Poems of Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (Author), Matthew Arnold (Editor, Compiler), Bruce Rogers (Former owner), John Wordsworth (Associated name), Anne Mozley (Former owner), Mark L. Reed (Former owner), Macmillan & Co (Publisher), R. & R. Clark (Firm) (Printer), Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Print Book, English, 1879
Large paper edition View all formats and editions
Macmillan and Co., London, 1879
Poetry
xxxi, 319 pages ; 22 cm.
12386095
Preface
POEMS OF BALLAD FORM
We are seven
Lucy Gray
Anecdote for fathers
Alice fell
The pet lamb
The childless father
The reverie of poor Susan
Power of music
Star-gazers
NARRATIVE POEMS
Ruth
Simon Lee
Fidelity
Incident Characteristic of a favourite dog
Hart-leap well
The force of prayer
The affliction of Margaret
The complaint of a forsaken Indian woman
Song at the feast of Brougham Castle
The leech-gatherer, or, resolution and independence
The brothers
Michael
Margaret
LYRICAL POEMS
"My heart leaps up"
To a butterfly
The sparrow's nest
To a butterfly
The redbreast and butterfly
"The cock is crowing"
To the daisy
To the same
To the small celandine
To the same flower
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
The green linnet
To a sky-lark
Stray pleasures
To my sister
Lines written in early spring
Expostulation and reply
The tables turned
To a young lady
To Hartley Coleridge
"O nightingale, thou surely art"
"Strange fits of passion have I known"
"Three years she grew"
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
"A slumber did my spirit seal"
"I travelled among unknown men"
To the cuckoo
The cuckoo again
To a sky-lark
"She was a phantom of delight"
To a highland girl
Stepping westward
The solitary reaper
At the grave of Burns
Thoughts suggested the day following
Yarrow unvisited
Yarrow visited
Yarrow revisisted
To May
The primrose of the rock
POEMS AKIN TO THE ANTIQUE, AND ODES
Laodameia
Dion
Character of the happy warrior
Lines on the expected invasion
The pillar of Trajan
September 1819
Ode to Lycoris
Ode to duty
Ode on intimations of immortality
SONNETS
I. Composed by the sea-side, near Calais, August 1802
II. Calais, August 1802
III. On the extinction of the Venetian Republic
IV. To Toussaint l'Ouverture
V. September 1802
VI. Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland
VII. Written in London, September 1802
VIII. "The world is too much with us"
IX. London, 1802
X. "It is not to be thought of"
XI. "When I have borne in memory"
XII. Ocotber 1803
XIII. To the men of Kent. October 1803
XIV. In the pass of Killicranky, an invasion being expected, October 1803
XV. "England! the time is come"
XVI. November 1806
XVII. To Thomas Clarkson
XVIII. 1811
XIX. "Scorn not the sonnet"
XX. "Nuns fret not"
XXI. Catherine Wordsworth
XXII. To the author's portrait
XXIII. Personal talk
XXIV. Continued
XXV. Concluded
XXVI. To sleep
XXVII. Composed upon the beach near Calais, 1802
XXVIII. "Where lies the land?"
XXIX. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
XXX. Scenery between Namur and Liege
XXXI. Admonition
XXXII. "I watch, and long have watched"
XXXIII. "Sole listener, Duddon!"
XXXIV. "Wansfell! this household has a favoured lot"
XXXV. "Return, content!"
XXXVI. After-thought
XXXVII. Seclusion
XXXVIII. Rush-bearing
XXXIX. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
XL. Continued
XLI. Mary, Queen of Scots, landing at the mouth of the Derwent, Workington
XLII. "Most sweet is it"
XLIII. On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
XLIV. To R.B. Haydon, Esq
XLV. Mutability
XLVI. "The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute"
XLVII. "A poet!"
XLVIII. The pine of Monte Mario at Rome
XLIX. To the memory of Raisley Calvert
L. To Rotha Quillinan
LI. To Lady Fitzgerald, in her seventieth year
LII. Composed on a May morning, 1838
LIII. Highland hut
LIV. "There! said a stripling"
LV. To a painter
LVI. On the same subject
LVII. In sight of the town of Cockermouth
LVIII. Tranquility
LIX. Death
LX. The everlasting temple
REFLECTIVE AND ELEGIAC POEMS
"If thou indeed"
Influence of natural objects
"There was a boy"
Yew-trees
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Address to my infant daughter Dora
Lines left upon a seat in a Yew-tree
French revolution
The Simplon Pass
Fragment from the recluse
The old Cumberland beggar
Animal tranquility and decay
Nutting
To Joanna
The fir-grove path
A farewell
Stanzas written in Thomson's castle of indolence
Tribute to the memory of a dog
The small celandine
Beggars
Sequel to the foregoing
Matthew
The two April mornings
The fountain
A poet's epitaph
Lines written on the expected death of Mr. Fox
Elegiac stanzas, suggested by a picture of Peele Castle
Glen-Almain ; or, the narrow glen
Written on a blank leaf of Macpherson's Ossian
The wishing-gate
To the Lady Fleming
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth
Evening voluntaries- I. "Not in the lucid intervals of life" II. "The sun, that seemed so mildly to retire"
To Mary Wordsworth
To a child
Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg
Devotional incitements
Inscription for a stone in the grounds of Rydal Mount
"Seven hundred and fifty copies of this large paper edition were printed. September 20, 1879"--Half title. (For trade edition (325 pages) see LC record 96173711)
"Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh"--Title page verso
Title page vignette (portrait) mounted on thin white paper
Includes index of first lines
RBC c. 1: Binding: blackish blue fine texture calico cloth with gilt fillet decoration and lettering; edges untrimmed. Text beneath portrait: "Engraved by C H Jeens after Luptons engraving of Haydons portrait". Bookplate on front pastedown: "Pamela"; presentation inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "Pamela Wyndham / with Professor Jowett's / kind regards / May 11th 1889"
RBC c. 2: Binding: blackish blue fine texture calico cloth with gilt fillet decoration and lettering; edges untrimmed. Text beneath portrait: "C H Jeens" in center, with "Born 1770" at left and "Died 1850" at right. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: "F. Hockliffe ... 32, St Loyes, Bedford"; inscription on half-title. Note of former owner (Reed) on rear free endpaper. Gift of Mark L. Reed
RBC c. 3: Binding: blackish blue fine texture calico cloth with gilt fillet decoration and lettering; edges untrimmed. Text beneath portrait: "C H Jeens" in center, with "Born 1770" at left and "Died 1850" at right. Inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "Miss Mozley / ... from John Wordsworth / Oxford Oct: 30 1879". Note of former owner (Reed) on front free endpaper (on John Wordsworth). Gift of Mark L. Reed