, protest against the wrong. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE SIGHT OF A MANSE IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: Say, ye far-traveled clouds, far-seeing hills Last Line: Nor covets lineal rights in lands and towers. ON WINDERMERE: BOWNESS BAY AND BELLE ISLE First Line: Upon the eastern shore of windermere ONCE I COULD HAIL (HOWE'ER SERENE THE SKY) Last Line: Where joys are perfect—neither wax nor wane Subject(s): Moon OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820) Poem Text First Line: Ye sacred nurseries of blooming youth! Last Line: An eager novice robed in fluttering gown! Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820) (2) Poem Text First Line: Shame on this faithless heart! That could allow Last Line: Of these illusions, or they please no more. Subject(s): Oxford University PARIS DURING THE REVOLUTION Subject(s): Sleep PATRIOT : BLOIS, EARLY SUMMER 1792 First Line: Among that band of officers was one Last Line: In making their own laws-whence better days %to all mankind! PELION AND OSSA FLOURISH SIDE BY SIDE Last Line: And pours forth streams more sweet than castaly Subject(s): Mountains PERFECT WOMAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: She was a phantom of delight Last Line: With something of angelic light. Variant Title(s): "a Portrait;seen, Loved, Wedded;""she Was A Phantom Of Delight""; Subject(s): Death; Hutchinson, Mary; Love; Marriage; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERSONAL TALK Poem Text First Line: I am not one who much or often delight Last Line: Then gladly would I end my mortal days. Variant Title(s): "i Am Not One Who Much Or Oft Delight""; PETER BELL, SELS. PETER BELL; A TALE Poem Text First Line: There's something in a flying horse Last Line: Became a good and honest man. PHILOCTETES Poem Text First Line: When philoctetes, in the lemnian isle Last Line: Though man for brother man has ceased to feel. PICTURE OF DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN Poem Text First Line: Amid a fertile region green with wood Last Line: Man placed him here, and god, he knows, can save. Subject(s): Scotland PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN Poem Text First Line: Forbear to deem the chronicler unwise Last Line: Should animate, but not mislead, the pen. Subject(s): History; Historians POETRY First Line: Aristotle he said that poetry is the most philosophic of all POOR ROBIN Poem Text First Line: Now when the primrose makes a splendid show Last Line: How just, how bountiful, the hand of heaven. POOR SUSAN (EARLIER VERSION OF THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN) First Line: At the corner of wood-street, when day-light appears Last Line: May'st hear the thrush sing from a tree of its own PRELUDE (BOOKS 1-14) First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: In beauty exalted, as it is itself %of quality and fabric more divine Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Sleep; Travel PRESENTIMENTS! THEY JUDGE NOT RIGHT PROCESSIONS. SUGGESTED ON A SABBATH MORNING Poem Text First Line: To appease the gods; or public thanks to yield Last Line: Avoid these sights; nor brood o'er fable's dark abyss! PROTEST AGAINST THE BALLOT Poem Text First Line: Forth rushed from envy sprung and self-conceit Last Line: Pierced by thy spear in glorious victory. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD Poem Text Last Line: To share the passion of a just disdain Subject(s): Greed; Nature; Railroads PURE ELEMENT OF WATERS! WHERESOE'ER Poem Text Last Line: Their anguish,—and they blend sweet songs with thine Subject(s): Springs; Water; Caves RAINS AT LENGTH HAVE CEASED First Line: The rains at length have ceased, the winds are stilled Last Line: The vale is by a mighty sound possessed RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY VIII Poem Text First Line: The imperial stature, the colossal stride Last Line: Which neither force shall check nor time abate! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) REMEMBRANCE OF COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Glide gently, thus for ever glide Last Line: By virtue's holiest powers attended. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE Poem Text First Line: There was a roaring in the wind all night Last Line: "I'll think of the leech-gatherer on the lonely moor!" Variant Title(s): The Leech-gatherer Subject(s): Independence; Wisdom REST AND BE THANKFUL!' AT THE HEAD OF GLENCROE Poem Text First Line: Doubling and doubling with laborious walk Last Line: Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that angels share Subject(s): Rest; Peace RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: If the whole weight of what we think and feel Last Line: To gentle natures, thanks not heaven amiss. RIVER DUDDON (COMPLETE) ROB ROY'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: A famous man is robin hood Last Line: At sound of rob roy's name. Subject(s): Macgregor, Robert (rob Roy) (1671-1734) ROMAN ANTIQUITIES Poem Text First Line: How profitless the relics that we cull Last Line: Urns without ashes, tearless lacrymals! Subject(s): Ruins ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORDSHIRE Poem Text First Line: While poring antiquarians search the ground Last Line: The casual treasure from the furrowed soil. Subject(s): Antiquities; Ruins RUINED COTTAGE (MS. D VERSION) First Line: Twas summer and the sun was mounted high Last Line: A rustic inn, our evening resting place Variant Title(s): The Ruined Cottag Subject(s): Nature; Peddlers And Peddling RURAL ARCHITECTURE Poem Text First Line: There's george fisher, charles fleming, and reginald shore Last Line: And I'll build up giant with you. RURAL ILLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: Sylph was it? Or a bird more bright Last Line: Whom oftenest she beguiles. RUTH Poem Text First Line: When ruth was left half desolate Last Line: A christian psalm for thee. Variant Title(s): Ruth: Or The Influences Of Nature SAID SECRECY TO COWARDICE AND FRAUD Poem Text Last Line: Hurrah for—, hugging his ballot-box! Subject(s): Secrets SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ Poem Text First Line: What know we of the blest above ...' Last Line: The melodies of peace in love! Subject(s): Brientz (lake), Switzerland SCHILL Poem Text First Line: Brave schill, by death delivered, take thy flight Last Line: In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed. SEPTEMBER 1, 1802 Poem Text First Line: We had a female passenger who came Last Line: And feel, thou earth, for this afflicted race! Subject(s): Blacks; Racism SEPTEMBER 1, 1802 (DIFFERENT VERSION) First Line: We had a fellow-passenger who ame Last Line: Nor murmured at the unfeeling ordinance SEPTEMBER, 1815 Poem Text First Line: While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields Last Line: And nobler cares than listless summer knew. SEPTEMBER, 1819 (1) Poem Text First Line: Departing summer hath assumed Last Line: Can haughty time be just! Variant Title(s): The Poet Growing Old Subject(s): Summer; Time SEPTEMBER, 1819 (2) Poem Text First Line: The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields Last Line: These choristers confide. Variant Title(s): Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SEQUEL TO THE 'BEGGARS' Poem Text First Line: Where are they now, those wanton boys? Last Line: For mercy and immortal bloom! SIEGE OF VIENNA RAISED BY JOHN SOBIESKI Poem Text First Line: Oh, for a kindling touch from that pure flame Last Line: He conquering through god, and god by him.' SIMON LEE Poem Text First Line: In the sweet shire of cardigan Last Line: Hath oftener left me mourning. Variant Title(s): Simon Lee The Old Huntsman SIMPLON PASS Poem Text First Line: Ambition, following down this far-famed slope Last Line: What groans! What shrieks! What quietness in death! Subject(s): Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Soldiers SIR WALTER SCOTT'S FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain Last Line: Wafting your charge to soft parthenope! Variant Title(s): On Departure Of Sir Walter Scott From Abbotsford, For Naples Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) SIX MONTHS TO SIX YEARS ADDED HE REMAINED SKY-PROSPECT - FROM THE PLAIN OF FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Lo! In the burning west, the craggy nape Last Line: From all the fuming vanities of earth! SLEEP NO MORE : PARIS, OCT. 1792 First Line: The state, as if to stamp the final seal Last Line: Unfit for the repose of night, %defenceless as a place where tigers roam SOFT AS A CLOUD IS YON BLUE RIDGE - THE MERE Poem Text Last Line: The elastic vanities of yesterday? Subject(s): Vanity SOLACE OF NATURE First Line: Though absent long SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE; UPON RSTORATION OF LORD CLIFFORD Poem Text First Line: High in the breathless hall the minstrel sate Last Line: "the good lord clifford"" was the name he bore." Subject(s): Clifford, Henry. 