THE POETICAL WORKS OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED WITH MEMOIR BY

EDWARD DOWDEN

IN SEVEN VOLUMES

VOL. II

LONDON

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CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

POEMS OF THE FANCY.

A Morning Exercise

A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicester-

shire

To a Sexton

To the Daisy

To the same Flower

A whirl-blast from behind the hill

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral

The Green Linnet

To a Sky-lark

To the Small Celandine

To the same Flower

·

The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie

Who fancied what a pretty sight

The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly.

•

Song for the Spinning Wheel. Founded upon a

Belief prevalent among the Pastoral Vales

of Westmoreland.

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political

Pretenders

On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp

To a Lady, in answer to a request that I would

write her a Poem upon some Drawings that

she had made of Flowers in the Island of

Madeira

Glad sight wherever new with old

The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren.

The Danish Boy. A Fragment.

Song for the Wandering Jew

Stray Pleasures.

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the

Glow-worm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove.

A Wren's Nest

The Kitten and Falling Leaves.

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora, on being

reminded that she was a Month old, that

She was a Phantom of Delight

O Nightingale! thou surely art.

Three years she grew in sun and shower

A slumber did my spirit seal

I wandered lonely as a cloud

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Power of Music

Star-gazers March, while resting on the Bridge

Written in

at the foot of Brother's Water

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live.

Beggars

Sequel to the Foregoing, composed many Years

after