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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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XXVIII.

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[Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne]

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne
Which mists and vapours from mine eyes did shroud—
Nor view of who might sit thereon allowed;
But all the steps and ground about were strown
With sights the ruefullest that flesh and bone
Ever put on; a miserable crowd,
Sick, hale, old, young, who cried before that cloud,
“Thou art our king, O Death! to thee we groan.”
Those steps I clomb; the mists before me gave
Smooth way; and I beheld the face of one
Sleeping alone within a mossy cave,
With her face up to heaven; that seemed to have
Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone;
A lovely Beauty in a summer grave!
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