List of poems by William Wordsworth
This article lists the complete poetic bibliography of William Wordsworth,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] including his juvenilia, describing his poetic output during the years 1785-1797,[9] and any previously private and, during his lifetime, unpublished poems.[10]
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[Class 1] ; [Class 2] ; [Class 3] ' et cetera |
1785-1789
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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Lines written as a School Exercise | 1785 | Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14. Lines on the Bicentenary of Hawkshead School .
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"And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven" | Juvenile Pieces | Unknown |
Extract | 1786 | From the Conclusion of a Poem Composed in Anticipation of Leaving School | "Dear native regions, I foretell," | Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth | 1815 |
Written in very Early Youth | 1786? / Unknown | Written while sailing in a boat at Evening | "Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." | Miscellaneous Sonnets; Poems Written in Youth | 1807 |
An Evening Walk | 1787–1789 | Addressed to a young lady | "The young Lady to whom this was addressed was my Sister. It was" | Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth | 1793 |
Lines | 1789 | Written while sailing in a boat at Evening | "How richly glows the water's breast" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection; Poems Written in Youth | 1798 |
Remembrance of Collins | 1789 | Composed upon the Thames near Richmond | "Glide gently, thus for ever glide," | Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth | 1798 |
1790-1799
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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Descriptive Sketches | 1791–1792 | Taken during a Pedestrian Tour Among the Alps | "Were there, below, a spot of holy ground" | Juvenile Pieces (1815–1836); Distinct Class (with Female Vagrant) (1836–) | 1793 |
Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.[1] | 1791–1794 | "A traveller on the skirt of Sarum's Plain" | Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth; Distinct Class (with Descriptive sketches) (1836–); Poems of Early and Late Years | 1798 | |
Female Vagrant | 1791–1794 | "'By Derwent's side my father dwelt—a man" | Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth; Distinct Class (with Descriptive sketches) (1836–); | 1798 | |
Lines (2) | 1795 | Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect. | "Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) | 1798 |
The Reverie of Poor Susan | 1797 | Former title: Bore the title of "Poor Susan" from 1800–1805 | "At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears," | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 |
When Love was born of heavenly line | 1795 | "When Love was born of heavenly line," | No class assigned | 1795 | |
1798: A Night-Piece | 1798 | "The sky is overcast" | Poems of the Imagination | 1815 | |
We are Seven | 1798 | Manuscript title: Bore the title of "'We are Seven, or Death". | "A Simple Child," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1798 |
Anecdote for Fathers | 1798 | Former title: Bore the title of "Ancedote for Fathers, showing how the practise of lying may be taught" from 1798–1804 | "I Have a boy of five years old;" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1798 |
The Thorn | 1798, 19 March | "'There is a Thorn--it looks so old," | Poems of the Imagination | 1798 | |
Goody Blake and Harry Gill | 1798 | A True Story | "Oh! what's the matter? what's the matter?" | Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) | 1798 |
Her eyes are Wild | 1798 | Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 | "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," | Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) | 1798 |
Simon Lee | 1798 | The Old Huntsman; With an Incident in which he was concerned | "With an incident in which he was concerned" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1798 |
Lines written in Early Spring | 1798 | "I heard a thousand blended notes" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1798 | |
To my Sister | 1798 | Former titles: Bore the title of: "Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the person to whom they are addressed." from 1798–1815 and "To my Sister; written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy" from 1820–1843. From 1845 onward the poem bore the current title. | "It is the first mild day of March:" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1798 |
A whirl-blast from behind the hill | 1798, 18 March | "A Whirl-Blast from behind the hill" | Poems of the Fancy | 1800 | |
Expostulation and Reply | 1798 | "'Why, William, on that old grey stone," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1798 | |
The Tables Turned | 1798 | an evening scene on the same subject.
(with reference to "Expostulation and Reply" |
"Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1798 |
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman | 1798 | "Before I see another day," | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1798 | |
The Last of the Flock | 1798 | "In distant countries have I been," | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1798 | |
The Idiot Boy | 1798 | "'Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night," | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1798 | |
Lines | 1798, 13 July | Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour.
Former title: Bore the title of: "Lines, written a few miles, etc." in the 1798 edition. From 1815 onward, the poem bore the current title. |
"Five years have past; five summers, with the length" | Poems of the Imagination | 1798 |
The Old Cumberland Beggar | 1798 | Manuscript title: "Description of a Beggar" |
"I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;" | Poems referring to the Period of Old Age. | 1800 |
Animal Tranquillity and Decay | 1798 | Former titles: Bore the title of: "Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch" in the 1798 edition and "Animal Tranquillity and Decay. A Sketch. " in the 1800 edition. | "The little hedgerow birds," | Poems referring to the Period of Old Age. | 1798 |
Peter Bell | 1798 | A Tale
Former title: Bore the title of "Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse" in the 1819 edition. |
"There's something in a flying horse," | Poems of the Imagination | 1819 |
The Simplon Pass | 1799 | "Brook and road" | Poems of the Imagination | 1845 | |
Influence of Natural Objects | 1799 | In calling forth and strengthening the imagination of boyhood and early youth | "Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1809 |
There was a Boy | 1798 | Former title: Bore the lack of a title between 1800–1832. From 1836 onward the poem bore the current title.
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"There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs" | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 |
Nutting | 1799 | "It seems a day" | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 | |
A Poet's Epitaph | 1799 | "Art thou a Statist in the van" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1800 | |
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ------ | 1798 or 1799 | "I come, ye little noisy Crew," | Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years,; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. (1845-) | 1841 | |
Matthew | 1799 | Former title: Bore the lack of a title from 1800–1820 and the title of: "IF Nature, for a favourite child," from 1827–1832. | "If Nature, for a favourite child," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1800 |
The two April Mornings | 1799 | "We walked along, while bright and red" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1800 | |
The Fountain. | 1799 | A Conversation | "We talked with open heart, and tongue" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1800 |
To a Sexton | 1799 | ||||
"Let thy wheel-barrow alone--" | Poems of the Fancy | 1800 | |||
The Danish Boy | 1799 | A Fragment
Former title: Bore the title of: "A Fragment" from 1800–1832 and "A Danish boy. A Fragment" from 1836 onwards |
"Between two sister moorland rills" | Poems of the Fancy | 1800 |
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude | 1799 | ||||
"Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1800 | |||
Ruth | 1799 | "When Ruth was left half desolate," | Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–) | 1800 | |
Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century | 1799 | On one of the Coldest Days of the Century.
Former title: Preceding Publication was titled: "The Fly" |
"A plague on your languages, German and Norse!" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1800 |
1800-1809
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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The Brothers | 1800 | "'These Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must live" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1800 | |
Michael. A Pastoral Poem | 1800 | "If from the public way you turn your steps" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1800 | |
The Idle Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. | 1800 | A Pastoral | "The valley rings with mirth and joy;" |
Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1800 |
The Pet-lamb | 1800 | A Pastoral | "The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1800 |
I | 1800 | "It was an April morning, fresh and clear" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1800 | |
II | 1800 | To Joanna | "Amid the smoke of cities did you pass" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1800 |
III | 1800 | "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1800 | |
IV | 1800 | "A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1800 | |
V | 1800 | To M. H. | "Our walk was far among the ancient trees:" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1800 |
The Waterfall and the Eglantine | 1800 | "'Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,' " | Poems of the Fancy. | 1800 | |
The Oak and the Broom | 1800 | A Pastoral | "His simple truths did Andrew glean" | Poems of the Fancy. | 1800 |
Hart-leap Well | 1800 | "The Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor" | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 | |
Tis said, that some have died for love | 1800 | " 'Tis said, that some have died for love:" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1800 | |
The Childless Father | 1800 | "'Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away!" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1800 | |
Song for The Wandering Jew | 1800 | "Though the torrents from their fountains" | Poems of the Fancy | 1800 | |
Rural Architecture | 1800 | "There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1800 | |
Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle | 1800 | "Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sate" | Poems founded on the Affections (1815 and 1820) | 1800 | |
Andrew Jones | 1800 | "I hate that Andrew Jones; he'll breed" | Lyrical Ballads | 1800 | |
The Two Thieves; or, The Last Stage of Avarice | 1798 | "O now that the genius of Bewick were mine," | Poems referring to the Period of Old Age. | 1800 | |
A Character | 1800 | "I marvel how Nature could ever find space" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1800 | |
For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater | 1800 | "If thou in the dear love of some one Friend" | Inscriptions (1) | 1800 | |
Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (An Outhouse), on the Island at Grasmere. | 1800 | "Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen" | Inscriptions (1) | 1830? / Unknown | |
Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the Largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal | 1798 | Manuscript title: "Written with a ...upon one of the [lesser island] at Rydal." | "Stranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stones" | Inscriptions (1) | 1800 |
The Sparrow's Nest | 1801 | "Behiold, within the leafy shade," | Moods of my Mind (1807–15); Poems founded on the Affections, (1815–45); Poems referring to the Period of Childhood (1845–) | 1807 | |
1801 | 1801 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side" from 1801–1836. | "Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 |
The Prioress' Tale (from Chaucer) | 1801 | "'O Lord, our Lord! how wondrously,' (quoth she)" | Poems founded on the Affections. (1836–45); Selections from Chaucer modernised. (1845–) | 1820 | |
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (from Chaucer) | 1801 | "The God of Love-'ah, benedicite!'" | Selections from Chaucer modernised. (1845–) | 1841 | |
Troilus and Cresida (from Chaucer) | 1801 | "Next morning Troilus began to clear" | Selections from Chaucer modernised. (1845–) | 1841 | |
The Sailor's Mother | 1802, 11 and 12 March | "One morning (raw it was and wet---" | Poems founded on the Affection | 1807 | |
Alice Fell; or, Poverty | 1802, 11 and 12 March | "The post-boy drove with fierce career," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1807 | |
Beggars | 1802, 13 and 14 March | "She had a tall man's height or more;" | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
To a Butterfly (first poem) | 1802, 14 March | "Stay near me---do not take thy flight!" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1807 | |
The Emigrant Mother | 1802, 16 and 17 March | "Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned" | Poems founded on the Affection | 1807 | |
My heart leaps up when I behold | 1802, 26 March | "My heart leaps up when I behold" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood; Moods of my own Mind (1807) | 1807 | |
Among all lovely things my Love had been | 1802, April | "Among all lovely things my Love had been;" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
Written in March while resting on the Bridge at the foot of Brothers Water | 1802, 26 April | "The cock is crowing," | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly | 1802, 18 April | "Art thou the bird whom Man loves best," | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
To a Butterfly (second poem) | 1802, 20 April | "I've watched you now a full half-hour," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1807 | |
Foresight | 1802, 28 April | "That is work of waste and ruin--" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1807 | |
To the Small Celandine (first poem) | 1802, 30 April | Manuscript title: " To the lesser Celandine" | "Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies," | Poems of the Fancy. | 1807 |
To the same Flower (second poem) [Sequel to "To the Small Celandine"] | 1802, 1 May | "Pleasures newly found are sweet" | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
Resolution and Independence | 1802, 3 May – 4 July | "There was a roaring in the wind all night;" | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
I grieved for Buonaparte | 1802, 21 May | "I Grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
A Farewell | 1802, 29 May | Former titles: Bore the lack of a title in 1815 and 1820 editions, with subtitle: "Composed in the Year 1802" and the bore title: "A Farewell" in 1827 and 1832 editions with aforementioned subtitle. From 1836 onwards, the poem bore the current title. | "Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain-ground," | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1815 |
The Sun has long been set | 1802, 8 June | "The sun has long been set," | Evening Voluntaries | 1807 | |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 | 1802, 31 July | "Earth has not anything to show more fair:" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August 1802 | 1802, August | "Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the west," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
Calais, August 1802 | 1802, 7 August | "Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
Composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7, 1802 | 1802, August | "Jones! as from Calais southward you and I" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
Calais, August 15, 1802 | 1802, 15 August | "Festivals have I seen that were not names:" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free | 1802, August | "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic | 1802, August | "Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
The King of Sweden | 1802, August | "The Voice of song from distant lands shall call" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
To Toussaint L'Ouverture | 1802, August | "Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men!" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the day of landing | 1802, August 30 | "Here, on our native soil, we breathe once more." | No class assigned | 1807 | |
September 1, 1802 | 1802, 1 September | "We had a female Passenger who came" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
September, 1802, Near Dover | 1802, September | Former title: Bore the title of: "September, 1802" from 1807–1843. From 1845 onward, the poem bore the current title. | "Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood;" | No class assigned | 1807 |
Written in London, September 1802 | 1802, September | "O Friend! I know not which way I must look" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
London, 1802 | 1802, September | "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire | 1802, 4 October | Former title: Bore the title of: "Composed after a Journey across the [Hamilton] Hills, Yorkshire" from 1807–1827 | "Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 |
Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" | 1802, 11 May | "Within our happy castle there dwelt One" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1815 | |
To H. C. Six years old | 1802 | "O Thou! whose fancies from afar are brought;" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1807 | |
To the Daisy (first poem) | 1802 | "In youth from rock to rock I went," | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
To the same Flower (second poem) [sequel to "To The Daisy"] | 1802 | "With little here to do or see" | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
To the Daisy (third poem) | 1802 | "Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere," | Poems of the Fancy (1815–32); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1837–) | 1807 | |
The Green Linnet | 1803 | "Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed" | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
Yew-trees | 1803 | "There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale," | Poems of the Imagination | 1815 | |
Who fancied what a pretty sight | 1803 | Manuscript title: "Coronet of Snowdrops" |
"Who fancied what a pretty sigh" |
Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Fancy | 1807 |
It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown | 1803 | "It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown," | Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
Departure from the vale of Grasmere, August 1803 (I) | 1811 | "The gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1827 | |
At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven years after his death (II) | 1803 | "I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold," | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1842 | |
Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence (III) | 1803 | "Too frail to keep the lofty vow" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1842 | |
To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave of their Father (IV) | 1803 | "'Mid crowded obelisks and urns" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
To a Highland Girl (at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) (V) | 1803 | "Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower" | Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
Glen Almain; or, The Narrow Glen (VI) | 1803 | "In this still place, remote from men," | Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
Stepping Westward (VII) | 1803 and 1805 | "'What, you are stepping westward?'--'Yea.'" | Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
The Solitary Reaper (VIII) | 1803 and 1805 | "Behold her, single in the field," | Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe (IX) | 1803 | "Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1827 | |
Rob Roy's Grave (X) | 1803 and 1805 | "A Famous man is Robin Hood," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
Sonnet. Composed at ------ Castle (Degenerate Douglas) (XI) | 1803, 18 September | "Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
Yarrow Unvisited (XII) | 1803 | "From Stirling castle we had see" |
Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband (XIII) | 1803 and 1805 | "Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers," | Poems referring to the Period of Old Age (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 | |
On Approaching Home After A Tour In Scotland, 1803 (XIV) | 1803, 25 September | Former title: Bore the title: "On Approaching Home After A Tour In Scotland, 1803" in 1815 and 1820 editions. | "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1815 |
The Blind Highland Boy. (XV) | Unknown | A tale told by the fire-side after Returning to the Vale of Grasmere.
