Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.

Poems on the Naming of Places:

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral

Hart-leap Well

'Tis said, that some have died for love

The Childless Father

Song for the Wandering Jew

Rural Architecture

Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle

Andrew Jones

The Two Thieves; or, The Last Stage of Avarice

A Character

Inscriptions

The Sparrow's Nest

Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side

The Prioress' Tale (from Chaucer)

The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (from Chaucer)

Troilus and Cresida (from Chaucer)

The Sailor's Mother

Alice Fell; or, Poverty

Beggars

To a Butterfly (first poem)

The Emigrant Mother

My heart leaps up when I behold

Among all lovely things my Love had been

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

The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

To a Butterfly (second poem)

Foresight

To the Small Celandine (first poem)

To the same Flower (second poem)

Resolution and Independence

I grieved for Buonaparte

A Farewell

The Sun has long been set

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802

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

Calais, August 1802

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

Calais, August 15, 1802

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

The King of Sweden

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the day of landing

September 1, 1802

Near Dover, September 1802

Written in London, September 1802

London, 1802

Great men have been among us

It is not to be thought of

When I have borne in memory

Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire

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

To H. C. Six years old

To the Daisy (first poem)

To the same Flower (second poem)

To the Daisy (third poem)

The Green Linnet

Yew-trees

Who fancied what a pretty sight

It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown

Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803

October 1803

There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear

October 1803

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

October 1803

To the Men of Kent. October 1803

In the Pass of Killicranky, an invasion being expected, October 1803

Anticipation. October 1803

Lines on the expected Invasion

The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale

To the Cuckoo

She was a Phantom of delight

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Affliction of Margaret ------

The Forsaken

Repentance. A Pastoral Ballad

The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora

The Kitten and Falling Leaves

To the Spade of a Friend

The Small Celandine (third poem)

At Applethwaite, near Keswick, 1804

To the Supreme Being. From the Italian of Michael Angelo.

Ode to Duty

To a Skylark

Fidelity

Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog

Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog

To the Daisy (fourth poem)

Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont

Elegiac Verses in memory of my Brother

When, to the attractions of the busy world

Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Excursion

To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country

Vaudracour and Julia

The Cottager to her Infant, by my Sister

The Waggoner

French Revolution

The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement

The Recluse

Character of the Happy Warrior

The Horn of Egremont Castle

Yes, it was the mountain Echo

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room

Personal Talk

Admonition

"Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con

How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks

Those words were uttered as in pensive mood

Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky

The world is too much with us; late and soon

With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh

Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?

To Sleep

Michael Angelo in reply to the passage upon his Statue of Night sleeping

From the Italian of Michael Angelo

From the Same

To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

Lines composed at Grasmere

November 1806

Address to a Child, during a boisterous winter Evening, by my Sister

Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

A Prophecy. February 1807

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

The Mother's Return, by my Sister

Gipsies

O Nightingale! thou surely art

To Lady Beaumont

Though narrow be that old Man's cares

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle

The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons

The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory. A tradition

Composed while the Author was engaged in Writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra

Composed at the same Time and on the same Occasion,

George and Sarah Green

Hoffer

Advance--come forth from thy Tyrolean ground

Feelings of the Tyrolese

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest

And is it among rude untutored Dales

O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain

On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese

Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye

Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense

The martial courage of a day is vain

Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight

Call not the royal Swede unfortunate

Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid

Is there a power that can sustain and cheer

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen

In due observance of an ancient rite

Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals

On a celebrated Event in Ancient History

Upon the same Event

The Oak of Guernica

Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard

Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind

O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied

The French and the Spanish Guerillas

Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera

Maternal Grief

Characteristics of a Child three Years old

Spanish Guerillas

The power of Armies is a visible thing

Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise

Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-West Coast of Cumberland

Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty years after its Composition

Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture, painted by Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart.

Inscriptions

Song for the Spinning-Wheel

Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere

Water-Fowl

View from the top of Black Comb

Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb

November 1813

The Excursion. Note & Preface

Laodamia

Dion (see Plutarch)

Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1814

From the dark chambers of dejection freed

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

The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade

"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind

Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!

