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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!”                  36

                                 1836

  November 1836                                                       37

  To a Redbreast--(In Sickness)                                       38

                                 1837

  “Six months to six years added he remained”                         39

  Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837--To Henry Crabb Robinson         41

      I. Musings near Aquapendente, April, 1837                       42

     II. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome                              58

    III. At Rome                                                      59

     IV. At Rome--Regrets--in Allusion to Niebuhr and other
             Modern Historians                                        60

      V. Continued                                                    61

     VI. Plea for the Historian                                       61

    VII. At Rome                                                      62

   VIII. Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter’s                           63

     IX. At Albano                                                    64

      X. “Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove”                  65

     XI. From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome                   65

    XII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene                                  66

   XIII. Near the same Lake                                           67

    XIV. The Cuckoo at Laverna                                        67

     XV. At the Convent of Camaldoli                                  72

    XVI. Continued                                                    73

   XVII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli                 74

  XVIII. At Vallombrosa                                               75

    XIX. At Florence                                                  78

    XX. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael,
            in the Gallery at Florence                                79

    XXI. At Florence--From Michael Angelo                             80

   XXII. At Florence--From Michael Angelo                             81

  XXIII. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines                82

   XXIV. In Lombardy                                                  83

    XXV. After leaving Italy                                          84

   XXVI. Continued                                                    85

  At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections,
      1837.--I.                                                       86

      II. Continued                                                   86

      III. Concluded                                                  87

  “What if our numbers barely could defy”                             87

  A Night Thought                                                     88

  The Widow on Windermere Side                                        89

                                 1838

  To the Planet Venus                                                 92

  “Hark! ’tis