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                          THE POETICAL WORKS
                                  OF
                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

                               VOL. VII

                   [Illustration: William Wordsworth
                          after B. R. Haydon]




                          THE POETICAL WORKS
                                  OF
                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


                              EDITED BY
                            WILLIAM KNIGHT

                               VOL. VII

                [Illustration: _Dove Cottage Grasmere_]

                                London
                       MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
                      NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
                                 1896

                         _All rights reserved_




CONTENTS


                                1821-2

                                                                    PAGE

  Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series--

  Part I.--From the Introduction of Christianity into
      Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion--

         I.  Introduction                                              4

        II.  Conjectures                                               5

       III.  Trepidation of the Druids                                 6

        IV.  Druidical Excommunication                                 7

         V.  Uncertainty                                               7

        VI.  Persecution                                               8

       VII.  Recovery                                                  9

      VIII.  Temptations from Roman Refinements                       10

        IX.  Dissensions                                              10

         X.  Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians           11

        XI.  Saxon Conquest                                           12

       XII.  Monastery of Old Bangor                                  13

      XIII.  Casual Incitement                                        14

       XIV.  Glad Tidings                                             15

        XV.  Paulinus                                                 15

       XVI.  Persuasion                                               16

      XVII.  Conversion                                               17

     XVIII.  Apology                                                  18

       XIX.  Primitive Saxon Clergy                                   19

        XX.  Other Influences                                         19

       XXI.  Seclusion                                                20

      XXII.  Continued                                                21

     XXIII.  Reproof                                                  21

      XXIV.  Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the
             Religion                                                 22

       XXV.  Missions and Travels                                     23

      XXVI.  Alfred                                                   24

     XXVII.  His Descendants                                          25

    XXVIII.  Influence Abused                                         26

      XXIX.  Danish Conquests                                         27

       XXX.  Canute                                                   27

      XXXI.  The Norman Conquest                                      28

     XXXII.  "Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered"               29

    XXXIII.  The Council of Clermont                                  30

     XXXIV.  Crusades                                                 31

      XXXV.  Richard I                                                31

     XXXVI.  An Interdict                                             32

    XXXVII.  Papal Abuses                                             33

   XXXVIII.  Scene in Venice                                          34

     XXXIX.  Papal Dominion                                           34


  Part II.--To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I--

         I.  "How soon--alas! did Man, created pure"                  33

        II.  "From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd"          36

       III.  Cistertian Monastery                                     37

        IV.  "Deplorable his lot who tills the ground"                38

         V.  Monks and Schoolmen                                      39

        VI.  Other Benefits                                           40

       VII.  Continued                                                40

      VIII.  Crusaders                                                41

        IX.  "As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest"           42

         X.  "Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root"         43

        XI.  Transubstantiation                                       44

       XII.  The Vaudois                                              44

      XIII.  "Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs"     45

       XIV.  Waldenses                                                46

        XV.  Archbishop Chichely to Henry V.                          47

       XVI.  Wars of York and Lancaster                               48

      XVII.  Wicliffe                                                 49

     XVIII.  Corruptions of the Higher Clergy                         49

       XIX.  Abuse of Monastic Power                                  50

        XX.  Monastic Voluptuousness                                  51

       XXI.  Dissolution of the Monasteries                           52

      XXII.  The Same Subject                                         52

     XXIII.  Continued                                                53

      XXIV.  Saints                                                   54

       XXV.  The Virgin                                               54

      XXVI.  Apology                                                  55

     XXVII.  Imaginative Regrets                                      56

    XXVIII.  Reflections                                              57

      XXIX.  Translation of the Bible                                 58

       XXX.  The Point at Issue                                       58

      XXXI.  Edward VI                                                59

     XXXII.  Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan
             of Kent                                                  60

    XXXIII.  Revival of Popery                                        61

     XXXIV.  Latimer and Ridley                                       61

      XXXV.  Cranmer                                                  62

     XXXVI.  General View of the Troubles of the Reformation          64

    XXXVII.  English Reformers in Exile                               64

   XXXVIII.  Elizabeth                                                65

     XXXIX.  Eminent Reformers                                        66

        XL.  The Same                                                 67

       XLI.  Distractions                                             68

      XLII.  Gunpowder Plot                                           69

     XLIII.  Illustration. The Jung-frau and the Fall