Chapter I: Front Matter

THE POETICAL WORKS
OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED BY
WILLIAM KNIGHT

VOL. VI

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
1896

CONTENTS

1814

PAGE
Laodamia 1

Memorials of a Tour in Scotland--

The Brownie's Cell 16

Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower 26

Effusion, in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the
Bran, near Dunkeld 28

"From the dark chambers of dejection freed" 33

Yarrow Visited 35

Lines written on a blank leaf in a copy of the author's poem
_The Excursion_, upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of
Kendal 40

1815

Dedication to the White Doe of Rylstone 42

Artegal and Elidure 45

To B.R. Haydon 61

November 1 63

September, 1815 64

"The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade" 65

"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind" 67

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

"The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said" 68

"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress" 69

"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose" 71

"Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind" 72

1816

Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving.
January 18, 1816 74

Ode 88

Invocation to the Earth 95

Ode 96

Ode 104

The French Army in Russia, 1812-13 107

On the Same Occasion 109

Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski 110

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 111

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo 112

"Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung" 113

Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the
Remains of the Duke D'Enghien 114

Dion 116

A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on the
Sea-shore 130

"A little onward lend thy guiding hand" 132

To -----, on her first Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 135

1817

Vernal Ode 138

Ode to Lycoris 145

To the Same 149

The Longest Day 153

Hint from the Mountains, for certain Political Pretenders 156

The Pass of Kirkstone 158

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots 162

1818

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glow-worm 167

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell 170

Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty 176

1819

This, and the two following, were suggested by Mr. W. Westall's
Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire 183

Malham Cove 184

Gordale 185

Composed during a Storm 187

"Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow" 187

The Wild Duck's Nest 189

Written upon a blank leaf in "The Complete Angler" 190

Captivity--Mary Queen of Scots 191

To a Snow-Drop 191

"When haughty expectations prostrate lie" 192

To the River Derwent 193

Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter
Sunday 194

"Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend" 195

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

"I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)" 198

The Haunted Tree 199

September, 1819 201

Upon the Same Occasion 202

1820

Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 208

On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third) 209

"The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand" 210

To the Lady Mary Lowther 211

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

Oxford, May 30, 1820 213

Oxford, May 30, 1820 214

June, 1820 214

The Germans on the Heights of Hock Heim 216

A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 217

To Enterprise 218

The River Duddon--

To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth 227

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

"Child of the clouds! remote from every taint" 231

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

"Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take" 233

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

Flowers 235

"Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!" 237

"What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled" 237

The Stepping-Stones 239

The Same Subject 240

The Faëry Chasm 241

Hints for the Fancy 242

Open Prospect 243

"O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot" 245

"From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play" 245

American Tradition 246

Return 248

Seathwaite Chapel 249

Tributary Stream 250

The Plain of Donnerdale 251

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

Tradition 253

Sheep-Washing 253

The Resting-Place 254

"Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat" 255

"Return, Content! for fondly I pursued" 255

"Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap" 256

Journey Renewed 257

"No record tells of lance opposed to lance" 258

"Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce" 260

"The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye" 260

"Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep" 261

Conclusion 262

After-Thought 263

Postscript 264

Note to Sonnets XVII. and XVIII. 267

Memoir of the Rev. Robert Walker 270

Memorials of a Tour on the Continent--

Dedication 285

Fish-women--on Landing at Calais 286

Brugès 288

Brugès 290

After visiting the Field of Waterloo 292

Between Namur and Liege 293

Aix-la-Chapelle 295

In the Cathedral at Cologne 297

In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine 299

Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids under the
Castle of Heidelberg 301

The Source of the Danube 303

On approaching the Staubbach, Lauterbrunnen 306

The Fall of the Aar--Handec 308

Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun 310

Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons 312

After-Thought 315

Scene on the Lake of Brientz 315

Engelberg, the Hill of Angels 316

Our Lady of the Snow 318

Effusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altorf 321

The Town of Schwytz 324

On hearing the "Ranz des Vaches" on the Top of
the Pass of St. Gothard 326

Fort Fuentes 328

The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano 332

The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd 338

The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the
Convent of Maria della Grazia--Milan 343

The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820 345

The Three Cottage Girls 351

The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in
Milan, now lying by the wayside in the Simplon Pass 356

Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass 357

Echo, upon the Gemmi 360

Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the
Vale of Chamouny 363

Elegiac Stanzas 371

Sky-Prospect--From the Plain of France 377

On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 378

After Landing--the Valley of Dover, Nov. 1820 380

At Dover 381

Desultory Stanzas, upon receiving the preceding Sheets from the
Press 382