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The poetical works of William Wordsworth

... In six volumes ... A new edition
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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VOL. III.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. 1803.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. 1814.
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POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERTY.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT. 1820.
  
DEDICATION. (SENT WITH THESE POEMS, IN MS., TO ------.)
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I. FISH-WOMEN.
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II. BRUGÈS.
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III. BRUGÈS.
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IV. INCIDENT AT BRUGES.
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V. AFTER VISITING THE FIELD OF WATERLOO.
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VI. BETWEEN NAMUR AND LIEGE.
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VII. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
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VIII. IN THE CATHEDRAL AT COLOGNE.
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IX. IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE.
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X. HYMN, FOR THE BOATMEN, AS THEY APPROACH THE RAPIDS UNDER THE CASTLE OF HEIDELBERG.
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XI. THE SOURCE OF THE DANUBE.
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XII. ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH, LAUTERBRUNNEN.
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XIII. THE FALL OF THE AAR—HANDEC.
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XIV. MEMORIAL.
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XV. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC CANTONS.
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XVI. AFTER-THOUGHT.
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XVII. SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ.
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XVIII. ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS .
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XIX. OUR LADY OF THE SNOW.
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XX. EFFUSION, IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER OF TELL, AT ALTORF.
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XXI. THE TOWN OF SCHWYTZ.
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XXII. ON HEARING THE “RANZ DES VACHES” ON THE TOP OF THE PASS OF ST. GOTHARD.
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XXIII. FORT FUENTES.
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XXIV. THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR.
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XXV. THE ITALIAN ITINERANT, AND THE SWISS GOATHERD.
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XXVI. THE LAST SUPPER, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, IN THE REFECTORY OF THE CONVENT OF MARIA DELLA GRAZIA—MILAN .
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XXVII. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, 1820.
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XXVIII. THE THREE COTTAGE GIRLS.
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XXIX. THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAPARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN, NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS.
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XXX. STANZAS, COMPOSED IN THE SIMPLON PASS.
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XXXI. ECHO, UPON THE GEMMI.
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XXXII. PROCESSIONS.
  
XXXIII. ELEGIAC STANZAS.
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XXXIV. SKY-PROSPECT—FROM THE PLAIN OF FRANCE.
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XXXV. ON BEING STRANDED NEAR THE HARBOUR OF BOULOGNE .
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XXXVI. AFTER LANDING—THE VALLEY OF DOVER. Nov. 1820.
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XXXVII. AT DOVER.
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XXXVIII. DESULTORY STANZAS, Upon Receiving the Preceding Sheets from the Press.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY. 1837.
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THE RIVER DUDDON.
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YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS,
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VOL. IV.
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VOL. V.
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Two passions, both degenerate, for they both
Began in honour, gradually obtained
Rule over her, and vexed her daily life;
An unremitting, avaricious thrift;
And a strange thraldom of maternal love,
That held her spirit, in its own despite,
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Bound—by vexation, and regret, and scorn,
Constrained forgiveness, and relenting vows,
And tears, in pride suppressed, in shame concealed—
To a poor dissolute Son, her only child.
—Her wedded days had opened with mishap,
Whence dire dependence. What could she perform
To shake the burthen off? Ah! there was felt,
Indignantly, the weakness of her sex.
She mused, resolved, adhered to her resolve;
The hand grew slack in alms-giving, the heart
Closed by degrees to charity; heaven's blessing
Not seeking from that source, she placed her trust
In ceaseless pains—and strictest parsimony
Which sternly hoarded all that could be spared,
From each day's need, out of each day's least gain.
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