Romantic

William Wordsworth

1770–1850

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Coleridge, launched the movement in Lyrical Ballads (1798).

He made ordinary life and the natural world his subject, and served as Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death.

Major Works (2)

The Excursion — Philosophical poem, 1814
The Prelude — Autobiographical poem, 1850

Poems (909)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
The World Is Too Much with Us
Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree
The Female Vagrant
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
Anecdote for Fathers
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
The Thorn
The Last of the Flock
The Mad Mother
The Idiot Boy
Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Old Man Travelling
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
The Convict
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
To the Daisy (In youth from rock to rock I went)
Louisa
Fidelity
She Was a Phantom of Delight
The Redbreast and the Butterfly
The Sailor's Mother
To the Small Celandine
To the Same Flower (Pleasures newly found are sweet)
Character of the Happy Warrior
The Horn of Egremont Castle
The Affliction of Margaret
The Kitten and the Falling Leaves
The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie
To H. C., Six Years Old
Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been
I Travell'd among Unknown Men
Ode to Duty
Beggars
To a Sky-Lark
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Sky
Alice Fell
Resolution and Independence
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?
Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire
These words were utter'd in a pensive mood
To Sleep (O gentle Sleep! do they belong to thee)
To Sleep (A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by)
To Sleep (Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep!)
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
To the River Duddon
From the Italian of Michael Angelo (Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace)
From the Italian of Michael Angelo (No mortal object did these eyes behold)
To the Supreme Being
Written in Very Early Youth
"Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne
Lady! the songs of Spring were in the grove
It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802
Is it a Reed that's shaken by the wind
To a Friend, Composed near Calais, on the Road Leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802
I griev'd for Buonaparte, with a vain
Festivals have I seen that were not names
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
The King of Sweden
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
We had a fellow-Passenger who came
Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing
Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
Written in London, September, 1802
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour
Great Men have been among us; hands that penn'd
It is not to be thought of that the Flood
When I have borne in memory what has tamed
One might believe that natural miseries
There is a bondage which is worse to bear
These times touch money'd Worldlings with dismay
England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean
When, looking on the present face of things
To the Men of Kent
Six thousand Veterans practis'd in War's game
Anticipation
Another year!--another deadly blow!
Rob Roy's Grave
The Solitary Reaper
Stepping Westward
Glen-Almain; or, The Narrow Glen
The Matron of Jedborough and Her Husband
To a Highland Girl
Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!
Address to the Sons of Burns
Yarrow Unvisited
To a Butterfly (Stay near me--do not take thy flight)
The Sun has long been set
O Nightingale! thou surely art
My heart leaps up when I behold
Written in March, While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water
The Small Celandine
Who fancied what a pretty sight
The Sparrow's Nest
Gipsies
To the Cuckoo
To a Butterfly (I've watch'd you now a full half hour)
It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath flown
The Blind Highland Boy
The Green Linnet
To a Young Lady, Who Had Been Reproached for Taking Long Walks in the Country
By their floating Mill
Star-Gazers
Power of Music
To the Daisy (With little here to do or see)
To the Same Flower (Bright Flower, whose home is every where)
Incident, Characteristic of a Favourite Dog
Tribute to the Memory of the Same Dog
Admonition
Though narrow be that Old Man's cares, and near
A Prophecy
To Thomas Clarkson
Once in a lonely Hamlet I sojourn'd
Foresight
A Complaint
I am not One who much or oft delight
Yes! full surely 'twas the Echo
To the Spade of a Friend
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle
Lines Composed at Grasmere
Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Lost Love
The Education of Nature
A slumber did my spirit seal
To a Distant Friend
Desideria
To the Skylark
The Reverie of Poor Susan
Yarrow Visited
The Inner Vision
Ruth: or the Influences of Nature
Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge
The Two April Mornings
The Fountain
Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, Composed in Anticipation of Leaving School
An Evening Walk
Lines Written While Sailing in a Boat at Evening
Remembrance of Collins, Composed upon the Thames near Richmond
Descriptive Sketches Taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps
Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain
A Night Piece
A whirl-blast from behind the hill
The Old Cumberland Beggar
Peter Bell: A Tale
The Two Thieves; or, The Last Stage of Avarice
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
Nutting
Written in Germany, on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
A Poet's Epitaph
Strange fits of passion have I known
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of--
Matthew
To a Sexton
The Danish Boy
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
On Nature's invitation do I come
Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak
Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle
Hart-Leap Well
The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force
The Pet-Lamb
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
It was an April morning: fresh and clear
To Joanna
There is an Eminence,--of these our hills
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags
To M. H.
