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On the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway 236

Proud were ye, Mountains, when in times of old 236

At Furness Abbey..

At Furness Abbey, 1845.

When looking on the prosent state of things..... 256

To the Men of Keni. October, 1803 ........... 256

Anticipation. October, 1803....

Another year! - another deadly blow !...... 257

Ode. Who rises on the banks of Seine....... 257

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814.

The Brownie's Cell.....

Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's

Effusion, in the Pleasure.ground on the banks of

Yarrow Visited, September, 1814

POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDE.

PENDENCE AND LIBERTY.- Part II.

On a celebrated Event in Ancient History....... 258

Upon the same Event........

To Thomas Clarkson on the Final Passing of the

Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.... 258

A Prophecy. February, 1807......

Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake 258

Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes

Composed while the Author was engaged in

Writing a Tract, occasioned by the Conven.

tion of Cintra .

Composed at the same Time and on the same

Advance - come forth from thy Tyrolean ground 259

Feelings of the Tyrolese

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest

And is it among rude untutored Dales........... 260

O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain... 260

On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese

Hail, Zaragoza! Jf with unwet eye ............

Say, what is Honour? - 'Tis the finest sense.... 260

The martial courage of a day is vain ...........

Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight. 261

Call not the royal Swede unfortunate ..... 261

Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid.... 261

Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer... 261

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen.... 261

In due observance of an ancient rite ....

Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of those

The Oak of Guernica

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...

Spanish Guerillas

The power of Armies is a visible thing ......... 263

Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise.. 263

The French Army in Russia ...

On the same Occasion.....

By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze .......

The Germans on the Heights of Hockheim...... 264

Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright..... 264

Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinter-

ment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien 264

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo ........

Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski..

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo ...

Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung. 265

Ode, 1814. — When the soft hand of sleep had

closed the latch

Ode. — The Morning of the Day appointed for a

General Thanksgiving. 1816 .....

POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDE-

PENDENCE AND LIBERTY.- Part I.

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

It is a reed that's shaken by the wind........

Composed near Calais, on the road leading to

Ardres, August 7, 1802..

I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vain

Festivals have I seen that were not names ...... 253

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic..... 254

The King of Sweden ..

To Toussaint L'Ouverture..

September 1, 1802...

Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the day

Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood..

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Swit.

Written in London, September, 1802

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour .... 255

Great men have been among us; hands that

It is not to be thought of that the Flood ... 255

When I have borne in memory what has tamed.. 255

One might believe that natural miseries.......

There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear. 256

These times strike moneyed worldlings with

England! the time is come when thou should'st

SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day. 272

Upon the Late General Fast. March, 1832 ..... 272

Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud....... 273

Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will 273

lo allusion to various recent Histories and Notices

of the French Revolution...

Men of the Western World ! in Fate's dark book 274

To the Pennsylvanians

Ai Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insur-

rections, 1837.

Young England - what is then become of Old .. 275

Feel for the wrongs to universal ken....

The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd... 284

The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the

The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820

The Three Cottage Girls ......

The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Tri.

umphal Edifice in Milan, now lying in the

Stanzas, composed in the Simplon Pass

Echo, upon the Gemmi .....

Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in

the Vale of Chamouny

Elegiac Stanzas ....

Sky-prospect. - From the Plain of France 289

On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 289

After landing - the Valley of Dover ......

Desultory Stanzas.

SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF

Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on

the Road from the South)........... 275

Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die...... 275

Is Death, when evil against good has fought. 275

Not to the object specially designed ...

Ye brood of conscience — Spectres ! that frequent 276

Before the world had past her time of youth..... 276

Fit retribution by the moral code .....

Though to give timely warning and deter 276

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine.. 276

Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide.... 276

See the Condemned alone within his cell. ....... 277

.. 296

297

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTI.

Fish-women. - On Landing at Calais

After visiting the Field of Waterloo

Between Namur and Liege

Aix-la-Chapelle.......

lu the Cathedral at Cologne

In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine..... 279

Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they approach the

Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg..

The Source of the Danube.......

Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun. 280

Composed in One of the Catholic Cantons .

On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen · 280

'The Fall of the Aar-Handec.

Scene on the Lake of Brientz

Engelberg, the Hill of Angels....

Our Lady of the Snow

Ellusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of

Tell, at Altorf..

The Town of Schwytz..

On hearing the "Ranz des Vaches" on the Top

of the Pass of St. Gothard ..........

The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake

THE RIVER DUDDON. A SERIES OF SONNETS.

To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, 1820 ......

Not envying Latian shades — if yet they throw.. 294

Child of the clouds ! remote from every taint.... 294

How shall I paint thee? - Be this naked stone 294

Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take... 294

Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played. 294

“Change me, some God, into that breathing

What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled.... 295

The Stepping-stones

The same Subject..

