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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: william wordsworth Matches Found: 957 11/1/2013, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright 1810 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And point rash-judgement is the name it bears Subject(s): Humility; Charity A NATION'S POWER NOT IN ARMIES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the moon along the sky Last Line: And be forgiven. Subject(s): Night A PARSONAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failing impartial measure to dispense Last Line: Source! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship A POET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With rocks, and stones, and trees Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A TRADITION OF OKER HILL IN DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of silent hills, and more than silent sky Subject(s): Sky A WHIRL-BLAST FROM BEHIND THE HILL , by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were dancing to the minstrelsy Subject(s): Leaves; Storms A WREN'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the dwellings framed by birds Last Line: In foresight, or in love. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Wrens ABOUT THE SHELLEYS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not my wish ADDRESS FROM THE SPIRIT OF COCKERMOUTH CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or musing sits forsaken halls among Subject(s): Farewell ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here, there, and in all places at one hour Subject(s): Alps AERIAL ROCK - WHOSE SOLITARY BROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of golden sunset, ere it fade and die Subject(s): Nature AFTER LANDING - THE VALLEY OF DOVER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where be the noisy followers of the game Last Line: And makes this rural stillness more profound. AFTER LEAVING ITALY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life! Without thy chequered scene Last Line: A portion of god's peace. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A knot of military officers Last Line: Of peaceful houses with uniquiet sounds! AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bread which without industry they find Subject(s): Spain; Napoleonic Wars ANDREW JONES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate that andrew jones: he'll breed Last Line: And sweep him from the village. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are piety, her life is blessedness ANTICIPATION. OCTOBER, 1803, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more: the end is sudden and abrupt Last Line: For prompt forgiveness will not sue in vain. ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patriots informed with apostolic light Last Line: The purest stream of patient energy. Subject(s): Protestantism; U.s. - Colonial Period AT ALBANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There!' said a stripling, pointing with meet pride Last Line: The tender charm of poetry and love. AT ROME (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native regions, I foretell Last Line: On the dear hills where first he rose. Subject(s): Schools; Students AT VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her arts, her strength, her iron, and her gold Subject(s): Spain BAKER'S CART, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories BETWEEN NAMUR AND LIEGE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?” Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity BLEST STATESMAN HE, WHOSE MIND'S UNSELFISH WILL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Perilous is sweeping change, all chance unsound Subject(s): Politics BOTHWELL CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low breathings coming after men, and sounds Last Line: Almost as silent as the turf they trod BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of antiquity - enshrined Last Line: A deeper peace than that in deserts found! Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium BUONAPARTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of resignation find a hallowed place Subject(s): Death – Children; Mothers BY A RETIRED MARINER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Finish the strife by deadliest victory! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Moscow; Victory BY THE SEA-SHORE, ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The linnet's warble, sinking towards a close Last Line: In thankful bosoms to a modest pride. CALAIS, AUGUST 15, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In thankful joy and gratulation pure Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Sweden CAPTIVITY. - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By vain affections unenthralled Last Line: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both Subject(s): Country Life CHILD OF MY PARENTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That went before my steps CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 CINEMA VERITE: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH REJECTS THE SPIRIT OF CARNIVAL, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An old vaudeville theater, empty but for a few scattered men and women Last Line: A voice (james mason's?) reads the prelude in its entirety. Global %warming CLIMBING OF SNOWDON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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'], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One who was suffering tumult in his soul Last Line: Of providential goodness ever nigh! COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC CANTONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dropped my pen; and listened to the wind Last Line: Tells also of bright calms that shall succeed. CONCLUSION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If these brief records, by the muse's art Last Line: And honour rest upon the senseless clay. COUNTESS'S PILLAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the poor gather round, till the end of time Last Line: "has ended, though no clerk, with ""god be praised!" DAFFODILS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost at the root of that tall pine DECADENCE OR THE UMBRELLA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute Last Line: If not, o mortals, better cease to live! DECAY OF PIETY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 -., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fellow-travellers! Think not that the muse Last Line: "shall lack not power the ""meeting soul to pierce!" DEDICATION. TO -, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentlest shade that walked elysian plains Last Line: That winds into itself for sweet return. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flesh to exalt than prove its nothingness Subject(s): Knowledge; Science DESPOND WHO WILL - I HEARD A VOICE EXCLAIM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toss in the fanning wind a humbler plume Subject(s): Great Britain DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To hope—in parents, sinful above all Subject(s): Hope; Fathers; Children DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where will they stop, those breathing powers Last Line: From morn to eve, with hallowed rest. DION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, and fitted to embrace Last Line: "whose means are fair and spotless as his ends." DIRGE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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.), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beneath thy chast'ning rod DOVE RIVER ANTHOLOGY, BY OWN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: Eh, william wordsworth? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) EAGLES: COMPOSED AT DUNOLLY CASTLE IN THE BAY OF OBAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1. 6. PERSECUTION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament! For diocletian's fiery sword Last Line: By nature decked for holiest sacrifice. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1. 9. DISSENSIONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who accompanied with faithful pace Last Line: Immortal amaranth and palms abound. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 10. BRITONS VS. BARBARIANS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prompt transformation works the novel lore Last Line: Shall, by regenerate life, the promise claim. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 18. APOLOGY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lance, shield, and sword relinquished Last Line: For recompence -- their own perennial bower. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 22. SECLUSION (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks that to some vacant hermitage Last Line: Tired of the world and all its industry. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 23. REPROOF, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not sedentary all: there are who roam Last Line: By these religious saved for all posterity. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urged by ambition, who with subtlest skill Last Line: And sorceries of talent misapplied. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 29. DANISH CONQUESTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman-hearted confessor prepares Last Line: To creed or ritual brings no fatal change. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 32., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Redoubted king, of courage leonine Last Line: To giddier heights hath clomb the papal sway. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 36. AN INTERDICT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch, and be form! For, soul-subduing vice Last Line: And instruments of deadliest servitude! ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 1., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soon - alas! Did man, created pure - Last Line: Pronounces, ne'er abandons charity. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 10., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Threats come which no submission may asuage Last Line: Arimathean joseph's wattled cells. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 22. DISSOLUTION MONASTERIES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not utterly unworthy to endure Last Line: Than the bare axe more luminous and keen. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 27. IMAGINATIVE REGRETS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep is the lamentation! Not alone Last Line: And stalking pillars built of fiery sand. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 28. REFLECTIONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant that by this unsparing hurricane Last Line: Of reckless mastery, hitherto unknown. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 29. TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest Last Line: The unconverted soul with awe submit. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 1., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A genial hearth, a hospitable board Last Line: The stubborn spirit of rebellious man? ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 19. THE LITURGY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 EDGAR ALLAN WORDSWORTH, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT Poem Source First Line: William wordsworth liked old mossy wells Last Line: That tintern-abbey-elation of the bells! EFFUSION IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER OF TELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he - who, mid the kindred throng Last Line: Recoiled into the wilderness. Subject(s): Scotland EINSIEDELN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With copious eulogy in prose or rhyme Last Line: The god upon whose mercy they are thrown. ELEGIAC STANZAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo! Last Line: On any earthly hope, however pure! ELLEN IRWIN; OR THE BRAES OF KIRTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ellen irwin, when she sate Last Line: "and its forlorn ""hie jacet""!" EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than ever forced unpitied hearts to bleed Subject(s): Vanity; Peace; Courts & Couriers ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from our home by grasmere's quiet lake Last Line: Farewell. EPITAPH IN THE CHAPEL-YARD OF LANGDALE, WESTMORELAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A subject, not a slave! Subject(s): Love – Nature Of ETERNAL JUSTICE : MORECAMBE SANDS, AUG. 1794, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While hearts and voices in the song unite Subject(s): Family Life; Mountains EVENING BY THE THAMES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How richly glows the water's breast Last Line: Though grief and pain may come to-morrow? EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the