# Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 1

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London: Published by Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. March 1, 1815.
POEMS
BY
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
INCLUDING
LYRICAL BALLADS,
AND THE
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR.
WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS,
A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1815.
T. DAVISON, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London.
       Dedication
       Preface
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
| POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. | POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. | | |
| Page | | Com­posed | Pub­lished |
| 3 | My heart leaps up | | 1807 |
| 4 | To a Butterfly | | 1807 |
| 5 | Foresight | | 1807 |
| 7 | Characteristics of a Child | | |
| 8 | Address to a Child | | |
| 11 | The Mother's return | | |
| 14 | Lucy Gray | | 1800 |
| 18 | Alice Fell | | 1807 |
| 22 | We are Seven | | 1798 |
| 26 | Anecdote for Fathers | | 1798 |
| 30 | Rural Architecture | | 1800 |
| 32 | The Pet Lamb | | 1800 |
| 37 | The Idle Shepherd Boys | | 1800 |
| 42 | To H. C. | | 1807 |
| 44 | Influence of Natural objects | | 1810 |
| 48 | The Blind Highland Boy | | 1807 |
| | JUVENILE PIECES. | | |
| 63 | Extract from a Poem on leaving School | 1786 | |
| 64 | —from An Evening Walk | | 1793 |
| 70 | ——Descriptive Sketches | | 1793 |
| 85 | Female Vagrant | 1793 | 1798 ​ |
| POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS. | POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS. | | |
| 95 | The Brothers | | 1800 |
| 115 | The Sparrow's Nest | | 1807 |
| 116 | To a Butterfly | | 1807 |
| 117 | Farewell thou little Nook | 1802 | |
| 121 | Written in my Pocket Copy of the Castle of Indolence | 1802 | |
| 125 | Ellen Irwin | | 1800 |
| 128 | Strange fits of passion | | 1800 |
| 132 | I met Louisa | | 1807 |
| 134 | 'Tis said that some | | 1800 |
| 137 | The Complaint of an Indian | | 1798 |
| 141 | The last of the Flock | | 1798 |
| 147 | A Complaint | | 1807 |
| 148 | Ruth | | 1800 |
| 160 | The Cottager to her Infant | | |
| 161 | The Sailor's Mother | | 1800 |
| 163 | The Childless Father | | 1800 |
| 165 | The Affliction of —— | | 1807 |
| 169 | Once in a lonely Hamlet | | 1807 |
| 175 | Her eyes are wild | | 1798 |
| 179 | The Idiot Boy | | 1798 |
| 203 | Michael, a Pastoral Poem | | 1800 |
| 225 | Laodamia | | |
| | POEMS OF THE FANCY. | | |
| 235 | To the Daisy | | 1807 |
| 240 | A whirl-blast | | 1800 |
| 242 | With how sad steps | | 1807 |
| 243 | The Green Linnet | | 1807 |
| 245 | To the small Celandine | | 1807 |
| 248 | To the same Flower | | 1807 |
| 251 | The Waterfall and the Eglantine | | 1800 |
| 255 | The Oak and the Broom | | 1800 |
| 261 | The Redbreast and the Butterfly | | 1807 ​ |
| 263 | To the Daisy | | 1807 |
| 266 | To the same Flower | | 1807 |
| 268 | To a Sky-lark | | 1807 |
| 270 | To a Sexton | | 1800 |
| 272 | Who fancied what a pretty sight | | 1807 |
| 273 | Song for the Wandering Jew | | 1800 |
| 275 | The seven Sisters | | 1807 |
| 279 | By their floating Mill | | 1807 |
| 281 | The Kitten and falling Leaves | | 1807 |
| 287 | A Fragment | | 1800 |
| 290 | Address to my Infant Daughter | 1804 | |
| | POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. | | |
| 297 | There was a Boy | | 1800 |
| 299 | To the Cuckoo | | 1807 |
| 301 | A Night Piece | | |
| 303 | Yew Trees | | |
| 305 | View from the Top of Black Comb | | |
| 307 | Nutting | | 1800 |
| 310 | She was a Phantom | | 1807 |
| 312 | O Nightingale | | 1807 |
| 313 | Three Years she grew | | 1800 |
| 315 | A slumber | | 1800 |
| 316 | The Horn of Egremont Castle | | 1807 |
| 322 | Goody Blake and Harry Gill | | 1798 |