The Waterfall and the Eglantine
The Oak and the Broom
'Tis said, that some have died for love
The Childless Father
Song for the Wandering Jew
The Brothers
Rural Architecture
A Character
Inscription for the Spot Where the Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (An Out-House), on the Island at Grasmere
Michael
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side
The Prioress' Tale
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
Troilus and Cresida
Sequel to the Foregoing
Stanzas Written in My Pocket Copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence"
A Farewell
Yew-Trees
Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. August, 1803
At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after His Death
Thoughts Suggested the Day Following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence
To the Sons of Burns, after Visiting the Grave of Their Father
Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe
Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!
Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803
The Forsaken
Repentance
Address to My Infant Daughter, Dora, on Being Reminded That She Was a Month Old That Day, September 16
At Applethwaite, near Keswick
Vaudracour and Julia
French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
To the Daisy
Elegiac Verses, in Memory of My Brother, John Wordsworth
When, to the attractions of the busy world
The Waggoner
Yes, it was the mountain Echo
Personal Talk
Brook! whose society the Poet seeks
There is a little unpretending Rill
Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake. 1807
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire
In a Garden of the Same
Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in His Name, for an Urn, Placed by Him at the Termination of a Newly-planted Avenue, in the Same Grounds
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton
The White Doe of Rylstone; or, the Fate of the Nortons
The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory
Composed While the Author Was Engaged in Writing a Tract Occasioned by the Convention of Cintra, 1808
Composed at the Same Time and on the Same Occasion, 1808
Hoffer
Advance--come forth from thy Tyrolean ground
Feelings of the Tyrolese
Alas! what boots the long laborious quest
On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese
The martial courage of a day is vain
And is it among rude untutored Dales
O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain
Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense
Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
Call not the royal Swede unfortunate
Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid
Is there a power that can sustain and cheer
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera I
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera II
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera III
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera IV
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera V
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera VI
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera VII
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera VIII
Epitaphs Translated from Chiabrera IX
Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
In due observance of an ancient rite
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at One of Those Funerals, 1810
On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History
Upon the Same Event
The Oak of Guernica
Indignation of a High-Minded Spaniard, 1810
Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind
O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied
The French and the Spanish Guerillas
Maternal Grief
Characteristics of a Child Three Years Old
Spanish Guerillas, 1811
The power of Armies is a visible thing
Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart., from the South-west Coast of Cumberland, 1811
Upon Perusing the Foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after Its Composition
Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture, Painted by Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart.
To the Poet, John Dyer
Song for the Spinning Wheel, Founded upon a Belief Prevalent among the Pastoral Vales of Westmoreland
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812
Water-Fowl
View from the Top of Black Comb
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb
November, 1813
Laodamia
The Brownie's Cell
Composed at Cora Linn, in Sight of Wallace's Tower
Effusion, in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the Bran, near Dunkeld
From the Dark Chambers of Dejection Freed
Lines Written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem The Excursion, upon Hearing of the Death of the Late Vicar of Kendal
Epistle Dedicatory
Artegal and Elidure
To B. R. Haydon
November 1
September, 1815
The Fairest, Brightest, Hues of Ether Fade
Weak Is the Will of Man, His Judgment Blind
Hail, Twilight, Sovereign of One Peaceful Hour
The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said
Even as a Dragon's Eye That Feels the Stress
Mark the Concentred Hazels That Enclose
Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind
Ode: The Morning of the Day Appointed for a General Thanksgiving, January 18, 1816
Ode: Imagination, Ne'er Before Content
Invocation to the Earth, February, 1816
Ode: When the Soft Hand of Sleep Had Closed the Latch
Ode: Who Rises on the Banks of Seine
The French Army in Russia, 1812-13
On the Same Occasion
Siege of Vienna Raised by John Sobieski
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo
Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo: The Bard--Whose Soul Is Meek as Dawning Day
Emperors and Kings, How Oft Have Temples Rung
Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D'enghien
Dion
A Fact, and an Imagination; Or, Canute and Alfred, on the Sea-Shore
A Little Onward Lend Thy Guiding Hand
To ----, on Her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn
Vernal Ode
Ode to Lycoris
To the Same
The Longest Day
Hint from the Mountains, for Certain Political Pretenders
The Pass of Kirkstone
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Eve of a New Year
The Pilgrim's Dream; Or, the Star and the Glow-Worm
Hopes, What Are They?