Former title: Bore the title of "The Blind Highland Boy. (A Tale told by the Fireside.)" from 1807–1820. |
"Now we are tired of boisterous joy," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 | 1807 |
October 1803 | 1803 | "One might believe that natural miseries" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear | 1803 | "There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
October 1803 (2) | 1803 | "These times strike monied worldlings with dismay" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
England! the time is come when thou should'st wean | 1803 | "England! the time is come when thou should'st wean" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
October 1803 (3) | 1803 | "When, looking on the present face of things," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
To the Men of Kent | 1803, October | "Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
In the Pass of Killicranky, an invasion being expected, October 1803 | 1803, October | Former title: Bore the title of: "October, 1803" from 1807 to 1820. | "Six thousand veterans practised in war's game," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty (1807–20) | 1807 |
Anticipation. October 1803 | 1803, October | "Shout, for a mighty Victory is won!" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
Lines on the expected Invasion | 1803 | "Come ye--who, if (which Heaven avert!) the Land" | Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty | 1842 | |
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale | 1800 | "'Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined" |
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty | 1815 | |
To the Cuckoo | 1802 | "O Blithe New-comer! I have heard," | Poems of the Imagination. | 1807 | |
She was a phantom of delight | 1803 | ":She was a phantom of delight" | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
I wandered lonely as a cloud | 1804 | "I wandered lonely as a cloud" | Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Imagination (1815–) | 1807 | |
The Affliction of Margaret ------ | 1804 | Former title: Bore the title of: "The Affliction of Margaret—of—" in the 1807 edition and "The Affliction of Margaret" in the 1820 edition. From 1845 onward, the poem bore the current title.
Manuscript title: "The Affliction of Mary—of—" |
"Where art thou, my beloved Son," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1807 |
The Forsaken | 1804 | "The peace which other seek they find;" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1842 | |
Repentance. | 1804 | A Pastoral Ballad | "The fields which with covetous spirit we sold," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1820); Poems founded on the Affections (1827–) | 1820 |
The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie | 1800 | "'Seven Daughter had Lord Archibald,'" | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 | |
Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora | 1804, 16 September | On Being Reminded that She was a Month Old that Day, September 16
Former title: Bore the title of: "Address to my Infant Daughter, on being reminded that she was a Month old, on that Day." from 1815–1845. Upon her death in 1847, her name was added to the title. |
"Hast thou then survived-" | Poems of the Fancy | 1815 |
The Kitten and Falling Leaves | 1804 | Former title: Bore the title of: "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves" from 1807–1832. | "That way look, my Infant, lo!" | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 |
To the Spade of a Friend (An Agriculturist) | 1806 | Composed while we were labouring together in his Pleasure-Ground | "Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1807 |
The Small Celandine (third poem) | 1804 | "There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine," | Poems referring to the Period of Old Age | 1807 | |
At Applethwaite, near Keswick, 1804 | 1804 | "Beaumont! it was thy wish that I should rear" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
From the same [Michael Angelo]. To the Supreme Being. | 1804? | "The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Ode to Duty | 1805 | "Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1807 | |
To a Skylark | 1805 | "Up with me! up with me into the clouds!" | Poems, composed during a Tour, chiefly on foot. No. 2 (1807); Poems of the Fancy (1815–) | 1807 | |
Fidelity | 1805 | "A Barking sound the Shepherd hears," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1807 | |
Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog | 1805 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Incident, Characteristic of a favourite Dog, which belonged to a Friend of the Author" in the 1807 and 1815 editions. | "On his morning rounds the Master" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1807 |
Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog (in reference to "Incident characteristic...) | 1805 | "Lie here, without a record of thy worth," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1807 | |
To the Daisy (fourth poem) | 1805 | "Sweet Flower! belike one day to have" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1815 | |
Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont | 1805 | Manuscript title: "Verses suggested, etc," | "I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1807 |
Elegiac Verses | 1805 | In Memory of My Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, The Earl Of Abergavenny, in which He Perished by Calamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6th, 1805. | "The Sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo!" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1842 |
VI | 1800–1805 | "When, to the attractions of the busy world," | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1815 | |
Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Excursion | 1802 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Louisa" from 1807–1832. |
"I Met Louisa in the shade," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1807 |
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country | 1802 | "Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815–32); Poems of the Imagination (1836–) | 1807 | |
Vaudracour and Julia | 1804 | "O happy time of youthful lovers (thus" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1820 | |
The Cottager to her Infant, by my Sister | 1805 | "The days are cold, the nights are long," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1815 | |
The Waggoner | 1805 | "'Tis spent--this burning day of June! " | No class assigned | 1819 | |
French Revolution | 1805 | As it appeared to enthusiasts at its commencement. reprinted from "the friend" | "Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!" | Poems of the Imagination (1815–); | 1809 |
Book First: Introduction—Childhood and School-time | 1799–1805 | "Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze," | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Second: School-time (continued) | 1799–1805 | "Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Third: Residence at Cambridge | 1799–1805 | "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Fourth: Summer Vacation | 1799–1805 | "Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Fifth: Books | 1799–1805 | "When Contemplation, like the night-calm felt" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps | 1799–1805 | "The leaves were fading when to Esthwaite's banks" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Seventh: Residence in London | 1799–1805 | "Six changeful years have vanished since I first" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Eighth: Retrospect—Love of Nature Leading to Love of Man | 1799–1805 | "What sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Ninth: Residence in France | 1799–1805 | "Even as a river,--partly (it might seem)" |
The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Tenth: Residence in France (continued) | 1799–1805 | "It was a beautiful and silent day" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Eleventh: France (concluded) | 1799–1805 | "From that time forth, Authority in France" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Twelfth: Imagination and Taste; How Impaired and Restored | 1799–1805 | "Long time have human ignorance and guilt" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Thirteenth: Imagination and Taste; How Impaired and Restored (concluded) | 1799–1805 | "From Nature doth emotion come, and moods" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Book Fourteenth: Conclusion | 1799–1805 | "In one of those excursions (may they ne'er" | The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement | 1850 | |
Character of the Happy Warrior | 1806 | "Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1807 | |
The Horn of Egremont Castle | 1806 | "Ere the Brothers through the gateway" | Poems of the Imagination (1815–45); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) | 1807 | |
A Complaint | 1806 | "There is a change--and I am poor;" | Poems founded on the Affection | 1807 | |
Stray Pleasures | 1806 | Former title: Bore the lack of a title in the 1807 and 1815 editions. From 1820 onward, the poem bore the current title.
