Echo, upon the Gemmi 360 Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny 363 Elegiac Stanzas 371 Sky-Prospect--From the Plain of France 377 On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 378 After Landing--the Valley of Dover, Nov. 1820 380 At Dover 381 Desultory Stanzas, upon receiving the preceding Sheets from the Press 382 APPENDIX-- Note A 387 Note B 389 ADDENDUM 396 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS 1814 _The Excursion_--to which the fifth volume of this edition is devoted--has been assigned to the year 1814; since it was finished, and first published, in that year,--although commenced in 1795. During the earlier stages of its composition, this poem was known, in the Wordsworth household, as "The Pedlar"; and Dorothy Wordsworth tells us in one of her letters to the Beaumonts, preserved amongst the Coleorton MSS., that "The Pedlar" was finished at Christmas 1804. See also the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, by his nephew (vol. i. p. 304, etc.), and Dorothy's Grasmere Journal, _passim_. But _The Excursion_, as we have it now, was finished for press in 1814. The poems more immediately belonging to that year are _Laodamia_, the _Memorials of a Tour in Scotland_, _Dion_, and two Sonnets.--ED. LAODAMIA Composed 1814.--Published 1815. [Written at Rydal Mount. The incident of the trees growing and withering put the subject into my thoughts, and I wrote with the hope of giving it a loftier tone than, so far as I know, has been given to it by any of the Ancients who have treated of it. It cost me more trouble than almost anything of equal length I have ever written.--I.F.] In 1815 and 1820 this poem was one of those "founded on the Affections"; afterwards it was classed among the "Poems of the Imagination."--ED. "With sacrifice before the rising morn Vows have I made by fruitless hope inspired; And from the infernal Gods, 'mid shades forlorn Of night, my slaughtered Lord have I required:[1] Celestial pity I again implore;-- 5 Restore him to my sight--great Jove, restore!" So speaking, and by fervent love endowed With faith, the Suppliant heaven-ward lifts her hands; While, like the sun emerging from a cloud, Her countenance brightens--and her eye expands; 10 Her bosom heaves and spreads, her stature grows; And she expects the issue in repose.