…Young le pleureur des nuits,
Wordsworth l’esprit des lacs …

M. Sully Prudhomme when he wrote A l’Hirondelle (stanzas, la vie intérieure) appears to have borne in mind To a Skylark, “Ethereal minstrel,” etc.

M. Coppée has often been called a French Wordsworth, owing to his poetical collection called Les Humbles, wherein he shows the same partiality as the English Poet does for humble themes and characters, together with a bold attempt to naturalise trivial or ludicrous details in serious poetry; but there is no proof, as far as I know, of Wordsworth’s influence having been strong upon him.

If we except two or three disciples of Wordsworth, neither he, nor the lake-poets taken as a whole, seem to have been much thought of, or even read, by our contemporary verse-writers. The word Lakist has generally been used as a synonym for “weak and doleful mysticism.” Ex.:—

(a) Revue Encyclopédique. 1831. Article de Pierre Leroux, sur la “Poésie de notre Époque.” “L’Angleterre a entendu autour de ses lacs bourdonner comme des ombres plaintives un essaim de poètes abîmés dans une mystique contemplation.”

(b) Journal d’un Poète, par Alfred de Vigny. (Ed. Michel Lévy. 1867. p. 80.) “Barbier vient de publier Il Pianto. Les délices de Capone ont amolli son caractère de poésie et Brizeux a déteint sur lui ses douces couleurs virgiliennes et laquistes (sic) dérivant de Sainte-Beuve.”

(c) Théophile Gautier (Portraits Contemporains, p. 174) almost seems to derive the word Lakiste from Lamartine’s poem called Le Lac. He has just mentioned the poem and goes on: “Il ne faut pas croire que Lamartine, parce qu’il y a toujours chez lui une vibration et une résonnance de harpe éolienne, ne soit qu’un mélodieux lakiste et ne sache que soupirer mollement la mélancolie et l’amour. S’il a le soupir, il a la parole et le cri …” (Journal Officiel, 8 Mars 1869.)

I now come to the man who, first and foremost among our poets and critics, paid due homage to Wordsworth, i.e. Sainte-Beuve. I have already enumerated his several translations in verse from Wordsworth. Strange to say, the voluminous critic has no single article with Wordsworth for its main subject; but, whoever will go through his many volumes will find many judicious and admiring references to the poet.

Moreover, as a poet, Sainte-Beuve has endeavoured to naturalise in France the poetic style that has been associated with the name of Wordsworth. He expressly claims Wordsworth as one of his masters in his Consolations xviii. “A Antony Deschamps.” Among his bosom-poets he reckons—

…Wordsworth peu connu, qui des lacs solitaires
Sait tòus les bleus reflets, les bruits et les mystères,
Et qui, depuis trente ans vivant au même lieu,
En contemplation devant le même Dieu,
A travers les soupirs de la mousse et de l’onde,
Distingue, au soir, des chants venus d’un meilleur monde.

The original attempt of Sainte-Beuve (for he was original in his very choice of Wordsworth as a model at a time when Byron engrossed all the admiration of the French poets) has been ably characterised by Théophile Gautier in his “Portraits Contemporains” (pp. 208, 209), an article reprinted from La Gazette de Paris, 19 Novembre 1871:—

“(Sainte-Beuve) avait été en poésie un inventeur. Il avait donné une note nouvelle et toute moderne, et de tout le cénacle c’était à coup sûr le plus réellement romantique. Dans cette humble poésie qui rappelle par la sincérité du sentiment et la minutie du détail observé sur nature, les vers de Crabbe, de Wordsworth, et de Cowper, Sainte-Beuve s’est frayé de petits sentiers à mi-côte, bordés d’humbles fleurettes, où nul en France n’a passé avant lui. Sa facture un peu laborieuse et compliquée vient de la difficulté de réduire à la forme métrique des idées et des images non exprimées encore ou dédaignées jusque-là, mais que de morceaux merveilleusement venus où l’effort n’est plus sensible!”

Sainte-Beuve’s admiration of Wordsworth is a well-known fact. Less generally known is the influence of this admiration on several poets of that time (circa 1830-40), who, either through Sainte-Beuve’s imitations, or with a direct knowledge of Wordsworth’s poems, to the reading of which they had thus been stimulated, offer great marks of resemblance with Wordsworth. I have quoted a judgment of De Vigny that considers Brizeux and Barbier as having turned laquistes through Sainte-Beuve. I know no other immediate proof of this influence. Perhaps Barbier and Brizeux have consigned it somewhere. Anyhow Brizeux with his glorification of his youthful years and school-time, with his intense love of his native Brittany, his fond attachment to local customs and habits, his lamentations on the death of the poetical poet as embodied in his own province (Élégie de la Bretagne), is to all extent and purposes the most thoroughly Wordsworthian of all our poets. There may be more of Wordsworth’s philosophy in Lamartine, but there is more of his poetry proper in Brizeux.

The influence of Wordsworth on Maurice de Guérin and Hippolyte de la Morvonnais, is more easily ascertained than the preceding. Here, again, Sainte-Beuve appears to have been the intermediate agent.[582]

In 1832-33 Maurice de Guérin, fresh from the reading of the Consolations, and De la Morvonnais, who came to be a direct admirer of the Lake Poets, and chiefly of Wordsworth, set to write short poems which they aspired to make as little different from prose as possible, rejecting all traditional ornaments, and making little of the rhythmical improvements of the Romantiques proper. Some of those pieces were inserted in a local paper as downright prose (no stop intervening at the end of the lines), whereas the said paper would not have made room for verse.[583] This looks like trifling, but the earnestness of this attempted revolution is shown in the interesting poems of Maurice de Guérin. Another outcome of this was an intended publication on Wordsworth, of which it is impossible to say whether it was to be a criticism, or a translation, of the English Poet. It is thus mentioned in a letter of Guérin to De la Morvonnais of June 30, 1836: “Nous avons adressé des circulaires à un grand nombre d’éditeurs pour l’impression Wordsworth. Nous attendons la réponse d’un moment à l’autre.” The answer must have been unfavourable, as nothing more was heard of the intended publication.

The early death of Guérin left it for De la Morvonnais alone to spread the influence of Wordsworth’s poetry in France. Of him we read in Sainte-Beuve’s Étude sur Maurice de Guérin:—

“La Morvonnais, vers ce temps même (1834), en était fort préoccupé (des lakistes et de leur poésie), au point d’aller visiter Wordsworth à sa résidence de Rydal Mount, près des lacs du Westmoreland, et de rester en correspondance avec ce grand et pacifique esprit, avec ce patriarche de la Muse intime. Guérin, sans tant y songer, ressemblait mieux aux Lakistes en ne visant nullement à les imiter.”