Manuscript title: "Dancers." |
"By their floating mill," | Poems of the Fancy | 1807 |
Power of Music | 1806 | Manuscript title: "A Street Fiddler (in London)." | "An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold," | Poems of the Imagination. | 1807 |
Star-gazers | 1806 | "What crowd is this? what have we here we must not pass it by;" | Poems of the Imagination. | 1807 | |
Yes, it was the mountain Echo | 1806 | "Yes, it was the mountain Echo," | Poems of the Imagination. | 1807 | |
NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room, | 1806 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Prefatory Sonnet" from 1807–1820. | "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 |
Personal Talk | 1806 | Former title: Bore the lack of a title in the 1807 and 1815 editions. | "I am not One who much or oft delight" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820–43); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1845–) | 1807 |
Admonition | 1806 | "Well may'st thou halt-and gaze with brightening eye!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Beloved Vale! I said, "when I shall con | 1806 | "'Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks | 1806 | "How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Those words were uttered as in pensive mood | 1806 | "Those words were uttered as in pensive mood" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Lines | 1806 | Composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Evening, after a stormy day, the Author having just read in a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was hourly expected. | "Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces.; Miscellaneous Sonnets(1820); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty (1827) | 1807 |
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky | 1806 | "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky," | Poems of the Fancy (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820) | 1807 | |
The world is too much with us; late and soon | 1806 | "The world is too much with us; late and soon," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh | 1806 | "With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? | 1806 | "Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
To Sleep (1) | 1806 | "O gentle sleep! do they belong to thee," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
To Sleep (2) | 1806 | "Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
To Sleep (3) | 1806 | "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Michael Angelo in reply to the passage upon his Statue of Night sleeping | 1806 | "Grateful is Sleep, my life in stone bound fast;" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
From the Italian of Michael Angelo | 1805? | "Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
From the Same [of Michael Angelo] | 1805? | "No mortal object did these eyes behold" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert | 1806 | "Calvert! it must not be unheard by them" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne | 1806 | "Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
November 1806 | 1806 | "Another year!--another deadly blow!" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) | 1807 | |
Address to a Child | 1806 | during a boisterous winter Evening, by my Sister
Former title: Bore the title of: "during a boisterous winter Evening, [by a female Friend of the Author]" from 1815–1843. In 1845 it was disclosed "by my Sister." |
"What way does the Wind come? What way does he go?" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1815 |
Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | 1803–1806 | "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream," | No class assigned | 1807 | |
A Prophecy. February 1807 | 1807 | "High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you!" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty (1845) | 1807 | |
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland | 1807 | "Two Voices are there; one is of the sea," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty (1845) | 1807 | |
To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade | 1807 | "Clarkson! it was an obstinate hill to climb:" | Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty | 1807 | |
The Mother's Return | 1807 | By My Sister | "A Month, sweet Little-ones, is past" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. | 1815 |
Gipsies | 1807 | "Yet are they here the same unbroken knot" | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
O Nightingale! thou surely art | 1807 | "O Nightingale! thou surely art" | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
To Lady Beaumont | 1807 | "Lady! the songs of Spring were in the grove" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1807 | |
Though narrow be that old Man's cares | 1807 | "Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near," | Poems belonging to the Period of Old Age (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820) | 1807 | |
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle | 1807 | "High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate," | Poems of the Imagination | 1807 | |
The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons | 1807–1810 | "From Bolton's old monastic tower" | No class assigned | 1815 | |
The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory. | 1807 | A Tradition | " 'What is good for a bootless bene?' " | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1815 |
Composed while the Author was engaged in Writing a Tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra | 1808 | "Not 'mid the world's vain objects that enslave" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Composed at the same Time and on the same Occasion, [as convention of cintra] | 1808 | "I Dropped my pen; and listened to the Wind" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
George and Sarah Green | 1808 | "Who weeps for strangers? Many wept" | No class assigned | 1839 | |
Tyrolese Sonnets I | 1809 | Hoffer | "Of mortal parents is the Hero born" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 |
Tyrolese Sonnets II | 1809 | Advance—come forth from thy Tyrolean ground | "Advance-come forth from thy Tyrolean ground," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 |
Tyrolese Sonnets III | 1809 | Feelings of the Tyrolese | "The Land we from our fathers had in trust," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 |
Tyrolese Sonnets IV | 1809 | Alas! what boots the long laborious quest | "Alas! what boots the long laborious quest" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 |
And is it among rude untutored Dales | 1809 | "And is it among rude untutored Dales," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 | |
O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain | 1809 | "O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 | |
Tyrolese Sonnets V | 1809 | On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese | "It was a 'moral' end for which they fought;" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1809 |
Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye | 1809 | "Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense | 1809 | "Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Tyrolese Sonnets VI | 1810? | The martial courage of a day is vain | "The martial courage of a day is vain," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 |
Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight | 1809 | "Brave hill! by death delivered, take thy flight" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Call not the royal Swede unfortunate | 1809 | "Call not the royal Swede unfortunate," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid | 1809 | "Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Is there a power that can sustain and cheer | 1809 | "Is there a power that can sustain and cheer" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 |
1810-1819
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen | 1810 | "Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue no pen" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
In due observance of an ancient rite | 1810 | "In due observance of an ancient rite," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals | 1810 | "Yet, yet, Biscayans! we must meet our Foes" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
On a celebrated Event in Ancient History | 1810 | "A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Upon the same Event [celebrated Event in Ancient History] | 1810 | "When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
The Oak of Guernica | 1810 | Supposed Address to the Same | "Oak of Guernica! Tree of holier power" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 |
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard | 1810 | "We can endure that He should waste our lands," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind | 1810 | "Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied | 1810 | "O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
The French and the Spanish Guerillas | 1810 | "Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
I | 1810 or earlier | "Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1837 | |
II | 1810 or earlier | "Perhaps some needful service of the State" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1810 | |
III | 1810 or earlier | "O Thou who movest onward with a mind" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1810 | |
IV | 1810 or earlier | "There never breathed a man who, when his life" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1809 | |
V | 1810 or earlier | "True is it that Ambrosio Salinero" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1837 | |
VI | 1810 or earlier | "Destined to war from very infancy" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1809 | |
VII | 1810 or earlier | "O flower of all that springs from gentle blood" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1837 | |
VIII | 1810 or earlier | "Not without heavy grief of heart did He" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1810 | |
IX | 1810 or earlier | "Pause, courteous Spirit!--Balbi supplicates" | Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera; Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1810 | |
Maternal Grief | 1810 | "Departed Child! I could forget thee once" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1842 | |
Characteristics of a Child three Years old | 1811 | "Loving she is, and tractable, though wild;" | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1815 | |
Spanish Guerillas | 1811 | "They seek, are sought; to daily battle led," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
The power of Armies is a visible thing | 1811 | "The power of Armies is a visible thing," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise | 1811 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Conclusion" in the 1815 edition. | "Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 |
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. | 1811 | From the South-West Coast of Cumberland | "Far from our home by Grasmere's quiet Lake," | Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 |
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty years after its Composition | 1811 | "Soon did he Almighty Giver of all rest" | Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 | |
Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture, painted by Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart. | 1811 | Former title: Bore the title of: " Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture." in the 1815 edition. | "Praised be the Art whose subtle power could stay" | Miscellaneous Poems | 1815 |
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire | 1808 | "The embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine," | Inscriptions (2) | 1815 | |
In a Garden of the Same [of the grounds of Coleorton] | 1811 | "Oft is the medal faithful to its trust" | Inscriptions (2) | 1815 | |
Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in his Name, for an Urn | 1808 | "Ye Lime-trees, ranged before this hallowed Urn," | Inscriptions (2) | 1815 |
1810-1819
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton | 1811, 19 November | "Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound," | Inscriptions (2) | 1815 | |
Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere | 1812 | "What need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Water-Fowl | 1812 | "Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood," | Poems of the Imagination | 1827 | |
View from the top of Black Comb | 1812 | "This Height a ministering Angel might select:" | Poems of the Imagination | 1815 | |
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb | 1813 | "Stay, bold Adventurer; rest awhile thy limbs" | Inscriptions (3) | 1815 | |
November 1813 | 1813 | "Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1815 | |
The Excursion: Preface to the Edition 1814 | 1795–1814 | "'On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life," | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book First: The Wanderer | 1795–1814 | "'Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high:" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Second: The Solitary | 1795–1814 | "In days of yore how fortunately fared" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Third: Despondency | 1795–1814 | "A Humming Bee—a little tinkling rill—" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Fourth: Despondency Corrected | 1795–1814 | "Here closed the Tenant of that lonely vale" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Fifth: The Pastor | 1795–1814 | "'Farewell, deep Valley, with thy one rude House," | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Sixth: The Churchyard among the Mountains | 1795–1814 | " Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped—to gird" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Seventh: The Churchyard among the Mountains--(continued) | 1795–1814 | "While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed," | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Eighth: The Parsonage | 1795–1814 | "The pensive Sceptic of the lonely vale" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Book Ninth: Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Evening Visit to the Lake | 1795–1814 | "'To every Form of being is assigned,'" | The Excursion | 1814 | |
Laodamia | 1814 | "'With sacrifice before the rising morn" | Poems founded on the Affections (1815 and 1820); Poems of the Imagination | 1815 | |
Dion | 1816 | (see Plutarch) | "Serene, and fitted to embrace," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. (1820–43); Poems of the Imagination (1845) | 1820 |
Suggested by a beautiful ruin upon one of the Islands of Loch Lomond, (I) | 1814 | A place chosen for the retreat of a solitary individual, from whom this habitation acquired the name of The Brownie's Cell. | "To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen," | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland | 1820 |
Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower (II) | 1814 | "Lord of the vale! astounding Flood;" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland | 1820 | |
Effusion in the Pleasure-ground on the banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld (III) | 1814 | "What He—who, mid the kindred throng" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland | 1827 | |
Yarrow Visited, September 1814 (IV) | 1814 | "And is this -Yarrow? -This the stream" | Memorials of a Tour in Scotland; Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1827-) | 1815 | |
From the dark chambers of dejection freed | 1814 | "From the dark chambers of dejection freed," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Lines written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem, "The Excursion," | 1814 | Upon Hearing Of The Death Of The Late Vicar Of Kendal | "To public notice, with reluctance strong," | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces | 1815 |
To B. R. Haydon | 1815, December | "High is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1816, 31 March | |
Artegal and Elidure | 1815 | "Where be the temples which, in Britain's Isle," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1820 | |
September 1815 | 1815, October | "While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1816, 11 February | |
November 1 | 1815, October | "How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1816, 28 January | |
The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade | Unknown | "The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind | Unknown | "'Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! | Unknown | "Hail Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said | Unknown | "The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress | Unknown | "Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Mark the concentred hazels that enclose | Unknown | "Mark the concentred hazels that enclose" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
To the Poet, John Dyer | 1811 | Former title: Bore the title of: "To the Poet, Dyer" | "Bard of the Fleece, whose skilful genius made" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 |
Brook! whose society the Poet seeks | 1806 | "Brook! whose society the Poet seeks," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Surprised by joy — impatient as the Wind | Unknown | "Surprised by joy — impatient as the Wind" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1815 | |
Ode.--The Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving, January 18, 1816 | 1816 | "Hail, orient Conqueror of gloomy Night" | Sequel to Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
Ode | 1816 | "Imagination--ne'er before content," | Poems of the Imagination | 1816 | |
Invocation to the Earth, February 1816 | 1816 | Composed immediately after the Thanksgiving Ode, to which it may be considered as a second part. | "'Rest, rest, perturbed Earth!" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1816 |
Ode | 1816, January | "When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch" | Poems of the Imagination (1820); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty (1827) | 1816 | |
Ode | 1816 | "Who rises on the banks of Seine," | Poems of the Imagination (1820); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
The French Army in Russia, 1812–13 | 1816 | "Humanity, delighting to behold" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
On the same occasion [Of the French Army in Russia] | 1816 | (The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese) | "Ye Storms, resound the praises of your King!" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 |
By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze | 1816 | "By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze" |
No class assigned | 1832 | |
The Germans on the Heights of Hock heim | Unknown | "Abruptly paused the strife;--the field throughout" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty (1827) | 1822 | |
Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski | 1816, 4 February | February, 1816 | "Oh, for a kindling touch from that pure flame" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 |
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo, February 1816 | 1816, 4 February | "Intrepid sons of Albion! not by you" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
Occasioned by the same battle [Battle of Waterloo] | 1816, 4 February | "The Bard—whose soul is meek as dawning day," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung | 1816 | "Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1827 | |
Feelings of a French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D'enghien | 1816 | "Dear Reliques! from a pit of vilest mould" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty | 1816 | |
Translation of part of the First Book of the Aeneid | 1823? | "But Cytherea, studious to invent" | No class assigned | 1836 | |
A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on the Seashore | 1816 | "The Danish Conqueror, on his royal chair," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
A little onward lend thy guiding hand | 1816 | "'A little onward lend thy guiding hand" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
To ------, on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn | 1816 | "Inmate of a mountain-dwelling," |
Poems of the Imagination | 1820 | |
Vernal Ode | 1817 | "Beneath the concave of an April sky," | Poems of the Imagination (1820); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827 and 1832); Poems of the Imagination (1836) | 1820 | |
Ode to Lycoris. May 1817 | 1817 | "An age hath been when Earth was proud" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
To the Same (Lycoris) | 1817 | "Enough of climbing toil!--Ambition treads" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter | 1817 | "Let us quit the leafy arbor," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1820 | |
Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders | 1817 | "'Who but hails the sight with pleasure" | Poems of the Fancy | 1820 | |
The Pass of Kirkstone | 1817, 27 June | "Within the mind strong fancies work," | Poems of the Imagination | 1820 | |
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year | 1817 | "Smile of the Moon!---for I so name" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1820 | |
Sequel to the "Beggars," 1802. Composed many years after | 1817 | "Where are they now, those wanton Boys?" | Poems of the Imagination | 1827 | |
The Pilgrim's Dream; or, The Star and the Glow-worm | 1818 | "A pilgrim, when the summer day" | Poems of the Fancy | 1820 | |
I | 1818 | "Hopes, what are they?—Beads of morning" | Inscriptions; Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell | 1820 | |
II | 1818 | Inscribed upon a rock | "Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be" | Inscriptions; Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell | 1820 |
III | 1818 | "Hast thou seen, with flash incessant" | Inscriptions; Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell | 1820 | |