The Faëry Chasm

Hints for the Fancy

Open Prospect.....

O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot.. 296

From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams

American Tradition

Seathwaite Chapel

Tributary Stream

The Plain of Donnerdale

Whence that low voice ? — A whisper from the

The Resting-place

Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat

Return, Content! for fondly I pursued.... 298

Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap

Journey renewed..........

No record tells of lance opposed to lance.....

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce 298

The Kink of ULPHA to the Pilgrim's eye ....... 299

Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep 299

YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER Poems, Com-

POSED (TWO EXCEPTED) DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND,

AND ON THE English BORDER, IN THE AUTUMN OF

The gallant Youth, who may have gained....... 300

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Ab.

botsford, for Naples .

Cave of Staffa ....

....... 312
Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance
of the Cave...

312
Iona.......

312
Iona. Upon Landing...

....... 313
The Black Stones of Iona

313
Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell.... 313
Greenock

313

“There !" said a Stripling, pointing with meet

Fancy and Tradition...
The River Eden, Cumberland.
Monument of Mrs. Howard, in Wetberal Church 314
Suggested by the foregoing

314
Nunnery

314
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways.

314

To the Earl of Lonsdale...

315
To Cordelia M —, Hallsteads, Ullswater .... 315
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes .....

315
Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off Saint Bees'

Heads, on the Coast of Cumberland ........ 315

...... 313

314

A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland...... 302

On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland 302

Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a Storm..... 302

The Trosachs.....

Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day. 303

Composed at Dunolly Castle in the Bay of Oban 303

In the Sound of Mull......

Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm.....

The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion, and

Family Burial-place, near Killin ......... 303

“Rest and be Thankful!" At the Head of Glen-

To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star. Composed

Bothwell Castle. Passed unseen, on account of

stormy Weather......

Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton

The Avon. A Feeder of the Annan

Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Ingle-

wood Forest .....

Hart's-horn Tree near Penrith

Countess' Pillar...

Roman Antiquities. From the Roman Station at

Old Penrith......

Apology, for the foregoing Poems

..... 305

The Highland Broach

... 304

..... 321

..... 3:2

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837.

To H. C. Robinson......

Musings near Aquapendente

The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome..

At Rome. - Regrets.- In allusion to Niebuhr

and other modern Historians

Continued.......

Plea for the Historian...

Near Rome, in sight of St. Peter's

At Albano......

Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove ...... 393

From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome 323

Near the Lake of Thrasymene

Near the same Lake.....

The Cuckoo at Laverna

At the Convent of Camaldoli

At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli. 325

At Vallombrosa....

Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in

the Gallery at Florence.

At Florence. — From Michael Angelo

At Florence. - From M. Angelo .......

Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines 326

After leaving Italy

326

Continued

326

Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838...... 326

The Pillar of Trajan

327

THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, TIE

FATE OF THE NORTONS.

Dedication.

328

Canto I..

329

Canto II.

332

Canto III.

Canto IV.

337

Canto V.

310

Canto VI.

342

Canto VII

309

On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man.... 309

By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man

310

Isle of Man.......

310

The Retired Marine officer, Isle of Man

310

By a Retired Mariner. (A Friend of the Author) 310

At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be

written by a Friend)

... 310

Tynwald Hill..

310

Despond who will — I heard a voice exclaim..... 311

In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. During an

Eclipse of the Sun, July 17 ..........

On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-boat 311

On revisiting Dunolly Castle....

311

The Dunolly Eagle.....

311

Cave of Staffa.

... 312

Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed.. 312

..... 311

.... 334

.....

.. 343

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.-PART I. FROM

THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN,
TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.

Saints ...

358

Imaginative Regrets..

Translation of the Bible

359
The Point at issue

359

Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of

Revival of Popery

Latimer and Ridley

General View of the Troubles of the Reformation 360

English Reformers in Exile

Eminent Reformers

Distractions...

361
Gunpowder Plot

361
Illustration. The Jung-Frau and the Fall of the
Rhine near Schaffhausen

361
Troubles of Charles the First

362

Afflictions of England

362

.. 360

Conjectures.....

Trepidation of the Druids.....

Druidical Excommunication.

Uncertainty.....

Temptations from Roman Refinements

Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians... 349

Saxon Conquest.......

Monastery of Old Bangor...

Casual Incitement...

Apology........

Primitive Saxon Clergy..

Other Influences.

Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the

Religion ......

Missions and Travels..

His Descendants

Influence Abused

Danish Conquests.

The Norman Conquest.

The Council of Clermont....

Scene in Venice.

