Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1

Poems, in Two Volumes
by William Wordsworth

Volume 1

Many of the sonnets, of which there are approximately 50 in this volume, have no title either above the poem or in the table of contents. For the purposes of creating the pages, the untitled works have been titled as per their first line. The TOC has been annotated where this is the case.

4432017Poems, in Two Volumes — Volume 1William Wordsworth

POEMS,

IN

TWO VOLUMES,

BY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,

AUTHOR OF

THE LYRICAL BALLADS.

Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur
Nostra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1807.

CONTENTS

To the Daisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1
Louisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		7
Fidelity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		9
She was a Phantom of delight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		14
The Redbreast and the Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		16
The Sailor's Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		19
To the Small Celandine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		22
To the same Flower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		27
Character of the Happy Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		31
The Horn of Egremont Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		37
The Affliction of Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		45
The Kitten and the falling Leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		50
The Seven Sisters, or the Solitude of Binnorie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		58
To H. C., six Years old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		63
Among all lovely things my Love had been . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		66
I travell'd among unknown Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		68
Ode to Duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		70 POEMS, COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT. 1. Beggars 2. To a Sky-Lark 3. With how sad Steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the Sky 4. Alice Fell 5. Resolution and Independence SONNETS. Prefatory Sonnet PART THE FIRST.-MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. 1. 2. 3. Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire 4. 5. To Sleep 6. To Sleep 7. To Sleep 8. 9. To the River Duddon 10. From the Italian of Michael Angelo 11. From the same 12. From the same. To the Supreme Being 13. Written in very early Youth 14. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803, 15. 16. 17. To 18. 19. 20. To the Memory of Raisley Calvert PART THE SECOND.SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. 1. Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 2. Is it a Reed 3. To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802 6. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 7. The King of Sweden 8. To Toussaint L'Ouverture 9. 10. Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing 11. 12. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 13. Written in London, September, 1802 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. To the Men of Kent, October, 1809 24. 25. Anticipation. October, 1803 26. Notes

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