Inscribed upon a Rock
Hast Thou Seen, with Flash Incessant
Near the Spring of the Hermitage
Not Seldom, Clad in Radiant Vest
Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty
Pure Element of Waters! Wheresoe'er
Malham Cove
Gordale
Composed During a Storm
Aerial Rock--Whose Solitary Brow
The Wild Duck's Nest
Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler"
Captivity--Mary Queen of Scots
To a Snow-Drop
When Haughty Expectations Prostrate Lie
To the River Derwent
Composed in One of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on Easter Sunday
Composed on Easter Sunday
Grief, Thou Hast Lost an Ever Ready Friend
I Watch, and Long Have Watched, with Calm Regret
I Heard (Alas! 'Twas Only in a Dream)
The Haunted Tree
September, 1819
Upon the Same Occasion
Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream
On the Death of His Majesty (George the Third)
The Stars Are Mansions Built by Nature's Hand
To the Lady Mary Lowther
On the Detraction Which Followed the Publication of a Certain Poem
Oxford, May 30, 1820
Oxford, May 30, 1820: Shame on This Faithless Heart! That Could Allow
June, 1820
The Germans on the Heights of Hock Heim
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire
To Enterprise
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth
Not Envying Latian Shades--If Yet They Throw
Child of the Clouds! Remote from Every Taint
How Shall I Paint Thee?--Be This Naked Stone
Take, Cradled Nursling of the Mountain, Take
Sole Listener, Duddon! To the Breeze That Played
Flowers
Change Me, Some God, Into That Breathing Rose!
What Aspect Bore the Man Who Roved or Fled
The Stepping-Stones
The River Duddon, X: The Same Subject
The Faëry Chasm
Hints for the Fancy
Open Prospect
From This Deep Chasm, Where Quivering Sunbeams Play
American Tradition
The River Duddon, XVII: Return
Seathwaite Chapel
Tributary Stream
The Plain of Donnerdale
Whence That Low Voice?--A Whisper from the Heart
The River Duddon, XXII: Tradition
Sheep-Washing
The Resting-Place
Methinks 'Twere No Unprecedented Feat
Return, Content! For Fondly I Pursued
Fallen, and Diffused Into a Shapeless Heap
Journey Renewed
No Record Tells of Lance Opposed to Lance
Who Swerves from Innocence, Who Makes Divorce
The Kirk of Ulpha to the Pilgrim's Eye
Not Hurled Precipitous from Steep to Steep
The River Duddon, XXXIII: Conclusion
The River Duddon, XXXIV: After-Thought
Dedication (Memorials of a Tour on the Continent)
Fish-Women--On Landing at Calais
Brugès
Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820, III: Brugès
After Visiting the Field of Waterloo
Between Namur and Liege
Aix-La-Chapelle
In the Cathedral at Cologne
In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine
Hymn, for the Boatmen, as They Approach the Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg
The Source of the Danube
On Approaching the Staubbach, Lauterbrunnen
The Fall of the Aar-Handec
Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun
Composed in One of the Catholic Cantons
Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820, XV: After-Thought
Scene on the Lake of Brientz
Engelberg, the Hill of Angels
Our Lady of the Snow
Effusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altorf
The Town of Schwytz
On Hearing the "Ranz Des Vaches" on the Top of the Pass of St. Gothard
Fort Fuentes
The Church of San Salvador, Seen from the Lake of Lugano
The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd, Part I
The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd, Part II
The Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria Della Grazia--Milan
The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820
The Three Cottage Girls
The Column Intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan, Now Lying by the Way-Side in the Simplon Pass[540]
Stanzas Composed in the Simplon Pass
Echo, upon the Gemmi
Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny
Elegiac Stanzas
Sky-Prospect--From the Plain of France
On Being Stranded Near the Harbour of Boulogne
