E-text prepared by Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF _THE LYRICAL BALLADS._ Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus. CONTENTS _To the Daisy_ _Louisa_ _Fidelity_ _She was a Phantom of delight_ _The Redbreast and the Butterfly_ _The Sailor's Mother_ _To the Small Celandine_ _To the same Flower_ _Character of the Happy Warrior_ _The Horn of Egremont Castle_ _The Affliction of Margaret ---- of ----_ _The Kitten and the falling Leaves_ _The Seven Sisters, or the Solitude of Binnorie_ _To H.C., six Years old_ _Among all lovely things my Love had been_ _I travell'd among unknown Men_ _Ode to Duty_ POEMS, COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT. 1. _Beggars_ 2. _To a Sky-Lark_ 3. _With how sad Steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the Sky_ 4. _Alice Fell_ 5. _Resolution and Independence_ SONNETS _Prefatory Sonnet_ PART THE FIRST--MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. 1. 2. 3. _Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire_ 4. 5. _To Sleep_ 6. _To Sleep_ 7. _To Sleep_ 8. 9. _To the River Duddon_ 10. _From the Italian of Michael Angelo_ 11. _From the same_ 12. _From the same. To the Supreme Being_ 13. _Written in very early Youth_ 14. _Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept_. 3, 1803 15. 16. 17. _To_ ---- 18. 19. 20. _To the Memory of Raisley Calvert_ PART THE SECOND--SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY. CONTENTS. 1. _Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August_, 1802 2. _Is it a Reed_ 3. _To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th_, 1802 4. 5. 6. _On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic_ 7. _The King of Sweden_ 8. _To Toussaint L'Ouverture_ 9. 10. Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing 11. 12. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 13. Written in London, September, 1802 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. To the Men of Kent. October, 1803 24. 25. Anticipation. October, 1803 26. Notes: [Transcribers' Note: the Notes will be found at the End of the Volume] TO THE DAISY. In youth from rock to rock I went From hill to hill, in discontent Of pleasure high and turbulent, Most pleas'd when most uneasy; But now my own delights I make, My thirst at every rill can slake, And gladly Nature's love partake Of thee, sweet Daisy! When soothed a while by milder airs, Thee Winter in the garland wears 10 That thinly shades his few grey hairs; Spring cannot shun thee; Whole summer fields are thine by right; And Autumn, melancholy Wight! Doth in thy crimson head delight When rains are on thee.