THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN MORLEY

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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A LIST OF WORDSWORTH'S POEMS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER,
AS FAR AS CAN BE DETERMINED FROM ACCESSIBLE DATA.1

Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, anno ætatis 14

And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven.

Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem composed in anticipation

of leaving School

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames near

Richmond

Glide gently, thus for ever glide.

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among

the Alps.

Were there, below, a spot of holy ground.

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain

[One-third of this poem was published under the title of "The Female

Vagrant" in 1798.]

A Traveller on the skirt of Sarum's Plain.

Lines 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.

The troop will be impatient: let us hie.

1797 1800

The Reverie of Poor Susan

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears.

1 In every instance of a Poem published during Wordsworth's lifetime the title is that which he
adopted in his final edition. The first line of the Poem follows in smaller print. When no title was
given-as in the case of many of the Sonnets, etc.-the first line alone is printed.

Com- First

posed. Published.

1795 1842 The Birth of Love, translated from some French Stanzas by

Francis Wrangham .

When Love was born of heavenly line.

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72

73

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75

76

79

81

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman; with an incident in which he

was concerned

Lines written in Early Spring

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83

The Tables Turned. An evening Scene, on the same Subject .

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books.

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman.

Before I see another day.

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85

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting

the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798

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112

1799 1800

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening

the imagination in Boyhood and early Youth (published in

The Friend")

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1799 1800

Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century

A plague on your languages, German and Norse.

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