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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,
- 1 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,
- 2 [5] I confess that it is often difficult to see why some of the poems were a.s.signed by their author to the realm of the "Fancy," the "Imagination," and "Sentiment and Reflection" respectively. In a note to 'The Horn of
- 3 In the light of what has been said above, and by reference to the Bibliography, it will be seen from these two dates that the original text of 1793--given in the footnote--was continued in the editions of 1820, 1827, and 1832 (it was omitted from the &quo
- 4 If it be objected that several of the places which we try to identify--and which some would prefer to leave for ever undisturbed in the realm of imagination--were purposely left obscure, it may be replied that Death and Time have probably now removed all
- 5 [Footnote 5: See the 'Life of Sir W. Rowan Hamilton', vol. ii. pp, 132, 135.][Footnote 6: See the Preface to the American edition of 1837.][Footnote 7: It need hardly be explained that, in the case of a modern poet, these various readings are no
- 6 [Footnote A: See the Memoirs of William Wordsworth, by Christopher Wordsworth (1851), vol. i. pp. 10-31.--ED] [Footnote B: Compare the Ode, composed in January 1816, stanza v.--Ed.] [Variant 1: 1832. ....shall 1815.] [Variant 2: 1815. That, when the close
- 7 Ed.][Variant 1: 1827.Is up, and cropping yet ... 1807.][Variant 2: 1838.... seems ... 1807.]AN EVENING WALK ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY Composed 1787-9. [A]--Published 1793 [The young Lady to whom this was addressed was my Sister. It was composed at School,
- 8 While, near the midway cliff, the silvered kite In many a whistling circle wheels her flight; Slant watery lights, from parting clouds, apace Travel along the precipice's base; Cheering its naked waste of scattered stone, 95 By lichens grey, and scan
- 9 1836. His wizard course where h.o.a.ry Derwent takes Thro craggs, and forest glooms, and opening lakes, Staying his silent waves, to hear the roar That stuns the tremulous cliffs of high Lodore: Where silver rocks the savage prospect chear Of giant yews t
- 10 When, at the barren wall's unsheltered end, Where long rails far into the lake extend, Crowded the shortened herds, and beat the tides With their quick tails, and lash'd their speckled sides; 1820.][Variant 14: 1836.And round the humming elm, a
- 11 [Variant 26: 1845. ... zephyrs ... 1820.] [Variant 27: This stanza was added in the edition of 1820.] [Variant 28: 1845. This couplet was added in 1845.] [Variant 29: 1845. And now the universal tides repose, And, brightly blue, the burnished mirror glows
- 12 [Variant 40: This couplet was first printed in the edition of 1820.] [Variant 41: 1836. Brightning the cliffs between where sombrous pine, And yew-trees ... 1793.] [Variant 42: 1836. How busy the enormous hive within, 1793.] [Variant 43: 1836. ... with th
- 13 [Variant 54: 1827. ... in ... 1793.] [Variant 55: 1836. That, barking busy mid the glittering rocks, Hunts, where he points, the intercepted flocks; 1793.] [Variant 56: 1845. The Druid stones [ii] their lighted fane unfold, 1793. ... a burnished ring unfo
- 14 [Variant 67: 1836.I love beside the glowing lake to stray, 1793.How pleasant near the tranquil lake to stray, 1815.][Variant 68: 1836.... to stray, Where winds the road along the secret bay; By rills that tumble down the woody steeps, And run in transport
- 15 ... and called thee bless'd; The whilst upon some sultry summer's day She dragged her babes along this weary way; Or taught their limbs along the burning road A few short steps to totter with their load. 1820.The while ... 1832.][Variant 78: 184
- 16 [Variant 89: 1827.Beyond the mountain's giant reach that hides In deep determin'd gloom his subject tides.--Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams, As touch'd with dawning moonlight's h.o.a.ry gleams, Long streaks of fairy ligh
- 17 [Variant 100: 1836.The scene is waken'd, yet its peace unbroke, By silver'd wreaths of quiet charcoal smoke, That, o'er the ruins of the fallen wood, Steal down the hills, and spread along the flood. 1793.][Variant 101: 1836.All air is, as
- 18 [Footnote B: It may not be irrelevant to mention that our late poet, Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.--Ed.][Footnote C: These lines are only appl