Of the supposed correspondence between Wordsworth and De la Morvonnais no trace remains. M. Hippolyte de la Blanchardière, De la Morvonnais’ grandson, has informed me that in the collection of his grandfather’s letters there is no letter of Wordsworth to be found. That at least a Study of Wordsworth existed at the time is proved by the following preface to his poem La Thébaïde des Grèves, written by his friend A. Duquesnel (ed. by Didier, Quai des Augustins. 1864. p. xxvii.)

“Nous avons trouvé dans les Reliquiae du poète de l’Arguenon[584] de précieuses études sur les lakistes. Il s’était passionné pour ces hommes dans les dix dernières années de sa vie (1843-53).[585] Wordsworth lui semblait plus grand que Byron, qu’il trouvait trop emphatique, trop solennel, pas assez près de la nature. L’auteur de l’Excursion a exercé une pénétrante influence sur l’esprit et le cœur de la Morvonnais, nous trouvons dans ses cahiers des traductions en vers de Wordsworth, de Coléridge, de Crabbe, qui, lui, ne faisait pas partie de ce groupe. Nous les publierons peut-être un jour; elles ont d’autant plus d’intérêt que l’on ne connaît guère les lakistes en France, que par de rares extraits. Il s’était livré, comme on le verra, à une étude approfondie de la littérature anglaise. Son admiration pour Walter Scott était inexprimable.”

The study and translations above-mentioned have also been lost, many manuscripts of De la Morvonnais having been destroyed.

It remains for me to point out some allusions to, or imitations of, Wordsworth in the existing verse of De la Morvonnais.

In the Thébaïde des Grèves (1838), “Le Petit Patour” is a close imitation of We are Seven, the conclusion being—

Cet enfant en sait plus que moi sur l’existence;
Savoir vivre est savoir souffrir avec constance.

“Le Vagabond,” a story of a vagrant by whom the poet is taught resignation, is an imitation of Resolution and Independence.

In “A Sainte-Beuve” are found these two lines—

J’ai posé sous mon bras mon penseur solitaire,
Mon Wordsworth tant aimé de l’amant du mystère.

In “Dispersion, à Mistress Hemans,” etc., we read this—

Nous primes un poète, une femme angélique
Dont peu savent chez nous la voix mélancolique,
Disciple de Wordsworth, le sublime penseur,
Des lakistes chéris je la nomme la sœur.

In “Dernières Paroles” we find this praise of Wordsworth—

Or, ce soir-là, je lus un homme de génie;
Celui dont la mystique et profonde harmonie
Sonne pour les élus des poétiques dons,
Et soulève notre âme en ses grands abandons …
…Oh! ne pourrai-je voir
Ces lacs du Westmoreland, mon désir, mon espoir?
Cet homme est honoré des puissances secrètes;
Lui mort, à ses beaux lacs, romantiques retraites,
Des pèlerins viendront, penseurs religieux.
Le monde méconnut l’homme mélodieux.

I pass over many sonnets, and divers other poems, in which the influence of Wordsworth is unmistakable, and come to a last quotation which is useful to elucidate an allusion in Wordsworth’s The Poet’s Dream: Sequel to the Norman Boy. In this poem, written in 1842, Wordsworth says—

But oh! that Country-man of thine, whose eye, loved Child, can see
A pledge of endless bliss in acts of early piety,
In verse, which to thy ear might come, would treat this simple theme,
Nor leave untold our happy flight in that adventurous dream.

As Wordsworth read very little French poetry in his old age, I think he here alludes to a poem of his admirer De la Morvonnais, who very likely sent him that Thébaïde des Grèves (1838), in which Wordsworth was so highly praised. The passage alluded to is taken from “Solitude,” and reads thus—

Enfant, Il (Dieu) te promet le domaine de l’ange
Si tu gardes l’amour et la foi des aïeux,
Et sa mère, aujourd’hui loin de l’humaine fange,
Que tu n’as pas connue et qui t’attend aux cieux.

As a whole, De la Morvonnais, though he imitates Wordsworth, is very unlike him. Of course I do not mean to compare the two, but even in like subjects he differs from Wordsworth, owing to a sort of constitutional nervousness and brooding melancholy.[586]

[582] Voir Maurice de Guérin, Journal, Lettres et Poèmes, publiés par J. S. Trébutien avec Préface de Sainte-Beuve (1860).—E.L.

[583] In the above work—Séjour de M. de Guérin en Bretagne; Impressions et Souvenirs de M. François du Breil de Marzan, pp. 434-441.—E.L.

[584] H. de la Morvonnais.—E.L.

[585] A mistake: his admiration of Wordsworth began before 1832.—E.L.

[586] In Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse, par Amédée Puchot, Lettre XXIV. there are numerous references to Wordsworth. It begins with a quotation from Tintern Abbey. In Lettre LXV. there is additional critical reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge. In the Album poétique des jeunes personnes, par Mme. Tastu, there is a “Sonnet imité de Wordsworth,” by St. Beuve, pp. 101, 102.

C’est un beau soir, un soir paisible et solennel,
A la fin du saint jour la nature en prière
Le tait, comme Marie à genoux sur la pierre, etc.—Ed.

See also the Nouveaux Lundis of St. Beuve, 21 and 22 Avril 1862, where there are “trois sonnets traduits en vers par l’Abbé Roussel” from Wordsworth.


ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST

REFERRING TO VOLUMES I. TO VIII.

1. Inistar omnium.—I wish to explain the accidental omission of Mr. T. Hutchinson’s name amongst those who helped me in Volumes I. and II. (see the prefatory note to this volume), and also that of Mr. Hill. It was due to my returning, “for press,” an uncorrected copy of my Preface.

2. Vol. ii. p. 106, Ruth, l. 54—The following extract from Bartram’s Travels, etc., illustrates Wordsworth’s debt to him:—

Proceeding on our return to town in the cool of the evening … we enjoyed a most enchanting view; … companies of young innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native bowers … disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze … whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions, tantalising them, staining their lips and cheeks with the ripe fruit.

