The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)Wordsworth, William
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)
Wordsworth, William
English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century
Records on which the morning sun may shine,
As changeful ages flow, 1827.
]
[Footnote 149: 1816.
... Ye muses long debarred C.
]
[Footnote 150: 1816.
... As mythic lore
For not unwise belief proclaimed of yore C.
]
[Footnote 151: 1827.
... consecrated stream and grove, 1816.
]
[Footnote 152: 1845.
... and move,
And exercise unblamed a generous sway,)
Now, ... 1816.
And exercise unblamed a god-like sway) 1837.
]
[Footnote 153: 1837.
... my soul's desires! 1816.
]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote BL: The title of this Ode, when first published along with the
_Thanksgiving Ode_, was _Ode, composed in January 1816_. In 1845 the
date 1814 was given; but there seems no reason to distrust the earlier
one.--ED.]
[Footnote BM: These lines were first inserted in the edition of
1827.--ED.]
[Footnote BN: Compare _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_, etc., stanza
ix.--
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections.
ED.
]
[Footnote BO: Haydon painted Wellington on the field of Waterloo.
Compare the sonnet which Wordsworth wrote on that picture, in 1840,
beginning--
By Art's hold privilege Warrior and War-horse stand.
ED.
]
[Footnote BP: The allusion is to the picture of the battle of Marathon,
on the walls of the Stoa Poecile, in Athens. Compare the _Effusion, in
presence of Tell's Tower_, in the "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent"
(1820), st. i. and note.--ED.]
[Footnote BQ: In many places throughout Britain this was carried out.
Statues to the memory of Wellington were erected in many towns, and
buildings were named after him.--ED.]
[Footnote BR: In many places throughout Britain this was carried out.
Statues to the memory of Wellington were erected in many towns, and
buildings were named after him.--ED.]
[Footnote BS: The nine Muses, called the Pierides, from Pieria, near
Olympus, where they were said to have been born, or first worshipped by
the Thracians.--ED.]
[Footnote BT: Compare the first line of the _Extract from the conclusion
of a poem, composed in anticipation of leaving school_ (vol. i. p. 2)--
Dear native regions, I foretell.
ED.
]
[Footnote BU: Compare Schiller's _Piccolomini_, in S. T. Coleridge's
version (act II. scene 4)--
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