With the exception of _The Haunted Tree_, and the lines entitled _September 1819_, all the poems composed during the year 1819 were sonnets. Four of the latter were published along with _Peter Bell_, in the first edition of that poem; and other twelve, along with _The Waggoner_, which was first published in the same year. One of the twelve refers to the Old Hall of Donnerdale, and belongs to the series of _Sonnets on the River Duddon_, where it will be found (No. XXVII.) It was first published, along with those referring to Rydal, in the volume of 1819, and probably detached from the rest of the series, because originally it had no particular reference to the Old Hall in the Duddon Valley; but was (as Wordsworth indicates in the third of the Fenwick notes to the Duddon) "taken from a tradition belonging to Rydal Hall, which once stood, as is believed, upon a rocky and woody hill on the right hand as you go from Rydal to Ambleside, and was deserted from the superstitious fear here described, and the present site fortunately chosen instead."--ED. THIS, AND THE TWO FOLLOWING, WERE SUGGESTED[347] BY MR. W. WESTALL'S VIEWS OF THE CAVES,[DJ] ETC., IN YORKSHIRE This, and the two following sonnets, were first published in _Blackwood's Magazine_, vol. iv., January 1819, p. 471. They were reprinted in _The Poetical Album_, edited by Alaric Watts, in 1829 (Second Series, vol. i. pp. 332, 333) under the title, "The Caves of Yorkshire." The same volume of the _Album_ contains (p. 43) the sonnet beginning-- Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell. In the 1819 edition of _Peter Bell_, p. 84, a note, prefatory to the four following sonnets, occurs to this effect: "The following Sonnets having lately appeared in Periodical Publications are here reprinted."--ED. Composed 1819.--Published 1819 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."--ED. Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er Thou dost forsake thy subterranean haunts, Green herbs, bright flowers, and berry-bearing plants, Rise[348] into life and in thy train appear: And, through the sunny portion of the year, 5 Swift insects shine, thy hovering pursuivants: And, if thy bounty fail, the forest pants; And hart and hind and hunter with his spear, Languish and droop together. Nor unfelt In man's perturbèd soul thy sway benign; 10 And, haply, far within the marble belt Of central earth, where tortured Spirits pine For grace and goodness lost, thy murmurs melt Their anguish,--and they blend sweet songs with thine.[DK] VARIANTS: [Footnote 347: 1820. Sonnets, suggested ... 1819. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote DJ: Wordsworth visited these caves with Edward Quillinan in 1821.--ED.] MALHAM COVE Composed 1819.--Published 1819 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."--ED.