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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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VOL. IV.
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THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;
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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.
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EVENING VOLUNTARIES.
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POEMS, COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR, IN THE SUMMER OF 1833.
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IV. TO THE RIVER GRETA, NEAR KESWICK.
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V. TO THE RIVER DERWENT.
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VI. IN SIGHT OF THE TOWN OF COCKERMOUTH.
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VII. ADDRESS FROM THE SPIRIT OF COCKERMOUTH CASTLE.
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VIII. NUN'S WELL, BRIGHAM.
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IX. TO A FRIEND.
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X. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
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XI. STANZAS SUGGESTED IN A STEAM-BOAT OFF SAINT BEES' HEADS, ON THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND.
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XII. IN THE CHANNEL, BETWEEN THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND AND THE ISLE OF MAN.
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XIII. AT SEA OFF THE ISLE OF MAN.
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XV. ON ENTERING DOUGLAS BAY, ISLE OF MAN.
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XVI. BY THE SEA-SHORE, ISLE OF MAN.
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XVII. ISLE OF MAN.
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XVIII. ISLE OF MAN.
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XIX. BY A RETIRED MARINER.
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XX. AT BALA-SALA, ISLE OF MAN.
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XXI. TYNWALD HILL.
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XXIII. IN THE FRITH OF CLYDE, AILSA CRAG.
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XXIV. ON THE FRITH OF CLYDE.
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XXV. ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE.
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XXVI. THE DUNOLLY EAGLE.
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XXVII. WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF MACPHERSON'S OSSIAN.
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XXVIII. CAVE OF STAFFA.
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XXIX. CAVE OF STAFFA.
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XXX. CAVE OF STAFFA.
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XXXI. FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE CAVE.
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XXXII. IONA.
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XXXIII. IONA.
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XXXIV. THE BLACK STONES OF IONA.
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XXXVI. GREENOCK.
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XXXVIII. THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND.
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XXXIX. MONUMENT OF MRS. HOWARD,
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XL. SUGGESTED BY THE FOREGOING.
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XLI. NUNNERY.
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XLII. STEAMBOATS, VIADUCTS, AND RAILWAYS.
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XLIII. THE MONUMENT COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, NEAR THE RIVER EDEN.
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XLIV. LOWTHER.
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XLV. TO THE EARL OF LONSDALE.
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XLVI. THE SOMNAMBULIST.
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XLVII. TO CORDELIA M---
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POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.
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SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER.
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SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
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VOL. V.
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XVIII. ISLE OF MAN.

Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen,
Grief that devouring waves had caused—or guilt
Which they had witnessed, sway the man who built
This Homestead, placed where nothing could be seen,
Nought heard, of ocean troubled or serene?
A tired Ship-soldier on paternal land,
That o'er the channel holds august command,
The dwelling raised,—a veteran Marine.
He, in disgust, turned from the neighbouring sea
To shun the memory of a listless life
That hung between two callings. May no strife
More hurtful here beset him, doomed though free,
Self-doomed, to worse inaction, till his eye
Shrink from the daily sight of earth and sky!
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