The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said

Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress

Mark the concentred hazels that enclose

To the Poet, John Dyer

Brook! whose society the Poet seeks

Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind

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

Ode

Invocation to the Earth, February 1816

Ode composed in January 1816

Ode

The French Army in Russia, 1812-13

On the same occasion

By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze

The Germans on the Heights of Hochheim

Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo, February 1816

Occasioned by the same battle

Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung

Feelings of a French Royalist

Translation of part of the First Book of the Aeneid

A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on the Seashore

To Dora

To ------, on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn

Vernal Ode

Ode to Lycoris. May 1817

To the Same

The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders

The Pass of Kirkstone

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year

Sequel to the "Beggars," 1802. Composed many years after

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

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

Composed upon an Evening of extraordinary Splendour and Beauty

Composed during a Storm

Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er.

Malham Cove

Gordale

Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow

The Wild Duck's Nest

Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler"

Captivity--Mary Queen of Scots

To a Snowdrop

On seeing a tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm

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

Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready friend

I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret

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

The Haunted Tree. To ------

September 1819

Upon the same Occasion

There is a little unpretending Rill

Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream

On the death of His Majesty (George the Third)

The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand

To the Lady Mary Lowther

On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem

Oxford, May 30, 1820

June 1820

Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820

The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets

A Parsonage in Oxfordshire

To Enterprise

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series

Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion Introduction Conjectures Trepidation of the Druids Druidical Excommunication Uncertainty Persecution Recovery Temptations from Roman Refinements Dissensions Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians Saxon Conquest Monastery of Old Bangor Casual Incitement Glad Tidings Paulinus Persuasion Conversion Apology Primitive Saxon Clergy Other Influences Seclusion Continued Reproof Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion Missions and Travels Alfred His Descendants Influence Abused Danish Conquests Canute The Norman Conquest Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered The Council of Clermont Crusades Richard I An Interdict Papal Abuses Scene in Venice Papal Dominion
Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I How soon--alas! did Man, created pure-- From false assumption rose, and, fondly hailed Cistertian Monastery Deplorable his lot who tills the ground Monks and Schoolmen Other Benefits Continued Crusaders As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root Transubstantiation The Vaudois Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs Waldenses Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. Wars of York and Lancaster Wicliffe Corruptions of the higher Clergy Abuse of Monastic Power Monastic Voluptuousness Dissolution of the Monasteries The same Subject Continued Saints The Virgin Apology Imaginative Regrets Reflections Translation of the Bible The Point at Issue Edward VI. Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent Revival of Popery Latimer and Ridley Cranmer General View of the Troubles of the Reformation English Reformers in Exile Elizabeth Eminent Reformers The Same Distractions Gunpowder Plot Illustration. The Jung-Frau and the Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhausen Troubles of Charles the First Laud Afflictions of England
Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times I saw the figure of a lovely Maid Patriotic Sympathies Charles the Second Latitudinarianism Walton's Book of Lives Clerical Integrity Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters Acquittal of the Bishops William the Third Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty Sacheverel Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design Aspects of Christianity in America--I. The Pilgrim Fathers II. Continued III. Concluded.--American Episcopacy Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep Places of Worship Pastoral Character The Liturgy Baptism Sponsors Catechising Confirmation Confirmation continued Sacrament The Marriage Ceremony Thanksgiving after Childbirth Visitation of the Sick The Commination Service Forms of Prayer at Sea Funeral Service Rural Ceremony Regrets Mutability Old Abbeys Emigrant French Clergy Congratulation New Churches Church to be Erected Continued New Churchyard Cathedrals, etc. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge The Same Continued Ejaculation Conclusion

Memory

To the Lady Fleming

On the same Occasion

A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found

Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell

To ------

How rich that forehead's calm expanse!

To ------

A Flower Garden at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire

To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P.