- 19 [Footnote S: The quotation is from Collins' 'The Pa.s.sions', l. 60.Compare 'Personal Talk', l. 26.--Ed.][Footnote T: Alluding to this pa.s.sage of Spenser: ... Her angel face As the great eye of Heaven s.h.i.+ned bright, And made
- 20 Glide gently, thus for ever glide,[B] O Thames! that other bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me. O glide, fair stream! for ever so, 5 Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep water
- 21 DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR AMONG THE ALPS Composed 1791-2. [A]--Published 1793 TO THE REV. ROBERT JONES, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE DEAR SIR, [B]--However desirous I might have been of giving you proofs of the hi
- 22 By choice or doom a gipsy wanders here, 175 A nursling babe her only comforter; Lo, where she sits beneath yon s.h.a.ggy rock, A cowering shape half hid in curling smoke! [48]When lightning among clouds and mountain-snows Predominates, and darkness comes
- 23 There, [127] safely guarded by the woods behind, He hears the chiding of the baffled wind, Hears Winter calling all his terrors round, 490 And, blest within himself, he shrinks not from the sound. [128]Through Nature's vale his homely pleasures glide
- 24 1827. No sad vacuities [i] his heart annoy;-- Blows not a Zephyr but it whispers joy; For him lost flowers their idle sweets exhale; He tastes the meanest note that swells the gale; For him sod-seats ... 1815. Breathes not a zephyr but it whispers joy; Fo
- 25 In the editions 1815-1832 lines 61, 62 followed line 66.] [Variant 17: 1836. Nod the cloud-piercing pines their troubled heads, 1815.] [Variant 18: 1836. The cross with hideous laughter Demons mock, By angels planted on the aereal rock. 1815. The cross, b
- 26 [Variant 30: 1836. Whose flaccid sails in forms fantastic droop, Brightning the gloom where thick the forests stoop; Only in the editions 1815 to 1832.] [Variant 31: 1827. ... like swallows nests that cleave on high; 1815.] [Variant 32: 1827. While Evenin
- 27 1836.There, by the door a h.o.a.ry-headed Sire Touched with his withered hand an ancient lyre; 1820.][Variant 43: 1836.This and the following line were expanded from Beneath an old-grey oak, as violets lie, 1820.][Variant 44: 1836.... joined the holy soun
- 28 [Variant 52: 1836.By floods, that, thundering from their dizzy height, Swell more gigantic on the stedfast sight; Black drizzling crags, that beaten by the din, Vibrate, as if a voice complained within; Bare steeps, where Desolation stalks afraid, Unstedf
- 29 A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes, Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms; A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff, Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff. 1815.... wood-cabin on the steeps. 1820.... the desert air perfumes, 1820.Thriddi
- 30 1845. Glances the fire-clad eagles wheeling form; 1815. ... glorious form; 1836.] [Variant 76: 1845. Wide oer the Alps a hundred streams unfold, 1815. Those eastern cliffs ... 1836.] [Variant 77: 1845. ... strives to shun The west ... 1815. ... tries to s
- 31 [Variant 89: 1836. Nought but the herds that pasturing upward creep, Hung dim-discoverd from the dangerous steep, Or summer hamlet, flat and bare, on high Suspended, mid the quiet of the sky. 1815.] [Variant 90: 1836. Broke only by the melancholy sound 18
- 32 1836. Continual fountains ... 1815.] [Variant 104: 1836. Nor Hunger forced the herds from pastures bare For scanty food the treacherous cliffs to dare. 1815.] [Variant 105: 1836. Then the milk-thistle bade those herds demand Three times a day the pail and
- 33 1832. He marches with his flute, his book, and sword; 1820.] [Variant 118: 1845. ... wonderous ... 1820.] [Variant 119: 1840. ... glorious ... 1820.] [Variant 120: 1836. Uncertain thro his fierce uncultured soul Like lighted tempests troubled transports r
- 34 [Variant 131: The following lines were erased in 1836, and in all subsequent editions: "Here," cried a swain, whose venerable head Bloomd with the snow-drops of Mans narrow bed, Last night, while by his dying fire, as closd The day, in luxury my
- 35 For come Diseases on, and Penurys rage, Labour, and Care, and Pain, and dismal Age, Till, Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath Implores the dreadful untried sleep of Death. 1815.] [Variant 145: 1836. A Temple stands; which holds an awful shrine, 1815.]