IV | 1818 | "Troubled long with warring notions" | Inscriptions; Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell | 1820 | |
V | 1818 | "Not seldom, clad in radiant vest," | Inscriptions; Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell | 1820 | |
Composed upon an Evening of extraordinary Splendour and Beauty | 1818 | "Had this effulgence disappeared" | Poems of the Imagination (1820); Evening Voluntaries (1837) | 1820 | |
Composed during a Storm | 1819 | "One who was suffering tumult in his soul," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
This, and the Two Following, Were Suggested by Mr. W. Westall's Views of the Caves, Etc., in Yorkshire | 1819 | "Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Malham Cove | 1819 | "Was the aim frustrated by force or guile," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Gordale | 1819 | "At early dawn, or rather when the air" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow | 1819 | "Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
The Wild Duck's Nest | 1819 | "The imperial Consort of the Fairy-king" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler" | 1819 | "While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Captivity—Mary Queen of Scots | 1819 | "'As the cold aspect of a sunless way" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
To a Snowdrop | 1819 | "Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
When Haughty expectations protrate life | 1819 | Former titles: Bore the title of: "On seeing a tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm" in the 1820 edition and "Composed a few days after the foregoing" in the 1827 edition, [Foregoing referring to "To a Snow-drop"] | "When haughty expectations prostrate lie," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 |
Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday | 1819 | "With each recurrence of this glorious morn" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
Composed on Easter Sunday | 1819? | "Erewhile to celebrate this glorious morn" | No class assigned | 1819? | |
Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready friend | 1819 | "Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret | 1819 | "I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream) | 1819 | "I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1819 | |
The Haunted Tree. To ------ | 1819 | "Those silver clouds collected round the sun" | Poems of the Imagination | 1820 | |
September 1819 | 1819 | "The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
Upon the same Occasion [September 1819] | 1819 | "Departing summer hath assumed" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1820 | |
There is a little unpretending Rill | 1806 | "There is a little unpretending Rill" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 |
1820-1829
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream | 1820 | "Dogmatic Teachers, of the snow-white fur!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
On the death of His Majesty (George the Third) | 1820 | "Ward of the Law!—dread Shadow of a King!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand | 1820 | "The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
To the Lady Mary Lowther | 1820 | "Lady! I rifled a Parnassian cave" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem | 1820 | "A book came forth of late, called Peter Bell;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
Oxford, May 30, 1820 | 1820 | "Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
Oxford, May 30, 1820 (2) | 1820 | "Shame on this faithless heart! that could allow" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
June 1820 | 1820 | "Fame tells of groves—from England far away—" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1820 | |
Dedication (I) | 1821–1822 | "Dear Fellow-travellers! think not that the Muse," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Fish-women—On Landing at Calais (II) | 1821–1822 | "'Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Bruges (III) | 1821–1822 | "Brugès I saw attired with golden light" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Bruges (IV) | 1821–1822 | "The Spirit of Antiquity—enshrined" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
After visiting the Field of Waterloo (V) | 1821–1822 | "A wingèd Goddess—clothed in vesture wrought" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Between Namur and Liege (VI) | 1821–1822 | "What lovelier home could gentle Fancy choose?" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Aix-la-Chapelle (VII) | 1821–1822 | "Was it to disenchant, and to undo," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
In the Cathedral at Cologne (VIII) | 1821–1822 | "O for the help of Angels to complete" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine (IX) | 1821–1822 | "Amid this dance of objects sadness steals" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Hymn for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg (X) | 1821–1822 | "Jesu! bless our slender Boat," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Source of the Danube (XI) | 1821–1822 | "Not, like his great Compeers, indignantly" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen (XII) | 1821–1822 | "Uttered by whom, or how inspired—designed" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Fall of the Aar—Handec (XIII) | 1821–1822 | "From the fierce aspect of this River, throwing" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun (XIV) | 1821–1822 | "Around a wild and woody hill" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons (XV) | 1821–1822 | "Doomed as we are our native dust" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
After-thought (XVI) | 1821–1822 | "Oh Life! without thy chequered scene" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Scene on the Lake of Brientz (XVII) | 1821–1822 | "'What know we of the Blest above" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Engelberg, the Hill of Angels (XVIII) | 1821–1822 | "For gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takes" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Our Lady of the Snow (XIX) | 1821–1822 | "Meek Virgin Mother, more benign" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Effusion in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell at Altorf (XX) | 1821–1822 | "What though the Italian pencil wrought not here," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Tower of Schwytz (XXI) | 1821–1822 | "By antique Fancy trimmed—though lowly, bred" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
On hearing the "Ranz des Vaches" on the Top of the Pass of St. Gothard (XXII) | 1821–1822 | "I listen—but no faculty of mine" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Fort Fuentes (XXIII) | 1821–1822 | "Dread hour! when, upheaved by war's sulphurous blast," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano (XXIV) | 1821–1822 | "Thou sacred Pile! whose turrets rise" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd—Part I, Part II (XXV) | 1821–1822 | "Now that the farewell tear is dried," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci (XXVI) | 1821–1822 | "Tho' searching damps and many an envious flaw" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820 (XXVII) | 1821–1822 | "High on her speculative tower" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Three Cottage Girls (XXVIII) | 1821–1822 | "How blest the Maid whose heart—yet free" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS (XXIX) | 1821–1822 | "Ambition—following down this far-famed slope" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass (XXX) | 1821–1822 | "Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Echo, upon the Gemmi (XXXI) | 1821–1822 | "What beast of chase hath broken from the cover?" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny (XXXII) | 1821–1822 | "To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield;" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Elegiac Stanzas (XXXIII) | 1821–1822 | "Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Sky-Prospect—From the Plain of France (XXXIV) | 1821–1822 | "Lo! in the burning west, the craggy nape" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne (XXXV) | 1821–1822 | "Why cast ye back upon the Gallic shore," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
After landing—the Valley of Dover, November 1820 (XXXVI) | 1821–1822 | "Where be the noisy followers of the game" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
At Dover (XXXVII) | 1821–1822 | "From the Pier's head, musing, and with increase" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
Desultory Stanzas, upon receiving the preceding Sheets from the Press (XXXVIII) | 1821–1822 | "Is then the final page before me spread," | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 | 1822 | |
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth (I) | 1820 | "The Minstrels played their Christmas tune" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throw (II) | 1820 | "Not envying Latian shades—if yet they throw" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Child of the clouds! remote from every taint (III) | 1820 | "Child of the clouds! remote from every taint" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
How shall I paint thee?--Be this naked stone (IV) | 1820 | "How shall I paint thee?—Be this naked stone" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take (V) | 1820 | "Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played (VI) | 1820 | "Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Flowers (VII) | 1820 | "Ere yet our course was graced with social trees" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Change me, some God, into that breathing rose! (VIII) | 1820 | "'Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!'" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled (IX) | 1820 | "What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The Stepping-stones (X) | 1820 | "The struggling Rill insensibly is grown" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The same Subject [Stepping-Stones] (XI) | 1820 | "Not so that Pair whose youthful spirits dance" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The Faery Chasm (XII) | 1820 | "No fiction was it of the antique age:" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Hints for the Fancy (XIII) | 1820 | "On, loitering Muse—the swift Stream chides us—on!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Open Prospect (XIV) | 1820 | "Hail to the fields—with Dwellings sprinkled o'er," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot (XV) | 1820 | "O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play (XVI) | 1820 | "From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
American Tradition (XVII) | 1820 | "Such fruitless questions may not long beguile" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Return (XVIII) | 1820 | "A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Seathwaite Chapel (XIX) | 1820 | "Sacred Religion! 'mother of form and fear,'" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Tributary Stream (XX) | 1820 | "My frame hath often trembled with delight" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The Plain of Donnerdale (XXI) | 1820 | "The old inventive Poets, had they seen," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Whence that low voice?--A whisper from the heart (XXII) | 1820 | "Whence that low voice?—A whisper from the heart," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Tradition (XXIII) | 1820 | "A love-lorn Maid, at some far-distant time," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Sheep-washing (XXIV) | 1820 | "Sad thoughts, avaunt!—partake we their blithe cheer" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The Resting-place (XXV) | 1820 | "Mid-noon is past;—upon the sultry mead" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat (XXVI) | 1820 | "Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Return, Content! for fondly I pursued (XXVII) | 1820 | "Return, Content! for fondly I pursued," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap (XXVIII) | 1820 | "Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Journey renewed (XXIX) | 1820 | "I rose while yet the cattle, heat-opprest," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
No record tells of lance opposed to lance (XXX) | 1820 | "No record tells of lance opposed to lance," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce (XXXI) | 1820 | "Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye (XXXII) | 1820 | "The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep (XXXIII) | 1820 | "Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
Conclusion (XXXIV) | 1820 | "But here no cannon thunders to the gale;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
After-thought (XXXV) | 1820 | "I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide," | Miscellaneous Sonnets; The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets | 1820 | |
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire | 1820 | "Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1822 | |
To Enterprise | 1820 | "Keep for the Young the impassioned smile" | Poems of the Imagination | 1822 | |
Introduction (I) | 1821 | "I, who accompanied with faithful pace" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Conjectuers (II) | 1821 | "If there be prophets on whose spirits rest" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Trepidation of the Druids (III) | 1821 | "Screams round the Arch-druid's brow the seamew - white" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Druidical Excommunication (IV) | 1821 | "Mercy and Love have met thee on thy road," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Uncertainty (V) | 1821 | "Darkness surrounds us: seeking, we are lost" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Persecution (VI) | 1821 | "Lament! for Diocletian's fiery sword" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Recovery (VII) | 1821 | "As, when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Temptations from Roman Refinements (VIII) | 1821 | "Watch, and be firm! for, soul-subduing vice," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Dissensions (IX) | 1821 | "That heresies should strike (if truth be scanned" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians (X) | 1821 | "Rise!—they have risen: of brave Aneurin ask" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Saxon Conquest (XI) | 1821 | "Nor wants the cause the panic-striking aid" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Monastery of Old Bangor (XII) | 1821 | "The oppression of the tumult—wrath and scorn—" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Recovery (VII) | 1821 | "A bright-haired company of youthful slaves," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Glad Tidings (XIII) | 1821 | "For ever hallowed be this morning fair," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Paulinus (XIX) | 1821 | "But, to remote Northumbria's royal Hall," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Persuasion (XX) | 1821 | "'Man's life is like a Sparrow,mighty King!" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Conversion (XXI) | 1821 | "Prompt transformation works the novel Lore;" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Apology (XXII) | 1821 | "Nor scorn the aid which Fancy oft doth lend" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Primitive Saxon Clergy (XXIII) | 1821 | "How beautiful your presence, how benign," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Other Influences (XXIV) | 1821 | "Ah, when the Body, round which in love we clung," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Seclusion (XXV) | 1821 | "Lance, shield, and sword relinquished—at his side" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Continued (XXVI) | 1821 | "Methinks that to some vacant hermitage" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Reproof (XXVII) | 1821 | "But what if One, through grove or flowery meed," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion (XXVIII) | 1821 | "By such examples moved to unbought pains," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Missions and Travels (XXIX) | 1821 | "Not sedentary all: there are who roam" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Alfred (XXX) | 1821 | "Behold a pupil of the monkish gown," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
His Descendants (XXXI) | 1821 | "When thy great soul was freed from mortal chains," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Influence Abused (XXXII) | 1821 | "Urged by Ambition, who with subtlest skill" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Danish Conquests (XXXIII) | 1821 | "Woe to the Crown that doth the Cowl obey!" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Canute (XXXIV) | 1821 | "A pleasant music floats along the Mere," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
The Norman Conquest (XXXV) | 1821 | "The woman-hearted Confessor prepares" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered (XXXVI) | 1821 | "Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1837 | |
The Council of Clermont (XXXVII) | 1821 | "'And shall,' the Pontiff asks, 'profaneness flow" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Crusades (XXXVIII) | 1821 | "The turbaned Race are poured in thickening swarms
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Richard I (XXXIX) | 1821 | "Redoubted King, of courage leonine," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
An Interdict (XL) | 1821 | "Realms quake by turns: proud Arbitress of grace," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Papal Abuses (XLI) | 1821 | "As with the Stream our voyage we pursue," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Scene in Venice (XLII) | 1821 | "Black Demons hovering o'er his mitred head," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
Papal Dominion (XLIII) | 1821 | "Unless to Peter's Chair the viewless wind" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion | 1822 | |
How soon—alas! did Man, created pure-- (I) | 1821 | "How soon—alas! did Man, created pure—" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1845 | |
From false assumption rose, and, fondly hailed (II) | 1821 | "From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1845 | |
Cistertian Monastery (III) | 1821 | "'Here Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Deplorable his lot who tills the ground (IV) | 1821 | "Deplorable his lot who tills the ground," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1835 | |
Monks and Schoolmen (V) | 1821 | "Record we too, with just and faithful pen," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Other Benefits (VI) | 1821 | "And, not in vain embodied to the sight," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Continued (VII) | 1821 | "And what melodious sounds at times prevail!" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Crusaders (VIII) | 1821 | "Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oars" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest (IX) | 1842 | "As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1845 | |
Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root (X) | 1842 | "Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1845 | |
Transubstantiation (XI) | 1821 | "Enough! for see, with dim association" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
The Vaudois (XII) | 1821 | "But whence came they who for the Saviour Lord" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs (XIII) | 1821 | "Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1835 | |
Waldenses (XIV) | 1821 | "Those had given earliest notice, as the lark" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. (XV) | 1821 | "'What beast in wilderness or cultured field" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Wars of York and Lancaster (XVI) | 1821 | "Thus is the storm abated by the craft" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Wicliffe (XVII) | 1821 | "Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Corruptions of the higher Clergy (XVIII) | 1821 | "'Woe to you, Prelates! rioting in ease" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Abuse of Monastic Power (XIX) | 1821 | "And what is Penance with her knotted thong;" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Monastic Voluptuousness (XX) | 1821 | "Yet more,—round many a Convent's blazing fire" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Dissolution of the Monasteries (XXI) | 1821 | "Threats come which no submission may assuage," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
The same Subject (XXII) | 1821 | "The lovely Nun (submissive, but more meek" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Continued (XXIII) | 1821 | "Yet many a Novice of the cloistral shade," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Saints (XXIV) | 1821 | "Ye, too, must fly before a chasing hand," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
The Virgin (XXV) | 1821 | "Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Apology (XXVI) | 1821 | "Not utterly unworthy to endure" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Imaginative Regrets (XXVII) | 1821 | "Deep is the lamentation! Not alone" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Reflections (XXVIII) | 1821 | "Grant, that by this unsparing hurricane" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Translation of the Bible (XXIX) | 1821 | "But, to outweigh all harm, the sacred Book," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
The Point at Issue (XXX) | 1821 | "For what contend the wise?—for nothing less" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1827 | |
Edward VI. (XXXI) | 1821 | "'Sweet is the holiness of Youth'—so felt" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent (XXXII) | 1821 | "The tears of man in various measure gush" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Revival of Popery (XXXIII) | 1821 | "The saintly Youth has ceased to rule, discrowned " | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1827 | |
Latimer and Ridley (XXXIV) | 1821 | "How fast the Marian death-list is unrolled!
