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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the dec
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes,
- 201 FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: "Friday, 4th December 1801.... William translating 'The Prioress'Tale'.""Sat.u.r.day, 5th. William finished 'The Prioress' Tale', and after tea, Mary and he wrote it out"(Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal).--Ed.][F
- 202 X But tossing lately on a sleepless bed, I of a token thought which Lovers heed; How among them it was a common tale, That it was good to hear the Nightingale, Ere the vile Cuckoo's note be uttered. 50 XI And then I thought anon as it was day, I gladly w
- 203 LVI And thereat shall the Eagle be our Lord, And other Peers whose names are on record; A summons to the Cuckoo shall be sent, And judgment there be given; or that intent Failing, we finally shall make accord. 280 LVII And all this shall be done, without
- 204 'Tall were the flowers, the grove a lofty cover, All green and white; and nothing else was seen.'"(Professor Dowden, in the 'Transactions of the Wordsworth Society'. No.III.)--Ed.][Footnote D: "In Chaucer's poem, after 'the cuckoo, bird unholy,'
- 205 And certainly this wind, that more and more 155 By moments thus increaseth in my face, Is of my Ladys sighs heavy and sore; I prove it thus; for in no other s.p.a.ce Of all this town, save only in this place, Feel I a wind, that soundeth so like pain; 160
- 206 (Professor Dowden, in the 'Transactions of the Wordsworth Society', No.III.)--Ed.][Footnote D: In Chaucer "werreyed" = warred on = fought against.--Ed.][Footnote E: "'Toward my death with wind I steer and sail.'This is Urry's version, but Chaucer
- 207 [Variant 2: 1836. ... I woke, With the first word I had to spare I said to her, "Beneath your Cloak Whats that which on your arm you bear?" 1807. "What treasure," said I,"do you bear, Beneath the covert of your Cloak Protected from the cold damp air?
- 208 It was only excluded from the editions of 1820, 1827, and 1832. In the edition of 1807 it was placed amongst a group of "Poems composed during a Tour, chiefly on foot." In 1815, in 1836, and afterwards, it was included in the group "referring to the Pe
- 209 1845.'Twas twisted betwixt nave and spoke; Her help she lent, and with good heed Together we released the Cloak; 1807.... between ... 1840.][Variant 7: 1836.A wretched, wretched rag indeed! 1807.][Variant 8: 1845.She sate like one past all relief; Sob af
- 210 The other wore a rimless crown 25 With leaves of laurel stuck about; And, while both [6] followed up and down, Each whooping with a merry shout, In their fraternal features I could trace Unquestionable lines of that wild Suppliant's face. [7] 30 Yet _the
- 211 1827.They bolted on me thus, and lo! 1807.][Variant 11: 1827."Nay but I gave her pence, and she will buy you bread." 1807.][Variant 12: 1845."Sweet Boys, you're telling me a lie; 1807.... Heaven hears that rash reply; 1827.The text of 1807 was resumed
- 212 [Variant 3: 1836.... such thoughts ... 1827.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: This and the three following lines were placed here in the edition of 1836. See note to the previous page.--Ed.]TO A b.u.t.tERFLY (#1) Composed March 14, 1802.--Published 1807
- 213 And thus, from what I heard and knew, or guessed, [5]My song the workings of her heart expressed.I "Dear Babe, thou daughter of another, 15 One moment let me be thy mother!An infant's face and looks are thine And sure a mother's heart is mine: Thy own
- 214 For they confound me: as it is, I have forgot those smiles of his. 1807. For they bewilder me--even now _His_ smiles are lost,--I know not how! 1820. By those bewildering glances crost In which the light of his is lost. [a] 1827.] [Variant 9: 1827. From F
- 215 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1845.While I am lying on the gra.s.s, I hear thy restless shout: From hill to hill it seems to pa.s.s, About, and all about! 1807.Thy loud note smites my ear!-- From hill to hill it seems to pa.s.s, At once far off and nea