| 328 | I wandered lonely | | 1807 |
| 330 | Reverie of Poor Susan | | 1800 |
| 331 | Power of Music | | 1807 |
| 334 | Stepping Westward | 1803 | 1807 |
| 336 | Glen Almain | 1803 | 1807 |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
| POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION CONTINUED. | POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION CONTINUED. | | |
| Page | | Com­posed | Pub­lished |
| 3 | To a Highland Girl | 1803 | 1807 |
| 7 | The Solitary Reaper | 1803 | 1807 |
| 9 | The Cock is crowing | | 1807 |
| 11 | Gipsies | | 1807 |
| 13 | Beggars | | 1807 |
| 16 | Yarrow Unvisited | 1803 | 1807 |
| 20 | Yarrow Visited | 1814 | |
| 24 | Star Gazers | | 1807 |
| 27 | Resolution and Independence | | 1807 |
| 35 | The Thorn | | 1798 |
| 47 | Hart-leap well | | 1800 |
| 58 | Song at the Feast of Brougham | | 1807 |
| 67 | Yes! full surely | | 1807 |
| 69 | French Revolution | | 1810 |
| 72 | It is no Spirit | | 1807 |
| 73 | Tintern Abbey | | 1798 |
| | POEMS PROCEEDING FROM SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. | | |
| 81 | Lines left upon a Seat, &c. | 1795 | 1798 |
| 87 | Character of the Happy Warrior | | 1807 |
| 91 | Rob Roy's Grave | 1803 | 1807 |
| 98 | A Poet's Epitaph | | 1800 |
| 102 | Expostulation and Reply | | 1798 |
| 104 | The Tables Turned | | 1798 |
| 106 | To the Sons of Burns | 1803 | 1807 ​ |
| 108 | To the Spade of a Friend | | 1807 |
| 110 | Written in Germany | 1798 | 1800 |
| 113 | Lines written at a small distance from my House, &c. | | 1798 |
| 116 | To a Young Lady who had been reproached for taking long walks, &c. | | 1807 |
| 117 | Lines written in early spring | | 1798 |
| 119 | Simon Lee | | 1798 |
| 124 | Andrew Jones | | 1800 |
| 126 | Lines written on a Tablet in a School | | 1800 |
| 128 | The two April mornings | | 1800 |
| 132 | The Fountain | | 1800 |
| 136 | Lines written in a Boat | | 1798 |
| 137 | Remembrance of Collins | | 1798 |
| 139 | I am not one of those, &c. | | 1807 |
| 142 | Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog | | 1807 |
| 141 | Tribute to the memory of the same Dog | | 1807 |
| 146 | The Force of Prayer, or the Founding of Bolton Abbey | 1808 | |
| 150 | Fidelity | | 1807 |
| 154 | Ode to Duty | | 1807 |
| | MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. | | |
| 159 | Prefatory Sonnet | | 1807 |
| 160 | Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture | | |
| 161 | The fairest, brightest | | |
| 162 | Weak is the will of Man | | |
| 163 | Hail Twilight | | |
| 164 | The Shepherd looking eastward | | |
| 165 | How sweet it is, when | | 1807 |
| 166 | Where lies the Land | | 1807 |
| 167 | Even as a dragon's eye | | |
| 168 | Mark the concentred | | |
| 169 | Composed after a journey across the Hamilton Hills | 1802 | 1807 |
| 170 | These words | | 1807 |
| 171 | Degenerate Douglas | | 1807 ​ |
| 172 | To the Poet Dyer | | |
| 173 | To Sleep | | 1807 |
| 174 | To Sleep | | 1807 |
| 175 | To Sleep | | 1807 |
| 176 | With Ships | | 1807 |
| 177 | To the River Duddon | | 1807 |
| 178 | From the Italian of M. Angelo | | |
| 179 | From the same | | |
| 180 | From the same | | |
| 181 | To the Lady —— | | 1807 |
| 182 | The World is too much with | | 1807 |
| 183 | Written in very early Youth | | |
| 184 | Composed on Westminster bridge | | 1807 |
| 185 | Pelion and Ossa | | 1807 |
| 186 | Brook whose | | |
| 187 | Admonition | | 1807 |
| 188 | Beloved Vale | | 1807 |
| 189 | Methought I saw | | 1807 |
| 191 | Surprized by joy | | |
| 191 | It is a beauteous | | 1807 |
| 192 | Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend | | |
| 193 | On approaching Home | 1803 | |
| 194 | To ——— | | |
| 195 | To Raisley Calvert | | 1807 |
| | SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. FIRST PART. Published in 1807. | | |