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1827 | |
Cranmer (XXXV) | 1821 | "Outstretching flame-ward his upbraided hand" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
General View of the Troubles of the Reformation (XXXVI) | 1821 | "Aid, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
English Reformers in Exile (XXXVII) | 1821 | "Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler's net,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Elizabeth (XXXVIII) | 1821 | "Hail, Virgin Queen! o'er many an envious bar
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Eminent Reformers (XXXIX) | 1821 | "Methinks that I could trip o'er heaviest soil,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
The Same (XL) | 1821 | "Holy and heavenly Spirits as they are,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Distractions (XLI) | 1821 | "Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Gunpowder Plot (XLII) | 1821 | "Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Illustration. The Jung-Frau and the Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhausen (XLIII) | 1821 | "The Virgin Mountain, wearing like a Queen" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Troubles of Charles the First (XLIV) | 1821 | "Even such the contrast that, where'er we move," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Laud (XLV) | 1821 | "Prejudged by foes determined not to spare," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
Afflictions of England (XLVI) | 1821 | "Harp! could'st thou venture, on thy boldest string," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part II.--To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | 1822 | |
I saw the figure of a lovely Maid (I) | 1821 | "I saw the figure of a lovely Maid" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Patriotic Sympathies (II) | 1821 | "Last night, without a voice, that Vision spake" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Charles the Second (III) | 1821 | "Who comes—with rapture greeted, and caress'd" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Latitudinarianism (IV) | 1821 | "Yet Truth is keenly sought for, and the wind" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Walton's Book of Lives (V) | 1821 | "There are no colours in the fairest sky" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Clerical Integrity (VI) | 1821 | "Nor shall the eternal roll of praise reject" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters (VII) | 1821 | "When Alpine Vales threw forth a suppliant cry,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Acquittal of the Bishops (VIII) | 1821 | "A voice, from long-expecting thousands sent," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
William the Third (IX) | 1821 | "Calm as an under-current, strong to draw" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty (X) | 1821 | "Ungrateful Country, if thou e'er forget" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Sacheverel (XI) | 1821 | "A sudden conflict rises from the swell" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design (XII) | 1821 | "Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Aspects of Christianity in America—I. The Pilgrim Fathers (XIII) | 1821 | "Well worthy to be magnified are they" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
(II. Continued) (XIV) | 1821 | "From Rite and Ordinance abused they fled" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
(III. Concluded.--American Episcopacy) (XV) | 1821 | "Patriots informed with Apostolic light" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep (XVI) | 1821 | "Bishops and Priests, blessèd are ye, if deep" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Places of Worship (XVII) | 1821 | "As star that shines dependent upon star" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Pastoral Character (XVIII) | 1821 | "A genial hearth, a hospitable board," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
The Liturgy (XIX) | 1821 | "Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Baptism (XX) | 1821 | "Dear be the Church, that, watching o'er the needs" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Sponsors (XXI) | 1821 | "Father! to God himself we cannot give" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1832 | |
Catechising (XXII) | 1821 | "From Little down to Least, in due degree," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Confirmation (XXIII) | 1821 | "The Young-ones gathered in from hill and dale," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Confirmation continued (XXIV) | 1821 | "I saw a Mother's eye intensely bent" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Sacrament (XXV) | 1821 | "By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied:" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
The Marriage Ceremony (XXVI) | 1821 | "The Vested Priest before the Altar stands;" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Thanksgiving after Childbirth (XXVII) | 1842 | "Woman! the Power who left his throne on high," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Visitation of the Sick (XXVIII) | 1842 | "The Sabbath bells renew the inviting peal;" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
The Commination Service (XXIX) | 1821 | "Shun not this rite, neglected, yea abhorred," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Forms of Prayer at Sea (XXX) | 1821 | "To kneeling Worshippers no earthly floor" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Funeral Service (XXXI) | 1842 | "From the Baptismal hour, thro' weal and woe,
" |
Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1845 | |
Rural Ceremony (XXXII) | 1821 | "Closing the sacred Book which long has fed" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Regrets (XXXIII) | 1821 | "Would that our scrupulous Sires had dared to leave" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Mutability (XXXIV) | 1821 | "FROM low to high doth dissolution climb," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Old Abbeys (XXXV) | 1821 | "Monastic Domes! following my downward way," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Emigrant French Clergy (XXXVI) | 1821 | "Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of France" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1827 | |
Congratulation (XXXVII) | 1821 | "Thus all things lead to Charity, secured" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
New Churches (XXXVIII) | 1821 | "But liberty, and triumphs on the Main," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Church to be Erected (XXXIX) | 1821 | "Be this the chosen site; the virgin sod," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Continued (XL) | 1821 | "Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
New Churchyard (XLI) | 1821 | "The encircling ground, in native turf arrayed," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Cathedrals, etc. (XLII) | 1821 | "Open your gates, ye everlasting Piles!" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (XLII) | 1821 | "Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
The Same (XLIII) | 1821 | "What awful pérspective! while from our sight" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Continued (XLIV) | 1821 | "They dreamt not of a perishable home" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Ejaculation (XLV) | 1821 | "Glory to God! and to the Power who came" | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Conclusion (XLVI) | 1821 | "Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled," | Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times | 1822 | |
Memory | 1823 | "A pen--to register; a key--" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1827 | |
To the Lady Fleming | 1822 | On seeing the Foundation preparing for the Erection of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland | "Blest is this Isle—our native Land;" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827–43); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) | 1827 |
On the same Occasion [To the Lady Fleming] | 1822 | Former title: Bore the title of: "To the Lady ——, on seeing the foundation preparing for the erection of —— Chapel, Westmoreland." from 1827–1836. | "Oh! gather whencesoe'er ye safely may" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827–43); Miscellaneous Poems (1835–) | 1827 |
A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found | 1823 | "A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell | 1823 | "Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
To ---- (1) | 1824 | "Let other bards of angels sing," | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1827 | |
To ------ (2) | 1824 | "O dearer far than light and life are dear," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1827 | |
How rich that forehead's calm expanse! | 1824 | "How rich that forehead's calm expanse!" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1827 | |
To ------ (3) | 1824 | "Look at the fate of summer flowers," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1827 | |
A Flower Garden at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire | 1824 | "Tell me, ye Zephyrs! that unfold," | Poems of the Fancy. | 1827 | |
To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. | 1824 | "A Stream, to mingle with your favourite Dee," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales, 1824 | 1824 | "How art thou named? In search of what strange land," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales | 1824 | "Through shattered galleries, 'mid roofless halls," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B., upon the death of his sister-in-law, 1824 | 1824 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Elegiac Stanzas, 1824" in the 1827 edition. | "O for a dirge! But why complain?" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems (1832); Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces | 1827 |
Cenotaph | 1824 | "By vain affections unenthralled," | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1842 | |
Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale, Westmoreland | 1841 | "By playful smiles, (alas! too oft" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1842 | |
The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren | 1825 | "Within her gilded cage confined," | Poems of the Fancy. | 1827 | |
To a Sky-lark | 1825 | "Up with me! up with me into the clouds!" | Poems of the Imagination | 1827 | |
Ere with cold beads of midnight dew | 1826 | "Ere with cold beads of midnight dew" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1827 | |
Ode, composed on May Morning | 1826 | "While from the purpling east departs" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
To May | 1826–1834 | "Though many suns have risen and set" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky) | 1826 | "Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems (1827–42); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) | 1827 | |
The massy Ways, carried across these heights | 1826 | "The massy Ways, carried across these heights" | Inscriptions | 1835 | |
The Pillar of Trajan | 1825 | "Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weeds" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827–42) | 1827 | |
On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp. The work of E. M. S. | 1827 | "Frowns are on every Muse's face," | Poems of the Fancy | 1827 | |
Dedication. To ------ | 1827 | "Happy the feeling from the bosom thrown" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat | 1827 | "Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings-- | 1827 | "'Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings—" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
To S. H. | 1827 | "Excuse is needless when with love sincere" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Decay of Piety | 1827 | "Oft have I seen, ere Time had ploughed my cheek," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, | 1827 | "Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frown'd," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild | 1827 | "Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild
" |
Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Retirement | 1827 | "If the whole weight of what we think and feel,
" |
Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
There is a pleasure in poetic pains | 1827 | "There is a pleasure in poetic pains" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge | 1827 | "The imperial Stature, the colossal stride," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle | 1827 | "When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
While Anna's peers and early playmates tread | 1827 | "While Anna's peers and early playmates tread," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
To the Cuckoo | 1827 | "Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
The Infant M------ M------ | 1827 | "Unquiet Childhood here by special grace" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
To Rotha Q------ | 1827 | "Rotha, my Spiritual Child! this head was grey" | No class assigned | 1827 | |
To ------, in her seventieth year | 1827 | "Such age how beautiful! O Lady bright," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud | 1827 | "In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes | 1827 | "Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes" | Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. | 1827 | |
In the Woods of Rydal | 1827 | "Wild Redbreast! hadst them at Jemima's lip" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
Conclusion, To ------ | 1827 | "If these brief Records, by the Muses' art" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1827 | |
A Morning Exercise | 1828 | "Fancy, who leads the pastimes of the glad," | Poems of the Fancy | 1832 | |
The Triad | 1829 | "Show me the noblest Youth of present time," | Poems of the Imagination. | 1829 | |
The Wishing-Gate Destroyed | 1828 | "'Tis gone—with old belief and dream" | Poems of the Imagination. | 1842 | |
On the Power of Sound | 1828 | "Thy functions are ethereal," | Poems of the Imagination | 1835 | |
Incident at Bruges | 1828 | "In Brugès town is many a street" | Memorials of a Tour on the Continent. | 1835 | |
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase | 1829 | "The soaring lark is blest as proud" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
Liberty [sequel to Gold and Silver ...] | 1829 | [Addressed to a friend; the gold and silver fishes having been removed to a pool in the pleasure-ground of rydal mount.] | "Those breathing Tokens of your kind regard," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 |
Humanity | 1829 | "What though the Accused, upon his own appeal" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
This Lawn, a carpet all alive | 1829 | "This Lawn, a carpet all alive" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
Thought on the Seasons | 1829 | "Flattered with promise of escape" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
A Gravestone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral | 1828 | "'Miserrimus!' and neither name nor date," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1829 | |
The Gleaner (Suggested by a Picture) | 1828 | "That happy gleam of vernal eyes," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1832); Miscellaneous Poems(1845) | 1829 | |
A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire | 1829 | "'Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1829 |
1830-1839
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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The Armenian Lady's Love | 1830 | "You have heard "a Spanish Lady" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1835 | |
The Russian Fugitive | 1830 | "Enough of rose-bud lips, and eyes" | Miscellaneous Poems. | 1835 | |
The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily | 1830 | "While Merlin paced the Cornish sands," | Distinct place on own (1835 and 1837); Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 (1845–) | 1835 | |
The Poet and the Caged Turtledove | 1830 | "As often as I murmur here" | Poems of the Fancy. | 1835 | |
Presentiments | 1830 | "Presentiments! they judge not right" | Poems of the Imagination | 1835 | |