- 216 Dryden's 'All for Love', act IV. scene I: 'Men are but children of a larger growth.'And Pope's 'Essay on Man', Ep. iv. l. 175: 'The boy and man an individual makes.'Also Chatterton's 'Fragment' (Aldine edition, vol. 1. p. 132): 'Nature in th
- 217 Included among the "Poems of the Fancy."In some editions this poem is a.s.signed to the year 1806; but, in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal the following occurs, under date "Sunday, 18th"(April 1802): "A mild grey morning with rising vapours. We sate in
- 218 TO A b.u.t.tERFLY (#2) Composed April 20, 1802.--Published 1807 [Written at the same time and place. The Orchard, Grasmere Town-end, 1801.--I.F.]Included among the "Poems founded on the Affections."--Ed.I've watch'd you now a full [1] half-hour, Self-
- 219 [Variant 1: 1815.That is work which I am rueing--1807.][Variant 2: 1836.... and ... 1807.][Variant 3: 1815.Violets, do what they will, Wither'd on the ground must lie; Daisies will be daisies still; Daisies they must live and die: Fill your lap, and fill
- 220 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1836. ... great ... 1807.] [Variant 2: 1832. ... its ... 1807.] [Variant 3: 1836. Scornd and slighted ... 1807.] [Variant 4: 1836. Singing at my hearts command, In the lanes my thoughts pursuing, 1807.] FOOTNOTES ON THE TE
- 221 [Variant 3: 1845.Bright as any of the train 1807.][Variant 4: This stanza was added in 1845. (See note [Footnote B, To the Small Celandine], p. 302.)][Variant 5: 1845.Let, as old Magellen did, Others roam about the sea; Build who will a pyramid; [a] 1807.
- 222 ... did ... 1815.][Variant 2: 1827.The beetle with his radiance manifold, 1815.][Variant 3: 1827.And cups of flowers, and herbage green and gold; 1815.][Variant 4: 1836.And, sooth, these two did love each other dear, As far as love in such a place could b
- 223 And this recalls the first verse of 'Expostulation and Reply', written at Alfoxden in 1798; 'Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away?'The retreat where "apple
- 224 Of Him who walked in glory and in joy 45 Following his plough, along the mountain-side: [6]By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come [7] in the end despondency and madness.VIII Now, whether it were [8] by
- 225 And MS. 1802.] [Variant 7: 1836. ... comes ... 1807. And MS. 1802.] [Variant 8: 1807. ... was ... MS. 1802.] [Variant 9: 1807. ... that ... MS. 1802.] [Variant 10: 1820. When up and down my fancy thus was driven, And I with these untoward thoughts had str
- 226 [Variant 19. 1807. ... moves . . MS. 1802.] [Variant 20. He wore a Cloak the same as women wear As one whose blood did needful comfort lack; His face lookd pale as if it had grown fair; And, furthermore he had upon his back, Beneath his cloak, a round and
- 227 [Variant 31: 1827. ... and strong admonishment. 1807. ... by strong admonishment. 1820.] [Variant 32: 1815. The ... 1807. And MS. 1802.] [Variant 33: 1820. And now, not knowing what the Old Man had said, 1807. And MS. 1802. But now, perplexd by what the O
- 228 [Sub-Footnote i: Additional variants obtained from this source are inserted as "MS. 1802."--Ed.]The late Bishop of Lincoln, in the 'Memoirs' of his uncle (vol. i. pp.172, 173), quotes from a letter, written by Wordsworth "to some friends, which has m
- 229 Will prosper, though untended and alone: Fields, goods, and far-off chattels we have none: These narrow bounds contain our private store Of things earth makes, and sun doth s.h.i.+ne upon; 15 Here are they in our sight--we have no more.Suns.h.i.+ne and sh
- 230 "THE SUN HAS LONG BEEN SET" Composed June 8, 1802.--Published 1807 [This _Impromptu_ appeared, many years ago, among the Authors poems, from which, in subsequent editions, it was excluded. [A] It is reprinted, at the request of the Friend in whose prese