3. In vol. ii. p. 348, the date of publication should be Sept. 17, 1802, not 1803.

4. In The Prelude (vol. iii. p. 202, book v. l. 26) the quotation which I could not trace is from Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 64—

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

5. Vol. v. p. 113 (The Excursion, book iii. l. 187).—Mr. William E. Walcott—Laurence, Mass. U.S.A.—sends me the following variant readings, which he has found in a copy of the edition of 1814—

… crystal tube
Be lodged therein …

P. 151, book iv. l. 187—

Nor sleep, nor …

6. Vol. vii. p. 276.—This sonnet first appeared in the New Monthly Magazine, part ii. p. 26, under the title, To B. R. Haydon. Composed on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena; and it is dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”

7. Vol. vii. p. 336.—This poem was published in the Saturday Magazine, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is—

Woe to the purblind men who fill.

8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted, unfortunately, where it occurs)—

Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,

is from Paradise Lost, book xii. l. 645. See also An Elegy delivered at the Hot Wells, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous verse” is from Paradise Lost, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet—

O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow’s wound.

Amongst those which I have failed to trace are the following:

Ecclesiastical Sonnets, II. xxxiv.—

… murtherer’s chain partake,
Corded, and burning at the social stake.

xlv.—

… in the painful art of dying

The Russian Fugitive, Part II. l. 51—

… if house it be or bower.

Elegiac Musings, l. 41—

Let praise be mute where I am laid.

Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees’ Heads, l. 37—

Cruel of heart were they, bloody of hand.

