Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Note on the Text
• Acknowledgements
• The Baker's Cart
• Old Man Travelling
• Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree
• The Ruined Cottage
• A Night-Piece
• The Discharged Soldier
• The Old Cumberland Beggar
• Good Blake and Harry Gill
• Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House
• The Thorn
• 'A whirl-blast from behind the hill'
• The Idiot Boy
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• Anecdote for Fathers
• We are Seven
• Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
• The Last of the Flock
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables Turned
• Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
• 'There was a Boy'
• 'If Nature, for a favorite Child'
• The Fountain
• The Two April Mornings
• 'A Slumber did my spirit seal'
• Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')
• 'Strange fits of passion I have known'
• Lucy Gray
• A Poet's Epitaph
• Nutting
• Written in Germany
• 'Three years she grew'
• The Two-Part Prelude
• The Brothers
• Poems on the Naming of Places:
• I. It was an April Morning
• II. To Joanna
• III. There is an Emincence
• IV. A Narrow girdle of rough stones and crags
• V. To MH
• 'Tis said, that some have died for love
• Michael
• The Affliction of Margaret .. of ..
• 'I travelled among unknown Men
• To a Sky-Lark
• The Sailor's Mother
• Alice Fell
• To a Butterfly ('Stay near me')
• The Sparrows Nest
• To the Cuckoo
• My heart leaps up when I behold
• To HC
• Among all lovely things my Love had been
• Written in March
• The Green Linnet
• To the Daisy (in Youth)
• To a Butterfly (I've watched you now)
• I hae been here in the Moon-light
• These chairs they have no words to utter
• To the small celandine (Pansies, Lilies)
• To the same Flower (Pleasures newly found)
• Resolution and Independence
• Stanzas Written in my Pocket-Copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence
• I grieved for Buonaparte
• I am not one who much of oft delight
• The world is too much with us
• The sun has long been set
• Calais, August 1802
• To a friend, Composed near Calais
• It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free
• Composted by the Sea side, near Calais
• To Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Calais, August 15th 1802
• September 1st 1802
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge
• Great Men have been among us
• London 1802
• Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room
• Yarrow Unvisited
• She was a Phantom of delight
• The Small Celandine
• Ode to Duty
• Ode (Intimations of Immortality)
• Who fancied what a pretty sight
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• The Prelude (1805):
• Book First: Introduction - Childhood and School-Time
• Book Second: School-Time (continued)
• Book Third: Residence at Cambridge
• Book Fourth: Summer Vacation
• Book Fifth: Books
• Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps
• Book Seventh: Residence in London
• Book Eighth: Retrospect - Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind
• Book Ninth: Residence in France
• Book Tenth: Residence in France and French Revolution
• Book Eleventh: Imagination, How Impaired and Restored
• Book Twelfth: Same Subject continued
• Book Thirteenth: Conclusion
• Three Elegies for John Wordsworth:
• To the Daisy (Sweet Flower)
• I only looked for pain and grief
• Distressful gift! this Book receives
• Stepping Westward
• The Solitary Reaper
• Elegiac Stganzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm
• Yes! Fully Surely! twas the Echo
• The rains at length have ceased
• Lines, composed at Grasmere
• Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
• A Complaint
• November 1806
• Gipsies
• Eve's lingering clouds extend in solid bars
• St Pauls
• upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture
• Characteristics of a Child Three Years old
• Suprised by joy
• Yew-Trees
• Yarrow Visited
• November 1, 1815
• September 1815
• Ode. The Pass or Kirkstone
• Ode, Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty
• The River Duddon, Conclusion
• Gold and Silver Fishes
• Yarrow Revisited
• On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford for Naples
• Airey-Force Valley
• Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
• From the Prelude (1850): Genius of Burke! (from Book VII)
• Notes
• Index