THE PRELUDE
THE PRELUDE BOOK FIRST
THE PRELUDE BOOK SECOND
THE PRELUDE BOOK THIRD
THE PRELUDE BOOK FOURTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK FIFTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK SIXTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK SEVENTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK EIGHTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK NINTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK TENTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK ELEVENTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK TWELFTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK THIRTEENTH
THE PRELUDE BOOK FOURTEENTH
THE RECLUSE PART FIRST
CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR
THE HORN OF EGREMONT CASTLE
A COMPLAINT
STRAY PLEASURES
POWER OF MUSIC
STAR-GAZERS
YES, IT WAS THE MOUNTAIN ECHO
NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT’S NARROW ROOM
PERSONAL TALK
ADMONITION
BELOVED VALE! I SAID, WHEN I SHALL CON
HOW SWEET IT IS, WHEN MOTHER FANCY ROCKS
THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD
COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE LAKE 1806.
WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON, THOU CLIMB’ST THE SKY
THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON
WITH SHIPS THE SEA WAS SPRINKLED FAR AND NIGH
WHERE LIES THE LAND TO WHICH YON SHIP MUST GO?
TO SLEEP (I)
TO SLEEP (II)
TO SLEEP (III)
MICHAEL ANGELO IN REPLY TO THE PASSAGE UPON HIS STATUE OF NIGHT SLEEPING
FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHAEL ANGELO I
FROM THE SAME II
TO THE MEMORY OF RAISLEY CALVERT
METHOUGHT I SAW THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THRONE I
LINES: LOUD IS THE VALE! THE VOICE IS UP
NOVEMBER 1806
ADDRESS TO A CHILD DURING A BOISTEROUS WINTER EVENING
ODE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
A PROPHECY. FEBRUARY 1807.
THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND
TO THOMAS CLARKSON ON THE FINAL PASSING OF THE BILL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE, MARCH 1807
THE MOTHER’S RETURN
GIPSIES
O NIGHTINGALE! THOU SURELY ART
TO LADY BEAUMONT
THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN’S CARES
SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE
THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE
RYDAL MOUNT, WESTMORELAND, APRIL 20, 1815.
LORD BACON.
THE FORCE OF PRAYER
COMPOSED WHILE THE AUTHOR WAS ENGAGED IN WRITING A TRACT OCCASIONED BY THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA
COMPOSED AT THE SAME TIME AND ON THE SAME OCCASION
GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN
HOFFER
ADVANCE—COME FORTH FROM THY TYROLEAN GROUND
FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE
ALAS! WHAT BOOTS THE LONG LABORIOUS QUEST
AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES
O’ER THE WIDE EARTH, ON MOUNTAIN AND ON PLAIN
ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE
HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE
SAY, WHAT IS HONOUR?—’TIS THE FINEST SENSE
THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN
BRAVE SCHILL! BY DEATH DELIVERED
CALL NOT THE ROYAL SWEDE UNFORTUNATE
LOOK NOW ON THAT ADVENTURER WHO HATH PAID
IS THERE A POWER THAT CAN SUSTAIN AND CHEER
AH! WHERE IS PALAFOX? NOR TONGUE NOR PEN
IN DUE OBSERVANCE OF AN ANCIENT RITE
FEELINGS OF A NOBLE BISCAYAN AT ONE OF THOSE FUNERALS
ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY
UPON THE SAME EVENT
THE OAK OF GUERNICA; SUPPOSED ADDRESS TO THE SAME
INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD
AVAUNT ALL SPECIOUS PLIANCY OF MIND
O’ERWEENING STATESMEN HAVE FULL LONG RELIED
THE FRENCH AND THE SPANISH GUERILLAS
EPITAPHS 1810. TRANSLATED FROM CHIABRERA
EPITAPH I
EPITAPHS II
EPITAPHS III
EPITAPHS IV
EPITAPHS V
EPITAPHS VI
EPITAPHS VII
EPITAPHS VIII
EPITAPHS IX
MATERNAL GRIEF
CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE YEARS OLD
SPANISH GUERILLAS
THE POWER OF ARMIES IS A VISIBLE THING
HERE PAUSE: THE POET CLAIMS AT LEAST THIS PRAISE
EPISTLE TO SIR GEORGE HOWLAND BEAUMONT, BART.