- 36 Last let us turn to where Chamouny s.h.i.+elds, 1820.] [Variant 158: 1827. Bosomed in gloomy woods, ... 1820.] [Variant 159: 1836. Here lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fannd, Here all the Seasons revel hand in hand. 1820.] [Variant 160: 1836. --Red st
- 37 That where despotic courts their gems display, 1827.] [Variant 171: 1836. In thy dear ... 1820.] [Variant 172: The previous three lines were added in the edition of 1836.] [Variant 173: 1836. The cas.e.m.e.nts shed more luscious woodbine binds, And to the
- 38 1836. (Compressing six lines into four.) --Though Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise Red on the hills his beacons comet blaze; Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound, And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound; His larum-bell from village-tower to
- 39 [Sub-Variant 8: Behind the hill ... 1836.][Sub-Variant 9: Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836.]FOOTNOTES [Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836 (p. 1).--Ed.
- 40 [Footnote Z: As Schreck-Horn, the pike of terror. Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc., etc.--W. W. 1793.][Footnote Aa: The effect of the famous air called in French Ranz des Vaches upon the Swiss troops.--W. W. 1793.][Footnote Bb: This shrine is resorte
- 41 [Unwilling to be unnecessarily particular, I have a.s.signed this poem to the dates 1793 and '94; but, in fact, much of the Female Vagrant's story was composed at least two years before. All that relates to her sufferings as a sailor's wife
- 42 Pile of Stone-henge! so proud to hint yet keep Thy secrets, thou that lov'st to stand and hear The Plain resounding to the whirlwind's sweep, 120 Inmate of lonesome Nature's endless year; Even if thou saw'st the giant wicker rear For s
- 43 "'Twas a hard change; an evil time was come; We had no hope, and no relief could gain: But soon, with proud parade, [28] the noisy drum Beat round to clear [29] the streets of want and pain.My husband's arms now only served to strain 275 Me
- 44 And other joys my fancy to allure-- The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor 410 In barn uplighted; and companions boon, Well met from far with revelry secure Among the forest glades, while jocund June [59]Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial mo
- 45 The Soldier's Widow learned with honest pain 550 And homefelt force of sympathy sincere, Why thus that worn-out wretch must there sustain The jolting road and morning air severe.The wain pursued its way; and following near In pure compa.s.sion she he
- 46 Than he who now at night-fall treads thy bare domain! 1842.][Variant 5: 1845.And, from its perilous shelter driven, ... 1842.][Variant 6: The following stanza was only in the editions of 1798 and 1800: By Derwent's side my Father's cottage stood
- 47 [Variant 17: 1820. Can I forget that miserable hour, 1798. It was in truth a lamentable hour 1802.] [Variant 18: 1798. I saw our own dear home, that was ... 1802. The edition of 1820 returns to the text of 1798.] [Variant 19: 1827. ... many and many a son
- 48 [Variant 30: 1836.There foul neglect for months and months we bore, Nor yet the crowded fleet its anchor stirred. 1798.There, long were we neglected, and we bore Much sorrow ere the fleet its anchor weigh'd; 1802.][Variant 31: 1802.Green fields befor
- 49 [Variant 42: 1842. Here watch, of every human friend disowned, All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood-- 1798. Here will I live:--of every friend disownd, Here will I roam about the ocean flood.-- 1802. And end my days upon the ocean flood."-- 1815.]
- 50 [Variant 55: 1827. Memory, though slow, returned with strength; ... 1798. My memory and my strength returned; ... 1802.] [Variant 56: 1802. The wild brood ... 1798.] [Variant 57: The following stanza occurs only in the editions of 1798 to 1805: My heart i
- 51 [Variant 67: 1836.Three years a wanderer, often have I view'd, In tears, the sun towards that country tend 1798.Three years thus wandering, ... 1802.][Variant 68: 1836.And now across this moor my steps I bend-- 1798.]FOOTNOTES [Footnote A: In the �
- 52 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1832. What if these barren boughs the bee not loves; 1798.] [Variant 2: 1836. First covered oer, and taught this aged tree, 1798.] [Variant 3: 1800. Now wild, to bend its arms in circling shade, 1798.] [Variant 4: 1802. ..