lucid intervals of life Last Line: His gracious help, or give what we abuse. EVENING VOLUNTARIES: TO LUCCA GIORDANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography EXCURSION: PROSPECTUS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, william, on that old grey stone Last Line: "and dream my time away," EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of grateful memory, bid that joy depart Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FANCY AND TRADITION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovers took within this ancient grove Last Line: Studied alike in palace and in cot. FAREWELL LINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each from his fountain of self-sacrifice! Subject(s): Sympathy FEELINGS OF A FRENCH ROYALIST, ON THE DISINTERMENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, yet biscayans! We must meet our foes Last Line: Descend on all that issues from our blood. FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four years each day with daily bread was blest Last Line: And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food' FIDELITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While from the purpling east departs Last Line: The sovereignty of may. Subject(s): May (month) FISH-WOMEN - ON LANDING AT CALAIS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou in the dear love of some one friend Last Line: Those holy men both died in the same hour. FORESIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is work of waste and ruin Last Line: And for that promise spare the flower! FORT FUENTES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From age to age in blended memory Subject(s): Sisters; Mountains; Death FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gaze on the moon by parting clouds revealed Subject(s): Horses; Lake District, England FRAGMENT: REDUNDANCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the more / failed I to lengthen out my watch Last Line: Of movement and creation doubly felt. FRAGMENT: THE QUANTOCKS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who weeps for strangers? Many wept Last Line: That may not be untied! GEORGE III, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We gaze, we also learn to love. Subject(s): Beauty; Perception GLEN-ALMAIN, THE NARROW GLEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While, to dislodge his game, cities are sacked! Subject(s): History GOLD AND SILVER FISHES IN A VASE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what's the matter? What's the matter? Last Line: Of goody blake and harry gill! Subject(s): Poverty GORDALE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The may is come again: -- how sweet Last Line: Of leaves among the bushes GREENOCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mantling triumphs of a day too blest Subject(s): Loss; Spinning & Spinners GUILT AND SORROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And law was from necessity received Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain HARK! 'TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thrilled by loose snatches of the social lay Subject(s): Thrushes HART'S HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HESPERUS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who but hails the sight with pleasure' Last Line: "its endeavouring!" Subject(s): Politics & Government HOFER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of mortal parents is the hero born Last Line: The tyrant, and confound his cruelty. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty HOME AT GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy whereabout, to warn the approaching sail Subject(s): Homecoming HONOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break forth,—again to walk the clear blue sky Subject(s): Moon; Night HOW RICH THAT FOREHEADS CALM EXPANSE!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their sanctity revealing! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty HUMANITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu! Bless our slender boat Last Line: Miserere domine!' Subject(s): Boats; Rivers; God I CANNOT DOUBT THAT THEY WHOM YE DEPLORE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE MOON-LIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the stream was still roaring away I HAVE THOUGHTS THAT ARE FED BY THE SUN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be but thou ever as now, %peace, peace, peace I KNOW AN AGED MAN CONSTRAINED TO DWELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken! Subject(s): Old Age; Poverty; Robins; Prisons & Prisoners ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And joy returns, to brighten fortitude Subject(s): Death – Children; Faith IN PATTERDALE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind of man is framed even like the breath Subject(s): Men IN SIGHT OF THE TOWN OF COCKERMOUTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six thousand veterans practised in war's game Last Line: And her foes find a like inglorious grave. IN THE SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pause, traveller! Whosoe'er thou be Last Line: With shapeless ruin spread around! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen, with flash incessant Last Line: From the rock eternity! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 4. NEAR SPRING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Troubled long with warring notions Last Line: Of divine tranquillity! INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED FOUND ... HERMIT'S CELL: 5, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And faith--these only yield secure relief Subject(s): Farm Life; Children INVOCATION TO THE EARTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest, perturbed earth! Last Line: And the pure vision closed in darkness infinite. Subject(s): Earth; World IONA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When he himself was tried in open light ISLAND ON THE LAKE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grateful task! - to me ISLE OF MAN (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame tells of groves - from england far away Last Line: Ye heavenly birds! To your progenitors. JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: For the plaudits of the crowd? Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAKE URI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sacrifice before the rising morn Last Line: A constant interchange of growth and blight! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, traveller! Rest. This lonely yew-tree stands Last Line: In lowliness of heart. LINES ON THE EXPECTED INVASION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rich the wave, in front, imprest LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For health, and time in obvious duty spent Subject(s): Women LONDON, 1802 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS: 3. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1833, by NATON LESLIE Poem Source First Line: I believe all nature should have a voice Last Line: And that muteness is the voice I must hear LOOK NOW ON THAT ADVENTURER WHO HATH PAID, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By violent and ignominious death LOUISA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met louisa in the shade Last Line: To hunt the waterfalls. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You call it, 'love lies bleeding,' - so you may Last Line: Bear. LOWTHER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowther! In thy majestic pile are seen Last Line: Will say, ye disappeared with england's glory! LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The liquid veil that seeks not to hide them MALHAM COVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was the aim frustrated by force or guile Last Line: Than noblest objects utterly decayed. MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To mimic time's forlorn humanities. Subject(s): Nature; Stones MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, where his difficult way that old man wins Last Line: To bliss unbounded, glory without end. Subject(s): Lombardy, Italy MEMORY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pen - to register; a key Last Line: To their own far-off murmurs listening. Subject(s): Memory MICHAEL; A PASTORAL POEM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... A step Subject(s): Immortality MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In what alone is ours, the living now Subject(s): Hope; Doves NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even so for me a vision sanctified Last Line: Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn. NUN'S WELL, BRIGHAM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cattle crowding round this beverage clear Last Line: "into the shedding of ""too soft a tear." NUNNERY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary Last Line: Canal, and viaduct, and railway, tell! Subject(s): Nuns NUTTING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of man converse with immortality? Subject(s): Human Behavior OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One might believe that natural miseries Last Line: Of liberty that yet remains on earth! OCTOBER, 1803 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, looking on the present face of things Last Line: I tremble at the sorrow of the time. OCTOBER, 1803 (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These times strike monied worldlings with dismay Last Line: To fear, to change, to cowardice, and death? ODE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An age hath been when earth was proud Last Line: Be hopeful spring the favourite of the soul! ODE TO LYCORIS (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of climbing toil! - ambition treads Last Line: Are the domains of tender memory! Subject(s): Ambition ODE, 1814, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch Last Line: By works of spirit high and passion pure! ODE, 1815, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, orient conqueror of gloomy night! Last Line: Throne of grace! OH WHAT A WRECK! HOW CHANGED IN MIEN AND SPEECH!, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In them—in her our sins and sorrows past Subject(s): Insanity OLD MAN BY THE BROOK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the vale this water steers; how merrily it goes! ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When haughty expectations prostrate lie Last Line: Might overwhelm, but could not separate! ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arran! A single-crested teneriffe Last Line: And lofty springs give birth to lowly streams. ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the eastern shore of windermere ONCE I COULD HAIL (HOWE'ER SERENE THE SKY), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where joys are perfect—neither wax nor wane Subject(s): Moon OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep PATRIOT : BLOIS, EARLY SUMMER 1792, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And pours forth streams more sweet than castaly Subject(s): Mountains PERFECT WOMAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PETER BELL; A TALE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in a flying horse Last Line: Became a good and honest man. PHILOCTETES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear to deem the chronicler unwise Last Line: Should animate, but not mislead, the pen. Subject(s): History; Historians POETRY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aristotle he said that poetry is the most philosophic of all POOR ROBIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PROCESSIONS. SUGGESTED ON A SABBATH MORNING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To share the passion of a just disdain Subject(s): Greed; Nature; Railroads PURE ELEMENT OF WATERS! WHERESOE'ER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their anguish,—and they blend sweet songs with thine Subject(s): Springs; Water; Caves RAINS AT LENGTH HAVE CEASED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rains at length have ceased, the winds are stilled Last Line: The vale is by a mighty sound possessed RECENT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, by DAVID GALEF Poem Source First Line: Romanticism %william wordsworth Last Line: By writing in esperanto RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY VIII, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glide gently, thus for ever glide Last Line: By virtue's holiest powers attended. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the whole weight of what we think and feel Last Line: To gentle natures, thanks not heaven amiss. RIVER DUDDON (COMPLETE), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ROB ROY'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's george fisher, charles fleming, and reginald shore Last Line: And I'll build up giant with you. RURAL ILLUSIONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylph was it? Or a bird more bright Last Line: Whom oftenest she beguiles. RUTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hurrah for—, hugging his ballot-box! Subject(s): Secrets SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What know we of the blest above ...' Last Line: The melodies of peace in love! Subject(s): Brientz (lake), Switzerland SCHILL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave schill, by death delivered, take thy flight Last Line: In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed. SEPTEMBER 1, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a fellow-passenger who ame Last Line: Nor murmured at the unfeeling ordinance SEPTEMBER, 1815, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields Last Line: And nobler cares than listless summer knew. SEPTEMBER, 1819 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they now, those wanton boys? Last Line: For mercy and immortal bloom! SIEGE OF VIENNA RAISED BY JOHN SOBIESKI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a kindling touch from that pure flame Last Line: He conquering through god, and god by him.' SIMON LEE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SKY-PROSPECT - FROM THE PLAIN OF FRANCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The elastic vanities of yesterday? Subject(s): Vanity SOLACE OF NATURE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though absent long SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE; UPON RSTORATION OF LORD CLIFFORD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! Last Line: Sleeping on the mountain's breast. SONG FOR THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the torrents from their fountains Last Line: Of the wanderer in my soul. Subject(s): Wandering Jew SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Subject(s): Love SONNET (THE THRONE OF DEATH), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne Last Line: A lovely beauty in a summer grave! SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine Last Line: Infinite power, perfect intelligence. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 11, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the object specially designed Last Line: The last alternative of life or death. SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 6, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit retribution, by the moral code Last Line: "and the ""wild justice of revenge"" prevail." SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH: 9, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though to give timely warning and deter Last Line: And fortify the moral sense of all. SPANISH GUERILLAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They seek, are sought; to daily battle led Last Line: In some green island of the western main. Subject(s): Spain SPRING SONG FOR WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sod %leaps up Last Line: A toad ST PAUL'S, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed with conflicting thoughts of love and fear Last Line: Through its own sacred veil of falling snow ST. CATHERINE OF LEDBURY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within our happy castle there dwelt one Last Line: As pleased as if the same had been a maiden-queen. STAR-GAZERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What crowd is this? What have we here! Last Line: That doth not slackly go away, as if dissatisfied. STATUE HORSE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One evening, walking in the public way Last Line: A living statue or a statued life STEAMBOATS, VIADUCTS, AND RAILWAYS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you are stepping westward?' -- 'yea.' Last Line: Before me in my endless way. STRAY PLEASURES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By their floating mill Last Line: They are happy, for that is their right! SUGGESTED AT NOON ON LOUGHRIGG FELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive Last Line: Whatever boon is granted or withheld. SUGGESTED AT TYNDRUM IN A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he would stand Last Line: And seemed to sink into his very heart. THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it we feel / so little for each other Last Line: There is a mind. THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have heard a spanish lady Last Line: And the vain rank the pilgrims bore while yet on earth. THE AVON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brook! Whose society the poet seeks Last Line: Unwearied joy, and life without its cares. THE BROTHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These tourists, heaven preserve us! Needs must live Last Line: A seaman, a grey-headed mariner. THE BROWNIE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How disappeared he?' ask the newt and toad Last Line: Drove from itself, we trust, all frightful gloom. THE BROWNIE'S CELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I see another day Last Line: Nor shall I see another day. THE CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which is the attendant page and which the queen? Subject(s): Evening THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two sister moorland rills Last Line: Like a dead boy he is serene. THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While merlin paced the cornish sands Last Line: To bowers of endless love! THE EMIGRANT MOTHER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of yore how fortunately fared Last Line: Rose, though reluctantly, and forth we went. THE EXCURSION: BOOK 3. DESPONDENCY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A humming bee - a little tinkling rill Last Line: "the unfathomable gulf, where all is still!" THE EXCURSION: BOOK 4. DESPONDENCY CORRECTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious peer! Last Line: The offering, though imperfect, premature. THE FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of harmony, above all earthly care Subject(s): Peace; Mountains THE FALL OF THE AAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among a grave fraternity of monks Last Line: On earth, will be revived, we trust, in heaven. THE FORESAKEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peace which others seek they find Last Line: I think that he will come again. THE FOUNTAIN; A CONVERSATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We talked with open heart, and tongue / affectionate