UPON PERUSING THE FOREGOING EPISTLE THIRTY YEARS AFTER ITS COMPOSITION
UPON THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE GROUNDS OF COLEORTON, THE SEAT OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART., LEICESTERSHIRE
INSCRIPTIONS IN A GARDEN OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART.
INSCRIPTIONS WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART., AND IN HIS NAME, FOR AN URN, PLACED BY HIM AT THE TERMINATION OF A NEWLY-PLANTED AVENUE, IN THE SAME GROUNDS
INSCRIPTIONS FOR A SEAT IN THE GROVES OF COLEORTON.
SONG FOR THE SPINNING WHEEL
COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND IN THE VALE OF GRASMERE
WATER-FOWL
VIEW FROM THE TOP OF BLACK COMB
WRITTEN WITH A SLATE PENCIL ON A STONE, ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF BLACK COMB
NOVEMBER 1813
THE EXCURSION
THE EXCURSION: PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814
THE EXCURSION: BOOK FIRST
THE EXCURSION: BOOK SECOND
THE EXCURSION: BOOK THIRD
THE EXCURSION: BOOK FOURTH
THE EXCURSION: BOOK FIFTH
THE EXCURSION: BOOK SIXTH
THE EXCURSION: BOOK SEVENTH
THE EXCURSION: BOOK EIGHTH
THE EXCURSION: BOOK NINTH
LAODAMIA
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1814 I.
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1814 II.
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1814 III.
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1814 IV.
FROM THE DARK CHAMBERS OF DEJECTION FREED
LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S POEM THE EXCURSION, UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF THE LATE VICAR OF KENDAL.
TO B. R. HAYDON
ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE
SEPTEMBER 1815
NOVEMBER 1
THE FAIREST, BRIGHTEST, HUES OF ETHER FADE
WEAK IS THE WILL OF MAN, HIS JUDGMENT BLIND
HAIL, TWILIGHT, SOVEREIGN OF ONE PEACEFUL HOUR
THE SHEPHERD, LOOKING EASTWARD, SOFTLY SAID
EVEN AS A DRAGON’S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS
MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE
TO THE POET, JOHN DYER
BROOK! WHOSE SOCIETY THE POET SEEKS
SURPRISED BY JOY—IMPATIENT AS THE WIND
ODE: THE MORNING OF THE DAY APPOINTED FOR A GENERAL THANKSGIVING. JANUARY 18, 1816
ODE: IMAGINATION—NE’ER BEFORE CONTENT
INVOCATION TO THE EARTH, FEBRUARY 1816
ODE: CARMINA POSSUMUS
ODE: WHO RISES ON THE BANKS OF SEINE
THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA, 1812-13
ON THE SAME OCCASION
BY MOSCOW SELF-DEVOTED TO A BLAZE
THE GERMANS ON THE HEIGHTS OF HOCHHEIM
SIEGE OF VIENNA RAISED BY JOHN SOBIESKI, FEBRUARY 1816
OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO FEBRUARY 1816.
EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG
FEELINGS OF A FRENCH ROYALIST, ON THE DISINTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE DUKE D’ENGHIEN
TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE AENEID; TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL MUSEUM
A FACT, AND AN IMAGINATION
TO DORA
TO ——, ON HER FIRST ASCENT TO THE SUMMIT OF HELVELLYN
VERNAL ODE
ODE TO LYCORIS, MAY 1817
TO THE SAME
THE LONGEST DAY
HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS FOR CERTAIN POLITICAL PRETENDERS
THE PASS OF KIRKSTONE
LAMENT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS ON THE EVE OF A NEW YEAR
SEQUEL TO THE BEGGARS, 1802
THE PILGRIM’S DREAM
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT’S CELL, 1818, I
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT’S CELL, 1818, II
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT’S CELL, 1818, III
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT’S CELL, 1818, IV
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT’S CELL, 1818, V
COMPOSED UPON AN EVENING OF EXTRAORDINARY SPLENDOUR AND BEAUTY
COMPOSED DURING A STORM
THIS, AND THE TWO FOLLOWING, WERE SUGGESTED BY MR. W. WESTALL’S VIEWS OF THE CAVES, ETC., IN YORKSHIRE
MALHAM COVE
GORDALE
AERIAL ROCK—WHOSE SOLITARY BROW
THE WILD DUCK’S NEST
WRITTEN UPON A BLANK LEAF IN THE COMPLETE ANGLER.