- 53 [Sub-Footnote ii: An emendation by S. T. C.--Ed.]THE BORDERERS A TRAGEDY Composed 1795-6.--Published 1842 Readers already acquainted with my Poems will recognise, in the following composition, some eight or ten lines, [A] which I have not scrupled to reta
- 54 WILFRED Nay, but I grieve that we should part. This Stranger, For such he is-- MARMADUKE Your busy fancies, Wilfred, Might tempt me to a smile; but what of him?WILFRED You know that you have saved his life.MARMADUKE I know it.WILFRED And that he hates you
- 55 [They step aside.][Enter IDONEA, leading HERBERT blind.]IDONEA Dear Father, you sigh deeply; ever since We left the willow shade by the brook-side, Your natural breathing has been troubled.HERBERT Nay, You are too fearful; yet must I confess, Our march of
- 56 OSWALD Be not hasty, For, sometimes, in despite of my conviction, He tempted me to think the Story true; 'Tis plain he loves the Maid, and what he said That savoured of aversion to thy name Appeared the genuine colour of his soul-- Anxiety lest misch
- 57 IDONEA You know, Sir, I have been too long your guard Not to have learnt to laugh at little fears.Why, if a wolf should leap from out a thicket, A look of mine would send him scouring back, Unless I differ from the thing I am When you are by my side.HERBE
- 58 MARMADUKE I would fain hope that we deceive ourselves: When first I saw him sitting there, alone, It struck upon my heart I know not how.OSWALD To-day will clear up all.--You marked a Cottage, That ragged Dwelling, close beneath a rock By the brook-side:
- 59 BEGGAR Daughter! truly-- But hows the day?--I fear, my little Boy, Weve overslept ourselves.--Sirs, have you seen him? [Offers to go.] MARMADUKE I must have more of this;--you shall not stir An inch, till I am answered. Know you aught That doth concern th
- 60 OSWALD Lord Clifford--did you see him talk with Herbert?BEGGAR Yes, to my sorrow--under the great oak At Herbert's door--and when he stood beside The blind Man--at the silent Girl he looked With such a look--it makes me tremble, Sir, To think of it.O
- 61 OSWALD Am I neither To bear a part in this Man's punishment, Nor be its witness?MARMADUKE I had many hopes That were most dear to me, and some will bear To be transferred to thee.OSWALD When I'm dishonoured!MARMADUKE I would preserve thee. How m
- 62 SCENE--The Area of a half-ruined Castle--on one side the entrance to a dungeon--OSWALD and MARMADUKE pacing backwards and forwards.MARMADUKE 'Tis a wild night.OSWALD I'd give my cloak and bonnet For sight of a warm fire.MARMADUKE The wind blows
- 63 [He draws MARMADUKE to the dungeon.]MARMADUKE You say he was asleep,--look at this arm, And tell me if 'tis fit for such a work.Oswald, Oswald![Leans upon OSWALD.]OSWALD This is some sudden seizure!MARMADUKE A most strange faintness,--will you hunt m
- 64 But soft!--how came he forth? The Night-mare Conscience Has driven him out of harbour?MARMADUKE I believe You have guessed right.HERBERT The trees renew their murmur: Come, let us house together.[OSWALD conducts him to the dungeon.]OSWALD (returns) Had I
- 65 [Exit Beggar.][MARMADUKE re-enters from the dungeon]OSWALD It is all over then;--your foolish fears Are hushed to sleep, by your own act and deed, Made quiet as he is.MARMADUKE Why came you down?And when I felt your hand upon my arm And spake to you, why
- 66 LACY You are found at last, thanks to the vagrant Troop For not misleading us.OSWALD (looking at WALLACE) That subtle Greybeard-- I'd rather see my father's ghost.LACY (to MARMADUKE) My Captain, We come by order of the Band. Belike You have not
- 67 WALLACE We will obey you.(Aside.) But softly! we must look a little nearer.MARMADUKE Tell where you found us. At some future time I will explain the cause.[Exeunt.]ACT III SCENE--The door of the Hostel, a group of Pilgrims as before; IDONEA and the Host a
- 68 OSWALD In faith, a pleasant scheme; But take your sword along with you, for that Might in such neighbourhood find seemly use.-- But first, how wash our hands of this old Man?MARMADUKE Oh yes, that mole, that viper in the path; Plague on my memory, him I h
