YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS, COMPOSED (TWO EXCEPTED) DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, and on the English Border, in POEMS, COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE Adieu, Rydalian Laurels ! that have grown 281 | On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-boat In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth To a Friend. On the Banks of the Der- Mary Queen of Scots. Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off Saint Bees' Heads, on the Coast of Cum- In the Channel, between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man. Desire we past illusions to recal? 312 312 312 In allusion to various recent Histories and SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER. Composed after reading a Newspaper of Upon the late General Fast. March 1832 Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud PAGE SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die Is Death, when evil against good has fought Not to the object specially designed Epistle to Sir George Howland Beau- mont, Bart. From the South-West Coast of Cumberland.-1811 Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase Liberty. (Sequel to the above.) [Ad- dressed to a Friend; the Gold and Silver Fishes having been removed to a Pool Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky) 323 To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of Early and Late To a Child. Written in her Album 323 In these fair vales hath many a Tree The massy Ways, carried across these For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton Wall of the House (an Out-house), on Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a de- 347 352 Elegiac Verses, in memory of my Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E.I. Company's Ship the Earl of Aber- gavenny, in which he perished by Cala- mitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6, 1805 Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one Evening, after a stormy Day, the Author having just read in a News- paper that the Dissolution of Mr Fox Invocation to the Earth. February, 1816. 353 Lines written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem "The Excur Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B., upon the Death of his Sister-in-law 353 Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Co- Address to the Scholars of the Village Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture 360 394 39 were Of the Poems in this class, "THE EVENING WALK" and "DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES first published in 1793. They are reprinted with some alterations that were chiefly made very soon after their publication. This notice, which was written some time ago, scarcely applies to the Poem, "Descriptive Sketches," as it now stands. The corrections, though numerous, are not, however, such as te prevent its retaining with propriety a place in the class of Juvenile Pieces. 1836. I. pass, The horse alone, seen dimly as I FROM THE CONCLUSION OF A POEM, COMPOSED O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky. IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL. DEAR native regions, I foretell, That, wheresoe'er my steps may tend, My soul will cast the backward view, Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest II. WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH. Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain III. AN EVENING WALK. ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY. General Sketch of the Lakes-Author's regret A |