THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. III 1896 CONTENTS 1804 "She was a Phantom of delight" "I wandered lonely as a cloud" The Affliction of Margaret-- The Forsaken Repentance Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora The Kitten and Falling Leaves The Small Celandine At Applethwaite, near Keswick Vaudracour and Julia 1805 French Revolution Ode to Duty To a Sky-Lark Fidelity Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog To the Daisy (#4) Elegiac Stanzas Elegiac Verses "When, to the attractions of the busy world" The Cottager to her Infant The Waggoner The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind From the Italian of Michael Angelo From the Same From the Same. To the Supreme Being APPENDICES I II III IV V VI VII 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 lonely as a cloud," and "She was a Phantom of delight," they were less remarkable than those of the two preceding, and the three following years. Wordsworth's poetical activity in 1804 is not recorded, however, in Lyrical Ballads or Sonnets, but in 'The Prelude', much of which was thought out, and afterwards dictated to Dorothy or Mary Wordsworth, on the terrace walk of Lancrigg during that year; while the 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality' was altered and added to, although it did not receive its final form till 1806. In the sixth book of 'The Prelude', p. 222, the lines occur: 'Four years and thirty, told this very week, Have I been now a sojourner on earth.' That part of the great autobiographical poem must therefore have been composed in April, 1804.--Ed. * * * * * "SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT" Composed 1804.--Published 1807 [Written at Town-end, Grasmere. The germ of this poem was four lines composed as a part of the verses on the 'Highland Girl'. Though beginning in this way, it was written from my heart, as is sufficiently obvious.--I. F.] One of the "Poems of the Imagination."--Ed. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; [A] A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; 5 Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; [1] A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 10