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.-PART III. FROM

THE RESTORATION TO THE PRESENT TIMES,

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS. - PART II. To

TEE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF

I saw the figure of a lovely Maid .

Patriotic Sympathies

Charles the Second....

Latitudinarianism

Clerical Integrity

Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters

Acquittal of the Bishops...

William the Third ....

Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty

Walton's Book of Lives .....

Sacheverel.....

Down a Swift Stream, thus far, a bold design.... 364

ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA:

1. The Pilgrim Fathers.....

II. Continued......

III. Concluded. — American Episcopacy., 365

Bishops and Priests, blessèd are ye, if deep...

Places of Worship

Pastoral Character

Confirmation - Continued

The Marriage Ceremony..

Thanksgiving after Childbirth..

Visitation of the Sick

The Commination Service

Forms of Prayer at Sea...

Funeral Service.

Emigrant French Clergy

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493

425

394

368 On the same Occasion, 1823 ................... 412

New Churches....

368 The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton

Churches to be Erected.

Priory. A Tradition, 1803...........

Continued ........

369 A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and

New Church-yard..

Alfred, on the Sea-shore, 1816

Cathedrals, etc. ...........

369 A little onward lend thy guiding hand, 1816 413

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

The Sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields, 1819.... 414

369 Upon the same Occasion, 1819

370 The Wishing Gate Destroyed

370 Dion, 1816 .....

370 Presentiments, 1830

Lines written in the Album of the Countess of

ADDITIONAL ECCLESIASTICAL SONnets.

Lonsdale. Nov. 5, 1834

Coldly we spake. The Saxons overpowered. 370

How soon — Alas! did man created pure........ 370

To a Redbreast - (in sickness) by S. H... 419

From false assumption rose, and fondly hailed ... 371 Floating Island, by D. W. ....

419

As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest....... 371

Inscription on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 419

Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root 371

To -, upon the Birth of her First-born Child,

Notes to Poems of the Imagination

Supplementary Note, with Extracts from the Au.

The Warning. A Sequel to the foregoing, 1833. 43)

thor's prose work on the Convention of Cintra. 392

If this great world of joy and pain, 1833.....

Humanity, 1829....

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the pencil of

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.

F. Stone, 1834 ..

Expostulation and Reply, 1798

The foregoing Subject resumed, 1834

The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the

same Subject, 1798..

Ode to Duty, 1805...

Written in Germany, on one of the coldest Days

of the Century, 1799

EVENING VOLUNTARIES.

393

A Night Thought....

Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose, 1832... 426

Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of

Not in the lucid intervals of life, 1934...

Paradise in an Album, 1835.....

394 By the Side of Rydal Mere, 1834

Character of the Happy Warrior, 1806.

394 Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Mere, 1834 427

A Poet's Epitaph, 1799...

395 The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill,

To the Spade of a Friend, 1804

To my Sister, 1798

396 The Sun that seemed so mildly to retire. (On a

To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for

high part of the Coast of Cumberland, Easter

taking long walks in the Country, 1803...... 397 Sunday, April 7, 1833; the Author's Sixty.

Lines written in Early Spring, 1798.... • 397

third Birth-day) .....

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, 1798

397 By the Sea-side, 1833.

Incident at Bruges, 1820.

398 The sun has long been set, 1804....

The Wishing Gate, 1828...

399 “Throned in the Sun's descending car”.

Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog, 1805 .. 399 Composed by the Sea-shore ...
Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog, 1805... 400 The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love

499

Matthew.- If Nature, for a favourite child, 1799 400 To the Moon. Composed by the Sea-side,

The Two April Mornings, 1799.

the Coast of Cumberland, 1835...

The Fountain. A Conversation, 1799

To the Moon. Rydal, 1835....

A Character, 1800......

402 How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high

This Lawn, a carpet all alive, 1829

402 To Lucca Giordano, 1846.

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive.

Who but is pleased to watch the Moon on high,

Written on a blank leaf of Macpherson's Ossian,

403 Where lies the truth? has man, in Wisdom's

Vernal Ode, 1817

Ode to Lycoris....

Notes to Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.

To the Same, 1817 .

Ode, composed on May Morning, 1826.

To May, 1826 — 1834....

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Devotional Incitements, 1832.

The Primrose of the Rock, 1831

Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.

Thought on the Seasons, 1829...

From the South-West Coast of Cumberland.

Fidelity, 1805...

The Gleaner. Suggested by a Picture, 1828 .

Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty Years

The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn, 1834 ......... 410 after its Composition

To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the Foundation Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled “Poems

preparing for the Erection of Rydal Chapel,

chiefly of Early and Late Years.” 1842.... 437

Westmoreland, 1823.,

To a Chidi. Written in her Album ....

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