Poems in Two Volumes, vol 1

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Title: Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 1
Author: William Wordsworth
Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8774]?[This file was first posted on August 12, 2003]
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POEMS
POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES,
VOL. I.
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS.
Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur?Nostra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus.
CONTENTS
To the Daisy
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
Character of the Happy Warrior
The Horn of Egremont Castle
The Affliction of Margaret ---- of ----
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
POEMS, COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT.
1. Beggars
2. To a Sky-Lark
3. _With how sad Steps, O Moon,
4. thou climb'st the Sky_
5. Alice Fell
6. Resolution and Independence
SONNETS
Prefatory Sonnet
PART THE FIRST--MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
1.
2.
3. _Composed after a Journey across the
Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire_
4.
5. To Sleep
6. To Sleep
7. To Sleep
8.
9. To the River Duddon
10. From the Italian of Michael Angelo
11. From the same
12. From the same. To the Supreme Being
13. Written in very early Youth
14. _Composed upon Westminster Bridge,
Sept_. 3, 1803
15.
16.
17. To ----
18.
19.
20. To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
PART THE SECOND--SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY.
CONTENTS.
1. Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802
2. Is it a Reed
3. _To a Friend, composed near Calais,
4. on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th_, 1802
4.
5.
6. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
7. The King of Sweden
8. To Toussaint L'Ouverture
9.
10. Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing
11.
12. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
13. Written in London, September, 1802
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23. To the Men of Kent. October, 1803
24.
25. Anticipation. October, 1803
26.
Notes:
[Transcribers' Note: the Notes will be found at the End of the Volume]
TO THE DAISY.
In youth from rock to rock I went?From hill to hill, in discontent?Of pleasure high and turbulent,
Most pleas'd when most uneasy;?But now my own delights I make,?My thirst at every rill can slake,?And gladly Nature's love partake
Of thee, sweet Daisy!
When soothed a while by milder airs,?Thee Winter in the garland wears 10 That thinly shades his few grey hairs;
Spring cannot shun thee;?Whole summer fields are thine by right;?And Autumn, melancholy Wight!?Doth in thy crimson head delight
When rains are on thee.
In shoals and bands, a morrice train,?Thou greet'st the Traveller in the lane;?If welcome once thou count'st it gain;
Thou art not daunted, 20 Nor car'st if thou be set at naught;?And oft alone in nooks remote?We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
Be Violets in their secret mews?The flowers the wanton Zephyrs chuse;?Proud be the Rose, with rains and dews
Her head impearling;?Thou liv'st with less ambitious aim,?Yet hast not gone without thy fame; 30 Thou art indeed by many a claim
The Poet's darling.
If to a rock from rains he fly,?Or, some bright day of April sky,?Imprison'd by hot sunshine lie
Near the green holly,?And wearily at length should fare;?He need but look about, and there?Thou art! a Friend at hand, to scare
His melancholy. 40
A hundred times, by rock or bower,?Ere thus I have lain couch'd an hour,?Have I derived from thy sweet power
Some apprehension;?Some steady love; some brief delight;?Some memory that had taken flight;?Some chime of fancy wrong or right;
Or stray invention.
If stately passions in me burn,?And one chance look to Thee should turn, 50 I drink out of an humbler urn
A lowlier pleasure;?The homely sympathy that heeds?The common life, our nature breeds;?A wisdom fitted to the needs
Of hearts at leisure.
When, smitten by the morning ray,?I see thee rise alert and gay,?Then, chearful Flower! my spirits play
With kindred motion: 60 At dusk, I've seldom mark'd thee press?The ground, as if in thankfulness,?Without some feeling, more or less,
Of true devotion.
And all day long I number yet,?All seasons through, another debt,?Which I wherever thou art met,
To thee am owing;?An instinct call it, a blind sense;?A happy, genial influence, 70 Coming one knows not how nor whence,
Nor whither