INDEX TO THE POEMS

VOL.PAGE
Aar, The Fall of thevi308
Abbeys, Oldvii100
Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castlevii347
Address to a Childiv50
Address to Kilchurn Castleii400
Address to my Infant Daughter, Doraiii14
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ——ii84
Admonitioniv34
Æneid, Translation of Part of the First Book of theviii276
“Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow”vi187
Affliction of Margaret—, Theiii7
Afflictions of Englandvii72
After-Thought (Duddon)vi263
After-Thought (Tour on the Continent)vi315
Airey-Force Valleyviii146
Aix-la-Chapellevi295
“Alas! what boots the long laborious quest”iv216
Alban Hills, From theviii65
Albano, Atviii64
Alfredvii24
Alfred, His Descendantsvii25
Alice Fell; or, Povertyii272
Aloys Redingvi310
Amblesideviii156
America, Aspects of Christianity in (Three Sonnets)vii84
American Episcopacyvii85
American Traditionvi246
Ancient History, On a celebrated Event in (Two Sonnets)iv242
Andrew Jonesviii221
Anecdote for Fathersi234
Animal Tranquillity and Decayi307
Anticipation (October 1803)ii436
Anticipation of leaving School, Composed ini1
Apennines, Among the Ruins of a Convent in theviii82
Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1st part)vii18
Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 2nd part)vii55
Apology (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death)viii112
Apology (Yarrow Revisited)vii309
Applethwaite, Atiii23
Aquapendente, Musings nearviii42
Armenian Lady’s Love, Thevii232
Artegal and Elidurevi45
Authors, A plea for,viii99
Author’s Portrait, To thevii318
Autumn (September)vi64
Autumn (Two Poems)vi201
Avarice, The last Stage ofii60
Avon, The (Annan)vii303
Bala-Sala, Atvii365
Balbiiv237
Ballot, Protest against theviii304
Bangor, Monastery of Oldvii13
Baptismvii89
Barbaraii178
Beaumont, Sir George, Epistle toiv256
Beaumont, Sir George, Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle toiv267
Beaumont, Sir George, Picture of Peele Castle, painted byiii54
Beaumont, Sir George, Beautiful Picture, painted byiv271
Beaumont, Sir George, Elegiac Stanzas addressed tovii132
Beaumont, To Ladyiv57
Beggar, The Old Cumberlandi299
Beggars (Two Poems)ii276
“‘Beloved Vale!’ I said, ‘when I shall con’”iv35
Benefits, Other (Two Sonnets)vii40
Bible, Translation of thevii58
Binnorie, The Solitude ofii204
Bird of Paradise, Coloured Drawing of theviii29
Bird of Paradise, Suggested by a Picture ofviii140
Biscayan Rite (Two Sonnets)iv241
Bishops, Acquittal of thevii79
Bishops and Priestsvii86
Black Comb, Inscription on a Stone on the side ofiv281
Black Comb, View from the top ofiv279
“Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will”viii101
Bologna, At (Three Sonnets)viii85
Bolton Priory, The Founding ofiv204
Books and Newspapers, Illustratedviii184
Borderers, Thei112
Bothwell Castlevii299
Boulogne, On being stranded near the Harbour ofvi378
Bran, Effusion on the Banks of thevi28
Breadalbane, Ruined Mansion of the Earl ofvii295
Brientz, Scene on the Lake ofvi315
Brigham, Nun’s Wellvii347
Britons, Struggle of thevii11
Brothers, Theii184
Brothers Water, Bridge at the foot ofii293
Brougham Castle, Song at the Feast ofiv82
Brownie’s Cellvi16
Brownie, Thevii297
Brugès (Two Poems)vi288
Brugès, Incident atvii198
Buonapartéii323
Buonapartéii331
Buonapartéiv228
Burial in the South of Scotland, A Place ofvii285
Burns, At the Grave ofii379
Burns, Thoughts suggested near the Residence ofii383
Burns, To the Sons ofii386
Butterfly, To aii383
Butterfly, To aii297
Calais, August 1802ii331
Calais, August 15, 1802ii334
Calais, Composed by the Seaside, nearii330
Calais, Composed nearii332
Calais, Composed on the Beach, nearii335
Calais, Fish-women atvi286
Calvert, Raisleyiv44
Camaldoli, At the Convent of (Three Sonnets)viii72
Canutevii27
Canute and Alfredvi130
Castle, Composed at ——ii410
“Castle of Indolence,” Written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson’sii305
Casual Incitementvii14
Catechisingvii91
Cathedrals, etc.vii105
Catholic Cantons, Composed in one of the (Two Poems)vi312
Celandine, The Smalliii21
Celandine, To the Small (Two Poems)ii300
Cenotaph (Mrs. Fermor)vii135
Chamouny, Processions in the Vale ofvi363
Character, Aii208
Charles the First, Troubles ofvii71
Charles the Secondvii75
Chatsworthvii272
Chaucer, Selections from (Three Poems)ii238
Chiabrera, Epitaphs translated fromiv229
Chichely, Archbishop, to Henry V.vii47
Child, Address to aiv50
Child, Characteristics of a, three years oldiv252
Child, To a (Written in her Album)viii7
Childless Father, Theii181
Christianity in America, Aspects of (Three Sonnets)vii84
Churches, Newvii102
Church to be erected (Two Sonnets)vii103
Churchyard, Newvii104
Cintra, Convention of (Two Sonnets)iv210
Cistertian Monasteryvii37
Clarkson, Thomas, Toiv62
Clergy, Corruptions of the Highervii49
Clergy, Emigrant Frenchvii101
Clerical Integrityvii78
Clermont, The Council ofvii30
Clifford, Lordiv82
Clouds, To theviii142
Clyde, In the Frith of, Ailsa Cragvii369
Clyde, On the Frith ofvii370
Cockermouth Castle, Address from the Spirit ofvii347
Cockermouth, In sight ofvii346
Coleorton, Elegiac Musings in the grounds ofvii269
Coleorton, A Flower Garden atvii125
Coleorton, Inscription for an Urn in the grounds ofiv78
Coleorton, Inscription for a Seat in the groves ofiv80
Coleorton, Inscription in a garden ofiv76
Coleorton, Inscription in the grounds ofiv74
Coleridge, Hartley, Toii351
Collins, Remembrance ofi33
Cologne, In the Cathedral atvi297
Commination Servicevii96
Complaint, Aiv17
“Complete Angler,” Written on a blank leaf in thevi190
Conclusion (Duddon)vi262
Conclusion (Ecclesiastical Sonnets)vii108
Conclusion (Miscellaneous Sonnets)vii177
Conclusion (Prelude)iii367
Conclusion (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death)viii111
Confirmation (Two Sonnets)vii92
Congratulationvii102
Conjecturesvii5
Contrast, The. The Parrot and the Wrenvii141
Convent in the Apenninesviii82
Convention of Cintra, Composed while writing a Tract occasioned by the (Two Sonnets)iv210
Conversionvii17
Convict, Theviii217
Cora Linn, Composed atvi26
Cordelia M——, Tovii400
Cottage Girls, The Threevi351
Cottager to her Infant, Theiii74
Council of Clermont, Thevii30
Countess’ Pillarvii307
