Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworthrepresents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published inLyrical Balladsin 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, "[Wordsworth's poetry] is great because of the extraordinary power with which [he] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties."

Mark Van Doren (1894–1973) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and critic who taught English at Columbia University for nearly thirty years. David Bromwich is a professor of English at Yale Univer-sity and the author of numerous books, including Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s.

Biographical Note

v

Introduction

xv

David Bromwich

1787--89

An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady

3

(10)

1791--92

Descriptive Sketches. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps

13

(18)

1791--94

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain

31

(20)

1797

Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Commanding a Beautiful Prospect

51

(2)

The Reverie of Poor Susan

53

(1)

1798--1800

A Night-Piece

54

(1)

We Are Seven

54

(3)

Anecdote for Fathers

57

(1)

The Thorn

58

(8)

Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A True Story

66

(3)

Her Eyes Are Wild

69

(4)

Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman; with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned

73

(2)

Lines Written in Early Spring

75

(1)

To My Sister

76

(1)

``A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill''

77

(1)

Expostulation and Reply

78

(1)

The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the Same Subject

79

(1)

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman

80

(2)

The Last of the Flock

82

(3)

The Idiot Boy

85

(14)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798

99

(4)

The Old Cumberland Beggar

103

(5)

Animal Tranquillity and Decay

108

(1)

Peter Bell. A Tale

109

(33)

The Simplon Pass

142

(1)

Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth

142

(2)

There Was a Boy

144

(1)

Nutting

145

(2)

``Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known''

147

(1)

``She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways''

147

(1)

``I Travelled Among Unknown Men''

148

(1)

``Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower''

148

(2)

``A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal''

150

(1)

A Poet's Epitaph

150

(2)

Matthew

152

(1)

The Two April Mornings

153

(2)

The Fountain. A Conversation

155

(2)

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

157

(2)

Ruth

159

(7)

``Bleak Season Was It, Turbulent and Wild''

166

(1)

``On Nature's Invitation Do I Come''

167

(1)

The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's, Mind. An Autobiographical Poem

168

(212)

The Recluse

380

(22)

The Brothers

402

(12)

Michael. A Pastoral Poem

414

(13)

The Pet-Lamb. A Pastoral

427

(2)

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

429

(2)

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral

431

(4)

Hart-leap Well

435

(5)

The Childless Father

440

(1)

1802-1807

The Sparrow's Nest

441

(1)

The Sailor's Mother

441

(2)

Alice Fell; or, Poverty

443

(1)

To a Butterfly

444

(1)

``My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold''

445

(1)

``Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been''

445

(1)

Written in March, While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water

446

(1)

To a Butterfly

447

(1)

To the Small Celandine

447

(2)

Resolution and Independence

449

(5)

``I Grieved for Buonaparte''

454

(1)

A Farewell

454

(2)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802

456

(1)

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

456

(1)

Calais, August, 1802

457

(1)

``It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free''

457

(1)

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

458

(1)

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

458

(1)

Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing

459

(1)

Near Dover, September, 1802

459

(1)

In London, September, 1802

460

(1)

London, 1802

460

(1)

``England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should'st Wean''

460

(1)

``Great Men Have Been Among Us''

461

(1)

``It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood''

461

(1)

``When I Have Borne in Memory''

462

(1)

Stanzas Written in My Pocket-Copy of Thomson's ``Castle of Indolence''

462

(2)

To H. C. Six Years Old

464

(1)

The Green Linnet

465

(1)

Yew-trees

466

(1)

Stepping Westward

467

(1)

The Solitary Reaper

468

(1)

Yarrow Unvisited

469

(2)

October, 1803

471

(1)

To the Men of Kent. October, 1803

472

(1)

In the Pass of Killicranky, an Invasion Being Expected, October, 1803

472

(1)

Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803

473

(1)

To the Cuckoo

473

(1)

``She Was a Phantom of Delight''

474

(1)

``I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''

475

(1)

The Affliction of Margaret

476

(2)

The Small Celandine

478

(1)

Ode to Duty

479

(2)

``When to the Attractions of the Busy World''

481

(3)

Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted

484

(2)

Sir George Beaumont

To a Young Lady, Who Had Been Reproached for Taking Long Walks in the Country

486

(1)

The Waggoner

486

(23)

French Revolution, As It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement. Reprinted from the Friend

509

(1)

Character of the Happy Warrior

510

(2)

Star-Gazers

512

(1)

``Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room''

513

(1)

Personal Talk

514

(1)

``The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon''

515

(1)

``With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh''

516

(1)

``Where Lies the Land to Which Yon Ship Must Go?''

516

(1)

To Sleep

517

(1)

To Sleep

517

(1)

To Sleep

518

(1)

To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

518

(1)

``Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne''

519

(1)

November, 1806

519

(1)

Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

520

(6)

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

526

(1)

``Though Narrow Be That Old Man's Cares''

526

(1)

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of His Ancestors

527

(4)

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

531

(50)

1814

The Excursion, Book I

581

(27)

Laodamia

608

(5)

Yarrow Visited, September, 1814

613

(3)

1815

``Surprised by Joy---Impatient as the Wind''

616

(1)

1817--1833

Ode to Lycoris. May, 1817

616

(2)

Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty

618

(2)

The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets

620

(15)

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series. (A Selection.)

635

(1)

Part I. From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion

635

(3)

Introduction

635

(1)

Trepidation of the Druids

635

(1)

Druidical Excommunication

636

(1)

Uncertainty

636

(1)

Seclusion

637

(1)

Continued

637

(1)

Canute

638

(1)

Part II. To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I

638

(1)

Dissolution of the Monasteries

638

(1)

Saints

639

(1)

Part III. From the Restoration to the Present Times

639

(10)

``I saw the figure of a lovely Maid''

639

(1)

Patriotic Sympathies

640

(1)

Mutability

640

(1)

Congratulation

640

(1)

Conclusion

641

(1)

``Scorn Not the Sonnet''

641

(1)

Yarrow Revisited

642

(3)

``If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven''

645

(1)

``If This Great World of Joy and Pain''

646

(1)

``Most Sweet It Is with Unuplifted Eyes''

646

(1)

To a Child. Written in Her Album

647

(2)

Preface to the Second Edition of ``Lyrical Ballads,'' 1800

649

(22)

Appendix, 1802

671

(6)

Notes

677

(74)

Index of Titles

751

(5)

Index of First Lines

756

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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth

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