



Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net









THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

VOL. VIII

[Illustration: _William Wordsworth_

_after Thomas Woolner_

_Printed by Ch Wittmann Paris_]




                          THE POETICAL WORKS
                                  OF
                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

                               EDITED BY
                            WILLIAM KNIGHT

                               VOL. VIII

                     [Illustration: _Gallow Hill_

                             _Yorkshire_]

                                London
                        MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
                       New York: Macmillan & Co.
                                 1896

                        _All rights reserved._




CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE
                                 1834

  Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone            1

  The foregoing Subject resumed                                        6

  To a Child                                                           7

  Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale,
      Nov. 5, 1834                                                     8

                                 1835

  “Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant”                          12

  To the Moon                                                         13

  To the Moon                                                         15

  Written after the Death of Charles Lamb                             17

  Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg                     24

  Upon seeing a  Drawing of the Bird of Paradise
      in an Album                                                     29

  “Desponding Father! mark this altered bough”                        31

  “Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein”                           31

  To ----                                                             32

  Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire          33

  St. Catherine of Ledbury                                            34

  “By a blest Husband guided, Mary came”                              35

  “Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!”                 