Covenanters, Persecution of the Scottishvii79
Cranmervii62
Crosthwaite Churchviii157
Crusadersvii41
Crusadesvii31
Cuckoo and the Nightingale, Theii250
Cuckoo at Laverna, Theviii67
Cuckoo Clock, Theviii151
Cuckoo, To theii289
Cuckoo, To thevii169
Cumberland Beggar, The Oldi299
Cumberland Beggar, The Old, MS. Variantsviii220
Cumberland, Coast of (In the Channel)vii358
Cumberland, On a high part of the coast ofvii337
Daffodils, Theiii4
Daisy, To the (Two Poems)ii353
Daisy, To theii360
Daisy, To theiii51
Daniel, Picture of (Hamilton Palace)vii303
Danish Boy, Theii96
Danish Conquestsvii27
Danube, The Source of thevi303
Dati, Robertoiv234
Dedication (Miscellaneous Sonnets)vii159
Dedication (Tour on the Continent)vi285
Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone)iv102
Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone)vi42
Departure from the Vale of Grasmereii377
“Deplorable his lot who tills the ground”vii38
Derwent, To the Rivervi193
Derwent, To the Rivervii345
Descriptive Sketchesi35
Descriptive Sketchesi309
Desultory Stanzasvi382
Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem, On thevi212
Devil’s Bridge, To the Torrent at thevii129
Devotional Incitementsvii314
Dionvi116
Dissensionsvii10
Distractionsvii68
Dog, Incident characteristic of a favouriteiii48
Dog, Tribute to the Memory of the sameiii49
Donnerdale, The Plain ofvi251
Dora, To (A little onward)vi132
Dora, To my Nieceviii297
Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, On enteringvii360
Dover, Composed in the Valley nearii341
Dover, Nearii343
Dover, The Valley of (Two Sonnets)vi380
Druidical Excommunicationvii7
Druids, Trepidation of thevii6
Duddon, The Rivervi225
Dungeon-Ghyll Forceii138
Dunollie Castle (Eagles)vii292
Dunolly Castle, On Revisitingvii371
Dunolly Eagle, Thevii372
Duty, Ode toiii37
Dyer, To the Poet Johniv273
Eagle and the Dove, Theviii309
Eagles (Dunollie Castle)vii292
Eagle, The Dunollyvii372
Easter Sunday, Composed onvi194
Ecclesiastical Sonnetsvii2
Echo, The Mountainiv25
Echo upon the Gemmivi360
Eclipse of the Sun, Thevi345
Eden, The River (Cumberland)vii385
Edward VI.vii59
Edward VI. signing the Warrantvii60
Egremont Castle, The Horn ofiv12
Egyptian Maid, Thevii252
Ejaculationvii107
Elegiac Musings (Coleorton Hall)vii269
Elegiac Stanzas (Goddard)vi371
Elegiac Stanzas (Mrs. Fermor)vii132
Elegiac Stanzas (Peele Castle)iii54
Elegiac Verses (John Wordsworth)iii58
Elizabethvii65
Ellen Irwinii124
Emigrant French Clergyvii101
Emigrant Mother, Theii284
Eminent Reformers (Two Sonnets)vii66
Emma’s Dellii153
Engelbergvi316
Enghien, Duke d’vi114
“England! the time is come when thou should’st wean”ii432
England, Afflictions ofvii72
Enterprise, Tovi218
Episcopacy, Americanvii85
Epistle to Sir George Beaumontiv256
Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, Upon perusing the foregoingiv267
Epitaph, A Poet’sii75
Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdaleviii120
Epitaphs translated from Chiabreraiv229
“Ere with cold beads of midnight dew”vii145
“Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress”vi69
Evening of extraordinary splendour, Composed upon anvi176
Evening Star over Grasmere Water, To theviii263
Evening Walk, Ani4
Event in Ancient History, On a celebrated (Two Sonnets)iv242
Excursion, Thev1
Expostulation and Replyi272
Fact, A, and an Imaginationvi130
Faery Chasm, Thevi241
Fancyiv36
Fancy and Traditionvii306
Fancy, Hints for thevi242
Farewell, Aii324
Farewell Linesvii155
Farewell (Tour, 1833)vii341
Farmer of Tilsbury Vale, Theii147
Far-Terrace, Thevii154
Father, The Childlessii181
Fathers, Anecdote fori234
Fermor, Mrs. (Cenotaph)vii135
Fermor, Mrs. (Elegiac Stanzas)vii132
Fidelityiii44
Filial Pietyvii231
Fir Grove (John Wordsworth)iii66
Fishes in a Vase, Gold and Silvervii214
Fish-womenvi286
Flamininus, T. Quintius (Two Sonnets)iv242
Fleming, To the Lady (Rydal Chapel), (Two Poems)vii109
Floating Island (D. W.)viii125
Florence (Four Sonnets)viii78
Flower Garden, A (Coleorton)vii125
Flowersvi235
Flowers (Cave of Staffa)vii378
Flowers in the Island of Madeiraviii177
“Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!”ii419
Foresight, or Children gathering Flowersii298
Forms of Prayer at Seavii97
Forsaken Indian Woman, Complaint of ai275
Forsaken, Theiii10
Fort Fuentesvi328
Fountain, Theii91
Fox, Mr., Lines composed on the expected death ofiv47
France, Sky-prospect from the Plain ofvi377
Francesco Pozzobonnelliiv236
French Army in Russia (Two Poems)vi107
French Clergy, Emigrantvii101
French Revolutionii34
French Revolution, In allusion to Histories of the (Three Sonnets)viii130
French Royalist, Feelings of avi114
Friend, To a (Banks of the Derwent)vii348
Funeral Servicevi97
Furness Abbey, Atviii168
Furness Abbey, Atviii176
Gemmi, Echo upon thevi360
General Fast, Upon the late (1832)vii323
George the Third (November, 1813)iv282
George the Third, On the death ofvi209
Germans on the Heights of Hockheim, Thevi216
Germany, Written inii73
Gillies, Margaret, To (Two Poems)viii114
Gillies, Margaretviii306
Gillies, Robert Pearcevi33
Gipsiesiv65
Glad Tidingsvii15
Gleaner, Thevii202
Glen-Almain, or, The Narrow Glenii393
Glencroe, At the Head ofvii295
Glowworm, Theviii231
Goddard, Elegiac Stanzasvi371
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase (Two Poems)vii214
Goody Blake and Harry Gilli253
Gordalevi185
Grace Darlingviii310
Grasmere, Departure from the Vale of (August 1803)ii377
Grasmere, Home atviii235
Grasmere, Inscription on the Island atii213
Grasmere, Return toii419
Grasmere Lake, Composed by the side ofiv73
Grave-stone, A (Worcester Cathedral)vii201
“Great men have been among us; hands that penned”ii346
Green, George and Sarahviii266
Green Linnet, Theii367
Greenockvii383
Greta, To the Rivervii344
“Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend”vi195
Grotto, Written in aviii234
Guernica, Oak ofiv245
Guilt and Sorrowi77
Gunpowder Plotvii69
Gustavus IViv227
Gwerndwffnant, Holiday atviii284
H. C., Six years old, Toii351
Hambleton Hills, After a journey across theii349
Happy Warrior, Character of theiv7
Hart-Leap Wellii128
Hart’s-Horn Treevii305
Haunted Tree, Thevi199
Hawkshead, Written as a School Exercise atviii211
Hawkshead School, In anticipation of leavingi1