- 231 The date which Wordsworth gave to this sonnet on its first publication in 1807, viz. September 3, 1803,--and which he retained in all subsequent editions of his works till 1836,--is inaccurate. He left London for Dover, on his way to Calais, on the 31st o
- 232 1807. Thus fares it ever. Men of prostrate mind! 1803.] FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: This sonnet was first published in The Morning Post, Jan. 29, 1803, under the signature W. L. D., along with the one beginning, "I grieved for Buonaparte, with a va
- 233 This sonnet, originally ent.i.tled 'To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802', was addressed to Robert Jones, of Plas-yn-llan, near Ruthin, Denbighs.h.i.+re, a brother collegian at Cambridge, and afterwards a fe
- 234 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1807.Air sleeps,--from strife or stir the clouds are free; 1837.A fairer face of evening cannot be; 1840.The text of 1845 returns to that of 1807.][Variant 2: 1837.... is on the Sea: 1807.][Variant 3: 1807.But list! ... 18
- 235 [Footnote A: Compare 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (canto iv. II): 'The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord.'Ed.]"Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee."The special glory of Venice dates from the conquest of Constantinople by the Latins in 1202
- 236 Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men! [B]Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den;--[1]O miserable Chieftain! where and when 5 Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not;
- 237 1815. In white sleevd s.h.i.+rts are playing by the score, And even this little Rivers gentle roar, 1807.] FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: At the beginning of Dorothy Wordsworths Journal of a Tour on the Continent in 1820, she writes (July 10, 1820): "
- 238 1827.But on our proffer'd kindness still did lay 1803.][Variant 7: 1845.... or at the same Was silent, motionless in eyes and face.She was a negro woman, out of France, Rejected, like all others of that race: Not one of whom may now find footing there.Wh
- 239 O FRIEND! [A] I know not which way I must look [1] For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!--We must run glittering like a brook 5 In the open suns.h.i.+ne, or w
- 240 1807. But to ... MS.] FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: See Clarendons History of the Rebellion, book iii.--Ed.] "IT IS NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF THAT THE FLOOD" Composed September, 1802.--Published 1807 [A] It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of Briti
- 241 [Variant 3.1845.But dearly do I prize thee for I find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; 1803.But dearly must we prize thee; we who find 1807.... for the cause of men; 1827.Most dearly 1838.The text of 1840 returns to that of 1827.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEX
- 242 TO H. C.SIX YEARS OLD Composed 1802.--Published 1807 One of the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood."--Ed.O thou! whose fancies from afar are brought; Who of thy words dost make a mock apparel, And fittest to unutterable thought The breeze-like
- 243 Thee Winter in the garland wears That thinly decks his few grey hairs; 10 Spring parts the clouds with softest airs, That she may sun thee; [4]Whole Summer-fields are thine by right; And Autumn, melancholy Wight!Doth in thy crimson head delight 15 When ra
- 244 1836.When, smitten by the morning ray, I see thee rise alert and gay, Then, chearful Flower! my spirits play With kindred motion: 1807.With kindred gladness: 1815.Then Daisy! do my spirits play, With cheerful motion. MS.][Variant 11: 1815.At dusk, I've s
- 245 Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, [2] 10 Loose types of things through all degrees, Thoughts of thy raising: And many a fond and idle name I give to thee, for praise or blame, As is the humour of the game, 15 While I am gazing.