and true Last Line: And the bewildered chimes. THE FRENCH AND SPANISH GUERRILLAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abruptly paused the strife; - the field throughout Last Line: The unconquerable stream his course pursue. THE GLEANER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Last Line: While fluttering in the bushes. THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those silver clouds round the sun Last Line: That, for a brief space, checks the hurrying stream! THE HIGHLAND BROACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If to tradition faith be due Last Line: May render back the highland broach. THE HOMECOMING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the brothers through the gateway Last Line: Sounded the horn which they alone could sound. Subject(s): Crusades THE IDIOT BOY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis eight o'clock -- a clear march night Last Line: And that was all his travel's story, THE IDLE SHEPHERD-BOYS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valley rings with mirth and joy Last Line: And bade them better mind their trade. THE INFANT M- M-., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unquiet childhood here by special grace Last Line: Beneath some shady palm of galilee. THE INNER VISION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the farewell tear is dried Last Line: Grant to the morn of life its natural blessedness! THE KING OF SWEDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: What would little tabby care? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LABORER'S NOONDAY HYMN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The elements have heard, and rock and cave replied Subject(s): Owls THE LONGEST DAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us quit the leafy arbour Last Line: Lord of heaven's unchanging year! THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To think that such assurance can stand fast! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Courage THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians THE MATRON OF JEDBOROUGH AND HER HUSBAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A weight of awe, not easy to be borne Last Line: The inviolable god, that tames the proud! THE MORNING EXCERCISE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clouds THE MOTHERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His simple truths did andrew glean Last Line: "to live for many a day." THE OAK OF GUERNICA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oak of guernica! Tree of holier power Last Line: Guardians of biscay's ancient liberty. THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim, when the summer day Last Line: Beneath the shady tree. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As often as I murmur here Last Line: I feel, but to inspire. Subject(s): Turtledoves THE POET'S DREAM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as those final words were penned Last Line: Feed. THE POWER OF MUSIC, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a river, partly (it might seem) Last Line: His days he wasted, -- an imbecile mind. THE PRIMROSE OF THE ROCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rock there is whose homely front Last Line: A court for deity. Subject(s): Primroses THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven in by autumn's sharpening air Last Line: On human nature's second infancy. THE REDBREAST CHASING [OR, AND] THE BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou the bird whom man loves best Last Line: Love him, or leave him alone! Subject(s): Robins THE REPENTANCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frame hath often trembled with delight Last Line: Dewy and fresh, till showers again shall fall. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old inventive poets, had they seen Last Line: Tossing her frantic thyrsus wide and high! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 21, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-noon is past; - upon the sultry mead Last Line: Loose idless to forego her wily mask. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 25, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat Last Line: Their vocal charm; their sparklings cease to please. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 26, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return, content! For fondly I pursued Last Line: Impetuous thoughts that brook not servile reins. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 27, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No record tells of lance opposed to lance Last Line: And glad acknowledgment, of lawful sway. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep Last Line: With commerce freighted, or triumphant war. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 33. CONCLUSION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, cradled nursling of the mountain, take Last Line: Seeking less bold achievement, where he will! THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 5, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sole listener, duddon! To the breeze that played Last Line: On infant bosoms lonely nature lies. THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 6. FLOWERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The struggling rill insensibly is grown Last Line: Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near! THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyes Last Line: To them and nature paid! THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven daughters had lord archibald Last Line: The solitude of binnorie. THE SHEPHERD, LOOKING EASTWARD, SOFTLY SAID, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With one calm triumph of a modest pride Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Moon THE SHIPS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List, ye who pass by lyulph's tower Last Line: Shalt take thy place with yarrow! THE SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Stars THE STUFFED OWL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While anna's peers and early playmates tread Last Line: Nor veil, with restless film, his staring eyes. THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Show me the noblest youth of present time Last Line: And one of the bright three become thy happy bride. THE TROSACHS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of water-breaks, with grateful heart could tel