Hawkshead School, Address to the Scholars ofii84
Haydon, To B. R.vi61
Haydon, To B. R. (Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte)vii276
Heidelberg, Castle of (Hymn for Boatmen)vi301
Helvellyn, To ——, on her first ascent ofvi135
Henry Eighth, Portrait ofvii166
Her eyes are wildi258
Hermitage (St. Herbert’s Island)ii210
Hermitage, Near the Spring of thevi175
Hermit’s Cell, Inscriptions in and nearvi170
Highland Boy, The Blindii420
Highland Broach, Thevii310
Highland Girl, To aii389
Highland Hutvii296
Hint from the Mountainsvi156
Hints for the Fancyvi242
Historian, Plea for theviii61
Hofferiv213
Hogg, James, Extempore Effusion upon the death ofviii24
Holiday at Gwerndwffnantviii284
Home at Grasmereviii235
Horn of Egremont Castle, Theiv12
Howard, Mrs., Monument of (Wetheral), (Two Sonnets)vii386
Humanityvii222
Hutchinson, Sarah, Tovii162
Hymn for Boatmen (Heidelberg)vi301
Hymn, The Labourer’s Noon-dayvii408
I.F., Toviii307
Idiot Boy, Thei283
Illustrated Books and Newspapersviii184
Illustration (The Jung-Frau)vii70
Imaginationvi67
Immortality, Ode, Intimations ofviii189
Indian Woman, Complaint of a Forsakeni275
Infant Daughter, Address to myiii14
Infant M—— M——, To thevii170
Infant, The Cottager to heriii74
Influence Abusedvii26
Influence of Natural Objectsii66
Influences, Othervii19
Inglewood Forest, Suggested by a View invii304
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church (Southey)viii157
Inscription for a Stone (Rydal Mount)vii269
Inscriptions (Coleorton)iv74
Inscriptions (Hermit’s Cell)vi170
Installation Odeviii320
Interdict, Anvii32
Introduction (Ecclesiastical Sonnets)vii4
Introduction (Prelude)iii132
Invasion, Lines on the expectedii437
Inversneydeii389
Invocation to the Earthvi95
Iona (Two Sonnets)vii379
Iona, The Black Stones ofvii381
Isle of Man (Two Sonnets)vii362
Isle of Man, At Bala-Salavii365
Isle of Man, At Sea off thevii359
Isle of Man, By the Sea-shorevii361
Isle of Man (Douglas Bay)vii360
Italian Itinerant, Thevi338
Italy, After leaving (Two Sonnets)viii84
“It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown”ii375
“I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret”vi197
Jedborough, The Matron ofii414
Jewish Family, Avii195
Joanna, Toii157
Joanna H., Lines addressed toviii282
Joan of Kent, Warrant for Execution ofvii60
Jones, Rev. Robertvi257
Journey Renewedvi257
June, 1820vi214
Jung-Frau, The, and the Fall of the Rhinevii70
Kendal, Upon hearing of the death of the Vicar ofvi40
Kendal and Windermere Railway, On the projectedviii166
Kent, To the Men of (October, 1803)ii434
Kilchurn Castle, Address toii400
Killicranky, In the Pass ofii435
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Inside of (Three Sonnets)vii106
Kirkstone, The Pass ofvi158
Kirtle, The Braes ofii124
Kitten and Falling Leaves, Theiii16
Laborer’s Noon-day Hymn, Thevii408
Lady, To a, upon Drawings she had made of Flowers in Madeiraviii177
Lady E. B., and the Hon. Miss P., To thevii128
Lamb, Charles, Written after the death ofviii17
Lancaster Castle, Suggested by the view ofviii103
Langdale, Epitaph in the Chapel-yard ofviii120
Laodamiavi1
Last of the Flock, Thei279
Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, Thevi343
Latimer and Ridleyvii61
Latitudinarianismvii76
Laudvii71
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Suppervi343
Lesbiaviii32
Liberty (Gold and Silver Fishes)vii216
Liberty (Tyrolese Sonnets)iv214
Liberty, Obligations of Civil to Religiousvii81
Liege, Between Namur andvi293
Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbeyii51
Lines composed on the expected death of Mr. Foxiv47
Lines, Farewellvii155
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-treei108
Lines on the expected Invasion, 1803ii437
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone (Two Poems)viii1
Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawksheadviii211
Lines written in Early Springi268
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdaleviii8
Lines written upon a Stone, upon one of the Islands at Rydalii63
Lines written upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendalvi40
Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Eveningi32
Liturgy, Thevii88
Loch Etive, Composed in the Glen ofvii291
Lombardy, Inviii83
London, Written in (1802), (Two Sonnets)ii344
Longest Day, Thevi153
Long Meg and her Daughtersvii390
Lonsdale, The Countess of (Album)viii8
Lonsdale, To the Earl ofv20
Lonsdale, To the Earl ofvii392
Louisaii362
Love, The Birth ofviii215
Love lies bleeding (Two Poems)viii148
Loving and Likingvii320
Lowthervii391
Lowther, To the Lady Maryvi211
Lucca Giordanoviii183
Lucy Gray; or, Solitudeii99
Lucy (Three Poems)ii78
Lucy (Three years she grew)ii81
Lycoris, Ode to (Two Poems)vi145
M. H., Toii167
Madeira, Flowers in the Island ofviii177
Malham Covevi184
Manse, On the sight of a (Scotland)vii286
March, Written inii293
Margaret ——, The Affliction ofiii7
Mariner, By a Retiredvii364
“Mark the concentred hazels that enclose”vi71
Marriage Ceremonyvii94
Marriage of a Friend, Composed on the Eve of theiv276
Marshall, To Cordeliavii400
Mary Queen of Scots, Captivity ofvi191
Mary Queen of Scots, Lament ofvi162
Mary Queen of Scots (Workington)vii349
Maternal Griefiv248
Matron of Jedborough, Theii414
Matthewii87
May Morning, Composed on (1838)viii97
May Morning, Ode composed onvii146
May, Tovii148
Meditationvii401
Memoryvii117
“Men of the Western World!”viii112
Mental Afflictionviii36
Merry Englandvii343
Michaelii215
Michael Angelo, From the Italian of (Three Sonnets)iii380
Michael Angelo, Translation fromviii265
“Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour”ii346
Missions and Travelsvii23
Monasteries, Dissolution of the (Three Sonnets)vii52
Monasteries, Saxonvii22
Monastery, Cistertianvii37
Monastery of Old Bangorvii13
Monastic Power, Abuse ofvii50
Monastic Voluptuousnessvii51
Monkhouse, Maryvii170
Monks and Schoolmenvii39
Monument of Mrs. Howard (Two Sonnets)vii386
Monument (Long Meg and her Daughters)vii390
Moon, The (The Shepherd, looking eastward)vi68
Moon, The (With how sad steps, O Moon)iv38
Moon (The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love)viii127
Moon, The (Sea-side)viii13
Moon, The (Rydal)viii15