In these fair vales hath many a Tree | 1830 | "In these fair vales hath many a Tree" | Inscriptions | 1835 | |
Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall the seat of the late sir g.h. beaumont, bart. | 1830 | "With copious eulogy in prose or rhyme" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces | 1835 | |
Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride | 1830 | "Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
To the Author's Portrait | 1832 | "Go, faithful Portrait! and where long hath knelt" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
The Primrose of the Rock | 1831 | "A Rock there is whose homely front" | Poems of the Imagination | 1835 | |
Yarrow Revisited | 1831 | Composed (two excepted) during a tour in Scotland, and on the English border, in the autumn of 1831. | "The gallant Youth, who may have gained," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 |
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples | 1831 | "A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland | 1831 | "Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland | 1831 | "Say, ye far-travelled clouds, far-seeing hills—" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Composed in Roslin Chapel during a Storm | 1831 | "The wind is now thy organist;—a clank" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The Trosachs | 1831 | "THERE 's not a nook within this solemn Pass," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute | 1831 | "The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute;" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day | 1831 | "'People! your chains are severing link by link;" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive | 1831 | "'This Land of Rainbows spanning glens whose walls," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Eagles. Composed at Dunollie Castle in the Bay of Oban | 1831 | "Dishonoured Rock and Ruin! that, by law" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
In the Sound of Mull | 1831 | "Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm | 1831 | Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion and Family Burial-place, near Killin | 1831 | "Well sang the Bard who called the grave, in strains" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Rest and be Thankful! At the Head of Glencroe | 1831 | "Doubling and doubling with laborious walk," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Highland Hut | 1831 | "See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built Cot,
" |
Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The Brownie | 1831 | "'How disappeared he?" Ask the newt and toad;" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star. Composed at Loch Lomond | 1831 | "Though joy attend Thee orient at the birth" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Bothwell Castle. (Passed unseen on account of stormy weather) | 1831 | "Immured in Bothwell's Towers, at times the Brave" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton Palace | 1831 | "Amid a fertile region green with wood" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The Avon. A Feeder of the Annan | 1831 | "Avon—a precious, an immortal name!" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest | 1831 | "The forest huge of ancient Caledon" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Hart's-horn Tree, near Penrith | 1831 | "Here stood an Oak, that long had borne affixed" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Fancy and Tradition | 1831 | ":The Lovers took within this ancient grove
" |
Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Countess's Pillar | 1831 | "While the Poor gather round, till the end of time" | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Roman Antiquities. (From the Roman Station at Old Penrith) | 1831 | "How profitless the relics that we cull," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Apology for the foregoing Poems | 1831 | "No more: the end is sudden and abrupt," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
The Highland Broach | 1831 | "If to Tradition faith be due," | Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems | 1835 | |
Devotional Incitements | 1832 | "Where will they stop, those breathing Powers," | Poems of the Imagination | 1835 | |
Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose | 1832 | "Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose" | Evening Voluntaries. | 1835 | |
Rural Illusions | 1832 | "Sylph was it? or a Bird more bright" | Poems of the Fancy | 1835 | |
Loving and Liking. Irregular Verses addressed to a Child. (By my Sister) | 1832 | "There's more in words than I can teach:" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1835 | |
Upon the late General Fast. March 1832 | 1832 | "Reluctant call it was; the rite delayed;" | onnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1835 | |
Filial Piety | 1829 | "Untouched through all severity of cold;" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1832 | |
To B. R. Haydon on seeing his picture of Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of St. Helena. | 1831 | "Haydon! let worthier judges praise the skill" | No class assigned | 1832 | |
If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven | Unknown | "If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven," | No class assigned | 1827 | |
A Wren's Nest | 1833 | "Among the dwellings framed by birds" | Poems of the Fancy. | 1835 | |
To ------, on the birth of her First-born Child, March 1833 | 1833 | "Like a shipwreck'd Sailor tost" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
The Warning. A Sequel to the foregoing [Birth of her First Child] | 1833 | "List, the winds of March are blowing;" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
If this great world of joy and pain | 1833 | "If this great world of joy and pain" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1835 | |
On a high part of the coast of Cumberland, Easter Sunday, April 7, the Author's sixty-third Birthday | 1833 | "The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire," | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
By the Seaside | 1833 | "The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest," | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown | 1833 | "Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle | 1833 | "Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
They called Thee MERRY ENGLAND, in old time | 1833 | "They called Thee Merry England, in old time;" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
To the River Greta, near Keswick | 1833 | "Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stones" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
To the River Derwent | 1833 | "Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets. (1820–1832); Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
In sight of the Town of Cockermouth. (Where the Author was born, and his Father's remains are laid) | 1833 | "A point of life between my Parents' dust," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle | 1833 | "'Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Nun's Well, Brigham | 1833 | "The cattle crowding round this beverage clear" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
To a Friend. (On the Banks of the Derwent) | 1833 | "Pastor and Patriot!—at whose bidding rise" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Mary Queen of Scots. (Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington) | 1833 | "Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland | 1833 | "If Life were slumber on a bed of down," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
In the Channel, between the coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man | 1833 | "Ranging the heights of Scawfell or Black-Comb" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
At Sea off the Isle of Man | 1833 | "Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Desire we past illusions to recall? | 1833 | "Desire we past illusions to recal?" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man | 1833 | "The feudal Keep, the bastions of Cohorn" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
By the Seashore, Isle of Man | 1833 | "Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Isle of Man | 1833 | "A youth too certain of his power to wade" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Isle of Man | 1833 | "Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
By a Retired Mariner, H. H. (A Friend of the Author) | 1833 | "From early youth I ploughed the restless Main," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man ((supposed to be written by a friend) |
1833 | "Broken in fortune, but in mind entire" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Tynwald Hill | 1833 | "Once on the top of Tynwald's formal mound" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Despond who will--'I' heard a voice exclaim | 1833 | "Despond who will—I heard a voice exclaim," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. During an Eclipse of the Sun, July 17 | 1833 | "Since risen from ocean, ocean to defy," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
On the Frith of Clyde. (In a Steamboat) | 1833 | "Arran! a single-crested Teneriffe," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
On revisiting Dunolly Castle | 1833 | "The captive Bird was gone;—to cliff or moor" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
The Dunolly Eagle | 1833 | "Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew;" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's "Ossian" | 1833 | "Oft have I caught, upon a fitful breeze" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Cave of Staffa | 1833 | "We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd,"' | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed | 1833 | "Thanks for the lessons of this Spot—fit school" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Cave of Staffa | 1833 | "Ye shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the Cave | 1833 | "Hope smiled when your nativity was cast," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Iona | 1833 | "On to Iona!—What can she afford" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Iona. (Upon Landing) | 1833 | "How sad a welcome! To each voyage" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
The Black Stones of Iona | 1833 | "Here on their knees men swore; the stones were black" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell | 1833 | "Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Greenock | 1833 | "We have not passed into a doleful City,
" |
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
There! said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride | 1833 | "'There!' said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
The River Eden, Cumberland | 1833 | "Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewed" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Monument of Mrs. Howard (by Nollekens)
In Wetheral Church, Near Corey, On the Banks of the Eden |
1833 | "Stretched on the dying Mother's lap, lies dead" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Suggested by the foregoing [Mrs. Howard] | 1833 | "Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Nunnery | 1833 | "The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary;" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways | 1833 | "Motions and Means, on land and sea at war" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her Daughters, near the River Eden | 1821 | "A weight of awe, not easy to be borne,": | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1822 | |
Lowther | 1833 | "Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
To the Earl of Lonsdale | 1833 | "Lonsdale! it were unworthy of a Guest," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
The Somnambulist | 1833 | "List, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
To Cordelia M----, Hallsteads, Ullswater | 1833 | "Not in the mines beyond the western main," | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes | 1833 | "Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes" | Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 | 1835 | |
Composed by the Sea-shore | 1834 | "What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret," | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
Not in the lucid intervals of life | 1834 | "Not in the lucid intervals of life" | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
By the Side of Rydal Mere | 1834 | "The linnet's warble, sinking towards a close," | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Mere | 1834 | "Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Mere" | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill | 1834 | "The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill," | Evening Voluntaries | 1835 | |
The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn | 1834 | "Up to the throne of God is borne" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1835 | |
The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage) | 1834 | "Driven in by Autumn's sharpening air" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1835 | |
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone | 1834 | "Beguiled into forgetfulness of care" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1835 | |
The foregoing Subject resumed [Pencil of F. Stone] | 1834 | "Among a grave fraternity of Monks," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. | 1835 | |
To a Child. | 1834 | Written in her Album | "Small service is true service while it lasts:" | Inscriptions (1837); Miscellaneous Poems. (1842–) | 1835 |
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale. November 5, 1834 | 1834 | "Lady! a Pen (perhaps with thy regard," | Miscellaneous Poems. (1845–) | 1835 | |
To the Moon. | 1835 | (Composed by the Seaside,--on the Coast of Cumberland) | "Wanderer! that stoop'st so low, and com'st so near" | Evening Voluntaries | 1837 |
To the Moon. (Rydal) | 1835 | "Queen of the stars!—so gentle, so benign," | Evening Voluntaries | 1837 | |
Written after the Death of Charles Lamb | 1835 | "To a good Man of most dear memory" | No class assigned | 1837 | |
Extempore Effusion upon the death of James Hogg | 1835 | "When first, descending from the moorlands," | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces (1837) | 1835 | |
Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album | 1835 | "Who rashly strove thy Image to portray?" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1836 | |
Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day | 1831 | "'People! your chains are severing link by link;" | Yarrow revisited, and other poems | 1835 | |
By a blest Husband guided, Mary came | Unknown | "By a blest Husband guided, Mary came" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces | 1835 | |
Desponding Father! mark this altered bough | 1835 | "Desponding Father! mark this altered bough" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire | 1835 | "While poring Antiquarians search the ground" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
St. Catherine of Ledbury | 1835 | "When human touch (as monkish books attest)" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant | 1835 | "WHY art thou silent! Is thy love a plant" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein | 1835 | "Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
To ------ | 1835 | "“Wait, prithee, wait!” this answer Lesbia threw" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1835 | |
Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud | 1838 | "Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud," | No class assigned | 1838 | |
November 1836 | 1836 | "Even so for me a Vision sanctified" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1837 | |
Six months to six years added he remained | Unknown | "Six months to six years added he remained" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 1837 | |
