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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,
CAMBRIDGE.
CONTENTS.
VOL. V.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From
the Southwest Coast of Cumberland. - .-1811 . . .
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after
its Composition
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase.
Liberty. (Sequel to the Preceding.) [Addressed to a
Friend; the Gold and Silver Fishes having been re-
moved to a Pool in the Pleasure-Ground of Rydal
Mount.]
Poor Robin
The Gleaner. (Suggested by a Picture)
To a Redbreast-(in Sickness)
I know an aged Man constrained to dwell
Sonnet. (To an Octogenarian)
Floating Island
How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high
Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)
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To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the Foundation preparing
for the Erection of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland.
On the same Occasion
The Horn of Egremont Castle .
Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A true Story.
Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly
of Early and Late Years"
To a Child. Written in her Album .
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Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale.
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beau-
mont, 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
Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the
House (an Out-house), on the Island at Grasmere
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of the
Mountain of Black Comb.
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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
In these fair vales hath many a Tree
The massy Ways, carried across these heights
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Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's
Cell.
I. - Hopes, what are they? - Beads of morning. 79
II. Inscribed upon a Rock
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III. — Hast thou seen, with flash incessant.
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IV. Near the Spring of the Hermitage
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V. Not seldom, clad in radiant vest
For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Her-
bert's Island, Derwent-Water.
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On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
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The Two Thieves; or, The Last Stage of Avarice
Animal Tranquillity and Decay
EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES.
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera.
Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air.
Perhaps some needful service of the State
O thou who movest onward with a mind
There never breathed a man who, when his life
True is it that Ambrosio Salinero
Destined to war from very infancy
O flower of all that springs from gentle blood
Not without heavy grief of heart did he
Pause, courteous Spirit! - Balbi supplicates
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Epitaph in the Chapel-Yard of Langdale, Westmoreland
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of
Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle,
in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont
To the Daisy
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Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John Words-
worth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, the
Earl of Abergavenny, in which he perished by a Ca-
lamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6, 1805.
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Sonnet
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Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one Even-
ing, after a Stormy Day, the Author having just read
in a Newspaper that the Dissolution of Mr. Fox was
hourly expected.
Invocation to the Earth. February, 1816
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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.
Elegiac Stanzas. (Addressed to Sir G. H. B. upon the
Death of his Sister-in-Law).
Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Coleorton Hall, the
Seat of the late Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart.
Written after the Death of Charles Lamb
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg .
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in
the Vale of Keswick
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ODE. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOL-
LECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
Preface to the Second Edition of several of the foregoing
Poems, published, with an additional Volume, under
the Title of "Lyrical Ballads "
Appendix
Essay, supplementary to the Preface
Dedication, prefixed to the Edition of 1815
Preface to the Edition of 1815