CAPTIVITY—MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
TO A SNOWDROP
ON SEEING A TUFT OF SNOWDROPS IN A STORM
COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE VALLEYS OF WESTMORELAND, ON EASTER SUNDAY
GRIEF, THOU HAST LOST AN EVER-READY FRIEND
I WATCH, AND LONG HAVE WATCHED, WITH CALM REGRET
I HEARD (ALAS! ‘TWAS ONLY IN A DREAM)
THE HAUNTED TREE, TO ——
SEPTEMBER 1819
UPON THE SAME OCCASION
THERE IS A LITTLE UNPRETENDING RILL
COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM
ON THE DEATH OF HIS MAJESTY (GEORGE THE THIRD)
THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE’S HAND
TO THE LADY MARY LOWTHER
ON THE DETRACTION WHICH FOLLOWED THE PUBLICATION OF A CERTAIN POEM
OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820
OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820
JUNE 1820
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, I
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, II
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, III
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, IV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, V
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, VI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, VII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, VIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, IX
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, X
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XIV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XVI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XVII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XVIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XIX
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XX
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXIV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXIV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXVI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXVII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXVIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXIX
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXX
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXIII
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXIV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXV
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXVI
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820, XXXVII
THE RIVER DUDDON A SERIES OF SONNETS, 1820.
THE RIVER DUDDON I
THE RIVER DUDDON II
THE RIVER DUDDON III
THE RIVER DUDDON IV
THE RIVER DUDDON V
THE RIVER DUDDON VI
THE RIVER DUDDON VII
THE RIVER DUDDON VIII
THE RIVER DUDDON IX
THE RIVER DUDDON X
THE RIVER DUDDON XI
THE RIVER DUDDON XII
THE RIVER DUDDON XIII
THE RIVER DUDDON XIV
THE RIVER DUDDON XV
THE RIVER DUDDON XVI
THE RIVER DUDDON XVII
THE RIVER DUDDON XVIII
THE RIVER DUDDON XIX
THE RIVER DUDDON XX
THE RIVER DUDDON XXI
THE RIVER DUDDON XXII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXIII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXIV
THE RIVER DUDDON XXV
THE RIVER DUDDON XXVI
THE RIVER DUDDON XXVII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXVIII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXIX
THE RIVER DUDDON XXX
THE RIVER DUDDON XXXI
THE RIVER DUDDON XXXII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXXIII
THE RIVER DUDDON XXXIV
A PARSONAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE
TO ENTERPRISE
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22: PART I
INTRODUCTION
CONJECTURES
TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS
DRUIDICAL EXCOMMUNICATION
UNCERTAINTY
PERSECUTION
RECOVERY
TEMPTATIONS FROM ROMAN REFINEMENTS
DISSENSIONS
STRUGGLE OF THE BRITONS AGAINST THE BARBARIANS
SAXON CONQUEST