| 199 | Composed by the Sea shore near Calais | | |
| 200 | Calais | | |
| 201 | To a Friend | | |
| 202 | I grieved for Buonaparte | | |
| 203 | Festivals have I seen | | |
| 204 | On the extinction of the Venetian Republic | | |
| 205 | The King of Sweden | | ​ |
| 206 | To Toussaint L'Ouverture | | |
| 207 | We had a Fellow-passenger | | |
| 208 | Composed in the Valley near Dover | | |
| 209 | Inland, within a hollow Vale | | |
| 210 | Thought of a Briton, &c. | | |
| 211 | Written in London | | |
| 212 | Milton!—— | | |
| 213 | Great Men have been | | |
| 214 | It is not to be thought of | | |
| 215 | When I have borne | | |
| 216 | One might believe | | |
| 217 | There is a bondage | | |
| 218 | These times | | |
| 219 | England! the time is come | | |
| 220 | When looking | | |
| 221 | To the Men of Kent | | |
| 222 | Six thousand Veterans | | |
| 223 | Anticipation | | |
| 224 | Another year! | | |
| | SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. SECOND PART. From the Year 1807 to 1813. | | |
| 227 | On a celebrated Event in Ancient History | | |
| 228 | On the same Event | | |
| 229 | To Thomas Clarkson | | |
| 230 | A Prophecy | | |
| 231 | Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra | | |
| 232 | On the same occasion | | |
| 233 | Hoffer | | |
| 234 | Advance—come forth! | | |
| 235 | Feelings of the Tyrolese | | |
| 236 | Alas! what boots | | |
| 237 | And is it among rude | | |
| 238 | O'er the wide earth | | ​ |
| 239 | On the final submission of the Tyrolese | | |
| 240 | Hail Zaragoza! | | |
| 241 | Say what is Honour? | | |
| 242 | The martial courage | | |
| 243 | Brave Schill! | | |
| 244 | Call not the royal Swede | | |
| 245 | Look now on that Adventurer | | |
| 246 | Is there a Power | | |
| 247 | Ah where is Palafox! | | |
| 248 | In due observance | | |
| 249 | Feelings of a Noble Biscayan | | |
| 250 | The Oak of Guernica | | |
| 251 | Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard | | |
| 252 | Avaunt all specious | | |
| 253 | O'er-weening Statesmen | | |
| 254 | The French and Spanish Guerillas | | |
| 255 | Spanish Guerillas | | |
| 256 | The power of Armies | | |
| 257 | Conclusion | 1811 | |
| 258 | Added | 1813 | |
| | POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES. | | |
| 261 | It was an April morning | | 1800 |
| 264 | To Joanna | | 1800 |
| 268 | There is an Eminence | | 1800 |
| 269 | A narrow girdle | | 1800 |
| 273 | To M. H. | | 1800 |
| 275 | When from the attractions | 1802 | |
| | INSCRIPTIONS. | | |
| 283 | Lines written upon a stone, &c. | | 1800 |
| 285 | Upon a stone on the side of Black Comb | | |
| 287 | In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. | | |
| 289 | In a Garden of the same | | |
| 290 | Upon an Urn in the same Grounds | | ​ |
| 291 | For a Seat in the groves of Coleorton | | |
| 292 | Written with a pencil upon the wall of the house on the Island at Grasmere | | 1800 |
| | POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE. | | |
| 297 | The old Cumberland Beggar | 1798 | 1800 |
| 316 | The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale | | |
| 301 | The small Celandine | | 1807 |
| 313 | Animal Tranquillity | 1798 | 1798 |
| 314 | The two Thieves | | 1800 |
| 317 | The Matron of Jedborough | 1803 | 1807 |
| 321 | Sonnet | | 1807 |
| 322 | Inscription | | 1807 |
| | EPITAPHS AND ELIGAIC POEMS. | | |
| 327 | 1st, Epitaph translated from Chiabrera | | |
| 328 | 2d, | | |
| 329 | 3d, | | |
| 331 | 4th, | | |
| 332 | 5th, | | |
| 334 | 6th, | | |
| 335 | Lines composed at Grasmere | | 1807 |
| 336 | Written on a blank leaf in a Copy of the Excursion | | |
| 337 | Elegiac Stanzas | | 1807 |
| 341 | To the Daisy | 1805 | |
| 347 | ODE.—Intimations, &c. | | 1807 |
       Errata and Corrections
       Notes to Volume I
       Essay, supplementary to the Preface