To Henry Crabb Robinson | 1837 | "Companion! by whose buoyant Spirit cheered," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Musings near Aquapendente. April 1837 (I) | 1837 | "Ye Apennines! with all your fertile vales" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome (II) | 1837 | "I saw far off the dark top of a Pine" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Rome (III) | 1837 | "Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill?" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Rome—Regrets—In allusion to Niebuhr and other modern Historians (IV) | 1837 | "Those old credulities, to nature dear," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Continued (V) | 1837 | "Complacent Fictions were they, yet the same" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Plea for the Historian (VI) | 1837 | "Forbear to deem the Chronicler unwise," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Rome (VII) | 1837 | "They—who have seen the noble Roman's scorn" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Near Rome, in sight of St. Peter's (VIII) | 1837 | "Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn;" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Albano (IX) | 1837 | "Days passed—and Monte Calvo would not clear" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove (X) | 1837 | "Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome (XI) | 1837 | "Forgive, illustrious Country! these deep sighs," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Near the Lake of Thrasymene (XII) | 1837 | "When here with Carthage Rome to conflict came," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Near the same Lake (XIII) | 1837 | "For action born, existing to be tried," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
The Cuckoo at Laverna. (XIV) | 1837 | May 25, 1837 | "List—'twas the Cuckoo.—O with what delight" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 |
At the Convent of Camaldoli (XV) | 1837 | "Grieve for the Man who hither came bereft," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Continued (XVI) | 1837 | "The world forsaken, all its busy cares" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli (XVII) | 1837 | "What aim had they, the Pair of Monks, in size" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Vallombrosa (XVIII) | 1837 | "“Vallombrosa—I longed in thy shadiest wood" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Florence (XIX) | 1837 | "Under the shadow of a stately Pile," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence (XX) | 1837 | "The Baptist might have been ordain'd to cry" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Florence—From Michael Angelo (XXI) | 1837 | "Rapt above earth by power of one fair face," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Florence—From M. Angelo (XXII) | 1837 | "Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines (XXIII) | 1837 | "Ye Trees! whose slender roots entwine" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
In Lombardy (XXIV) | 1837 | "See, where his difficult way that Old Man wins" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
After leaving Italy (XXV) | 1837 | "Fair Land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few," | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
Continued (XXVI) | 1837 | "As indignation mastered grief, my tongue" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 | 1842 | |
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837 (I) | 1837 | "Ah why deceive ourselves! by no mere fit" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 (1842); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order (1845–) | 1842 | |
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837 (Continued) (II) | 1837 | "Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined, to lean" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 (1842); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order (1845–) | 1842 | |
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837 (Concluded) (III) | 1837 | "As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow" | Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 (1842); Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order (1845–) | 1842 | |
What if our numbers barely could defy | 1837 | "What if our numbers barely could defy" | Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty | 1837 | |
A Night Thought | 1837 | "Lo! where the Moon along the sky" | Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842) | 1837 | |
To the Planet Venus. Upon its approximation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth, January 1838 | 1838 | "What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838 | 1838, 1 May | "If with old love of you, dear Hills! I share" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
Composed on a May Morning, 1838 | 1838 | "Life with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest | 1838 | "Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain | 1838 | "'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech! | 1835 | "Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 | |
A Plea for Authors, May 1838 | Unknown | "Failing impartial measure to dispense" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
A Poet to his Grandchild. (Sequel to the foregoing) [A Plea for Authors.] | Unknown | "“Son of my buried Son, while thus thy hand" | No class assigned | 1838 | |
Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will | 1838 | "Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order. | 1838 | |
Valedictory Sonnet. | 1838 | Closing the Volume of Sonnets published in 1838 | "Serving no haughty Muse, my hands have here" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1838 |
Sonnet, "Protest against the Ballot" | 1838 | Forth rushed, from Envy sprung and Self-conceit, | No class assigned | 1838 | |
Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road from the South) (I) | 1839 | "This Spot—at once unfolding sight so fair" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
II | 1839 | "Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
III | 1839 | "The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
IV | 1839 | "Is Death, when evil against good has fought" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
V | 1839 | "Not to the object specially designed," | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
VI | 1839 | "Ye brood of conscience—Spectres! that frequent" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
VII | 1839 | "Before the world had past her time of youth" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
VIII | 1839 | "Fit retribution, by the moral code" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
IX | 1839 | "Though to give timely warning and deter" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
X | 1839 | "Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
XI | 1839 | "Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
XII | 1839 | "See the Condemned alone within his cell" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
Conclusion (XIII) | 1839 | "Yes, though He well may tremble at the sound" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 | |
Apology (XIV) | 1839 | "The formal World relaxes her cold chain" | Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death. In series. | 1841 |
1840-1849
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sonnet on a Portrait of I. F., painted by Margaret Gillies | 1840 | "We gaze—nor grieve to think that we must die," | No class assigned | 1850 | |
To I.F | 1840 | "The star which comes at close of day to shine" | No class assigned | 1850 | |
Poor Robin | 1840 | "Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,
" |
Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 | |
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon | 1840, 31 August | "By Art's bold privilege Warrior and War-horse stand" | Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years; Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1841 | |
To a Painter | 1840 | "All praise the Likeness by thy skill portrayed" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
On the same Subject [To a Painter] | 1840 | "Though I beheld at first with blank surprise" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
When Severn's sweeping flood had overthrown | 1842, 23 January | "When Severn's sweeping flood had overthrown" | No class assigned | 1842 | |
Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake | 1842, 8 March | "Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years" | 1842, 26 March | "In desultory walk through orchard grounds," | Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 | |
Floating Island | Unknown | "Harmonious Powers with Nature work" | Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 | |
The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love | Unknown | "The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love," | Evening Voluntaries | 1842 | |
To a Redbreast--(in Sickness) | Unknown | "Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay," | Miscellaneous Poems | 1842 | |
A Poet!'--He hath put his heart to school | Unknown | ". A poet!--He hath put his heart to school," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
The most alluring clouds that mount the sky | Unknown | "The most alluring clouds that mount the sky" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
Feel for the wrongs to universal ken | Unknown | "Feel for the wrongs to universal ken" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1842 | |
In allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution | Unknown | "Portentous change when History can appear" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1842 | |
In allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution (Continued) | Unknown | "Who ponders National events shall find" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1842 | |
In allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution (Concluded) | Unknown | "Long-favoured England! be not thou misled" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1842 | |
Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark book | Unknown | "Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark book" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1842 | |
Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance | Unknown | "Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
The Norman Boy | Unknown | "High on a broad unfertile tract of forest-skirted Down," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1842 | |
The Poet's Dream, Sequel to the Norman Boy | Unknown | "Just as those final words were penned, the sun broke out in power," | Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1842 | |
The Widow on Windermere Side | Unknown | "How beautiful when up a lofty height" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1842 | |
Farewell Lines | 1826 | "'High bliss is only for a higher state,'" | Poems founded on the Affections. | 1842 | |
Airey-Force Valley | Unknown | "—Not a breath of air" | Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842); Poems of the Imagination | 1842 | |
Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live | 1842 | "Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live" | Poems of the Imagination | 1842 | |
To the Clouds | Unknown | "Army of Clouds! ye wingèd Host in troops" | Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842); Poems of the Imagination | 1842 | |
Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot | 1842 | "Wansfell this Household has a favoured lot," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 | |
The Eagle and the Dove | Unknown | "Shade of Caractacus, if spirits love" | No class assigned | 1842 | |
Grace Darling | 1842 | "Among the dwellers in the silent fields" | No class assigned | 1845 | |
While beams of orient light shoot wide and high | 1843, 1 January | "While beams of orient light shoot wide and high," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 | |
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Master of Harrow School | 1843 | After the perusal of his Theophilus Anglicanus, recently published. | "Enlightened Teacher, gladly from thy hand" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 |
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick | 1843 | "Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew" | Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces | 1845 | |
On the projected Kendal and Windermere Railway | 1844, 12 October | "Is then no nook of English ground secure" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1844 | |
Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old | 1844 | "Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 | |
At Furness Abbey | 1844 | "Here, where, of havoc tired and rash undoing," | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 | |
VII | 1845 | "Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base" | Poems on the Naming of Places | 1845 | |
The Westmoreland Girl. To my Grandchildren-- | 1845, 6 June | "Seek who will delight in fable
" |
Poems referring to the Period of Childhood | 1845 | |
At Furness Abbey | 1845 | "Well have yon Railway Labourers to this ground" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1845 | |
Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved | 1845 | "Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1845 | |
What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine | 1845 | "What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1845 | |
To a Lady | 1843[11] | In Answer to a request (from Jane Wallas Penfold) that I would write her a Poem upon some Drawings that she had made of Flowers in the Island of Madeira[12] | "Fair Lady! can I sing of flowers" | Poems of the Fancy | 1845 |
Glad sight wherever new with old | 1842 | "Glad sight wherever new with old" | Poems of the Fancy | 1845 | |
Love lies Bleeding | 1842 | "You call it, “Love lies bleeding,”—so you may" | Poems of the Fancy. | 1842 | |
They call it love lies bleeding! Rather Say | Unknown | "They call it Love lies bleeding! rather say" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Companion to the foregoing [Love lies Bleeding] | Unknown | "Never enlivened with the liveliest ray" | No class assigned | 1845 | |
The Cuckoo-Clock | 1842 | "Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight," | “Poems of the Imagination. | 1842 | |
So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive | 1844 | "So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1845 | |
To the Pennsylvanians | 1845 | "Days undefiled by luxury or sloth," | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1845 | |
Young England—what is then become of Old | 1845 | "Young England--what is then become of Old" | Sonnets dedicated to Liberty and Order | 1845 | |
Though the bold wings of Poesy affect | Unknown | "Though the bold wings of Poesy affect" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1842 | |
Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise | Unknown | "The gentlest Poet, with free thoughts endowed," | Poems of the Imagination | 1842 | |
Sonnet | 1846 | "Why should we weep or mourn, Angelic boy," | Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems. | 1850 | |
Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom's creed | 1846 | "Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom's creed," | Evening Voluntaries | 1850 | |
I know an aged Man constrained to dwell | 1846 | "I know an aged Man constrained to dwell" | Miscellaneous Sonnets | 1850 | |
How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high | 1846 | "How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high" | Miscellaneous Poems. | 1850 | |
To Lucca Gioridano | 1846 | "Giordano, verily thy Pencil's skill" | Evening Voluntaries | 1850 | |
Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high | 1846 | "Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high" | Evening Voluntaries | 1850 | |
Illustrated Books and Newspapers | 1846 | "Discourse was deemed Man's noblest attribute," | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1850 | |
The unremitting voice of nightly streams | 1846 | "The unremitting voice of nightly streams" | Poems of Sentiment and Reflection | 1850 | |
Sonnet. (To an Octogenarian) | 1846 | "Affections lose their object; Time brings forth" | No class assigned | 1850 | |
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream | 1846 | "Behold an emblem of our human mind" | No class assigned | 1850 | |
