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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.
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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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II. ON THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM ABBOTSFORD, FOR NAPLES.
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III. A PLACE OF BURIAL IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND.
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IV. ON THE SIGHT OF A MANSE IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND.
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V. COMPOSED IN ROSLIN CHAPEL, DURING A STORM.
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VI. THE TROSACHS.
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VIII. COMPOSED IN THE GLEN OF LOCH ETIVE.
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IX. EAGLES.
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X. IN THE SOUND OF MULL.
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XI. SUGGESTED AT TYNDRUM IN A STORM.
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XII. THE EARL OF BREADALBANE'S RUINED MANSION, AND FAMILY BURIAL-PLACE, NEAR KILLIN.
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XIII. ‘REST AND BE THANKFUL!’
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XIV. HIGHLAND HUT.
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XV. THE HIGHLAND BROACH.
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XVI. THE BROWNIE.
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XVII. TO THE PLANET VENUS, AN EVENING STAR.
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XVIII. BOTHWELL CASTLE. (Passed unseen, on account of stormy weather.)
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XIX. PICTURE OF DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, AT HAMILTON PALACE.
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XX. THE AVON.
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XXI. SUGGESTED BY A VIEW FROM AN EMINENCE IN INGLEWOOD FOREST.
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XXII. HART'S-HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH.
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XXIII. FANCY AND TRADITION.
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XXIV. COUNTESS' PILLAR.
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XXV. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
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XXVI. APOLOGY, For the Foregoing Poems.
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VOL. V.
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V. COMPOSED IN ROSLIN CHAPEL, DURING A STORM.

The wind is now thy organist;—a clank
(We know not whence) ministers for a bell
To mark some change of service. As the swell
Of music reached its height, and even when sank
The notes, in prelude, Roslin! to a blank
Of silence, how it thrilled thy sumptuous roof,
Pillars, and arches,—not in vain time-proof,
Though Christian rites be wanting! From what bank
Came those live herbs? by what hand were they sown
Where dew falls not, where rain-drops seem unknown?
Yet in the Temple they a friendly niche
Share with their sculptured fellows, that, green-grown,
Copy their beauty more and more, and preach,
Though mute, of all things blending into one.
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