Subject(s): Water; Sound THE VIEW FROM FOX HOW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once again do I behold the forms Last Line: Half-heard and half-created. THE WAGGONER: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spent - this burning day of june! Last Line: The way the waggon went before. Subject(s): Landscape THE WAGGONER: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wytheburne's modest house of prayer Last Line: Again behold them on their way! THE WAGGONER: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right gladly had the horses stirred Last Line: In bloodiest battle since the days of mars! THE WAGGONER: CANTO 4, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus they, with freaks of proud delight Last Line: Could keep alive when he was gone! THE WARNING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begone, thou fond presumptuous elf' Last Line: Those accents were his last. THE WESTMORELAND GIRL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek who will delight in fable Last Line: Up to heaven, thro' peaceful ways. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From bolton's old monastic tower Last Line: A tale of tears, a mortal story! THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp in lowliness obeyed Last Line: Alone, the armed multitude. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night: in silence looking down Last Line: Of that rash levy nought remained. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: CANTO 5, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou spirit, whose angelic hand Last Line: "but daughter of the eternal prime!" THE WHITE DOE OF RYLESTONE: DEDICATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In trellised shed with clustering roses gay Last Line: As it hath yielded to thy tender heart. THE WILD DUCK'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful when up a lofty height Last Line: Her own angelic glory seems begun. THE WISHING-GATE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope rules a land for ever green Last Line: Of dread eternity. THE WISHING-GATE DESTROYED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis gone - with old belief and dream Last Line: Shall bid a kind farewell! Subject(s): Troy THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fade, and participate in man's decline Subject(s): Decay; Nature THERE IS A PLEASURE IN POETIC PAINS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or rain-drop lingering on the pointed thorn Subject(s): Writing & Writers THERE IS AN EMINENCE, OF THESE OUR HILLS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath to this lonely summit given my name Subject(s): Nature; Solitude THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall be thy rightful name, in prose and rhyme! Subject(s): England THIS LAWN, A CARPET ALL ALIVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of sweetly-breathing flowers Subject(s): Lawns; Grass THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor they from it: their fellowship is secure Subject(s): Thought THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN'S CARES, AND NEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To chase for ever, on aërial grounds! Subject(s): Heaven; Wisdom; Old Age THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With brow in penitential sorrow bent! Subject(s): Nature; Writing & Writers THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow Last Line: Its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS ON THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flattered with promise of escape Last Line: Through heaven-born hope, her end! Subject(s): Seasons THOUGHTS [SUGGESTED THE DAY FOLLOWING], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too frail to keep the lofty vow Last Line: Just god, forgive! TIMOTHY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness Subject(s): Mortality; Time TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Such happiness as I have known to-day Subject(s): Despair; Suicide TO - (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the fate of summer flowers Last Line: And never dies. TO - (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other bards of angels sing Last Line: And the lover is beloved. TO - (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wait, prithee, wait!' this answer lesbia threw Last Line: She could not rescue, perished in her sight! TO - (4), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inmate of a mountain-dwelling Last Line: To confess their majesty! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pastor and patriot! - at whose bidding rise Last Line: This humble tribute as ill-timed or vain. TO A FRIEND (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet highland girl, a very shower Last Line: And thee, the spirit of them all! Subject(s): Scotland; Youth TO A LADY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, little cheerful robin, stay! Last Line: Of everlasting spring. Subject(s): Robins TO A SEXTON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy wheel-barrow alone Last Line: Let one grave hold the loved and lover! TO A SKYLARK (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 -, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the mines beyond the western main Last Line: For precious tremblings in your bosom found! TO DORA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little onward lend thy guiding hand' Last Line: And consecrate our lives to truth and love. TO ENTERPRISE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star which comes at close of day to shine Last Line: The heart-affianced sister of our love! TO JOANNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! The songs of spring were in the grove Last Line: And all the mighty ravishment of spring. TO M. H., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though many suns have risen and set Last Line: Part seen, imagined part! Subject(s): May (month) TO MR. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, DISTRIBUTOR OF STAMPS FOR WESTMORELAND, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: The host of golden flowers at my feet Last Line: Please tell miss leanna her poems are now written down TO MY SISTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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-, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rotha, my spiritual child! This head was grey Last Line: To summon fancies out of time's dark cell. TO S.H, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excuse is needless when with love sincere Last Line: Heed not the pillage of man's ancient heart. TO SLEEP (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flower! Whose home is everywhere Last Line: In peace fulfilling. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (4), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is this isle - our native land Last Line: To kneel together, and adore their god! TO THE LADY FLEMING (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! I rifled a parnassian cave Last Line: To holy musing, it may enter her. TO THE MEMORY OF RAISLEY CALVERT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the wise! And teacher of the good! Last Line: And when I rose, I found myself in prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH FROM VIRGINIA, by JULIA RANDALL Poem Source First Line: I think, old bone, the world's not with us much Last Line: Here is the bloody figure of a man. %run, great excursioner.Run if you can TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS POEM, 'PETER BELL', by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful poet! As thou art Last Line: And live in history's latest page. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TOURIST'S UNCONCERN: PARIS, DEC. 1791, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through paris lay my readiest path, and there Last Line: Affecting more emotion than I felt TRAVELLING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie here, without a record of thy worth Last Line: And, therefore, shalt thou be an honoured name! Subject(s): Animals TRUST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this great world of joy and pain Last Line: To bear, and to forbear! TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! Last Line: As the beginning of the heavens and earth! Subject(s): Dusk TYNWALD HILL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on the top of tynwald's formal mound Last Line: Like mona's miniature of sovereignty. UNTERWALDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who rashly strove thy image to portray? Last Line: When most enslaved by gross realities! UPON THE LATE GENERTAL FAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to my native land Last Line: Fed on the day of vengeance yet to come! WATER FOWL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind Subject(s): Imagination WHAT BOOTS THE QUEST?, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And from the headlong streams. Subject(s): Smiles WHAT IF OUR NUMBERS BARELY COULD DEFY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a just god for liberty and right. Subject(s): Power; Justice; Equality WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mingling most earnest wishes for the day Subject(s): Brothers; Nature WHERE IS THY BROTHER?, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not, 'it matters not to me' Subject(s): Religion WHERE LIES THE LAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A happier, brighter, purer heaven than theirs Subject(s): Truth WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The wanderer lost in more determined gloom Subject(s): Moon WHO FANCIED WHAT A PRETTY SIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where life is wise and innocent Subject(s): Stones WHY SHOULD THE ENTHUSIAST, JOURNEYING THROUGH THIS ISLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If that be reverenced which ought to last Subject(s): Travel WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields? Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No room for mourning: he's gone out Last Line: Words flowers like crocuses in the hanging woods, %blank though the dalehead and the bony face Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850), by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most modern nature lovers have a personal scale of values that tells them Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S WORLD, by BURTON RAFFEL Poem Source First Line: Old wordsworth's world (who wrote a hundred hundred %sonners, songs of rivers Last Line: Wrinkling back to dust, to hard reality WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; 1845, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle and grave, in simple dress Last Line: That those white hands were laid on me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON, THOU CLIMB'ST THE SKY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Queen both for beauty and for majesty WOODLAND WALKS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks Last Line: And leap at once from the delicious stream. WORDSWORTH NOTEBOOK: MOODS OF MY OWN MIND, by JEFFREY ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: In 1802 william wordsworth, living with his sister dorothy and Last Line: Coarsens my hand, and mary %makes the angel more terrible Subject(s): Life; Poetry And Poets; Religion; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old rude church, with bare, bald tower, is here Last Line: In rest, in peace, his labour nobly done. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Tombs; Tombstones WORDSWORTHIAN SOLITARIES: 7. THE LONDON BEGGAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the overflowing streets Last Line: As if admonished from another world WORDSWORTHIAN SOLITARIES: THE DISCHARGED SOLDIER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fig for your languages, german and norse Last Line: And back to the forests again! WRITTEN IN MARCH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL UPON A STONE IN THE WALL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! This hillock of mis-shapen stones Last Line: And let the redbreast hop from stone to stone. YARROW REVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gallant youth, who may have gained Last Line: To memory's shadowy moonshine! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW UNVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From stirling castle we had seen Last Line: "the bonny holms of yarrow!" Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW VISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In sky, air, earth, and ocean. Subject(s): Beauty; Inspiration YEW-TREES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let babes and sucklings be thy oracles Subject(s): England; Tradition YOUNG WORDSWORTH'S LONDON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh wond'rous power of words, how sweet they are |
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