Moon, The (Who but is pleased to watch)viii184
Moon, The (How beautiful the Queen of Night)viii188
Moon, The (Once I could hail)vii152
Morning Exercise, Avii178
Mosgiel Farm (Burns)vii383
Mother, The Madi258
Mother’s Return, Theiv63
Mountains, Hint from thevi156
Mull, In the Sound ofvii293
Music, Power ofiv20
Mutabilityvii100
Naming of Places, Poems on theii153
Namur and Liege, Betweenvi293
Natural Objects, Influence ofii66
“Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove”viii65
Needlecase in the form of a Harp, On seeing avii157
Negro Womanii342
Newspaper, Composed after reading avii290
Nightingale, Thevi214
Nightingale, The Cuckoo and theii250
Night Piece, Ai227
Night-thought, Aviii88
Nith, On the Banks ofii383
Norman Boy, Theviii132
Norman Conquest, Thevii28
North Wales, Composed among the Ruins of a Castle invii131
Nortons, The Fate of theiv100
November, 1806iv49
November, 1813iv282
November 1 (1815)vi63
Nunneryvii388
Nun’s Well, Brighamvii347
Nuttingii70
Oak and the Broom, Theii174
Oak of Guernicaiv245
Octogenarian, To anviii185
Ode, Installationviii320
Ode, Vernalvi138
Ode (Who rises on the Banks of Seine)vi104
Ode (1814) (When the soft hand)vi96
Ode (1815) (Imagination—ne’er before content)vi88
Ode, The Morning of the Day of Thanksgivingvi74
Ode to Dutyiii37
Ode to Lycoris (Two Poems)vi145
Ode composed on May Morningvii146
Ode, Intimations of Immortalityviii189
Oker Hill in Darley Dale, A Tradition ofvii230
“O Nightingale! thou surely art”iv67
“On Nature’s invitation do I come”ii118
Open Prospectvi243
Ossian, Written in a blank leaf of Macpherson’svii373
Our Lady of the Snowvi318
Oxford, May 30, 1820 (Two Sonnets)vi213
Painter, To a (Two Sonnets)viii114
Palafoxiv222
Palafoxiv228
Palafoxiv240
Papal Abusesvii33
Papal Dominionvii34
Papal Powervii36
Papal Unityvii42
Parrot and the Wren, Thevii141
Parsonage in Oxfordshire, Avi217
Pastoral Charactervii87
Patriotic Sympathiesvii74
Paulinusvii15
Peele Castle, Suggested by a Picture ofiii54
Pelion and Ossaii238
Pennsylvanians, To theviii179
Persecutionvii8
Personal Talkiv30
Persuasionvii16
Peter Bellii1
Peter Bell, On the detraction which followedvi212
Pet-Lamb, Theii142
Philoctetesvii167
Picture, Upon the sight of a beautifuliv271
Piety, Decay ofvii163
Piety, Filialvii231
Pilgrim Fathers (Two Sonnets)vii84
Pilgrim’s Dream, Thevi167
Pillar of Trajan, Thevii137
Places of Worshipvii87
Plea for Authors, Aviii99
Plea for the Historianviii61
Poet and the Caged Turtledove, Thevii265
Poet’s Dream, Theviii135
Poet’s Epitaph, Aii75
Poet to his Grandchild, Aviii305
Point at issue, Thevii58
Point Rash Judgmentii163
Poor Robinviii116
Poor Susan, The Reverie ofi226
Popery, Revival ofvii61
Portrait, Lines suggested by a (Two Poems)viii1
Portrait of I.F., On aviii306
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, On aviii118
Portrait, To the Author’svii318
Postscript (John Dyer)vi264
Power of Musiciv20
Power of Sound, On thevii203
Prayer at Sea, Forms ofvii97
Prayer, The Force ofiv204
Prelude, Prefixed to “Poems of Early and Late Years”viii123
Prelude, Theiii121
Presentimentsvii266
Primrose of the Rock, Thevii274
Prioress’ Tale, Theii240
Processions (Chamouny)vi363
Prophecy, A. February, 1807iv59
Punishment of Death, Sonnets upon theviii103
Queen, To theviii319
Quillinan, To Rothayvii171
Railway, On the projected Kendal and Windermereviii166
Railways, etc.vii389
Rainbow, Theii291
Ranz des Vaches, On hearing thevi326
Recoveryvii9
Redbreast chasing the Butterfly, Theii295
Redbreast, Thevii410
Redbreast, To aviii38
Reflectionsvii57
Reformation, General view of the Troubles of thevii64
Reformers, Eminent (Two Sonnets)vii66
Reformers in Exile, Englishvii64
Regretsvii99
Regrets, Imaginativevii56
Repentanceiii11
Reproofvii21
Resolution and Independenceii312
Rest and be thankfulvii295
Resting-place, The (Two Sonnets)vi254
Retirementvii165
Returnvi248
Return, The Mother’siv63
Reverie of Poor Susani226
Rhine, Author’s Voyage down theviii273
Rhine, Upon the Banks of thevi299
Richard Ivii31
Richmond Hill (Thomson)vi214
Ridley, Latimer andvii61
Robinson, To Henry Crabb (Tour in Italy, 1837)viii41
Rob Roy’s Graveii403
Rock, Inscribed upon avi173
Rocks, Two heath-cladviii170
Rocky Stream, Composed on the Banks of avi208
Rocky Stream, On the Banks of aviii188
Rogers, Samuel, Tovii280
Roman Antiquitiesviii33
Roman Antiquities (Old Penrith)vii308
Roman Refinements, Temptations fromvii10
Romance of the Water Lilyvii252
Rome (Two Sonnets)viii62
Rome, At (Three Sonnets)viii59
Rome, The Pine of Monte Mario atviii58
Roslin Chapel, Composed invii287
Rotha Q——, Tovii171
Ruins of a Castle in North Walesvii131
Rural Architectureii206
Rural Ceremonyvii98
Rural Illusionsvii319
Russian Fugitive, Thevii239
Ruthii104
Rydal, At, on May Morning (1838)viii94
Rydal Chapelvii109
Rydal, Written upon a Stone atii63
Rydal, In the woods ofvii176
Rydal Mere, By the side ofvii403
Rydal Mount, Inscription for a Stone in the Grounds ofvii269
S. H., Tovii162
Sacheverelvii82
Sacramentvii93
Sailor’s Mother, Theii270
Saint Bees’ Head, In a Steam-boat offvii351
Saint Catherine of Ledburyviii34
Saint Gothard (Ranz des Vaches on the Pass of)vi326
Saint Herbert’s Island, Derwent-water (Hermitage)ii210
Saintsvii54
Salinero, Ambrosioiv233
Salisbury Plain, Incidents uponi77
San Salvador, The Church ofvi332
Saxon Clergy, Primitivevii19
Saxon Conquestvii12
Saxon Monasteriesvii22
Saxonsvii29
“Say, what is Honour?—’Tis the finest sense”iv225
Schilliv226
Scholars of the Village School of ——, Address to theii84
School, Composed in anticipation of leavingi1
School Exercise at Hawkshead, Written As aviii211
Schwytzvi324
Scottish Covenanters, Persecution of thevii79
Scott, Sir Walter, Departure ofvii284
Sea-shore, Composed by thevii340
Sea-side, Composed by theii330
Sea-side, By thevii338
Seasons, Thoughts on thevii229
Seathwaite Chapelvi249
Seclusion (Two Sonnets)vii20
Sellon, To Missviii325
September 1, 1802ii342
September, 1815vi64
September, 1819vi201
Seven Sisters, Theii204
Sexton, To aii95
Sheep-washingvi253
Shepherd-Boys, The Idleii138
“She was a Phantom of delight”iii1
Simon Leei262
Simplon Pass, Column lying in thevi356
Simplon Pass, Stanza’s composed in thevi357
Simplon Pass, Theii69
Sister, To myi270
Skiddawii238
