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Subject: WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 SONNET, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two voices are there: one is of the deep
Last Line: Than write such bopeless rubbish as thy worst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


AFTER A LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, spread your wings, as I spread mine
Last Line: Earth's last sweet even-song!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ALL THESE ARE VILE', by JOHN KEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house of mourning written by mr. Scott
Last Line: All these are vile. But viler wordsworth's sonnet %on dover.Dover! Who could write upon it?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


AN EXHORTATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chameleons feed on light and air
Last Line: Oh, refuse the boon!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


AN IMITATION OF WORDSWORTH, by CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a river clear and fair
Last Line: And live three times as long.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ANSWER TO WORDSWORTH'S SONNET AGAINST KENDAL AND BOWNESS RAILWAY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour may come, nay must in these our days
Last Line: Nor lose one dream for all their homely gain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Railways; Trains


ARGUMENT WITH WORDSWORTH, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People are always quoting that and all of them seem to agree
Last Line: Sometimes poetry is emotion recollected in a highly emotional state
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


CHARADE: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My whole, the poet of flood and fell
Last Line: Of his second an index all may trace.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION], by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bob southey! You're a poet -- poet-laureate
Last Line: Is it not so, my tory, ultra-julian?
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan; Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


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)


DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS IN HIS MORTAL STATE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Renounce the greatest happiness on earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass
Last Line: I owe, in great part, to my passion for pastry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


EPILOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something in a stupid ass
Last Line: And with your place in the excise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


FRAGMENT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou strainest through the mountain fern
Last Line: Tern!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


GODDARD AND LYCIDAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two dirges by two poets have I read
Last Line: And gained, by lowlier means, a sweeter end.
Subject(s): Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); King, Edward (1612-1637); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


IN IMMEMORIAM, by EDWARD BRADLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We seek to know, and knowing seek
Last Line: O voices all! Like ye I die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bede, Cuthbert
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


IN THE LAKE COUNTRY, by KAY WISSINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above me is the misty english sky
Last Line: And brought to us, in lyric words that sing, %the daffodils beside the lake in spring
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It knows but will not tell
Last Line: Those hidden lips are dumb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Children; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Childhood


JACOB, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dwelt among 'apartments let'
Last Line: The difference to me!
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Male-female Relations; Feminism


MEMORIAL VERSES, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goethe in weimar sleeps, and greece
Last Line: Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wordsworth upon helvellyn! Let the cloud
Last Line: This is the poet and his poetry.
Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ON THE RECEPTION OF WORDSWORTH AT OXFORD, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Never did a mighty truth prevail
Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ON WORDSWORTH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He lived amidst the untrodden ways
Last Line: The difference to him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Variant Title(s): Wordsworth Unvisited
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ON WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE; NEAR GRASMERE LAKE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the glory on their heads
Last Line: Thy temple, is thy name alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


ONLY SEVEN (A PASTORAL STORY AFTER WORDWORTH), by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I marvelled why a simple child
Last Line: "lines after ache-inside."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


PETER BELL THE THIRD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peter bells, one, two and three
Last Line: How should it ever pass away?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BABY'S DEBUT, BY W. W., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother jack was nine in may
Last Line: I'll blow a kiss to you.
Subject(s): Babies; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Infants


RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I encountered the crowd returning from amusements
Last Line: The equation is the interdependence of parts.'
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SOLITARY REAPER GETS HER WORDS' WORTH, by JEAN LEBLANC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behold him, idle dandy there
Last Line: Forever, as I am right now
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SOME OF WORDSWORTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dank, limber verses, stuff with lakeside sedges
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 3. THE DOLLY'S MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little maid, of summers four
Last Line: I stand uncovered - her profound %and abject worshiper
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SONG; SUNG BY FATHERS OF SIX-MONTHS-OLD FEMALE CHILDREN, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold
Last Line: Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and water %to marry somebody else's daughter
Variant Title(s): Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Female Infant Children; Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Infant Female Childre
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SONNET TO A CERTAIN POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At beauty's altar fervent acolyte
Last Line: Where wordsworth stands, feeding the multitudes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SONNET: 14, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Not wordsworth's genius, pestalozzi's love
Last Line: As at their birth the heavenly choirs do sing
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth
Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh
Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me
Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism
Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone
Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one.
Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time
Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


