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Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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[If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven]

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SUPPLEMENT OF PIECES NOT APPEARING IN THE EDITION OF 1849–50;

I.

I. LINES WRITTEN AS A SCHOOL EXERCISE AT HAWKSHEAD, ANNO ÆTATIS 14.

II.

II. SONNET, ON SEEING MISS HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS WEEP AT A TALE OF DISTRESS.

III.

III. THE BIRTH OF LOVE.

IV.

IV. THE CONVICT.

V.

V. ANDREW JONES.

VI.

VI. “ON NATURE'S INVITATION DO I COME.”

VII.

VII. “BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND WILD.”

VIII.

VIII. AMONG ALL LOVELY THINGS MY LOVE HAD BEEN.

IX.

IX. SONNET.

X.

X. GEORGE AND SARAH GREEN.

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XI.

XI. TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ÆNEID.

To the Editors of the “Philological Museum.”

XII.

XIII.

XIII. A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH.

XIV.

XIV. INSCRIPTION ON A ROCK AT RYDAL MOUNT. (1838.)

XV.

XV. PROTEST AGAINST THE BALLOT. (1838.)

XVI.

XVI. A POET TO HIS GRANDCHILD.

XVII.

XVII. ON A PORTRAIT OF I. F. [ISABELLA FENWICK], PAINTED BY MARGARET GILLIES.

XVIII.

XVIII. TO I. F.

XIX.

XIX. “WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN.”

XX.

XX. THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE.

XXI.

XXI. LINES INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF HIS POEMS SENT TO THE QUEEN FOR THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT WINDSOR.

XXII.

XXII. ODE ON THE INSTALLATION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, JULY, 1847.

XXIII.

XXIII. QUINZAIN

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IX. SONNET.

I find it written of Simonides
That travelling in strange countries once he found
A corpse that lay expos'd upon the ground,
For which, with pains, he caused due obsequies
To be performed, and paid all holy fees.
Soon after, this man's Ghost unto him came
And told him not to sail as was his aim,
On board a ship then ready for the seas.
Simonides, admonished by the ghost,
Remained behind; the ship the following day
Set sail, was wrecked, and all on board were lost.
Thus was the tenderest Poet that could be,
Who sang in ancient Greece his moving lay,
Saved out of many by his piety.