- 246 A Pilgrim bold in Natures care, And all the long year through the heir 1807. Bright flower, whose home is every where! A Pilgrim bold in Natures care, And oft, the long year through, the heir 1827. Confiding Flower, by Natures care Made bold,--who, lodgin
- 247 [Variant 2: 1845.That she is ruddy, fleet, and strong; 1807.That she is healthful, ... 1836.][Variant 3: In the editions of 1807 to 1843 occurs the following verse, which was omitted from subsequent editions: And she hath smiles to earth unknown; Smiles,
- 248 [Variant 2: 1836.As if thy heritage were joy, And pleasure were thy trade. 1802.And treading among flowers of joy, That at no season fade, 1827.][Variant 3: 1815.... alive ... 1802.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: For the original t.i.tle of this poem,-
- 249 [Variant 3: 1845.While thus before my eyes he gleams, A Brother of the Leaves he seems; When in a moment forth he teems His little song in gushes: 1807.My sight he dazzles, half deceives, A Bird so like the dancing Leaves; Then flits, and from the Cottage
- 250 'have been ruthlessly overthrown. One has been uprooted bodily; all the leaders and branches of the others have been wrenched from the main trunk; and the three still standing are bare poles and broken wreckage. Until one visits the spot one can have
- 251 [Footnote A: Professor Dowden directs attention to the relation between these lines and the poem beginning "If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven."--Ed.]MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND 1803 These poems were first collected, under the above
- 252 What treasures would have then been placed 55 Within my reach; of knowledge graced By fancy what a rich repast!But why go on?-- Oh! spare to sweep, thou mournful blast, His grave gra.s.s-grown. 60 There, too, a Son, his joy and pride, (Not three weeks pas
- 253 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED THE DAY FOLLOWING, ON THE BANKS OF NITH, NEAR THE POET'S RESIDENCE Composed 1803. [A]--Published 1842 Too frail to keep the lofty vow That must have followed when his brow Was wreathed--"The Vision" [B] tells us how-- Wit
- 254 For honest men delight will take To spare your failings for his sake, 20 Will flatter you,--and fool and rake [3]Your steps pursue; And of your Father's name will make A snare for you.Far from their noisy haunts retire, 25 And add your voices to the
- 255 Composed 1803.--Published 1807 Cla.s.sed in 1815 and 1820 as one of the "Poems of the Imagination."--Ed.[This delightful creature and her demeanour are particularly described in my Sister's Journal. The sort of prophecy with which the verse
- 256 In her 'Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland', 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth writes: "Sunday, August 28th.--... After long waiting, the girls, who had been on the look-out, informed us that the boat was coming. I went to the waterside, and s
- 257 Composed between 1803 and 1805.--Published 1807 While my Fellow-traveller and I were walking by the side of Loch Ketterine, one fine evening after sun-set, in our road to a Hut where in the course of our Tour we had been hospitably entertained some weeks
- 258 So sweetly to reposing bands 1807.][Variant 3: 1837.No sweeter voice was ever heard 1807.... sound ... MS.Such thrilling voice was never heard 1827.][Variant 4: 1815.... sung 1807.][Variant 5: 1820.I listen'd till I had my fill: 1807.][Variant 6: 180
- 259 Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream Roars in thy hearing; but thy hour of rest Is come, and thou art silent in thy age; Save when the wind sweeps by and sounds are caught Ambiguous, neither wholly thine nor theirs. 5 Oh! there is life that bre
- 260 "Since, then, the rule of right is plain, [10]And longest life is but a day; To have my ends, maintain my rights, 55 I'll take the shortest way."And thus among these rocks he lived, Through summer heat and winter snow: [11]The Eagle, he was
- 261 1807.... their ... MS.][Variant 9: 1807.All fas.h.i.+on their desires. 1803. D. W.][Variant 10: 1815."Since then," said Robin, "right is plain, 1807.][Variant 11: 1827.Through summer's heat and winter's snow: 1807.][Variant 12: 18
- 262 Composed September 18, 1803.--Published 1807 [The castle here mentioned was Nidpath near Peebles. The person alluded to was the then Duke of Queensbury. The fact was told to me by Walter Scott.--I. F.]In 1815 and 1820 this was one of the "Miscellaneo
- 263 [Variant 1: 1832.... downwards ... 1807.]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: See Hamilton's Ballad as above.--W. W. 1807.][Footnote B: In his "Recollections of Wordsworth," Aubrey de Vere reports a conversation, in which the poet said to him
- 264 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1827.For ... 1807.][Variant 2: 1837.... under Jedborough Tower There liveth in the prime of glee, A Woman, whose years are seventy-three, And She ... 1807.There lives a woman of seventy-three, And she will dance and sing w