After Landing--The Valley of Dover
At Dover
Desultory Stanzas, upon Receiving the Preceding Sheets from the Press
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part I, I: Introduction
Conjectures
Trepidation of the Druids
Druidical Excommunication
Uncertainty
Persecution
Recovery
Temptations from Roman Refinements
Dissensions
Struggle of the Britons Against the Barbarians
Saxon Conquest
Monastery of Old Bangor
Casual Incitement
Glad Tidings
Paulinus
Persuasion
Conversion
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part I, XVIII: Apology
Primitive Saxon Clergy
Other Influences
Seclusion
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part I, XXII: Continued
Reproof
Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion
Missions and Travels
Alfred
His Descendants
Influence Abused
Danish Conquests
Canute
The Norman Conquest
Coldly We Spake. the Saxons, Overpowered
The Council of Clermont
Crusades
Richard I
An Interdict
Papal Abuses
Scene in Venice
Papal Dominion
How Soon--Alas! Did Man, Created Pure
From False Assumption Rose, and Fondly Hail'd
Cistertian Monastery
Deplorable His Lot Who Tills the Ground
Monks and Schoolmen
Other Benefits
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II, VII: Continued
Crusaders
As Faith Thus Sanctified the Warrior's Crest
Where Long and Deeply Hath Been Fixed the Root
Transubstantiation
The Vaudois
Praised Be the Rivers, from Their Mountain Springs
Waldenses
Archbishop Chichely to Henry V
Wars of York and Lancaster
Wicliffe
Corruptions of the Higher Clergy
Abuse of Monastic Power
Monastic Voluptuousness
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II, XXII: The Same Subject
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II, XXIII: Continued
Saints
The Virgin
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II, XXVI: Apology
Imaginative Regrets
Reflections
Translation of the Bible
The Point at Issue
Edward VI
Edward Signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent
Revival of Popery
Latimer and Ridley
Cranmer
General View of the Troubles of the Reformation
English Reformers in Exile
Elizabeth
Eminent Reformers
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II, XL: The Same
Distractions
Gunpowder Plot
Illustration
Troubles of Charles the First
Laud
Afflictions of England
I Saw the Figure of a Lovely Maid
Patriotic Sympathies
Charles the Second
Latitudinarianism
Walton's Book of Lives
Clerical Integrity
Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters
Acquittal of the Bishops
William the Third
Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty
Sacheverel
Down a Swift Stream, Thus Far, a Bold Design
Aspects of Christianity in America: I. The Pilgrim Fathers
Aspects of Christianity in America: II. Continued
Aspects of Christianity in America: III. Concluded, American Episcopacy
Bishops and Priests, Blessèd Are Ye, If Deep
Places of Worship
Pastoral Character
The Liturgy
Baptism
Sponsors
Catechising
Confirmation
Confirmation Continued
Sacrament
The Marriage Ceremony
Thanksgiving After Childbirth
Visitation of the Sick
The Commination Service
Forms of Prayer at Sea
Funeral Service
Rural Ceremony
Regrets
Mutability
Old Abbeys
Emigrant French Clergy
Congratulation
New Churches
Church to Be Erected
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III, XL: Continued
New Church-Yard
Cathedrals, Etc
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III, XLIV: The Same
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III, XLV: Continued
Ejaculation
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III, XLVII: Conclusion
To the Lady Fleming, on Seeing the Foundation Preparing for the Erection of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland
On the Same Occasion: When in the Antique Age of Bow and
Memory
Not Love, Not War, nor the Tumultuous Swell
A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth Are Found
To ----: Let Other Bards of Angels Sing
To ----: O Dearer Far Than Light and Life Are
How Rich That Forehead's Calm Expanse!
