THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. II 1896 CONTENTS Peter Bell Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 There was a Boy The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal 1799 Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth The Simplon Pass Nutting Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century A Poet's Epitaph "Strange fits of passion have I known" "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "I travelled among unknown men" "Three years she grew in sun and shower" "A slumber did my spirit seal" Address to the Scholars of the Village School of---- Matthew The Two April Mornings The Fountain To a Sexton The Danish Boy Lucy Gray; or, Solitude Ruth 1800 "On Nature's invitation do I come" "Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak" Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle Hart-Leap Well The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force The Pet-Lamb The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale Poems on the Naming of Places: "It was an April morning: fresh and clear" To Joanna "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" "A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags" To M. H. The Waterfall and the Eglantine The Oak and the Broom "'Tis said, that some have died for love" The Childless Father Song for the Wandering Jew The Brothers The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie Rural Architecture A Character Inscription for the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an Out-House), on the Island at Grasmere Michael 1801 The Sparrow's Nest "Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side" Selections from Chaucer Modernised: The Prioress' Tale The Cuckoo and the Nightingale Troilus and Cresida 1802 The Sailor's Mother Alice Fell; or, Poverty Beggars Sequel to the Foregoing To a Butterfly The Emigrant Mother To the Cuckoo "My heart leaps up when I behold" Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brothers Water The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly To a Butterfly Foresight To the Small Celandine To the Same Flower Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" Resolution and Independence "I grieved for Buonaparte" A Farewell "The sun has long been set" Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802