- 265 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets" in 1815 and 1820.--Ed.Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale! [1]Say that we come, and come by this day's light; Fly upon swiftest wing round field and height, [2]But chiefly let one Cottage hear the t
- 266 Yet he had many a restless dream; Both when he heard the eagles scream, And when he heard the torrents roar, And heard the water beat the sh.o.r.e Near which their cottage stood. 50 Beside a lake their cottage stood, Not small like ours, a peaceful flood;
- 267 1827. Weve ... 1807.] [Variant 2: 1807. How ... MS.] [Variant 3: 1807. Aye, willingly, and what is more One which you never heard before, True story this which I shall tell MS.] [Variant 4: 1837. In land where many a mountain towers, 1807.] [Variant 5: 18
- 268 [Variant 15: 1827.... in his arms. 1815.][Variant 16: 1827.Close to the water he had found This Vessel, push'd it from dry ground, Went into it; and, without dread, Following the fancies in his head, He paddled up and down. 1807.And with the happy bu
- 269 The friend referred to in the note of 1815, who urged Wordsworth to give his blind voyager a Sh.e.l.l, instead of a was.h.i.+ng-tub to sail in, was Coleridge. The original tale of the tub was not more unfortunate than the lines in praise of Wilkinson'
- 270 VARIANT ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1837. ... touch ... 1807.] "ENGLAND! THE TIME IS COME WHEN THOU SHOULDST WEAN" Composed possibly in 1803.--Published 1807 This was one of the "Sonnets dedicated to Liberty"; afterwards called, "Poem
- 271 Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent, [A]Ye children of a Soil that doth advance Her [1] haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the time to prove your hardiment!To France be words of invitation sent! 5 They from their fields can see the countenan
- 272 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1807.... with transports of your own. C.... with transport of your noise! 1838.The edition of 1840 returns to the text of 1807.][Variant 2: 1807.The loss and e'en the prospect of the slain, MS. 1803.And in 'The P
- 273 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Vol. III.by William Wordsworth.WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS 1804 The poems written in 1804 were not numerous; and, with the exception of 'The Small Celandine', the stanzas beginning "I wandered l
- 274 1815.... laughing ... 1807.]The following is from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, under date, Thursday, April 15, 1802: "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. We fancied that the sea had f
- 275 [Variant 1: 1836.To have despair'd, and have believ'd, And be for evermore beguil'd; 1807.][Variant 2: 1832.What power hath even ... 1807.][Variant 3: 1832.Betwixt ... 1807.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: In the edition of 1807, the t.i.
- 276 Think of evening's repose when our labour was done, The sabbath's return; and its leisure's soft chain!And in sickness, if night had been sparing of sleep, How cheerful, at sunrise, the hill where I stood, [7] 30 Looking down on the kine, a
- 277 FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: The t.i.tle from 1815 to 1845 was 'Address to my Infant Daughter, on being reminded that she was a Month old, on that Day'.After her death in 1847, her name was added to the t.i.tle.--Ed.][Footnote B: See Dryde
- 278 [Variant 6: ... busy ... MS.] [Variant 7: 1836, Hung with head towards the ground, 1807.] [Variant 8: ... and ... MS.] [Variant 9: 1836. ... glitters ... 1807.] [Variant 10: 1849. Lauras [a] 1807] [Variant 11: Additional lines: But Ill take a hint from yo
- 279 I stopped, and said with inly-muttered voice, "It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold: This neither is its courage nor its choice, 15 But its necessity in being old. "The suns.h.i.+ne may not cheer [2] it, nor the dew; It cannot help its
- 280 [Footnote A: In the edition of 1842 the following footnote is given by Wordsworth, "This biographical Sonnet, if so it may be called, together with the Epistle that follows, have been long suppressed from feelings of personal delicacy."The "
- 281 1827. Was inwardly prepared to turn aside From law and custom, ... 1820.] [Variant 3: 1836. The sequel may be easily divined,--1820.] [Variant 4: 1827. ... From this time the Youth 1820.] [Variant 5: 1827. Stirred no where without arms. To their rural sea
- 282 [Variant 17: 1836.But, seeing some one near, even as his hand Was stretched towards the garden gate, he shrunk--1820]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: The work was 'The Prelude'. See book ix., p. 310 of this volume.--Ed.][Footnote B: Compare &#
- 283 [Variant 4: 1832.(To take an image which was felt no doubt 1809.(As at some moments might not be unfelt 'The Prelude', 1850.][Variant 5: 1815.Their ministers--used to stir in lordly wise 1809.][Variant 6: 1815.And deal ... 1809.][Variant 7: &quo
- 284 [Variant 1: 1815 From strife and from despair; a glorious ministry. 1807.] [Variant 2: ... the right ... MS. ... thy will ... MS.] [Variant 3: 1837. May joy be theirs while life shall last! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast! 1807.