To ----: Look at the Fate of Summer Flowers
A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire
To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P
To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales, 1824
Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
Elegiac Stanzas (Addressed to Sir G. H. B. upon the Death of His Sister-in-Law)
Cenotaph
The Pillar of Trajan
The Contrast
Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew
Ode, Composed on May Morning
To May
Once I Could Hail (Howe'er Serene the Sky)
The Massy Ways, Carried Across These Heights
Farewell Lines
On Seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp
Dedication (Miscellaneous Sonnets)
Her Only Pilot the Soft Breeze, the Boat
Why, Minstrel, These Untuneful Murmurings
To S. H
Decay of Piety
Scorn Not the Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned
Fair Prime of Life! Were It Enough to Gild
Retirement
There Is a Pleasure in Poetic Pains
Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle
While Anna's Peers and Early Playmates Tread
To the Cuckoo: Not the Whole Warbling Grove in Concert Heard
The Infant M---- M----
To Rotha Q----
To ----, in Her Seventieth Year
In My Mind's Eye a Temple, Like a Cloud
Go Back to Antique Ages, If Thine Eyes
If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven
In the Woods of Rydal
Conclusion of the Miscellaneous Sonnets, To ----
A Morning Exercise
The Triad
The Wishing-Gate
The Wishing-Gate Destroyed
A Jewish Family
Incident at Brugès
A Grave-Stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of Worcester Cathedral
The Gleaner
On the Power of Sound
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase
Liberty
Humanity
This Lawn, a Carpet All Alive
Thoughts on the Seasons
A Tradition of Oker Hill in Darley Dale, Derbyshire
Filial Piety
The Armenian Lady's Love
The Russian Fugitive
The Egyptian Maid
The Poet and the Caged Turtledove
Presentiments
In These Fair Vales Hath Many a Tree
Elegiac Musings
Chatsworth! Thy Stately Mansion, and the Pride
The Primrose of the Rock
To B. R. Haydon, on Seeing His Picture of Napoleon Bonaparte on the Island of St. Helena
Yarrow Revisited
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland
On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland
Composed in Roslin Chapel, During a Storm
The Trosachs
The Pibroch's Note, Discountenanced or Mute
Composed After Reading a Newspaper of the Day
Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive
Eagles
In the Sound of Mull
Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm
The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion, and Family Burial-Place, Near Killin
Rest and Be Thankful!
Highland Hut
The Brownie
To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star
Bothwell Castle
Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton Palace
The Avon
Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest
Hart's-Horn Tree, Near Penrith
Fancy and Tradition
Countess' Pillar
Roman Antiquities
Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, XXVI: Apology
The Highland Broach
Devotional Incitements
Calm Is the Fragrant Air, and Loth to Lose
To the Author's Portrait
Rural Illusions
Loving and Liking
Upon the Late General Fast
A Wren's Nest
To ---- Upon the Birth of Her First-Born Child, March, 1833
The Warning
If This Great World of Joy and Pain
On a High Part of the Coast of Cumberland
By the Sea-Side
Composed by the Sea-Shore
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! That Have Grown
Why Should the Enthusiast, Journeying Through This Isle
They Called Thee Merry England, in Old Time
To the River Greta, Near Keswick
In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth
Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle
Nun's Well, Brigham
To a Friend
Mary Queen of Scots
Stanzas Suggested in a Steam-Boat Off Saint Bees' Heads, on the Coast of Cumberland
In the Channel, Between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man
At Sea Off the Isle of Man
Desire We Past Illusions to Recal
On Entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man
By the Sea-Shore, Isle of Man
Isle of Man
Itinerary Poems of 1833, XVIII: Isle of Man
By a Retired Mariner
At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man
Tynwald Hill
Despond Who Will--I Heard a Voice Exclaim
In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag
On the Frith of Clyde
On Revisiting Dunolly Castle
The Dunolly Eagle
Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's Ossian
Cave of Staffa
Itinerary Poems of 1833, XXIX: Cave of Staffa
Itinerary Poems of 1833, XXX: Cave of Staffa
Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the Cave
Iona
Itinerary Poems of 1833, XXXIII: Iona
The Black Stones of Iona
Homeward We Turn. Isle of Columba's Cell
Greenock
"There!" Said a Stripling, Pointing with Meet Pride
The River Eden, Cumberland
Monument of Mrs. Howard in Wetheral Church, Near Corey, on the Banks of the Eden
Suggested by the Foregoing
Nunnery
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
The Monument Commonly Called Long Meg and Her Daughters, Near the River Eden
Lowther
To the Earl of Lonsdale
The Somnambulist
To Cordelia M----
Not in the Lucid Intervals of Life
By the Side of Rydal Mere
Soft as a Cloud Is Yon Blue Ridge--The Mere
The Leaves That Rustled on This Oak-Crowned Hill
The Labourer's Noon-Day Hymn
The Redbreast
Lines Suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone
The Foregoing Subject Resumed
To a Child
Lines Written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale, Nov. 5, 1834
To the Moon (Composed by the Sea-Side, on the Coast of Cumberland)
To the Moon (Rydal)
Written After the Death of Charles Lamb
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
Upon Seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album
Desponding Father! Mark This Altered Bough
Four Fiery Steeds Impatient of the Rein
To ----: “Wait, Prithee, Wait!” This Answer Lesbia Threw
Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire
St. Catherine of Ledbury
By a Blest Husband Guided, Mary Came
Oh What a Wreck! How Changed in Mien and Speech!
Even so for me a Vision sanctified
To a Redbreast--(In Sickness)
Six Months to Six Years Added He Remained
To Henry Crabb Robinson
Musings Near Aquapendente
The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome
At Rome
At Rome--Regrets--In Allusion to Niebuhr and Other Modern Historians
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837, V: Continued
Plea for the Historian
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837, VII: At Rome
Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter’s
At Albano
Near Anio’s Stream, I Spied a Gentle Dove
From the Alban Hills, Looking Towards Rome
Near the Lake of Thrasymene
Near the Same Lake
The Cuckoo at Laverna
At the Convent of Camaldoli
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837, XVI: Continued
At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli
At Vallombrosa
At Florence
Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence
At Florence--From Michael Angelo
At the Foot of the Cross
At Florence--From M. Angelo
Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines
In Lombardy
After Leaving Italy
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837, XXVI: Continued
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the Late Insurrections, 1837, I
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the Late Insurrections, 1837, II
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the Late Insurrections, 1837, III
What If Our Numbers Barely Could Defy
A Night Thought
The Widow on Windermere Side
To the Planet Venus upon Its Approximation (As an Evening Star) to the Earth, January 1838
Hark! ’Tis the Thrush, Undaunted, Undeprest
’Tis He Whose Yester-Evening’s High Disdain
Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838
Composed on a May Morning, 1838
A Plea for Authors, May 1838
Blest Statesman He, Whose Mind’s Unselfish Will
Valedictory Sonnet
Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (On the Road from the South)
Tenderly Do We Feel by Nature’s Law
The Roman Consul Doomed His Sons to Die
Is Death, When Evil Against Good Has Fought
Not to the Object Specially Designed
Ye Brood of Conscience--Spectres! That Frequent
Before the World Had Past Her Time of Youth
Fit Retribution, by the Moral Code
Though to Give Timely Warning and Deter
Our Bodily Life, Some Plead, That Life the Shrine
Ah, Think How One Compelled for Life to Abide
See the Condemned Alone Within His Cell
Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, XIII: Conclusion
Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, XIV: Apology
Men of the Western World! In Fate’s Dark Book
To a Painter
On the Same Subject
Poor Robin
On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon
Epitaph in the Chapel-Yard of Langdale, Westmoreland