Sky-lark, To aiii42
Sky-lark, To avii143
Sky-prospect—From the Plain of Francevi377
Sleep, To (Three Sonnets)iv42
Snow-drop, To avi191
Sobieski, Johnvi110
Solitary Reaper, Theii397
Solitude (The Duddon)vi245
Somnambulist, Thevii393
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castleiv82
Song for the Spinning Wheeliv275
Song for the Wandering Jewii182
Sonnet, Thevii163
Sonnet, June, 1820 (Fame tells of groves)vi214
Sonnet, September 1, 1802 (We had a female Passenger)ii342
Sonnet, September, 1802 (Inland, within a hollow vale)ii343
Sonnet, September, 1815 (While not a leaf seems faded)vi64
Sonnet, October, 1803 (One might believe)ii430
Sonnet, October, 1803 (These times strike monied worldlings)ii432
Sonnet, October, 1803 (When, looking on the present face of things)ii433
Sonnet, November, 1806 (Another year!)iv49
Sonnet, November, 1813 (Now that all hearts are glad)iv282
Sonnet, November 1, 1815 (How clear, how keen)vi63
Sonnet, November, 1836 (Even so for me a Vision)viii37
Sound of Mull, In thevii293
Sound, The Power ofvii203
Southey, Edith Mayvii157
Southey, (Inscription for monument)viii157
Spade of a Friend, To theiv2
Spaniards (Three Sonnets)iv246
Spanish Guerillas, The French and theiv248
Spanish Guerillasiv253
Sparrow’s Nest, Theii236
Spinning Wheel, Song for theiv275
Sponsorsvii90
Spring, Lines written in Earlyi268
Staffa, Cave of (Four Sonnets)vii376
Star and the Glow-worm, Thevi167
Star-gazersiv22
Staubbach, On approaching thevi306
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railwaysvii389
Stepping-stones, The (Two Sonnets)vi239
Stepping Westwardii396
Stone, F., Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of (Two Poems)viii1
Storm, Composed during avi187
Stray Pleasuresiv18
Stream, Composed on the Banks of a Rockyvi208
Stream, On the Banks of a Rockyviii188
Stream, Tributaryvi250
Streams (The Duddon)vi255
Streams, The unremitting voice of nightlyviii187
Swan, Thevi198
Sweden, The King ofii338
Sweden, The King ofiv227
Switzerland, Subjugation ofiv60
Tables Turned, Thei274
Tell, Effusion in presence of the Tower ofvi321
Temptations from Roman Refinementsvii10
Thanksgiving after Childbirthvii95
Thanksgiving Odevi74
“The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill”vii406
“There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear”ii431
“There is a little unpretending Rill”iv53
There was a Boyii57
“The Stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand”vi210
“This Lawn, a carpet all alive”vii228
Thomson’s “Castle of Indolence,” Stanzas written inii305
Thorn, Thei239
Thrasymene, Near the Lake of (Two Sonnets)viii66
Thrush, The (Two Sonnets)viii93
Thun, Memorial near the Lake ofvi310
Tillbrook, Rev. Samuelvi65
Tilsbury Vale, The Farmer ofii147
Tintern Abbey, Lines, composed a few miles aboveii51
To —— in her seventieth yearvii172
To —— Upon the birth of her First-born Childvii328
To —— (Mrs. Wordsworth), (Two Poems)vii121
To —— (Look at the fate of summer flowers)vii124
To —— (Miscellaneous Sonnets—Dedication)vii159
To —— (Miscellaneous Sonnets—Conclusion)vii177
To —— (Wait, prithee, wait!)viii32
To —— on her First Ascent of Helvellynvi135
To —— (The Haunted Tree)vi199
Torrent at Devil’s Bridgevii129
Tour among the Alps (1791-2), (Descriptive Sketches)i35
Tour among the Alps (1791-2), (Descriptive Sketches)i309
Tour in Italy (1837), Memorials of aviii39
Tour in Scotland (1803), Memorials of aii377
Tour in Scotland (1814), Memorials of avi15
Tour in Scotland (1831)vii278
Tour in the Summer of 1833vii341
Tour on the Continent (1820), Memorials of avi285
Toussaint L’Ouverture, Toii339
Traditionvi253
Tradition, Americanvi246
Tradition, Fancy andvii306
Tradition of Oker Hillvii230
Trajan, The Pillar ofvii137
Translation of the Biblevii58
Transubstantiationvii44
Triad, Thevii181
Tributary Streamvi250
Troilus and Cresidaii264
Trosachs, Thevii288
Turtledove, The Poet and the Cagedvii265
Twilightvi67
Two April Mornings, Theii89
Two Thieves, Theii60
Tyndrum, Suggested atvii294
Tynwald Hillvii366
Tyrolese, Feelings of theiv215
Tyrolese, On the final submission of theiv217
Tyrolese Sonnetsiv213
Ulpha, Kirk ofvi260
Uncertaintyvii7
Utilitarians, To theviii299
Valedictory Sonnet (Miscellaneous Sonnets)viii102
Vallombrosa, Atviii75
Vaudois, The (Two Sonnets)vii44
Vaudracour and Juliaiii24
Venetian Republic, On the Extinction ofii336
Venice, Scene invii34
Venus, To the Planet (January 1838)viii92
Venus, To the Planet (Loch Lomond)vii299
Vernal Odevi138
Vienna, Siege of, raised by John Sobieskivi110
Virgin, Thevii54
Visitation of the Sickvii96
Waggoner, Theiii76
Waldensesvii46
Wallace’s Towervi26
Walton, Isaacvi190
Walton’s Book of Livesvii77
Wandering Jew, Song for theii182
Wansfellviii153
Warning, Thevii330
Wars of York and Lancastervii48
Waterfall and the Eglantine, Theii170
Water-fowliv277
Waterloo, After visiting the Field ofvi292
Waterloo, Occasioned by the Battle of (Three Sonnets)vi111
We are Seveni228
Wellington, On a Portrait of the Duke ofviii118
Westall, Mr. W., Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire, by (Three Poems)vi183
Westminster Bridge, Composed uponii328
Westmoreland Girl, Theviii172
“Whence that low voice?—A whisper from the heart”vi252
“Where lies the truth? has Man, in wisdom’s creed”viii182
“While Anna’s peers and early playmates tread”vii169
Whirl-blast, Thei238
Whistlers, The Seveniv68
White Doe of Rylstoneiv100
“Who fancied what a pretty sight?”ii374
“Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings”vii161
Wicliffevii49
Widow on Windermere Side, Theviii89
Wild Duck’s Nest, Thevi189
Wild-Fowlviii234
William the Thirdvii80
Winter (French Army), (Two Poems)vi107
Wishing-gate, Thevii189
Wishing-gate Destroyed, Thevii192
Worcester Cathedral, A Grave-Stone invii201
Wordsworth, Catherinevi72
Wordsworth, Doravi132
Wordsworth, John, Elegiac Verses in memory ofiii58
Wordsworth, John (Fir Grove)iii66
Wordsworth, To the Rev. Christopherviii162
Wordsworth, To the Rev. Dr. (Duddon)vi227
Wordsworth, Thomasviii39
Wren’s Nest, Avii325
Yarrow Unvisitedii411
Yarrow Visitedvi35
Yarrow Revisitedvii278
Yew-treesii369
Yew-tree Seati108
York and Lancaster, Wars ofvii48
Young Englandviii180
Young Lady, To aii365
Youth, Written in very earlyi3
Zaragozaiv224