MONASTERY OF OLD BANGOR
CASUAL INCITEMENT
GLAD TIDINGS
PAULINUS
PERSUASION
CONVERSION
APOLOGY
PRIMITIVE SAXON CLERGY
OTHER INFLUENCES
SECLUSION
CONTINUED
REPROOF
SAXON MONASTERIES, AND LIGHTS AND SHADES OF THE RELIGION
MISSIONS AND TRAVELS
ALFRED
HIS DESCENDANTS
INFLUENCE ABUSED
DANISH CONQUESTS
CANUTE
THE NORMAN CONQUEST
COLDLY WE SPAKE. THE SAXONS, OVERPOWERED
THE COUNCIL OF CLERMONT
CRUSADES
RICHARD I
AN INTERDICT
PAPAL ABUSES
SCENE IN VENICE
PAPAL DOMINION
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22: PART II
HOW SOON—ALAS! DID MAN, CREATED PURE
FROM FALSE ASSUMPTION ROSE, AND, FONDLY HAILED
CISTERTIAN MONASTERY
DEPLORABLE HIS LOT WHO TILLS THE GROUND
MONKS AND SCHOOLMEN
OTHER BENEFITS
OTHER BENEFITS CONTINUED
CRUSADERS
AS FAITH THUS SANCTIFIED THE WARRIOR’S CREST
WHERE LONG AND DEEPLY HATH BEEN FIXED THE ROOT
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
THE VAUDOIS
PRAISED BE THE RIVERS, FROM THEIR MOUNTAIN SPRINGS
WALDENSES
ARCHBISHOP CHICHELY TO HENRY V
WARS OF YORK AND LANCASTER
WICLIFFE
CORRUPTIONS OF THE HIGHER CLERGY
ABUSE OF MONASTIC POWER
MONASTIC VOLUPTUOUSNESS
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DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
THE SAME SUBJECT
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
SAINTS
THE VIRGIN
APOLOGY
IMAGINATIVE REGRETS
REFLECTIONS
TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE
THE POINT AT ISSUE
EDWARD VI
EDWARD SIGNING THE WARRANT FOR THE EXECUTION OF JOAN OF KENT
REVIVAL OF POPERY
LATIMER AND RIDLEY
CRANMER
GENERAL VIEW OF THE TROUBLES OF THE REFORMATION
ENGLISH REFORMERS IN EXILE
ELIZABETH
EMINENT REFORMERS
EMINENT REFORMERS: THE SAME
DISTRACTIONS
GUNPOWDER PLOT
ILLUSTRATION: THE JUNG-FRAU AND THE FALL OF THE RHINE NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN
TROUBLES OF CHARLES THE FIRST
LAUD
AFFLICTIONS OF ENGLAND
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS IN SERIES, 1821-22: PART III
FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE PRESENT TIMES
PATRIOTIC SYMPATHIES
CHARLES THE SECOND
LATITUDINARIANISM
WALTON’S BOOK OF LIVES
CLERICAL INTEGRITY
PERSECUTION OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS
ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS
WILLIAM THE THIRD
OBLIGATIONS OF CIVIL TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
SACHEVEREL
DOWN A SWIFT STREAM, THUS FAR, A BOLD DESIGN
ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: I. THE PILGRIM FATHERS
ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: II. THE PILGRIM FATHERS CONTINUED
ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: III. THE PILGRIM FATHERS. CONCLUDED.—AMERICAN EPISCOPACY
BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, BLESSED ARE YE, IF DEEP
PLACES OF WORSHIP
PASTORAL CHARACTER
THE LITURGY
BAPTISM
SPONSORS
CATECHISING
CONFIRMATION
CONFIRMATION CONTINUED
SACRAMENT
THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY
THANKSGIVING AFTER CHILDBIRTH
VISITATION OF THE SICK
THE COMMINATlON SERVICE
FORMS OF PRAYER AT SEA
FUNERAL SERVICE
RURAL CEREMONY
REGRETS
MUTABILITY
OLD ABBEYS
EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY
CONGRATULATION
NEW CHURCHES
CHURCH TO BE ERECTED
CONTINUED
NEW CHURCHYARD
CATHEDRALS, ETC.
INSIDE OF KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE
INSIDE OF KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE: THE SAME
INSIDE OF KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE: CONTINUED
EJACULATION
EJACULATION CONCLUSION
MEMORY
TO THE LADY FLEMING ON SEEING THE FOUNDATION PREPARING FOR THE ERECTION OF RYDAL CHAPEL, WESTMORELAND
ON THE SAME OCCASION
A VOLANT TRIBE OF BARDS ON EARTH ARE FOUND
NOT LOVE, NOT WAR, NOR THE TUMULTUOUS SWELL
TO ——
TO ——
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