Ode, performed in the senate-house, Cambridge, on 6 July 1847, at the first commencement after the installation of his royal highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University. | 1847 | "For thirst of power that Heaven disowns," | No class assigned | 1847 |
Juvenilia
Title | Composition date | Subtitle or former titles | Index of first lines | Classed as (by Wordsworth) | Publication date |
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Anacreon | 1785-1797 | "Waving in the wanton air" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The Death of the Starling Catull | 1785-1797 | "Pity mourn in plaintive tone" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Beauty and Moonlight | 1785-1797 | An Ode | "High o'er the silver Rocks I rov'd" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
The Dog | 1785-1797 | An Idyllium | "Where were ye nympths when the remorseless deep" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
Sonnet. Written by Mr. ----- Immediately after the death of his wife. | 1785-1797 | "The sun is dead - ye heard the curfew toll" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Dirge, Sung by a Minstrel | 1785-1797 | "List! the bell-Sprite stuns my ears" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Sonnet. On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a tale of Distress | 1785-1797 | "She wept.--Life's purple tide began to flow" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The Vale of Esthwaite | 1785-1797 | [Empty [] indicate either illegible or damaged parts of the poem, that could not be salvaged. | "[ ]'s avaunt! with tenfold pleasure" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
The Horse | 1785-1797 | "The foal of generous breed along the plains" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Ode to Apollo | 1785-1797 | "As the fresh wine the poet pours," | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The road extended o'ver a heath | 1785-1797 | "The road extended o'ver a heath" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane | 1792 or earlier | "Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Septimi Gades | 1785-1797 | "Oh thou, whose fixed bewildered eye" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Imitation of Juvenal, Satire VIII | 1785-1797 | "What boots it, **, that thy princely blood" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Lesbia (Catullus, V) | 1785-1797 | "My Lesbia let us love and live" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Septimus and Acme (Catullus, XLV) | 1785-1797 | [Empty [] indicate either illegible or damaged parts of the poem, that could not be salvaged. | "Septimus thus his [] love addressed" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
At the Isle of Wight | 1793 | "How sweet the walk along the woody steep" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The Three Graves | 1785-1797 | "Beneath this thorn when i was young" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The Convict | 1785-1797 | "The glory of evening was spread through the west;" | Juvenilia | 1798 | |
Incipient Madness | 1785-1797 | "I crossed the dreary moor" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Argument for Suicide | 1785-1797 | "Send this man to the mine, this to the battle," | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
To Lady Eleanor Butler And The Honourable Miss Ponsonby, | 1824 | "A stream to mingle with your favorite Dee" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
The Passing of the Elder Bards | 1835, November | Contained within "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg" | "The Mighty Minstrel breathes no longer," | No class assigned | Unknown |
By the side of the grave some years after | 1798 | "Long time his pulse hath ceased to beat" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Song for the Spinning Wheel | 1812 | Founded upon a Belief Prevalent among the Pastoral Vales of Westmoreland | "Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!" | Poems of the Fancy | 1820 |
To a Distant Friend | Unknown | " Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
The Wishing Gate | 1829 | In the vale of Grasmere, by the side of an old highway leading to Ambleside, is a gate, which, from time out of mind, has been called the Wishing-gate, from a belief that wishes formed or indulged there have a favorable issue. | "Hope rules a land for ever green:" | Poems of the Imagination. | 1829 |
Calm is all nature as a resting wheel. | Unknown | "Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Minstrels | Unknown | "The minstrels played their Christmas tune" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
GREAT men have been among us; hands that penn'd | 1802, September | "Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
IT is not to be thought of that the flood | 1802, September | "It is not to be thought of that the flood" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed | 1802, September | "When I have borne in memory what has tamed" | No class assigned | 1807 | |
SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways | 1799 | "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1800 | |
I TRAVELL'D among unknown men | 1799 | "I Travell'd among unknown men," | Poems founded on the Affections | 1807 | |
A SLUMBER did my spirit seal | 1799 | "A Slumber did my spirit seal;" | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 | |
STRANGE fits of passion have I known | 1799 | "Strange fits of passion have I known:" | Poems founded on the Affections | 1800 | |
THREE years she grew in sun and shower | 1799 | Former title: Bore the title of: "Lucy" from 1836–1843 within the table of contents of those published editions. | "Three years she grew in sun and shower;" | Poems of the Imagination | 1800 |
A Jewish family in a small valley opposite St. Goar, Upon the Rhine | 1828 | "Genius of Raphael! if thy wings" | Poems of the Imagination | 1835 | |
The Snow-Tracks of my friends I see | 1798 | "The snow-tracks of my friends I see," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones | 1800 | "There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Along the mazes of this song I go | 1802 | "Along the mazes of this song I go" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
The Rains at length have ceas'd, the winds are still'd | 1802 | "The rains at length have ceas'd, the winds are still'd," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Witness Thou | 1802 | "Witness thou" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Wild-Fowl | 1802 | "The order'd troops" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Written in a Grotto | 1802 | "O moon! if e'er I joyed when thy soft light" | No class assigned | 1802, 9 March | |
The Recluse Part First | 1802 | Home at Grasmere | "Once to the verge of yon steep barrier came" | No class assigned | Unknown |
Shall he who gives his days to low pursuits | 1802 | "Shall he who gives his days to low pursuits" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
I find it written on simonides | 1803 | "I find it written of Simonides," | No class assigned | 1803, 10 October | |
No Whimsey of the Purse is here | 1804 | "No whimsey of the purse is here," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Peaceful our Valley Fair and Green | 1805 | "Peaceful our valley, fair and green;" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
To the evening star over grasmere water, July 1806 | 1806 | "The Lake is thine," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Come, gentle sleep, Death's Image tho' thou art" | Unknown | "Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image tho' thou art," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Brook, that hast been my solace days and weeks, |
1806 | "Brook, that hast been my solace days and weeks," | No class assigned | 1815 | |
The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae | 1818 | "The Scottish Broom on Bird-nest brae" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Critics, right honourable Bard, decree | 1818 | " “Critics, right honourable Bard, decree" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove, |
1819 | "Through Cumbrian wilds, in many a mountain cove" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Author's Voyage Down the Rhine | 1820 | (Thirty Years Ago) | "The confidence of Youth our only Art," | No class assigned | Unknown |
These vales were saddened with no common gloom | 1822 | "These vales were saddened with no common gloom" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore | 1823 | "Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Lines addressed to Joanna H. From the Gwerndwffnant in June 1826 | 1826 | By Dorothy Wrodsworth | "A twofold harmony is here;" | No class assigned | Unknown |
Holiday at Gwerndwffnant, May 1826. Irregular Stanzas | 1826 | By Dorothy Wordsworth | "You're here for one long vernal day;" | No class assigned | Unknown |
Composed when a probability existed of our being obliged to quit rydal mount as a residence | 1826 | "The doubt to which a wavering hope had clung" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
I, whose pretty Voice you hear, | 1826 | "I, whose pretty Voice you hear," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
To my niece Dora | 1827 | "Confiding hopes of youthful hearts," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
My Lord and Lady Darlington | 1829 | "My Lord and Lady Darlington," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
To the Utlitarians | 1833 | "Avaunt this œconomic rage!" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Throned in the Sun's descending car, | Unknown | "Throned in the Sun's descending car," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
And oh! dear soother of the pensive breast, | 1835 | "And oh! dear soother of the pensive breast," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Said red-ribboned Evans: | 1836 | "Said red-ribboned Evans:" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
The Ball whizzed by,—it grazed his ear, | 1837 | "The Ball whizzed by,—it grazed his ear," |
No class assigned | Unknown | |
Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ's chosen flock, | 1838 | "Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ's chosen flock," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud, | 1838 | Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud, | No class assigned | 1838 | |
Oh Bounty without measure, while the grace | 1840 | "Oh Bounty without measure, while the Grace" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
Deign, Sovereign Mistress! to accept a lay, | 1846 | "Deign, Sovereign Mistress! to accept a lay," | No class assigned | Unknown | |
To Miss Sellon | 1847 | "The vestal priestess of a sisterhood who knows" | No class assigned | Unknown | |
And You will leave me thus along | 1785-1797 | "And You will leave me thus along" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
on the death of an unfortunate lady | 1785-1797 | "on the death of an unfortunate lady" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
A Winter's Evening - Fragment of an Ode to Winter | 1785-1797 | "-But hark! the Curfew tolls! and lo! the night" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Here M. ----sleep[s] who liv'd a patriarch's days | 1785-1797 | "Here M. ----sleep[s] who liv'd a patriarch's days" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Pity"What tho' my griefs must never flow" | 1785-1797 | "What tho' my griefs must never flow" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
melancholy joy | 1785-1797 | [Empty [] indicate either illegible or damaged parts of the poem, that could not be salvaged. | "[] melancholy joy" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
Pity. now too while o'er the heart we feel | 1785-1797 | "now too while o'er the heart we feel" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
in Evening tints of joy [array'd] | 1785-1797 | "in Evening tints of joy [array'd] | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
How sweet at Eve's still hour the song' | 1785-1797 | "How sweet at Eve's still hour the song' | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Vale Longum Vale. Sentiments of Affection for inanimate Nature | 1785-1797 | "To mark the white smoke rising slow" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
But cease my Soul ah! cease to pry | 1785-1797 | "But cease my Soul ah! cease to pry" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Evening Sounds | 1785-1797 | "- the ploughboy by his gingling wane" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Description of a dying storm | 1785-1797 | "Now hollow sounding all around i hear" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Scenes | 1785-1797 | "- The taper turn'd from blue to red" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
What from the social chain can tear | 1785-1797 | "What from the social chain can tear" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
how Sweet in Life's tear-glistening morn | 1785-1797 | "how Sweet in Life's tear-glistening morn" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Come thou in robe of darkest blue | 1785-1797 | [To Melpomene] | "Come thou in robe of darkest blue" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
Hope | 1785-1797 | "Yon hamlet far across the vale" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Torrent | 1785-1797 | "The torrent's yelling Spectre, seen" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Hoarse sound the swoln and angry floods | 1785-1797 | "Hoarse sound the swoln and angry floods" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The moaning owl I shall soon | 1785-1797 | "The moaning owl I shall soon" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
I the while | 1785-1797 | "I the while" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
On tiptoe forward as I lean'd aghast | 1785-1797 | "On tiptoe forward as I lean'd aghast" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Death a Dirge | 1785-1797 | "List! the death-bell stuns mine ears" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Shipwreck of the soul | 1785-1797 | "Then did dire forms and ghastly faces float" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Evening Sonnets | 1785-1797 | "When slow from twilight's latest gleams" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Horace to Apollo | 1785-1797 | "As the fresh wine the poet pours" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
From the Greek | 1785-1797 | "And I will bear my vengeful blade" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Lament for Bion (from Moschus) | 1785-1797 | "Ah me! the lowliest children of spring" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Lines on Milton | 1785-1797 | "On Religion's holy hill" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
If grief dismiss me not to them that rest | 1785-1797 | "If grief dismiss me not to them that rest" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The western clouds a deepening gloom display | 1785-1797 | "The western clouds a deepening gloom display" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Inscription for a seat by the pathway to the side ascending to Windy Brow | 1785-1797 | "Ye who with buoyant spirits blessed" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Thou who with youthfull vigour rich, and light | 1785-1797 | "Thou who with youthfull vigour rich, and light" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
[Ode] (from Horace) | 1785-1797 | "Blandusian spring than glass more brightly dear" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Unplaced lines for [Imitation of Juvenal, Satire VIII] | 1785-1797 | "Ye kings, in wisdom, sense and power, supreme," | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
The hour-bell sounds and I must go | 1785-1797 | "The hour-bell sounds and I must go" | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Address to the Ocean | 1785-1797 | "'How long will ye round me be roaring," | Juvenilia | Unknown | |
Greyhound Ballad | 1785-1797 | "The barren wife all sad in mind" | Juvenilia | Unknown |
Notes
- 1.^ In 1798, approximately a third of the poem was published under the title: "The Female Vagrant". "The Female Vagrant" began at either Stanzas: XXIII or XXXIV of the poem in its current form.
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