The poetical works of William Wordsworth

'Here pause: the Poet claims at least this praise,".

'Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright,"

MEMORIALS OF TOURS IN SCOTLAND.

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To the Sons of Burns. "Ye now are panting up,"

Ellen Irwin; or, the Braes of Kirtle. "Fair Ellen Irwin,". 457

The Blind Highland Boy. "Now we are tired,"

Rob Roy's Grave. "A famous man is Robin Hood,"

Stepping Westward. "What, you are stepping westward?" 467

Glen-Almain; or, the Narrow Glen. "In this still place,". 467

To a Highland Girl at Inversnaid. "Sweet Highland Girl," 468

The Solitary Reaper. "Behold her, single,"

Yarrow Unvisited. "From Stirling Castle,"

470

Yarrow Visited, September 1814. "And is this-Yarrow ?" 472

The Matron of Jedburgh. "Age! twine thy brows,"

Composed at

Castle." Degenerate Douglas !"

Six thousand Veterans,"

On Approaching Home. Fly, some kind spirit,”.

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE.

The Old Cumberland Beggar. "I saw an aged Beggar,"

The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale. ""Tis not for the unfeeling,'

The Small Celandine. "There is a flower,"

Animal Tranquillity and Decay. "The little hedgerow,"

The Two Thieves. 66

"Oh, now that the genius,"

EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC POEMS.

Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera-

Perhaps some needful service of the state,'

"O Thou who movest onward with a mind,'

"There never breathed a man who, when his life,"

"Destined to war from very infancy,"

"Not without heavy grief of heart did he,"

Pause, courteous Spirit!-Balbi supplicates,"

Lines written on a Blank Leaf. "To public notice,"

Elegiac Stanzas. "I was thy neighbour once,"

To the Daisy. "Sweet flower! belike,'

Lines composed at Grasmere. "Loud is the vale!"

ODE.-Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of

Early Childhood. "There was a time when meadow,"

THE

POETICAL WORKS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

THE EXCURSION.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, EARL OF LONSDALE, K.G.,

ETC., ETC.

OFT, through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer!
In youth I roamed, on youthful pleasures bent;
And mused in rocky cell or sylvan tent,

Beside swift-flowing Lowther's current clear.
-Now, by thy care befriended, I appear

Before thee, LONSDALE, and this Work present,
A token (may it prove a monument!)

Of high respect and gratitude sincere.
Gladly would I have waited till my task
Had reached its close; but Life is insecure,
And Hope full oft fallacious as a dream:
Therefore, for what is here produced, I ask
Thy favour; trusting that thou wilt not deem
The offering, though imperfect, premature.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

RYDAL MOUNT, WESTMORELAND.

July 29, 1814

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