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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 of
             the Rhine near Schaffhausen                              70

      XLIV.  Troubles of Charles the First                            71

       XLV.  Laud                                                     71

      XLVI.  Afflictions of England                                   72


  Part III.--From the Restoration to the Present Times--

         I.  "I saw the figure of a lovely Maid"                      74

        II.  Patriotic Sympathies                                     74

       III.  Charles the Second                                       75

        IV.  Latitudinarianism                                        76

         V.  Walton's Book of Lives                                   77

        VI.  Clerical Integrity                                       78

       VII.  Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters                  79

      VIII.  Acquittal of the Bishops                                 79

        IX.  William the Third                                        80

         X.  Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty                81

        XI.  Sacheverel                                               82

       XII.  "Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design"           83

      XIII.  Aspects of Christianity in America.--1. The Pilgrim
             Fathers                                                  84

       XIV.  2. Continued                                             85

        XV.  3. Concluded.--American Episcopacy                       85

       XVI.  "Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep"           86

      XVII.  Places of Worship                                        87

     XVIII.  Pastoral Character                                       87

       XIX.  The Liturgy                                              88

        XX.  Baptism                                                  89

       XXI.  Sponsors                                                 90

      XXII.  Catechising                                              91

     XXIII.  Confirmation                                             92

      XXIV.  Confirmation Continued                                   92

       XXV.  Sacrament                                                93

      XXVI.  The Marriage Ceremony                                    94

     XXVII.  Thanksgiving after Childbirth                            95

    XXVIII.  Visitation of the Sick                                   96

      XXIX.  The Commination Service                                  96

       XXX.  Forms of Prayer at Sea                                   97

      XXXI.  Funeral Service                                          97