- 69 HERBERT Like a mendicant, Whom no one comes to meet, I stood alone;-- I murmured--but, remembering Him who feeds The pelican and ostrich of the desert, From my own threshold I looked up to Heaven And did not want glimmerings of quiet hope.So, from the cou
- 70 SCENE--The Wood on the edge of the Moor.MARMADUKE (alone) MARMADUKE Deep, deep and vast, vast beyond human thought, Yet calm.--I could believe, that there was here The only quiet heart on earth. In terror, Remembered terror, there is peace and rest.[Enter
- 71 OSWALD Murder!--what's in the word!-- I have no cases by me ready made To fit all deeds. Carry him to the Camp!-- A shallow project;--you of late have seen More deeply, taught us that the inst.i.tutes Of Nature, by a cunning usurpation Banished from
- 72 IDONEA That smile hath life in it!MARMADUKE This road is perilous; I will attend you to a Hut that stands Near the wood's edge--rest there to-night, I pray you: For me, I have business, as you heard, with Oswald, But will return to you by break of da
- 73 OSWALD I had been deceived.MARMADUKE And from that hour the miserable man No more was heard of?OSWALD I had been betrayed.MARMADUKE And he found no deliverance!OSWALD The Crew Gave me a hearty welcome; they had laid The plot to rid themselves, at any cost
- 74 SCENE--The inside of a poor Cottage ELEANOR and IDONEA seated IDONEA The storm beats hard--Mercy for poor or rich, Whose heads are shelterless in such a night! A VOICE WITHOUT Holla! to bed, good Folks, within! ELEANOR O save us! IDONEA What can this mean
- 75 ELDRED He must have fallen, I fancy, for his head was cut; but I think his malady was cold and hunger. ELEANOR Oh, Eldred, I shall never be able to look up at this roof in storm or fair but I shall tremble. ELDRED Is it not enough that my ill stars have k
- 76 OSWALD He listened too; did you not say he listened?FORESTER As if there came such moaning from the flood As is heard often after stormy nights.OSWALD But did he utter nothing?FORESTER See him there![MARMADUKE appearing.]MARMADUKE Buzz, buzz, ye black and
- 77 MARMADUKE Ay, in the word a thousand scorpions lodge: This old man _had_ a Daughter.ELDRED To the spot I hurried back with her.--Oh save me, Sir, From such a journey!--there was a black tree, A single tree; she thought it was her Father.-- Oh Sir, I would
- 78 MARMADUKE (both returning) The dead have but one face.(To himself.) And such a Man--so meek and unoffending-- Helpless and harmless as a babe: a Man, By obvious signal to the world's protection, Solemnly dedicated--to decoy him!-- IDONEA Oh, had you
- 79 MARMADUKE No, not by stroke of arm. But learn the process: Proof after proof was pressed upon me; guilt Made evident, as seemed, by blacker guilt, Whose impious folds enwrapped even thee; and truth And innocence, embodied in his looks, His words and tones
- 80 [Variant 2: 1845.Ha! ... 1842.][Variant 3: 1849.With whom you parted? 1842.][Variant 4: 1845.... o'er ... 1842.]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: He doubtless refers to the lines (Act iii. l. 405) "Action is transitory--a step, a blow," et
- 81 FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: Wordsworth originally wrote "sees." S.T.C. suggested "views."--Ed.]SUB-FOOTNOTE ON VARIANT 3 [Sub-Footnote i: "Susan stood for the representative of poor '_Rus in urbe_.' There was quite
- 82 We returned after a few days from a delightful tour, of which I have many pleasant, and some of them droll enough, recollections. We returned by Dulverton to Alfoxden. 'The Ancient Mariner' grew and grew till it became too important for our firs
- 83 1827.And all the summer dry, 1798.][Variant 6: 1836.The little Maiden did reply, 1798.]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: It was in June, after leaving Alfoxden finally.--Ed.][Footnote B: The whole of this stanza was written by Coleridge. In a MS.copy of
- 84 VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1800. the art ... 1798.] [Variant 2: 1802. ... house ... 1798.] [Variant 3: 1802. My ... 1798.] [Variant 4: 1827. To think, and think, and think again; 1798.] [Variant 5: 1827. The young lambs ran a pretty race; The mornin
