"Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind " "O'erweening statesmen have full long relied " Occasioned by the same Battle. February 1816 "O! for a kindling touch of that pure flame" "While not a leaf seems faded-while the fields" "It was an April morning: fresh and clear" "There is an eminence,--of these our hills ... Written at the request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in his The Matron of Jedburgh and her Husband "Though narrow be that old man's cares, and near' For the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Lines composed at Grasmere during a walk, one evening, after a stormy day, the Author having just read in a newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was hourly expected Lines written November 13, 1814, on a blank leaf, in a copy of the Author's poem "The Excursion," upon hearing of the death Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a storm, WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. I. My heart leaps up when I behold So was it when my life began; The child is father of the man; II. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me do not take thy flight! Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! My father's family. Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, My Sister Emmeline and I Upon the prey-with leaps and springs III. FORESIGHT; OR, THE CHARGE OF A CHILD TO HIS YOUNGER COMPANION. THAT is work of waste and ruin- Pull the primrose, Sister Anne ! -Here are daisies, take your fill! Make your bed, and make your bower; Primroses, the spring may love them-- Withered on the ground must lie; God has given a kindlier power And for that promise spare the flower! |