10th Baron (1454-1523) SONG FOR THE SPINNING WHEEL Poem Text First Line: Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! Last Line: Sleeping on the mountain's breast. SONG FOR THE WANDERING JEW Poem Text First Line: Though the torrents from their fountains Last Line: Of the wanderer in my soul. Subject(s): Wandering Jew SONNET First Line: Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Subject(s): Love SONNET (THE THRONE OF DEATH) Poem Text First Line: Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne Last Line: A lovely beauty in a summer grave! SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement SONNET TO AN OCTOGENARIAN Poem Text First Line: Affections lose their object; time brings forth Last Line: Where love for living thing can find a place. SONNET TO LADY FITZGERALD, IN HER SEVENTIETH YEAR Poem Text First Line: Such age how beautiful! O lady bright Last Line: As pensive evening deepens into night. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women SONNET. ON SEEING MISS HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS WEEP AT A TALE OF DISTRESS Poem Text First Line: She wept. - life's purple tide began to flow Last Line: To cheer the wand'ring wretch with hospitable light. SONNET: AIREY FORCE VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Not a breath of air Last Line: To stay the wanderer's steps and soothe his thoughts. Variant Title(s): Airey-force Valley SONNET: AUTHOR'S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE Poem Text First Line: The confidence of youth our only art Last Line: Features which else had vanished like a dream. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe SONNET: HIGHLAND HUT Poem Text First Line: See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built cot Last Line: Belike less happy. -- stand no more aloof! Subject(s): Houses SONNET: TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: A flock of sheep that leisurely pass on Last Line: Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! Variant Title(s): Sleeplessness Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 1. LANCASTER CASTLE Poem Text First Line: This spot - at once unfolding sight so fair Last Line: Shed on their chains; and hence that doleful name. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 10 Poem Text First Line: Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine Last Line: Infinite power, perfect intelligence. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 11 Poem Text First Line: Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide Last Line: And wafts at will the contrite soul to bliss. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 12 Poem Text First Line: See the condemned alone within his cell Last Line: On old temptations, might for ever blast. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 13. CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: Yes, though he well may tremble at the sound Last Line: Oh, speed the blessed hour, almighty god! SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 14. APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: The formal world relaxes her cold chain Last Line: Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 2 Poem Text First Line: Tenderly do we feel by nature's law Last Line: And all who from the law firm safety crave. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 3 Poem Text First Line: The roman consul doomed his sons to die Last Line: Broken with all mankind, solicit death. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 4 Poem Text First Line: Is death, when evil against good has fought Last Line: In the weak love of life his least command. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 5 Poem Text First Line: Not to the object specially designed Last Line: The last alternative of life or death. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 6 Poem Text First Line: Ye brood of conscience - spectres! That frequent Last Line: Survive not judgment that requires his own? SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 7 Poem Text First Line: Before the world had past her time of youth Last Line: Making of social order a mere dream. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 8 Poem Text First Line: Fit retribution, by the moral code Last Line: "and the ""wild justice of revenge"" prevail." SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 9 Poem Text First Line: Though to give timely warning and deter Last Line: And fortify the moral sense of all. SPANISH GUERILLAS Poem Text First Line: They seek, are sought; to daily battle led Last Line: In some green island of the western main. Subject(s): Spain ST PAUL'S First Line: Pressed with conflicting thoughts of love and fear Last Line: Through its own sacred veil of falling snow ST. CATHERINE OF LEDBURY Poem Text First Line: When human touch (as monkish books attest) Last Line: Till she exchanged for heaven that happy ground. STANZAS SUGGESTED IN A STEAMBOAT OFF ST. BEES' HEAD Poem Text First Line: If life were slumber on a bed of down Last Line: That furthered the first teaching of st. Bees. Subject(s): St. Bees' Head, England STANZAS WRITTEN IN MY POCKET-COPY OF THOMSON'S Poem Text First Line: Within our happy castle there dwelt one Last Line: As pleased as if the same had been a maiden-queen. STAR-GAZERS Poem Text First Line: What crowd is this? What have we here! Last Line: That doth not slackly go away, as if dissatisfied. STATUE HORSE First Line: One evening, walking in the public way Last Line: A living statue or a statued life STEAMBOATS, VIADUCTS, AND RAILWAYS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Motions and means, on land and sea at war Last Line: Of hope, and smiles on you with cheer sublime. Subject(s): Progress STEPPING WESTWARD Poem Text First Line: What you are stepping westward?' -- 'yea.' Last Line: Before me in my endless way. STRAY PLEASURES Poem Text First Line: By their floating mill Last Line: They are happy, for that is their right! SUGGESTED AT NOON ON LOUGHRIGG FELL Poem Text First Line: So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive Last Line: Whatever boon is granted or withheld. SUGGESTED AT TYNDRUM IN A STORM Poem Text First Line: Enough of garlands, of the arcadian crook Last Line: On earth, who works in the heaven of heavens, alone. SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE Poem Text First Line: The gentlest poet, with free thoughts endowed Last Line: That in the living creature find on earth a place. SUGGESTED BY A VIEW FROM AN EMINENCE IN INGLEWOOD FOREST Poem Text First Line: The forest huge of ancient caledon Last Line: Of power that perishes, and rights that fade. Subject(s): Forests; Woods SUGGESTED BY THE MONUMENT OF MRS. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Tranquility! The sovereign aim wert thou Last Line: Each in its orbit round the central sun. Subject(s): Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823) SURPRISED BY JOY Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET Poem Text First Line: Where art thou, my beloved son Last Line: I have no other earthly friend! Variant Title(s): A Mother's Lament Subject(s): Mothers THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 1 Poem Text First Line: There he would stand Last Line: And seemed to sink into his very heart. THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 2 Poem Text First Line: Why is it we feel / so little for each other Last Line: There is a mind. THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 3 Poem Text First Line: Of unknown modes of being which on earth Last Line: Did ebb and flow with a strange mystery. THE ARMENIAN LADY'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: You have heard a spanish lady Last Line: And the vain rank the pilgrims bore while yet on earth. THE AVON Poem Text First Line: Avon - a precious, an immortal name! Last Line: Shrink from 'thy' name, pure rill, with unpleased ears. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers THE BIRTH OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: When love was born of heavenly line Last Line: But soon upon her breast he sunk -- to wake no more. THE BLACK STONES OF IONA Poem Text First Line: Here on their knees men swore: the stones were black Last Line: Come links for social order's awful chain. THE BLIND HIGHLAND BOY Poem Text First Line: Now we are tired of boisterous joy Last Line: And how he was preserved. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BORDERERS; A TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: The troop will be impatient; let us hie Last Line: In heaven, and mercy gives me leave to die. Subject(s): Gothic Drama; Revolutions THE BROOK Poem Text First Line: Brook! Whose society the poet seeks Last Line: Unwearied joy, and life without its cares. THE BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: These tourists, heaven preserve us! Needs must live Last Line: A seaman, a grey-headed mariner. THE BROWNIE Poem Text First Line: How disappeared he?' ask the newt and toad Last Line: Drove from itself, we trust, all frightful gloom. THE BROWNIE'S CELL Poem Text First Line: To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen Last Line: A foil to his celestial cheek! Subject(s): Loch Lomond, Scotland; Solitude; Loneliness THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO Poem Text First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears. Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Before I see another day Last Line: Nor shall I see another day. THE CONTRAST Poem Text First Line: Within her gilded cage confined Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens THE CONVICT Poem Text First Line: The glory of evening was spread through the west Last Line: "would plant thee where yet thou might'st blossom again." Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners THE CRESCENT MOON, THE STAR OF LOVE Poem Text Last Line: Which is the attendant page and which the queen? Subject(s): Evening THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA Poem Text First Line: List - 'twas the cuckoo. - o with what delight Last Line: And folds thy pinions up in blest repose. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Italy; Italians THE CUCKOO-CLOCK Poem Text First Line: Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight Last Line: And those that seek his help, and for his mercy sigh. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE DANISH BOY Poem Text First Line: Between two sister moorland rills Last Line: Like a dead boy he is serene. THE DUNOLLY EAGLE Poem Text First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake. Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE Poem Text First Line: Shade of caractacus, if spirits love Last Line: From heaven, gigantic force to beardless boys. Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Eagles THE EARL OF BREADALBANE'S RUINED MANSION Poem Text First Line: Well sang the bard who called the grave, in strains Last Line: Concord that elevates the mind, and stills. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN Poem Text First Line: High on her speculative tower Last Line: And all-controlling power. Subject(s): Eclipses THE EGYPTIAN MAID, OR THE ROMANCE OF THE WATER LILY Poem Text First Line: While merlin paced the cornish sands Last Line: To bowers of endless love! THE EMIGRANT MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned Last Line: "I'll tell him many tales of thee." THE EXCURSION: BOOK 1. THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high Last Line: A village-inn, -- our evening resting-place. Variant Title(s): Margaret;the Ruined Cottage THE EXCURSION: BOOK 2. THE SOLITARY Poem Text First Line: In days of yore how fortunately fared Last Line: Rose, though reluctantly, and forth we went. THE EXCURSION: BOOK 3. DESPONDENCY Poem Text First Line: A humming bee - a little tinkling rill Last Line: "the unfathomable gulf, where all is still!" THE EXCURSION: BOOK 4. DESPONDENCY CORRECTED Poem Text First Line: Here closed the tenant of that lonely vale Last Line: Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE EXCURSION: BOOK 5. THE PASTOR Poem Text First Line: Farewell, deep valley, with thy one rude house ...' Last Line: "through shades and silent rest, to endless joy." THE EXCURSION: BOOK 6. THE CHURCHYARD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Hail to the crown by freedom shaped - to gird Last Line: "and how, her spirit yet survives on earth!" THE EXCURSION: BOOK 7. THE CHURCHYARD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS (2) Poem Text First Line: While thus from theme to theme the historian passed Last Line: "in god; and reverence for the dust of man." THE EXCURSION: BOOK 8. THE PARSONAGE Poem Text First Line: The pensive sceptic of the lonely vale Last Line: Mildly, and with a clear and steady tone. THE EXCURSION: BOOK 9. DISCOURSE OF THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: To every form of being is assigned ...' Last Line: My future labours may not leave untold. THE EXCURSION; TO THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM, EARL OF LONSDALE Poem Text First Line: Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious peer! Last Line: The offering, though imperfect, premature. THE FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE Poem Text Last Line: Of harmony, above all earthly care Subject(s): Peace; Mountains THE FALL OF THE AAR Poem Text First Line: From the fierce aspect of this river Last Line: These humbler adorations will receive. Subject(s): Alps; Handeck (falls), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE FARMER OF TILSBURY VALE Poem Text First Line: Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined Last Line: Will hear the wind sigh through the leaves of a tree. THE FORCE OF PRAYER; OR, THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY Poem Text First Line: What is good for a bootless bene? Last Line: Of him to be our friend! Variant Title(s): The Boy Of Egremond Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE FOREGOING SUBJECT RESUMED [LINES SUGGESTED BY PORTRAIT] Poem Text First Line: Among a grave fraternity of monks Last Line: On earth, will be revived, we trust, in heaven. THE FORESAKEN Poem Text First Line: The peace which others seek they find Last Line: I think that he will come again. THE FOUNTAIN; A CONVERSATION Poem Text First Line: We talked with open heart, and tongue / affectionate and true Last Line: And the bewildered chimes. THE FRENCH AND SPANISH GUERRILLAS Poem Text First Line: Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast Last Line: And hang like dreams around his guilty bed. Subject(s): Soldiers THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (1) Poem Text First Line: Humanity, delighting to behold Last Line: A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy! Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (2) Poem Text First Line: Ye storms, resound the praises of your king! Last Line: That host, which rendered all your bounties vain! THE GERMANS ON THE HEIGHTS OF HOCHHEIM Poem Text First Line: Abruptly paused the strife; - the field throughout Last Line: The unconquerable stream his course pursue. THE GLEANER Poem Text First Line: That happy gleam of vernal eyes Last Line: That asks for daily bread. Variant Title(s): The Country Girl Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Holmes, James (1777-1860) THE GLOW-WORM Poem Text First Line: Among all lovely things my love had been Last Line: Oh! Joy it was for her, and joy for me! Variant Title(s): "among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been""; Subject(s): Love THE GREEN LINNET Poem Text First Line: Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Last Line: While fluttering in the bushes. THE HAPPY WARRIOR Poem Text First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be. Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HAUNTED TREE Poem Text First Line: Those silver clouds round the sun Last Line: That, for a brief space, checks the hurrying stream! THE HIGHLAND BROACH Poem Text First Line: If to tradition faith be due Last Line: May render back the highland broach. THE HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: Farewell, thou little nook of mountain-ground Last Line: Into thy bosom we again shall creep. Variant Title(s): "a Farewell;""farewell, Thou Little Nook Of Mountain Ground""; THE HORN OF EGREMONT CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Ere the brothers through the gateway Last Line: Sounded the horn which they alone could sound. Subject(s): Crusades THE IDIOT BOY Poem Text First Line: Tis eight o'clock -- a clear march night Last Line: And that was all his travel's story, THE IDLE SHEPHERD-BOYS Poem Text First Line: The valley rings with mirth and joy Last Line: And bade them better mind their trade. THE INFANT M- M-. Poem Text First Line: Unquiet childhood here by special grace Last Line: Beneath some shady palm of galilee. THE INNER VISION Poem Text First Line: Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes Last Line: Of inspiration on the humblest lay. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking THE INSPIRATION OF QUIET Poem Text First Line: Not love, not war, nor the tumultuous swell Last Line: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Variant Title(s): Placid Objects Of Contemplation THE ITALIAN ITINERANT, AND THE SWISS GOATHERD Poem Text First Line: Now that the farewell tear is dried Last Line: Grant to the morn of life its natural blessedness! THE KING OF SWEDEN Poem Text First Line: The voice of song from distant lands shall call Last Line: The heroes bless him, him their rightful son. THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES Poem Text Recitation First Line: That way look, my infant, lo Last Line: To gambol with life's falling leaf. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN AT PLAY Poem Text First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: What would little tabby care? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LABORER'S NOONDAY HYMN Poem Text First Line: Up to the throne of god is borne Last Line: When we shall sink to final rest. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE LAST OF THE FLOCK Poem Text First Line: In distant countries have I been Last Line: "it is the last of all my flock." THE LAST SUPPER, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI Poem Text First Line: Though searching damps and many an envious flaw Last Line: A labour worthy of eternal youth! Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters THE LEAVES THAT RUSTLED ON THIS OAK-CROWNED HILL Poem Text Last Line: The elements have heard, and rock and cave replied Subject(s): Owls THE LONGEST DAY Poem Text First Line: Let us quit the leafy arbour Last Line: Lord of heaven's unchanging year! THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN Poem Text Last Line: To think that such assurance can stand fast! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Courage THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS Poem Text Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians THE MATRON OF JEDBOROUGH AND HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Age! Twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers Last Line: And cheers thy melancholy mate! THE MONUMENT COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS Poem Text First Line: A weight of awe, not easy to be borne Last Line: The inviolable god, that tames the proud! THE MORNING EXCERCISE Poem Text First Line: Fancy, who leads the pastimes of the glad Last Line: Wert thou among them, singing as they shine! THE MOST ALLURING CLOUDS THAT MOUNT THE SKY Poem Text Subject(s): Clouds THE MOTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: When I have borne in memory what has tamed Last Line: Felt for thee as a lover or a child! Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE MOUNTAIN ECHO Poem Text First Line: Yes, it was the mountain echo Last Line: For of god, -- of god they are. Subject(s): Echoes THE MUSIC OF THE SWAN Poem Text First Line: I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream) Last Line: She soared -- and I awoke, struggling in vain to follow. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE NIGHTINGALE [AND THE STOCK-DOVE] Poem Text First Line: O nightingale! Thou surely art Last Line: That was the song -- the song for me! Variant Title(s): "o Nightingale! Thou Surely Art""; Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NORMAN BOY Poem Text First Line: High on a broad unfertile tract of forest-skirted down Last Line: The cross, fixed in his soul, may prove an all-sufficing stay. THE OAK AND THE BROOM Poem Text First Line: His simple truths did andrew glean Last Line: "to live for many a day." THE OAK OF GUERNICA Poem Text First Line: Oak of guernica! Tree of holier power Last Line: Guardians of biscay's ancient liberty. THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: I saw an aged beggar in my walk Last Line: So in the eye of nature let him die! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars THE PASS OF KIRKSTONE Poem Text First Line: Within the mind strong fancies work Last Line: "thy lot, o man, is good, thy portion, fair!" Variant Title(s): Ode. The Pass Of Kirkstone THE PET LAMB Poem Text First Line: The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink Last Line: "that I almost received her heart into my own." Subject(s): Lambs THE PILGRIM'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: A pilgrim, when the summer day Last Line: Beneath the shady tree. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN Poem Text First Line: Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weeds Last Line: Becomes with all her years a vision of the mind. Subject(s): Italy; Italians THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME Poem Text First Line: I saw far off the dark top of a pine Last Line: Crowned with st. Peter's everlasting dome. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rome, Italy; Trees THE POET Poem Text First Line: If thou indeed derive thy light from heaven Last Line: Shine, poet! In thy place, and be content. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE CAGED TURTLEDOVE Poem Text First Line: As often as I murmur here Last Line: I feel, but to inspire. Subject(s): Turtledoves THE POET'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Just as those final words were penned Last Line: Feed. THE POWER OF MUSIC Poem Text First Line: An orpheus! An orpheus! Yes, faith may grow bold Last Line: Nor what ye are flying, nor what ye pursue! Variant Title(s): Oxford Street Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE POWER OF SOUND Poem Text First Line: Thy functions are ethereal Last Line: Is in the word, that shall not pass away. Subject(s): Sound THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME Poem Text First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: This labour will be welcome, honoured friend! Subject(s): Children; Play; Schools; Childhood; Students THE PRELUDE: BOOK 11. FRANCE (CONCLUDED) Poem Text First Line: From that time forth, authority in france Last Line: And not a captive pining for his home. Variant Title(s): Hope In The French Revolution THE PRELUDE: BOOK 12. IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED Poem Text First Line: Long time have human ignorance and guilt Last Line: Or animate an hour of vacant ease. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 13. IMAGINATION AND TASTE (CONCLUDED) Poem Text First Line: From nature doth emotion come, and moods / of calmness equally are nature's gift Last Line: Both of the objects seen, and eye that sees. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 14. CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: In one of those excursions (may they never / fade from remembrance!) Last Line: Of quality and fabric more divine. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1O. RESIDENCE IN FRANCE (CONTINUED) Poem Text First Line: It was a beautiful and silent day Last Line: We beat with thundering hoofs the level sand. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 2. SCHOOL-TIME (CONTINUED) Poem Text First Line: Thus far, o friend! Have we, though leaving much / unvisited Last Line: Be many, and a blessing to mankind. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 3. RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: It was a dreary morning when the wheels / rolled over a wide plain Last Line: Came and returned me to my native hills. Subject(s): Cambridge, England THE PRELUDE: BOOK 4. SUMMER VACATION Poem Text First Line: Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Last Line: Then sought with quiet heart my distant home. Subject(s): Summer; Vacation THE PRELUDE: BOOK 5. BOOKS Poem Text First Line: When contemplation, like the night-calm felt Last Line: In flashes, and with glory not their own. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 6. CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS Poem Text First Line: The leaves were fading when to esthwaite's banks Last Line: Spread round my steps like sunshine o'er green fields. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE PRELUDE: BOOK 7. RESIDENCE IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: Six changeful years have vanished since I first Last Line: Composure, and ennobling harmony. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 8. RETROSPECT - LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE MAN Poem Text First Line: What sounds are those, helvellyn, that are heard Last Line: With that in which 'her' mighty objects lay. THE PRELUDE: BOOK 9. RESIDENCE IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Even as a river, partly (it might seem) Last Line: His days he wasted, -- an imbecile mind. THE PRIMROSE OF THE ROCK Poem Text First Line: A rock there is whose homely front Last Line: A court for deity. Subject(s): Primroses THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY] Poem Text Recitation First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold Last Line: Bound each to each by natural piety. Variant Title(s): "my Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"";my Heart Leaps Up; Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nature; Rainbows; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology THE REDBREAST Poem Text First Line: Driven in by autumn's sharpening air Last Line: On human nature's second infancy. THE REDBREAST CHASING [OR, AND] THE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Art thou the bird whom man loves best Last Line: Love him, or leave him alone! Subject(s): Robins THE REPENTANCE Poem Text First Line: The fields which with covetous spirit we sold Last Line: Save six feet of earth where our forefathers lie! THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN Poem Text First Line: At the corner of wood street, when daylight appears Last Line: And the colours have all passed away from her eyes! Variant Title(s): Poor Susan's Dream;the Vision Of Home THE RIVER DUDDON: DEDICATION TO THE REV. DR. WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: The minstrels played their christmas tune Last Line: But fill the hollow vale with joy! Variant Title(s): The Christmas Carol Of The Bees THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 1 Poem Text First Line: Not envying latian shades - if yet they throw Last Line: For duddon, long-loved duddon, is my theme! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 10. THE STEPPING STONES Poem Text First Line: Not so that pair whose youthful spirits dance Last Line: The struggle, clap their wings for victory! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 11. THE FAIRY CHASM Poem Text First Line: No fiction was it of the antique age Last Line: O'er twilight fields the autumnal gossamer? THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 12. HINTS FOR THE FANCY Poem Text First Line: On, loitering muse - the swift stream chides us - on! Last Line: And, if thou canst, leave them without regret! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 13. OPEN PROSPECT Poem Text First Line: Hail to the fields - with dwellings sprinkled o'er Last Line: At all the merry pranks of donnerdale! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 14 Poem Text First Line: O mountain stream! The shepherd and his cot Last Line: The clouds and fowls of the air thy way pursue! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 15 Poem Text First Line: From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play Last Line: Then, when o'er highest hills the deluge passed? THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 16. AMERICAN TRADITION Poem Text First Line: Such fruitless questions may not long beguile Last Line: Whate'er they sought, shunned, loved, or deified! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 17. RETURN Poem Text First Line: A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew Last Line: Deep into patient earth, from whose smooth breast it came! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 18. SEAWAITE CHAPEL Poem Text First Line: Sacred religion! 'mother of form and fear' Last Line: And tender goldsmith crowned with deathless praise! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 19. TRIBUTARY STREAM Poem Text First Line: My frame hath often trembled with delight Last Line: Dewy and fresh, till showers again shall fall. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 2 Poem Text First Line: Child of the clouds! Remote from every taint Last Line: Was pierced by whizzing shaft of hunter keen! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 20. THE PLAIN OF DONNERDALE Poem Text First Line: The old inventive poets, had they seen Last Line: Tossing her frantic thyrsus wide and high! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 21 Poem Text First Line: Whence that low voice? - a whisper from the heart Last Line: Aught of the fading year's inclemency! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 22. TRADITION Poem Text First Line: A love-lorn maid, at some far-distant time Last Line: Untouched memento of her hapless doom! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 23. SHEEP-WASHING Poem Text First Line: Sad thoughts, avaunt! - partake we their blithe cheer Last Line: Frank are the sports, the stains are fugitive. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 24. THE RESTING PLACE Poem Text First Line: Mid-noon is past; - upon the sultry mead Last Line: Loose idless to forego her wily mask. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 25 Poem Text First Line: Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat Last Line: Their vocal charm; their sparklings cease to please. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 26 Poem Text First Line: Return, content! For fondly I pursued Last Line: Impetuous thoughts that brook not servile reins. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 27 Poem Text First Line: Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap Last Line: All worse assaults may safely be defied. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 28. JOURNEY RENEWED Poem Text First Line: I rose while yet the cattle, heat-opprest Last Line: I thanked the leader of my onward way. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 29 Poem Text First Line: No record tells of lance opposed to lance Last Line: And glad acknowledgment, of lawful sway. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 3 Poem Text First Line: How shall I paint thee? Be this naked stone Last Line: Prompt offering to thy foster-mother, earth! Variant Title(s): "how Shall I Paint Thee?-be This Naked Stone""; THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 30 Poem Text First Line: Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce Last Line: That we, who part in love, shall meet again. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 31 Poem Text First Line: The kirk of ulpha to the pilgrim's eye Last Line: Soothed by the unseen river's gentle roar. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 32 Poem Text First Line: Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep Last Line: With commerce freighted, or triumphant war. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 33. CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: But here no cannon thunders to the gale Last Line: And soul, to mingle with eternity! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 34. AFTER-THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: I thought of thee, my partner and my guide Last Line: We feel that we are greater than we know. Variant Title(s): To The River Duddon;the River Duddon. Conclusion;valediction To The River Duddon Subject(s): Duddon (river), England THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 4 Poem Text First Line: Take, cradled nursling of the mountain, take Last Line: Seeking less bold achievement, where he will! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 5 Poem Text First Line: Sole listener, duddon! To the breeze that played Last Line: On infant bosoms lonely nature lies. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 6. FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Ere yet our course was graced with social trees Last Line: All kinds alike seemed favourites of heaven. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 7 Poem Text First Line: Change me, some god, into that breathing rose!' Last Line: That tunes on duddon's banks her slender voice. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 8 Poem Text First Line: What aspect bore the man who roved or fled Last Line: To soothe and cleanse, not madden and pollute! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 9. THE STEPPING STONES Poem Text First Line: The struggling rill insensibly is grown Last Line: Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near! THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: Eden! Till now thy beauty had I viewed Last Line: Not sought, because too near, is never gained. Subject(s): Eden (river), Great Britain THE RUSSIAN FUGITIVE Poem Text First Line: Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyes Last Line: To them and nature paid! THE SAILOR'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: One morning (raw it was and wet) Last Line: "I bear it with me, sir; -- he took so much delight in it." THE SEVEN SISTERS; OR, THE SOLITUDE OF BINNORIE Poem Text First Line: Seven daughters had lord archibald Last Line: The solitude of binnorie. THE SHEPHERD, LOOKING EASTWARD, SOFTLY SAID Poem Text Last Line: With one calm triumph of a modest pride Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Moon THE SHIPS Poem Text First Line: With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh Last Line: On went she, and due north her journey took. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SMALL CELANDINE Poem Text First Line: There is a flower, the lesser celandine Last Line: Age might but take the things youth needed not! Variant Title(s): A Lesson;the Celandine Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters THE SOLITARY REAPER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Behold her, single in the field Last Line: Long after it was heard no more. Variant Title(s): The Reaper Subject(s): Girls; Harvest; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SOMNAMBULIST Poem Text First Line: List, ye who pass by lyulph's tower Last Line: Shalt take thy place with yarrow! THE SONNET Poem Text First Line: Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned Last Line: Soul-animating strains, -- alas! Too few. Variant Title(s): "scorn Not The Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned""; Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SOURCE OF THE DANUBE Poem Text First Line: Not, like his great compeers, indignantly Last Line: To fix in heaven her shape distinct with stars. Subject(s): Danube (river) THE SPARROW'S NEST Poem Text First Line: Behold, within the leafy shade Last Line: And love, and thought, and joy. Variant Title(s): A Sister THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE'S HAND Poem Text Last Line: Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Stars THE STUFFED OWL Poem Text First Line: While anna's peers and early playmates tread Last Line: Nor veil, with restless film, his staring eyes. THE TABLES TURNED Poem Text First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE THORN Poem Text First Line: There is a thorn; it looks so old Last Line: "oh woe is me! Oh misery!'" Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE THREE COTTAGE GIRLS Poem Text First Line: How blest the maid whose heart - yet free Last Line: And that intrepid nymph, on uri's steep descried! THE TOWN OF SCHWYTZ Poem Text First Line: By antique fancy trimmed - though lowly, bred Last Line: Thy name, o schwytz! In happy freedom keep! Subject(s): Schwytz, Switzerland THE TRIAD Poem Text First Line: Show me the noblest youth of present time Last Line: And one of the bright three become thy happy bride. THE TROSACHS Poem Text First Line: There's not a nook within this solemn pass Last Line: Lulling the year, with all its cares, to rest! Subject(s): Trosachs, The (scotland) THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS Poem Text First Line: We walked along, while bright and red Last Line: Of wilding in his hand. Subject(s): April; Morning THE TWO THIEVES OR THE LAST STAGE OF AVARICE Poem Text First Line: O now that the genius of bewick were mine Last Line: That lifts up the veil of our nature in thee. THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS Poem Text Last Line: Of water-breaks, with grateful heart could tel Subject(s): Water; Sound THE VIEW FROM FOX HOW Poem Text First Line: Wansfell! This household has a favoured lot Last Line: How in thy pensive glooms our hearts found rest. Variant Title(s): Past Years Of Home THE VOICE OF THE DERWENT Poem Text First Line: Yet once again do I behold the forms Last Line: Half-heard and half-created. THE WAGGONER: CANTO 1 Poem Text First Line: Tis spent - this burning day of june! Last Line: The way the waggon went before. Subject(s): Landscape THE WAGGONER: CANTO 2 Poem Text First Line: If wytheburne's modest house of prayer Last Line: Again behold them on their way! THE WAGGONER: CANTO 3 Poem Text First Line: Right gladly had the horses stirred Last Line: In bloodiest battle since the days of mars! THE WAGGONER: CANTO 4 Poem Text First Line: Thus they, with freaks of proud delight Last Line: Could keep alive when he was gone! THE WARNING Poem Text First Line: List, the winds of march are blowing Last Line: Oppose, or bear with a submissive will. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE WATERFALL AND THE EGLANTINE Poem Text First Line: Begone, thou fond presumptuous elf' Last Line: Those accents were his last. THE WESTMORELAND GIRL Poem Text First Line: Seek who will delight in fable Last Line: Up to heaven, thro' peaceful ways. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 1 Poem Text First Line: From bolton's old monastic tower Last Line: A tale of tears, a mortal story! THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 2 Poem Text First Line: The harp in lowliness obeyed Last Line: Alone, the armed multitude. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 3 Poem Text First Line: Now joy for you who from the towers Last Line: Should e'er a kindlier time ensue THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 4 Poem Text First Line: Tis night: in silence looking down Last Line: Of that rash levy nought remained. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 5 Poem Text First Line: High on a point of rugged ground Last Line: To rylstone-hall her way she took. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 6 Poem Text First Line: Why comes not francis? - from the doleful city Last Line: And sorrow of this final truth! THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 7 Poem Text First Line: Thou spirit, whose angelic hand Last Line: "but daughter of the eternal prime!" THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: In trellised shed with clustering roses gay Last Line: As it hath yielded to thy tender heart. THE WILD DUCK'S NEST Poem Text First Line: The imperial consort of the fairy-king Last Line: For human-kind, weak slaves of cumbrous pride! Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes THE WINDOW ON WINDERMERE SIDE Poem Text First Line: How beautiful when up a lofty height Last Line: Her own angelic glory seems begun. THE WISHING-GATE Poem Text First Line: Hope rules a land for ever green Last Line: Of dread eternity. THE WISHING-GATE DESTROYED Poem Text First Line: Tis gone - with old belief and dream Last Line: Shall bid a kind farewell! Subject(s): Troy THE WORLD; SONNET Poem Text First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THERE IS A BONDAGE WORSE, FAR WORSE, TO BEAR Poem Text Last Line: Fade, and participate in man's decline Subject(s): Decay; Nature THERE IS A PLEASURE IN POETIC PAINS Poem Text Last Line: Or rain-drop lingering on the pointed thorn Subject(s): Writing & Writers THERE IS AN EMINENCE, OF THESE OUR HILLS Poem Text Last Line: Hath to this lonely summit given my name Subject(s): Nature; Solitude THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1) Poem Text First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute -- looking at the grave in which he lies! Variant Title(s): The Boy Poet;the Boy And The Owls Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 2) Poem Text First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute - for he died when he was ten years old. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THESE CHAIRS THEY HAVE NO WORDS TO UTTER Last Line: Sweetness and breath with the quiet of death %peace, peace, peace Subject(s): Life; Solitude THEY CALLED THEE MERRY ENGLAND, IN OLD TIME Poem Text Last Line: Shall be thy rightful name, in prose and rhyme! Subject(s): England THIS LAWN, A CARPET ALL ALIVE Poem Text Last Line: Of sweetly-breathing flowers Subject(s): Lawns; Grass THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD Poem Text Last Line: Nor they from it: their fellowship is secure Subject(s): Thought THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN'S CARES, AND NEAR Poem Text Last Line: To chase for ever, on aërial grounds! Subject(s): Heaven; Wisdom; Old Age THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT Poem Text Last Line: With brow in penitential sorrow bent! Subject(s): Nature; Writing & Writers THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND Poem Text First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee! Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802 Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss THOUGHTS First Line: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow Last Line: Its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS ON THE SEASONS Poem Text First Line: Flattered with promise of escape Last Line: Through heaven-born hope, her end! Subject(s): Seasons THOUGHTS [SUGGESTED THE DAY FOLLOWING] Poem Text First Line: Too frail to keep the lofty vow Last Line: Just god, forgive! TIMOTHY Poem Text First Line: Up, timothy, up with your staff and away! Last Line: And he went to the chase with a tear on his cheek. Variant Title(s): The Childless Father TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING'S HIGH DISDAIN Poem Text Last Line: Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness Subject(s): Mortality; Time TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE Poem Text Recitation TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE Poem Text Last Line: Such happiness as I have known to-day Subject(s): Despair; Suicide TO - (1) Poem Text First Line: Look at the fate of summer flowers Last Line: And never dies. TO - (2) Poem Text First Line: Let other bards of angels sing Last Line: And the lover is beloved. TO - (3) Poem Text First Line: Wait, prithee, wait!' this answer lesbia threw Last Line: She could not rescue, perished in her sight! TO - (4) Poem Text First Line: O dearer far than light and life are dear Last Line: The faith heaven strengthens where 'he' moulds the creed. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO - . UPON THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST-BORN Poem Text First Line: Like a shipwrecked sailor tost Last Line: Conscious nursling, to thy breast! Subject(s): Birth; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery TO - [MISS BLACKETT] ON HER FIRST ASCENT ... HELVELLYN Poem Text First Line: Inmate of a mountain-dwelling Last Line: To confess their majesty! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing TO A BUTTERFLY (1) Poem Text First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour Last Line: As twenty days are now. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY (2) Poem Text First Line: Stay near me -- do not take thy flight Last Line: The dust from off its wings. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly TO A CHILD, WRITTEN IN HER ALBUM Poem Text First Line: Small service is true service while it lasts Last Line: Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Variant Title(s): Witten In An Album;in A Child's Album TO A DISTANT FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant Last Line: Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know! Variant Title(s): Speak! Subject(s): Friendship; Love TO A FRIEND (1) Poem Text First Line: Pastor and patriot! - at whose bidding rise Last Line: This humble tribute as ill-timed or vain. TO A FRIEND (2) Poem Text First Line: From the dark chambers of dejection freed Last Line: A soaring spirit is their prime delight. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL; AT INVERSNAID, UPON LOCH LOMOND Poem Text First Line: Sweet highland girl, a very shower Last Line: And thee, the spirit of them all! Subject(s): Scotland; Youth TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Fair lady! Can I sing of flowers Last Line: This precious flower, true love's last token. Subject(s): Flowers; Madeira (island) TO A PAINTER (1) Poem Text First Line: All praise the likeness by thy skill portrayed Last Line: Their sovereign empire in a faithful heart. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters TO A PAINTER (2) Poem Text First Line: Though I beheld at first with blank surprise Last Line: Into one vision, future, present, past. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters TO A PORTRAIT OF ISABEL FENWICK [PAINTED, MARAGARET GILLIES] Poem Text First Line: We gaze, nor grieve to think that we must die Last Line: Whose flower with us will vanish, must survive. Subject(s): Friendship; Paintings And Painters TO A REDBREAST Poem Text First Line: Stay, little cheerful robin, stay! Last Line: Of everlasting spring. Subject(s): Robins TO A SEXTON Poem Text First Line: Let thy wheel-barrow alone Last Line: Let one grave hold the loved and lover! TO A SKYLARK (1) Poem Text First Line: Ethereal minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky Last Line: True to the kindred points of heaven and home! Variant Title(s): To The Skylark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO A SKYLARK (2) Poem Text First Line: Up with me! Up with me into the clouds! Last Line: And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO A SKYLARK (2) REVISED First Line: Up with me! Up with me into the clouds Last Line: I on the earth will go plodding on, %by myself, cheerfully, till the day is done Variant Title(s): To A Sky-lar TO A SNOWDROP Poem Text First Line: Lone flower, hemmed in with snows, and white as they Last Line: And pensive monitor of fleeting years! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TO A YOUNG LADY; WHO ... REPROACHED FOR TAKING LONG WALKS IN COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Dear child of nature, let them rail! Last Line: Shall lead thee to thy grave. Variant Title(s): The Child Of Nature Subject(s): Nature TO B.R. HAYDEN (2) Poem Text First Line: Haydon! Let worthier judges praise the skill Last Line: And before 'him' doth dawn perpetual run. Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Napoleon I (1769-1821) TO B.R. HAYDON (1) Poem Text First Line: High is our calling, friend! Creative art Last Line: Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846) TO CORDELIA M - Poem Text First Line: Not in the mines beyond the western main Last Line: For precious tremblings in your bosom found! TO DORA Poem Text First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand' Last Line: And consecrate our lives to truth and love. TO ENTERPRISE Poem Text First Line: Keep for the young the impassioned smile Last Line: Is proud to walk the earth with thee! TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE; SIX YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: O thou whose fancies from afar are brought Last Line: Slips in a moment out of life. Variant Title(s): To H. C.; Six Years Old Subject(s): Children; Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849); Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Companion! By whose buoyant spirit cheered Last Line: Far more than any heart but mine can know. Subject(s): Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867) TO I.F Poem Text First Line: The star which comes at close of day to shine Last Line: The heart-affianced sister of our love! TO JOANNA Poem Text First Line: Amid the smoke of cities did you pass Last Line: "have called the lovely rock, joanna's rock." Variant Title(s): Poems On The Naming Of Places: To Joanna TO JOHN DYER Poem Text First Line: Bard of the fleece, whose skillful genius made Last Line: Long as the thrush shall pipe on grongar hill! Variant Title(s): To The Poet, John Dyer Subject(s): Dyer, John (1699-1757) TO LADY BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Lady! The songs of spring were in the grove Last Line: And all the mighty ravishment of spring. TO M. H. Poem Text First Line: Our walk was far amoung the ancient trees Last Line: With all its beeches, we have named from you! Variant Title(s): Poems On The Naming Of Places: To M.h. TO MAY Poem Text First Line: Though many suns have risen and set Last Line: Part seen, imagined part! Subject(s): May (month) TO MY SISTER Poem Text First Line: It is the first mild day of march Last Line: We'll give to idleness. Variant Title(s): A Change In The Year;lines (written At A Small Distance From My House) Subject(s): March (month); Sisters; Spring; Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) TO ROTHA Q- Poem Text First Line: Rotha, my spiritual child! This head was grey Last Line: To summon fancies out of time's dark cell. TO S.H Poem Text First Line: Excuse is needless when with love sincere Last Line: Heed not the pillage of man's ancient heart. TO SLEEP (1) Poem Text First Line: Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, sleep! Last Line: Still last to come where thou art wanted most! TO SLEEP (2) Poem Text First Line: O gentle sleep! Do they belong to thee Last Line: But once and deeply let me be beguiled. TO THE AUTHOR'S PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Go, faithful portrait! And where long hath knelt Last Line: To life thou art, and, in thy truth, how dear! Subject(s): Paintings And Painters TO THE CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Army of clouds! Ye winged hosts in troops Last Line: Lodged in the bosom of eternal things? Subject(s): Clouds TO THE CUCKOO (1) Poem Text First Line: O blithe new-comer, I have heard Last Line: That is fit home for thee! Variant Title(s): To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO THE CUCKOO (2) Poem Text First Line: Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard Last Line: And thy erratic voice be faithful to the spring! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO THE DAISY (1) Poem Text First Line: In youth from rock to rock I went Last Line: Art nature's favourite. Variant Title(s): To The Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (2) Poem Text First Line: With little here to do or see Last Line: Of thy meek nature! Variant Title(s): To The Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (3) Poem Text First Line: Bright flower! Whose home is everywhere Last Line: In peace fulfilling. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (4) Poem Text First Line: Sweet flower! Belike one day to have Last Line: Upon his senseless grave. Variant Title(s): To The Daisy (from Three Elegies For John Wordsworth) TO THE FALL OF LONSDALE Poem Text First Line: Lonsdale! It were unworthy of a guest Last Line: Shall place thy virtues out of envy's reach. TO THE LADY ELEANOR BUTLER AND THE HONORABLE MISS PONSONBY Poem Text First Line: A stream, to mingle with your favourite dee Last Line: Even on this earth, above the reach of time! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians TO THE LADY FLEMING (1) Poem Text First Line: Blest is this isle - our native land Last Line: To kneel together, and adore their god! TO THE LADY FLEMING (2) Poem Text First Line: When in the antique age of bow and spear Last Line: Triumphant o'er the darkness of the grave. TO THE LADY MARY LOWTHER Poem Text First Line: Lady! I rifled a parnassian cave Last Line: To holy musing, it may enter her. TO THE MEMORY OF RAISLEY CALVERT Poem Text First Line: Calvert! It must not be unheard by them Last Line: To think how much of this will be thy praise. TO THE MEN OF KENT Poem Text Recitation First Line: Vanguard of liberty, ye men of kent Last Line: Ye men of kent, 'tis victory or death! Subject(s): England; War; English TO THE MOON (COMPOSED BY THE SEASIDE, COAST OF CUMBERLAND) Poem Text First Line: Wanderer! That stoop'st so low, and com'st so near Last Line: And thou art still, o moon, that sailor's friend! Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (RYDAL) Poem Text First Line: Queen of the stars! - so gentle, so benign Last Line: Than thy revival yields, for gladsome hope! Subject(s): Moon TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS Poem Text First Line: Days undefiled by luxury or sloth Last Line: To upper air from mammon's loathsome den. Subject(s): Pennsylvania TO THE PLANET VENUS Poem Text First Line: What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides Last Line: Ere we lie down in our last dormitory? Subject(s): Venus (planet) TO THE PLANET VENUS, AN EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: Though joy attend thee orient at the birth Last Line: Celestial power, as much with love as light? Subject(s): Venus (planet) TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Enlightened teacher, gladly from thy hand Last Line: Points heavenward, indicate the end and way. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Wordsworth, Christopher (1774-1846) TO THE RIVER DERWENT Poem Text First Line: Among the mountains were we nursed, loved stream! Last Line: Upon the proud enslavers of mankind! Subject(s): Derwent (river) Great Britain TO THE RIVER GRETA, NEAR KESWICK Poem Text First Line: Greta, what fearful listening! When huge stones Last Line: To a grieved heart, the notes are benisons. Subject(s): Greta (river), Great Britain TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (1) Poem Text First Line: Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies Last Line: Hymns in praise of what I love! Variant Title(s): To The Small Celandine Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (2) Poem Text First Line: Pleasures newly found are sweet Last Line: Who will love my little flower. Variant Title(s): To The Same Flower Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (3) First Line: Often I have sighed to measure Last Line: Sighed to think I read a book, %only read, perhaps, by me Subject(s): Books TO THE SONS OF BURNS, AFTER VISITING THE GRAVE OF FATHER Poem Text First Line: Mid crowded obelisks and urns Last Line: And think, and fear! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO THE SPADE OF A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Spade! With which wilkinson hath tilled his land Last Line: His rustic chimney with the last of thee! TO THE TORRENT AT THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, NORTH WALES, 1842 Poem Text First Line: How art thou named? In search of what strange land Last Line: Over the minds of poets, young or old! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO THOMAS CLARKSON, ... BILL FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE Poem Text First Line: Clarkson! It was an obstinate hill to climb Last Line: Repose at length, firm friend of human kind! Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE Poem Text First Line: Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men Last Line: And love, and man's unconquerable mind. Variant Title(s): To Toussaint L'ouverture, Leader Of African Slaves Subject(s): Religion; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Theology TOURIST'S UNCONCERN: PARIS, DEC. 1791 First Line: Through paris lay my readiest path, and there Last Line: Affecting more emotion than I felt TRAVELLING Poem Text First Line: This is the spot - how mildly does the sun Last Line: That my heart melts in me to think of it. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE SAME DOG Poem Text First Line: Lie here, without a record of thy worth Last Line: And, therefore, shalt thou be an honoured name! Subject(s): Animals TRUST Poem Text First Line: If this great world of joy and pain Last Line: To bear, and to forbear! TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Hail, twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! Last Line: As the beginning of the heavens and earth! Subject(s): Dusk TYNWALD HILL Poem Text First Line: Once on the top of tynwald's formal mound Last Line: Like mona's miniature of sovereignty. UNTERWALDEN Poem Text First Line: Now couch thyself where, heard with fear afar Last Line: Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Unterwalden, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UPON PERUSING THE FOREGOING EPISTLE THIRTY YEARS AFTER Poem Text First Line: Soon did he almighty giver of all rest Last Line: Reviewed through love's transparent veil of years? UPON SEEING A COLOURED DRAWING OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Who rashly strove thy image to portray? Last Line: When most enslaved by gross realities! UPON THE LATE GENERTAL FAST Poem Text First Line: Reluctant call it was; the rite delayed Last Line: Of revolution, impiously unbound! UPON THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE, BY G.H. BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Praised be the art whose subtle power could stay Last Line: The appropriate calm of blest eternity. Variant Title(s): Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Subject(s): Paintings And Painters UPON THE SIGHT OF THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Upon those lips, those placid lips, I look Last Line: And ask not speech from them, but long for breath. Subject(s): Portraits URSEREN Poem Text First Line: From the green vale of urseren smooth and wide Last Line: Alike in whelming snows and roaring waves. Subject(s): Reuss (river), Switzerland VALEDICTORY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Serving no haughty muse, my hands have here Last Line: Grant me thy love, I crave no other fee! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting VERNAL ODE Poem Text First Line: Beneath the concave of an april sky Last Line: And earth and stars composed a universal heaven! VIEW FROM THE TOP OF BLACKCOMB Poem Text First Line: This height a ministering angel might select Last Line: Of britain's calm felicity and power! WAR AND ALIENATION: LONDON AND WALES, 1793-4 First Line: When to my native land Last Line: Fed on the day of vengeance yet to come! WATER FOWL Poem Text First Line: Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood Last Line: As if they scorned both resting-place and rest! Subject(s): Lakes; Waterfowl; Pools; Ponds WE ARE SEVEN Poem Text First Line: A simple child Last Line: "and said, ""nay, we are seven." Subject(s): Children; Supernatural; Childhood WEAK IS THE WILL OF MAN, HIS JUDGMENT BLIND Poem Text Last Line: And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind Subject(s): Imagination WHAT BOOTS THE QUEST? Poem Text First Line: Alas! What boots the long, laborious quest Last Line: Then all the pride of intellect and thought? WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE Poem Text Last Line: And from the headlong streams. Subject(s): Smiles WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY Poem Text Last Line: Of a just god for liberty and right. Subject(s): Power; Justice; Equality WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN Poem Text Last Line: Let not our times halt in their better choice! Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Floods; Wales; Churches WHEN, TO THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE BUSY WORLD Poem Text Last Line: Mingling most earnest wishes for the day Subject(s): Brothers; Nature WHERE IS THY BROTHER? First Line: Say not, 'it matters not to me' Subject(s): Religion WHERE LIES THE LAND Poem Text First Line: Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? Last Line: Is with me at thy farewell, joyous bark! Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Ocean WHERE LIES THE TRUTH? HAS MAN, IN WISDOM'S CREED Poem Text Last Line: A happier, brighter, purer heaven than theirs Subject(s): Truth WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH Poem Text Last Line: Gleams from a world in which the saints repose Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Dawn WHO BUT IS PLEASED TO WATCH THE MOON ON HIGH Poem Text Last Line: The wanderer lost in more determined gloom Subject(s): Moon WHO FANCIED WHAT A PRETTY SIGHT Poem Text Last Line: Where life is wise and innocent Subject(s): Stones WHY SHOULD THE ENTHUSIAST, JOURNEYING THROUGH THIS ISLE Poem Text Last Line: If that be reverenced which ought to last Subject(s): Travel WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS' Poem Text Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields? Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON, THOU CLIMB'ST THE SKY Poem Text Last Line: Queen both for beauty and for majesty WOODLAND WALKS Poem Text First Line: How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks Last Line: And leap at once from the delicious stream. WORDSWORTHIAN SOLITARIES: 7. THE LONDON BEGGAR First Line: How often in the overflowing streets Last Line: As if admonished from another world WORDSWORTHIAN SOLITARIES: THE DISCHARGED SOLDIER First Line: I love to walk Last Line: The blessing of the poor unhappy man, %and so we parted WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB Poem Text First Line: To a good man of most dear memory Last Line: To the blest world where parting is unknown. Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Ye lime-trees, ranged before this hallowed urn Last Line: Feeling what england lost when reynolds died. WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF MACPHERSON'S OSSIAN Poem Text First Line: Oft have I caught, upon a fitful breeze Last Line: Of glory by urania led! Subject(s): Macpherson, James (1736-1796) WRITTEN IN A GROTTO Poem Text First Line: O moon! If ever I joyed when thy soft light Last Line: Guide hither, o sweet moon, the maid I love so well. WRITTEN IN GERMANY Poem Text First Line: A fig for your languages, german and norse Last Line: And back to the forests again! WRITTEN IN MARCH Poem Text First Line: The cock is crowing Last Line: The rain is over and gone! Variant Title(s): Lines Written In March;a March Landscape;march;the Merry Month Of March Subject(s): Hope; March (month); Optimism WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Calm is all nature as a resting wheel Last Line: The officious touch that makes me droop again. WRITTEN UPON A BLANK LEAF IN Poem Text WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL UPON A STONE IN THE WALL Poem Text First Line: Rude is this ediface, and thou hast seen Last Line: Fair sights, and visions of romantic joy! WRITTEN WITH A SLATE PENCIL ON A STONE Poem Text First Line: Stay, bold adventurer; rest awhile thy limbs Last Line: Upon the blinded mountain's silent top! WRITTEN WITH A SLATE PENCIL UPON A STONE, THE LARGEST Poem Text First Line: Stranger! This hillock of mis-shapen stones Last Line: And let the redbreast hop from stone to stone. YARROW REVISITED Poem Text First Line: The gallant youth, who may have gained Last Line: To memory's shadowy moonshine! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW UNVISITED Poem Text First Line: From stirling castle we had seen Last Line: "the bonny holms of yarrow!" Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW VISITED Poem Text First Line: And is this -- yarrow? -- tis the stream Last Line: And cheer my mind in sorrow. Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YES, THOU ART FAIR, YET BE NOT MOVED Poem Text Last Line: In sky, air, earth, and ocean. Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration YEW-TREES Poem Text First Line: There is a yew-tree, pride of lorton vale Last Line: Murmuring from glaramara's inmost caves. Subject(s): Yew Trees YOUNG ENGLAND - WHAT IS THEN BECOME OF OLD Poem Text Last Line: Let babes and sucklings be thy oracles Subject(s): England; Tradition YOUNG WORDSWORTH'S LONDON First Line: Oh wond'rous power of words, how sweet they are |
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