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    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

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      Title: Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 1

      Author: William Wordsworth

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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, thou climb'st the Sky

      4. Alice Fell

      5. 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, 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;

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