Intent on Gathering Wool from Hedge and Brake
Prelude Prefixed to the Volume Entitled “Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years”
Floating Island
The Crescent-Moon, the Star of Love
A Poet!--He Hath Put His Heart to School
The Most Alluring Clouds That Mount the Sky
Feel for the Wrongs to Universal Ken
In Allusion to Various Recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution
In Allusion to Various Recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution, Continued
In Allusion to Various Recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution, Concluded
Lo! Where She Stands Fixed in a Saint-Like Trance
Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise
To the Clouds
Airey-Force Valley
Lyre! Though Such Power Do in Thy Magic Live
Love Lies Bleeding
They Call It Love Lies Bleeding! Rather Say
Companion to the Foregoing
The Cuckoo-Clock
Wansfell! This Household Has a Favoured Lot
Though the Bold Wings of Poesy Affect
Glad Sight Wherever New with Old
While Beams of Orient Light Shoot Wide and High
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick
To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Master of Harrow School
So Fair, So Sweet, Withal So Sensitive
On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway
Proud Were Ye, Mountains, When, in Times of Old
A Cry from Derwentwater
At Furness Abbey
Forth from a Jutting Ridge, Around Whose Base
The Westmoreland Girl
At Furness Abbey: Well Have Yon Railway Labourers to This Ground
Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved
What Heavenly Smiles! O Lady Mine
To a Lady, in Answer to a Request That I Would Write Her a Poem upon Some Drawings That She Had Made of Flowers in the Island of Madeira
To the Pennsylvanians
Young England--What Is Then Become of Old
Sonnet: Why Should We Weep or Mourn, Angelic Boy
Where Lies the Truth? Has Man, in Wisdom’s Creed
To Lucca Giordano
Who but Is Pleased to Watch the Moon on High
Illustrated Books and Newspapers
Sonnet to an Octogenarian
I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell
The Unremitting Voice of Nightly Streams
How Beautiful the Queen of Night, on High
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
Sweet Was the Walk Along the Narrow Lane
When Love Was Born of Heavenly Line
The Snow-Tracks of My Friends I See
Andrew Jones
Written in a Grotto
I Find It Written of Simonides
Peaceful Our Valley, Fair and Green
To the Evening Star Over Grasmere Water, July 1806
Brook, That Hast Been My Solace Days and Weeks
Translation from Michael Angelo
The Scottish Broom on Bird-Nest Brae
Through Cumbrian Wilds, in Many a Mountain Cove
My Son! Behold the Tide Already Spent
Author’s Voyage Down the Rhine
These Vales Were Saddened with No Common Gloom
I, Whose Pretty Voice You Hear
My Lord and Lady Darlington
To the Utilitarians
Throned in the Sun’s Descending Car
Said Red-Ribboned Evans
Protest Against the Ballot, 1838
Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud
A Poet to His Grandchild
On a Portrait of I.F., Painted by Margaret Gillies
To I.F.
Oh Bounty Without Measure, While the Grace
The Eagle and the Dove
Grace Darling
When Severn’s Sweeping Flood Had Overthrown
Deign, Sovereign Mistress! To Accept a Lay
Installation Ode
To Miss Sellon
There was a Boy
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
The Simplon Pass
The Norman Boy
Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress
Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Ætatis 14
Home at Grasmere
No whimsey of the purse is here
George and Sarah Green
Placard for a Poll Bearing an Old Shirt
Translation of Part of the First Book of the Æneid
Composed When a Probability Existed of Our Being Obliged to Quit Rydal Mount as a Residence
On an Event in Col. Evans’s Redoubted Performances in Spain
Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ’s chosen flock
The Poet's Dream
"Arms and the Man I sing, the first who bore"
"Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image tho' thou art"
Michael Angelo in Reply to the Passage upon his Statue of Night Sleeping
"And oh! dear soother of the pensive breast"
"Ah! if I were a lady gay"
"There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones"
"Along the mazes of this song I go"
"The rains at length have ceas’d, the winds are still’d"
"Witness thou"
Wild-Fowl
"Shall he who gives his days to low pursuits"

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