THE LOST LEADER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just for a handful of silver he left us
Last Line: Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne!
Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Liberty


THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic
Last Line: Yet earnest and simple as any sweet child of the green lowly vale.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE POETS AT TEA: 6. WORDSWORTH, WHO GAVE IT AWAY, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, little cottage girl
Last Line: "you bade me speak the truth."
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE RETURN TO NATURE; HISTORIES OF MODERN POETRY: 2. THETIS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her bright title poets dare
Last Line: Her natural, greek, and silver feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE WHITE KNIGHT'S SONG, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell thee everything I can
Last Line: A-sitting on a gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Variant Title(s): A-sitting On A Gate;the Aged Aged Man;it Is My Own Invention;ways And Means;the White Knight's Tale;the White Knight's Ballad;the Knight's Song
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE WOOD-ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When wordsworth found those beds of daffodil
Last Line: Seen, lost and seen, along the reedy brink.
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE YOUTH OF NATURE: WORDSWORTH'S COUNTRY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Raised are the dripping oars
Last Line: I remain.'
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THEIR CAROL CALL TO THEE, by DAISYMAY CAMPBELL HUBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: So might I, standing on this pleasant lea
Last Line: From self-clung sorrow -- your whole mind reclaim.
Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THREE ENGLISH POETS (WORDSWORTH, SHELLEY, BROWNING), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I read three poems in one changeful night
Last Line: "the power and love are one: fight on! Rejoice!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TINTERN ABBEY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men who called their passion piety
Last Line: Masking with good that ill which cannot be undone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO ANDREW CROSSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Altho' with earth and heaven you deal
Last Line: Philosophers can envy too.
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Poetry & Poets; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO JOANNA, ON SENDING ME THE LEAF OF A FLOWER ... WORDSWORTH'S GARDEN, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joanna! Though I well can guess
Last Line: I in one page will place you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Leaves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


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; 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)


TO WORDSWORTH, by FRANCIS FLOYD BURCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: O see the happy daffodils
Last Line: I wish to god I knew some way %to cause the pain
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by O. F. EMERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poet of nature, thou didst teach to see
Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be
Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Trees; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poet of calm,-like to a mountain mere
Last Line: What hidden glory round their pathway lies!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thine is a strain to read among the hills
Last Line: Bright healthful waves flow forth, to each glad wanderer free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who have laid the harp aside
Last Line: When 'mid their light thy light appears.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wordsworth, I envy thee, that from the strife
Last Line: Flies far from thee, whose great reward is sure!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TO WORDSWORTH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet of nature, thou hast wept to know
Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TRANSLATION: WORDSWORTH WROTE THAT, by JOHN RUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is too much with us
Subject(s): Earth; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


TWO BOYHOODS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Luminous passions reign
Last Line: These two high childhoods in the heart of man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


UPON FINDING DYING: AN INNTRODUCTION, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered lonely as a cloud in foyles
Last Line: Preach about dying, you must practice, too
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): Books; Death; Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


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; 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)


WORDSWORTH, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass hung wet on rydal banks
Last Line: When, winged for heaven, thy soul ascended?
Variant Title(s): With Wordsworth At Rydal
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet of the serene and thoughtful lay!
Last Line: And grateful hail fair luna's tender light.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet of the serene and thoughtful lay
Last Line: And grateful hail fair luna's tender light.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Composed upon westminister bridge' ss
Last Line: Ode: intimations of immortality' p
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moonlit desert's yellow sands
Last Line: Had yielded their serenity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
Last Line: The hidden fountain of recovered joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


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 ON LLOYD GEORGE, by MARY VISICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met a little cottage-girl
Last Line: Must sure in heaven dwell.
Subject(s): Lloyd George, David (1863-1945); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep fresh the grass upon his grave
Subject(s): Graves; Poetry And Poets; 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


WORDSWORTH; WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friends, who read the world aright
Last Line: With him surviveth all.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WORDSWORTHIAN REMINISCENCES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked and came upon a picket fence
Last Line: "but where the posts comes in, I could not tell"
Subject(s): "memory;poetry & Poets;wordsworth, William (1770-1850);


WRITTEN AT HURSTMONCEAUX; ON READING A POEM OF WORDSWORTH'S, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Derwent! Winander! Sweetest of all sounds
Last Line: With such an invocation . . Hail, and live!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)