To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales, 1824

Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales

Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B., upon the death of his sister-in-law, 1824

Cenotaph

Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland

The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren

To a Sky-lark

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew

Ode, composed on May Morning

To May

Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)

The massy Ways, carried across these heights

The Pillar of Trajan

On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp. The work of E. M. S.

Dedication. To ------

Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat

"Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings--

To S. H.

Decay of Piety

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned

Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild

Retirement

There is a pleasure in poetic pains

Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge

When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle

While Anna's peers and early playmates tread

To the Cuckoo

The Infant M------ M------

To Rotha Q------

To ------, in her seventieth year

In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud

Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes

In the Woods of Rydal

Conclusion, To ------

A Morning Exercise

The Triad

The Wishing-gate

The Wishing-gate destroyed

A Jewish Family

The Gleaner, suggested by a picture

On the Power of Sound

Incident at Bruges

Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase

Liberty (sequel to the above)

Humanity

This Lawn, a carpet all alive

Thought on the Seasons

A Gravestone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral

A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire

The Armenian Lady's Love

The Russian Fugitive

The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove

Presentiments

In these fair vales hath many a Tree

Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride

To the Author's Portrait

The Primrose of the Rock

Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems

Devotional Incitements

Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose

Rural Illusions

Loving and Liking. Irregular Verses addressed to a Child. (By my Sister)

Upon the late General Fast. March 1832

Filial Piety

To B. R. Haydon

If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven

A Wren's Nest

To ------, on the birth of her First-born Child, March 1833

The Warning. A Sequel to the foregoing

If this great world of joy and pain

On a high part of the coast of Cumberland, Easter Sunday, April 7, the Author's sixty-third Birthday

By the Seaside

Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833

Composed by the Seashore

Not in the lucid intervals of life

By the Side of Rydal Mere

Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge--the Mere

The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill

The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn

The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage)

The foregoing Subject resumed

To a Child. Written in her Album

Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale. November 5, 1834

To the Moon. (Composed by the Seaside,--on the Coast of Cumberland)

To the Moon. (Rydal)

Written after the Death of Charles Lamb

Extempore Effusion upon the death of James Hogg

Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day

By a blest Husband guided, Mary came

Sonnets

November 1836

Six months to six years added he remained

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837

At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837

What if our numbers barely could defy

A Night Thought

To the Planet Venus. Upon its approximation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth, January 1838

Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838

Composed on a May Morning, 1838

Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest

'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain

Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!

A Plea for Authors, May 1838

A Poet to his Grandchild. (Sequel to the foregoing)

Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will

Valedictory Sonnet. Closing the Volume of Sonnets published in 1838

Sonnet, "Protest against the Ballot"

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series.

Sonnet on a Portrait of I. F., painted by Margaret Gillies

Sonnet to I. F.

Poor Robin

On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon

To a Painter

On the same Subject

When Severn's sweeping flood had overthrown

Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake

Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years"

Floating Island

The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love

To a Redbreast--(in Sickness)

Miscellaneous Sonnets

The Norman Boy

The Poet's Dream, Sequel to the Norman Boy

The Widow on Windermere Side

Farewell Lines

Airey-Force Valley

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live

To the Clouds

Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot

The Eagle and the Dove

Grace Darling

While beams of orient light shoot wide and high

To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.

Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick

On the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway

Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old

At Furness Abbey

Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base

The Westmoreland Girl. To my Grandchildren--

At Furness Abbey

Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved

What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine

To a Lady

Glad sight wherever new with old

Love lies Bleeding

Companion to the foregoing

The Cuckoo-Clock

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive

To the Pennsylvanians

Young England--what is then become of Old

Though the bold wings of Poesy affect

Sonnet

Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom's creed

I know an aged Man constrained to dwell

How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high

Evening Voluntaries--To Lucca Giordano

Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high

Illustrated Books and Newspapers

The unremitting voice of nightly streams

Sonnet. (To an Octogenarian)

On the Banks of a Rocky Stream

Ode on the Installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, July 1847

Index to Poems, Chronologically