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The poetical works of William Wordsworth

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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.
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY. 1837.
  
TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON.
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I. MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE.
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II. THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME.
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III. AT ROME.
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IV. AT ROME.—REGRETS.—IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR AND OTHER MODERN HISTORIANS.
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V. AT ROME.—REGRETS.—IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR AND OTHER MODERN HISTORIANS: CONTINUED.
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VI. PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN.
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VII. AT ROME.
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VIII. NEAR ROME, IN SIGHT OF ST. PETER'S.
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IX. AT ALBANO.
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XI. FROM THE ALBAN HILLS, LOOKING TOWARDS ROME.
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XII. NEAR THE LAKE OF THRASYMENE.
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XIII. NEAR THE SAME LAKE.
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XIV. THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA.
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XV. AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI.
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XVI. AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI: CONTINUED.
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XVII. AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI.
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XVIII. AT VALLOMBROSA.
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XIX. AT FLORENCE.
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XX. BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, IN THE GALLERY AT FLORENCE.
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XXI. AT FLORENCE.
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XXII. AT FLORENCE.
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XXIII. AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES.
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XXIV. IN LOMBARDY.
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XXV. AFTER LEAVING ITALY.
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XXVI. AFTER LEAVING ITALY: CONTINUED.
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XXVII. COMPOSED AT RYDAL ON MAY MORNING, 1838.
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XXVIII. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN.
  
THE EGYPTIAN MAID;
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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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XIII. NEAR THE SAME LAKE.

For action born, existing to be tried,
Powers manifold we have hat intervene
To stir the heart that would too closely screen
Her peace from images to pain allied.
What wonder if at midnight, by the side
Of Sanguinetto or broad Thrasymene,
The clang of arms is heard, and phantoms glide,
Unhappy ghosts in troops by moonlight seen;
And singly thine, O vanquished Chief! whose corse,
Unburied, lay hid under heaps of slain:
But who is He?—the Conqueror. Would he force
His way to Rome? Ah, no,—round hill and plain
Wandering, he haunts, at fancy's strong command,
This spot—his shadowy death-cup in his hand.
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