The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Volume 2; Poems of the Fancy.-Poems of the Imagination.-Peter Bell.-Miscellaneous Sonnets (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... pantings of dismay. Lo the dwindled woods and meadows; What a vast abyss is there Lo the clouds, the solemn shadows, And the glistenings--heavenly fair And a record of commotion Which a thousand ridges yield; Kidge, and gulf, and distant ocean Gleaming like a silver shield Maiden now take flight;--inherit Alps or Andes--they are thine With the morning's roseate Spirit, Sweep their length of snowy lino j, Or survey their bright dominions In the gorgeous colours drest Flung from off the purple pinions, Evening spreads throughout the west Thine are all the coral fountains Warbling in each sparry vault Of the untrodden lunar mountains; Listen to their songs --or halt, To Niphates' top invited, Whither spiteful Satan steered; Or descend where the ark alighted, When the green earth re-appeared; For the power of hills is on thee, As was witnessed through thine eye Then, when old Helvellyn won thee To confess their majesty 1816. XXXVI. TO A YOUNa LADY, WHO HAD BEEN BEPBOACHED FOB TAKING LONG WALKS IN THE CODHTBY. composed at the same time and on the same view as "I met Louisa in the shade: " indeed they were designed to make one piece. Deae Child of Nature, let them rail --There is a nest in a green dale, A harbour and a hold; Where thou, a Wife and Friend, shalt see Thy own heart-stirring days, and be A light to young and old. There, healthy as a shepherd boy, And treading among flowers of joy Which at no season fade, Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Vol. n. o XXX VII. WATER-FOWL. observed ...