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Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1 By: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
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POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur
Nostra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus.
CONTENTS
To the Daisy Louisa Fidelity She was a Phantom of delight The Redbreast and the Butterfly The Sailor's Mother To the Small Celandine To the same Flower Character of the Happy Warrior The Horn of Egremont Castle The Affliction of Margaret of The Kitten and the falling Leaves The Seven Sisters, or the Solitude of Binnorie To H.C., six Years old Among all lovely things my Love had been I travell'd among unknown Men Ode to Duty 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. CONTENTS. 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 4. 5. 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, 1803 24. 25. Anticipation. October, 1803 26. Notes: [Transcribers' Note: the Notes will be found at the End of the Volume]
TO THE DAISY. In youth from rock to rock I went
From hill to hill, in discontent
Of pleasure high and turbulent,
Most pleas'd when most uneasy;
But now my own delights I make,
My thirst at every rill can slake,
And gladly Nature's love partake
Of thee, sweet Daisy! When soothed a while by milder airs,
Thee Winter in the garland wears 10
That thinly shades his few grey hairs;
Spring cannot shun thee;
Whole summer fields are thine by right;
And Autumn, melancholy Wight!
Doth in thy crimson head delight
When rains are on thee. In shoals and bands, a morrice train,
Thou greet'st the Traveller in the lane;
If welcome once thou count'st it gain;
Thou art not daunted, 20
Nor car'st if thou be set at naught;
And oft alone in nooks remote
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted. Be Violets in their secret mews
The flowers the wanton Zephyrs chuse;
Proud be the Rose, with rains and dews
Her head impearling;
Thou liv'st with less ambitious aim,
Yet hast not gone without thy fame; 30
Thou art indeed by many a claim
The Poet's darling. If to a rock from rains he fly,
Or, some bright day of April sky,
Imprison'd by hot sunshine lie
Near the green holly,
And wearily at length should fare;
He need but look about, and there
Thou art! a Friend at hand, to scare
His melancholy. 40 A hundred times, by rock or bower,
Ere thus I have lain couch'd an hour,
Have I derived from thy sweet power
Some apprehension;
Some steady love; some brief delight;
Some memory that had taken flight;
Some chime of fancy wrong or right;
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