The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

Name: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)
Author: Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William

English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century

... Babe an unbelated love!) 1835.

    ... so prompt to love.) C.

[774] 1837.

    ... flight.
    She rivals the fleet Swallow, making rings
    In the smooth lake where'er he dips his wings:
    --Rapt ... 1835.

[775] 1837.

    ... or swells; 1835.

[776] Compare _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_, canto vi. ll. 1-3.--ED.

[777] Compare "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," Part I. XXVI., XXVII.--ED.

[778] At the Revolution, 1792.--ED.

[779] 1840.

    Till undiscriminating Ruin swept
    The Land, and Wrong perpetual vigils kept;
    With proof before her that on public ends
    Domestic virtue vitally depends. 1835.

    And civic strife, by hourly calling forth
    Mutual despite, can turn the happiest hearth
    Into a rankling sore of self-tormented earth. C.

[780] 1840.

    Not for his own, but ... 1835.

[781] 1840.

    ... blind ... 1835.

[782] 1837.

    ... concede;
    If ... 1835.

[783] 1837.

    ... with ... 1835.

[784] See the Fenwick note prefixed to the poem.--ED.




"IF THIS GREAT WORLD OF JOY AND PAIN"


                     Composed 1833.--Published 1835

One of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."--ED.

    If this great world of joy and pain
      Revolve in one sure track;
    If freedom, set, will rise again,
      And virtue, flown, come back;
    Woe to the purblind crew who fill                                  5
      The heart with each day's care;
    Nor gain, from past or future, skill
      To bear, and to forbear!




ON A HIGH PART OF THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND[785]


Easter Sunday, April                                                   7

THE AUTHOR'S SIXTY-THIRD BIRTH-DAY

                     Composed 1833.--Published 1835

[The lines were composed on the road between Moresby and Whitehaven
while I was on a visit to my son, then rector of the former place.
This succession of Voluntaries, with the exception of the 8th and
9th, originated in the concluding lines of the last paragraph of this
poem. With this coast I have been familiar from my earliest childhood,
and remember being struck for the first time by the town and port of
Whitehaven and the white waves breaking against its quays and piers,
as the whole came into view from the top of the high ground down which
the road (it has since been altered) then descended abruptly. My
sister, when she first heard the voice of the sea from this point, and
beheld the scene before her, burst into tears. Our family then lived at
Cockermouth, and this fact was often mentioned among us as indicating
the sensibility for which she was so remarkable.--I. F.]

One of the "Evening Voluntaries."--ED.

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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

Wordsworth, William

English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century

... Babe an unbelated love!) 1835.

    ... so prompt to love.) C.

[774] 1837.

    ... flight.
    She rivals the fleet Swallow, making rings
    In the smooth lake where'er he dips his wings:
    --Rapt ... 1835.

[775] 1837.

    ... or swells; 1835.

[776] Compare _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_, canto vi. ll. 1-3.--ED.

[777] Compare "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," Part I. XXVI., XXVII.--ED.

[778] At the Revolution, 1792.--ED.

[779] 1840.

    Till undiscriminating Ruin swept
    The Land, and Wrong perpetual vigils kept;
    With proof before her that on public ends
    Domestic virtue vitally depends. 1835.

    And civic strife, by hourly calling forth
    Mutual despite, can turn the happiest hearth
    Into a rankling sore of self-tormented earth. C.

[780] 1840.

    Not for his own, but ... 1835.

[781] 1840.

    ... blind ... 1835.

[782] 1837.

    ... concede;
    If ... 1835.

[783] 1837.

    ... with ... 1835.

[784] See the Fenwick note prefixed to the poem.--ED.




"IF THIS GREAT WORLD OF JOY AND PAIN"


                     Composed 1833.--Published 1835

One of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."--ED.

    If this great world of joy and pain
      Revolve in one sure track;
    If freedom, set, will rise again,
      And virtue, flown, come back;
    Woe to the purblind crew who fill                                  5
      The heart with each day's care;
    Nor gain, from past or future, skill
      To bear, and to forbear!




ON A HIGH PART OF THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND[785]


Easter Sunday, April                                                   7

THE AUTHOR'S SIXTY-THIRD BIRTH-DAY

                     Composed 1833.--Published 1835

[The lines were composed on the road between Moresby and Whitehaven
while I was on a visit to my son, then rector of the former place.
This succession of Voluntaries, with the exception of the 8th and
9th, originated in the concluding lines of the last paragraph of this
poem. With this coast I have been familiar from my earliest childhood,
and remember being struck for the first time by the town and port of
Whitehaven and the white waves breaking against its quays and piers,
as the whole came into view from the top of the high ground down which
the road (it has since been altered) then descended abruptly. My
sister, when she first heard the voice of the sea from this point, and
beheld the scene before her, burst into tears. Our family then lived at
Cockermouth, and this fact was often mentioned among us as indicating
the sensibility for which she was so remarkable.--I. F.]

One of the "Evening Voluntaries."--ED.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

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