- 85 And thus to me he made reply; 1798.]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: See Appendix IV.--Ed.][Footnote B: Mr. Ernest H. Coleridge writes to me of this poem: "The Fenwick note is most puzzling.1. If Coleridge went to visit Thelwall, with Wordsworth an
- 86 THE THORN Composed March 19, 1798.--Published 1798.In the editions of 1800-1805, Wordsworth added the following note to this poem: "This Poem ought to have been preceded by an introductory Poem, which I have been prevented from writing by never havin
- 87 Her state to any eye was plain; [13]She was with child, and she was mad; Yet often was she [14] sober sad 130 From her exceeding pain.O guilty Father--would that death Had saved him from that breach of faith! [15]XIII "Sad case for such a brain to ho
- 88 1836. ... had ... 1798.] [Variant 5: 1820. Ive measured it from side to side: Tis three feet long [i] and two feet wide. 1798.] [Variant 6: 1827. Thats like ... 1798.] [Variant 7: 1827. But if youd ... 1798.] [Variant 8: 1827. The heap thats like ... 1798
- 90 "March 19, 1798. William and Basil and I walked to the hill tops. A very cold bleak day. William wrote some lines describing a stunted Thorn" (Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal).--Ed."April 20. Walked in the evening up the hill div
- 91 'Twas all in vain, a useless matter, And blankets were about him pinned; Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter, 115 Like a loose cas.e.m.e.nt in the wind.And Harry's flesh it fell away; And all who see him say, 'tis plain That, live as
- 92 It cools my blood; it cools my brain; Thy lips I feel them, baby! they Draw from my heart the pain away.Oh! press me with thy little hand; 35 It loosens something at my chest; About that tight and deadly band I feel thy little fingers prest.The breeze I s
- 93 Old Simon to the world is left In liveried poverty.His Master's dead,--and no one now Dwells in the Hall of Ivor; 30 Men, dogs, and horses, all are dead; He is the sole survivor. [8]And [9] he is lean and he is sick; His body, dwindled and awry, Rest
- 94 [Variant 9: 1798. But ... 1820. The text of 1832 reverts to that of 1798.] [Variant 10: 1827. His little bodys half awry, His ancles they are swoln and thick; His legs are thin and dry. When he was young he little knew Of husbandry or tillage; And now hes
- 95 1820.Has oftner ... 1798.Has oftener ... 1805.]FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: Note that the phrase: 'But oh the heavy change,' occurs in Milton's 'Lycidas'. (Professor Dowden.) See 'Lycidas', l. 37.--Ed.][Footnote B:
- 96 FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: See the Fenwick note to "A whirl-blast from behind the hill," p. 238.--Ed.][Footnote B: See Appendix VII.--Ed.]TO MY SISTER Composed 1798.--Published 1798.[Composed in front of Alfoxden House. My little boy-mes
- 97 Composed 1798.--Published 1798.[This poem is a favourite among the Quakers, as I have learned on many occasions. It was composed in front of the house of Alfoxden, in the spring of 1798. [A]--I.F.]Included among the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection
- 98 1815.And he is ... 1798.][Variant 3: 1837.... these ... 1798.]FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: A mediaeval antic.i.p.ation of this may be quoted in a footnote."Believe me, as my own experience," once said St. Bernard, "you will find more i
- 89 1827. No more I know, I wish I did, And I would tell it all to you; 1798.] [Variant 18: 1827. Theres none that ever knew: 1798.] [Variant 19: 1827. And if a child was born or no, Theres no one that could ever tell; 1798.] [Variant 20: 1827. Theres no one
- 99 1798. The stars were mingled with my dreams; 1815. The text of 1836 returns to that of 1798.] [Variant 2: 1820. In sleep did I behold the skies, 1798.] [Variant 3: 1827. I saw the crackling flashes drive; 1798. I heard, and saw the flashes drive; 1820.] [
- 100 [Variant 15: 1836.I feel my body die away, I shall not see another day. 1798.]THE LAST OF THE FLOCK Composed 1798.--Published 1798.[Produced at the same time as 'The Complaint', and for the same purpose. The incident occurred in the village of H