- 285 'An Englishman in chartered freedom born.'Ed.][Footnote D: Compare in 'Sartor Resartus', "Happy he for whom a kind of heavenly sun brightens it [Necessity]into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic refraction
- 286 [Variant 2: But ... MS.][Variant 3: 1815.the soul ... 1807.][Variant 4: 1832.Up with me, up with me, high and high, ... 1807.][Variant 5: This and the previous stanza were omitted in the edition of 1827, but restored in that of 1832.][Variant 6: 1827.Joy
- 287 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1820. From which immediately leaps out A Dog, and yelping runs about. 1807. And instantly a Dog is seen, Glancing from that covert green. 1815.] [Variant 2: 1820. ... does ... 1807.] [Variant 3: 1837. binds 1807.] [Variant
- 288 Composed 1805.--Published 1807 [This dog I knew well. It belonged to Mrs. Wordsworth's brother, Mr.Thomas Hutchinson, who then lived at Sockburn-on-the-Tees, a beautiful retired situation, where I used to visit him and his sisters before my marriage.
- 289 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: In the editions of 1807 to 1820 the following lines began the poem. They were withdrawn in 1827.Lie here sequester'd:--be this little mound For ever thine, and be it holy ground!][Variant 2: 1827.Beneath the ... 1807.
- 290 [Variant 2: 1837.Towards a safer sh.o.r.e--... 1815.][Variant 3: 1837 --A few appear by morning light, Preserved upon the tall mast's height: Oft in my Soul I see that sight; 1815.][Variant 4: In the edition of 1827 and subsequent ones, Wordsworth he
- 291 The whole of this stanza was omitted in the editions of 1820-1843.][Variant 3: 1815.... delusion ... 1807.][Variant 4: 1837.A faith, a trust, that could not be betray'd. 1807.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: The original t.i.tle, in MS, was 'V
- 292 III Here did we stop; and here looked round While each into himself descends, For that last thought of parting Friends That is not to be found.Hidden was Grasmere Vale from sight, 25 Our home and his, his heart's delight, His quiet heart's selec
- 293 Southey, writing to his friend, C. W. W. Wynn, on the 3rd of April 1805, says: "DEAR WYNN, I have been grievously shocked this evening by the loss of the 'Abergavenny', of which Wordsworth's brother was captain. Of course the news came
- 294 [Variant 5: 1845. ... To sojourn a short while Beneath my roof He from the barren seas Had newly come--a cherished Visitant! 1815. ... To abide, For an allotted interval of ease, Beneath my cottage roof, had newly come From the wild sea a cherished Visita
- 295 For the date of this poem in the Chronological Tables given in the editions of 1815 and 1820, Wordsworth a.s.signed the year 1802. But, in the edition of 1836, he a.s.signed it to the year 1805, the date retained by Mr. Carter in the edition of 1857. Capt
- 296 This poem underwent no change in successive editions. The t.i.tle in all the earlier ones (1815 to 1843) was 'The Cottager to her Infant. By a Female Friend'; and in the preface to the edition of 1815, Wordsworth wrote, "Three short pieces
- 297 Full proof of this the Country gained; 120 It knows how ye were vexed and strained, And forced unworthy stripes to bear, When trusted to another's care. [18]Here was it--on this rugged slope, Which now ye climb with heart and hope, 125 I saw you, bet
- 298 What tears of rapture, what vow-making, Profound entreaties, and hand-shaking!What solemn, vacant, interlacing, As if they'd fall asleep embracing! 490 Then, in the turbulence of glee, And in the excess of amity, Says Benjamin, "That a.s.s of th
- 299 In hazy straits the clouds between, And in their stations twinkling not, Some thinly-sprinkled stars are seen, Each changed into a pallid spot. 1836. The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.] [Variant 3: 1836. The mountains rise to wondrous height, And i
- 300 1827. ... I frame ... 1819.] [Variant 15: 1836 And never was my heart more light. 1819.] [Variant 16: 1836. ... will bless ... 1819.] [Variant 17: 1836. ... delight, ... 1819.] [Variant 18: 1836. Good proof of this the Country gaind, One day, when ye were