Poems by William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
Hundreds of poems.
Includes a Life of Wordsworth.
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Condition. Binding wear, rubbing of the leather. The binding has old waterstaining. The marbled paper over the rear cover is rippled. ( see the photos ) The hinges are tight. Name in old ink on the front endpaper : " Phoebe E. Mills " No other writing. No markings. Old waterstaining on the illustration plates and the title-page. The staining is barely visible on the other pages. Slight rippling of the text pages. The pages are otherwise good.
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The Contents includes:
Life of William Wordsworth
Poems of Childhood To A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening The Shepherd Boys The Blind Highland Boy ( Scotland ) The Mother's Return The Norman Boy The Westmoreland Girl Characteristics of A Child Three Years Old Anecdote For Fathers Etc.
Written in Youth An Evening Walk While Sailing a Boat Guilt and Sorrow or Incidents on Salisbury Plain Etc.
Poems Founded on the Affections The Brothers Lament of Mary Queen Of Scots To A Butterfly Complaint of A Forsaken Indian Woman The Childless Father The Sailor's Mother The Last of The Flock The Widow on Windemere Side Maternal Grief The Idiot Boy The Armenian Lady's Love Etc.
Poems of the Fancy and Imagination To The Daisy The Oak And The Broom The Danish Boy Song For The Wandering Jew The Redbreast and the Butterfly The Kitten And The Falling Leaves To My Infant Daughter Love Lies Bleeding The Wagoner To The Cuckoo Yew Trees View From The Top of Black Comb - Cumberland Nutting " She Was A Phantom of Delight " The Horn of Egremont Castle "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" Stepping Westward Glen Almain Gipsies Beggars Star Gazers The Pass of Kirkstone Resolution and Independence Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle Lines Composed Near Tintern Abbey The Haunted Tree A Jewish Family Peter Bell - A Tale Etc.
Poems proceeding from Sentiment and Reflection Character of the Happy Warrior Rob Roy's Grave ( Rob Roy of Scotland ) Lines lift upon a Seat in a Yew Tree A Poet's Epitaph To The Sons of Burns - After Visiting Their Father's Grave It Is The First Mild Day of March Simon Lee - The Old Huntsman Lines Written While Sailing A Boat At Evening Incident of A Favourite Dog The Force of Prayer Fidelity Ode To Duty Etc.
" The White Doe of Rhylstone " ( about 40 pages )
Miscellaneous Sonnets " Upon Sight of A Beautiful Picture " " The Fairest, Brightest Hues of Ether Fade " " Hail Twilight, Sovereign of One Peaceful Hour " " Even As A Dragon 's Eye " " These Words Were Uttered In A Pensive Mood " " Dark And More Dark The Shades of Evening Fell " To Sleep To The Supreme Being " Earth Has Not Anything To Show More Fair " " Composed upon Westminster Bridge , September 3, 1802 " " Surprised By Joy " " What Need of Clamorous Bells or Ribbons Gay " " From The Chambers of Dejection Freed " On approaching Home after a Tour of Scotland Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales Captivity - Mary Queen of Scots With Ships the Sea was sprinkled Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere , 1812 At Applethwaite , near Keswick The Wild Ducks Nest Even as a Dragon 's Eye Etc., Etc.
Sonnets Dedicated to Independence and Liberty " Fair Star of Evening, Splendour of The West " " O Friend! I Know Not Which Way I Must Look " " Milton Thou Shouldest Be Living At This Hour " " Great Men Have Been Amoung Us " " Is It A Reed That's Shaken By The Wind " " There Is A Bondage That's Worse To Bear " " Six Thousand Veterans Practiced In War's Game " " Shout For A Mighty Victory's Won " " O'er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain " " Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer? " " In Due Observance of An Ancient Rite " " The Power of Armies Is A Visible Thing " The Oak of Guernica On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History A Prophecy , 1807 The Oak of Guernica Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard Spanish Guerillas Etc., Etc.
Thanksgiving Odes Ode For The Morning of the Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving When The Soft Hand of Sleep Had Closed The Latch
Miscellaneous Pieces Ode " Who Rises On The Banks of the River Seine " Elegiac Verses " O! For The Kindling Touch of That Pure Flame " To Joanna There Is An Eminence of These Our Hills Etc.
Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon Stone In A Quarry In the Islands at Rydale Written Upon Stone in Black Comb Cumberland In The Garden At Coleorton Written On The Wall of the House On the Island of Grasmere ( Cumbria , England ) Inscriptions in a Hermit's Cell Etc.
Poems referring to Old Age The Old Cumberland Beggar The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale The Two Thieves Animal Tranquility Etc.