E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Christine Aldridge, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: 1. Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). 2. Text in Gothic Font other than Fraktur is enclosed by equal signs (=Gothic font=). 3. Text in gesperrt (s p a c e d) is enclosed by tildes (~g e s p e r r t~). 4. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected. 5. All footnotes have been moved to the chapter or sub-chapter ends. Other notes about variants and footnotes are located at the end of this text. 6. All poetry line markers have been retained as placed and numbered by the printer at 5, 4 or 6 line intervals. 7. Spelling inconsistencies have been retained, a list appears at the end of this text, together with printers error corrections. 8. The [oe] ligature appears in the original text in the words: Phoebus,Boeotia and manoeuvres, and has been removed from this e-text. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Edited by WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. IV [ILLUSTRATION] =London= Macmillan and Co., Ltd. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1896 CONTENTS 1806 PAGE To the Spade of a Friend 2 Character of the Happy Warrior 7 The Horn of Egremont Castle 12 A Complaint 17 Stray Pleasures 18 Power of Music 20 Star-gazers 22 "Yes, it was the mountain Echo" 25 "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room" 27 Personal Talk 30 Admonition 34 "'Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con'" 35 "How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks" 36 "Those words were uttered as in pensive mood" 37 "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky" 38 "The world is too much with us; late and soon" 39 "With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh" 40 "Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?" 41 To Sleep 42 To Sleep 43 To Sleep 43 To the Memory of Raisley Calvert 44 "Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne" 46