THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH VOL. VIII [Illustration: _William Wordsworth_ _after Thomas Woolner_ _Printed by Ch Wittmann Paris_] THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. VIII [Illustration: _Gallow Hill_ _Yorkshire_] London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1896 _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS PAGE 1834 Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone 1 The foregoing Subject resumed 6 To a Child 7 Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale, Nov. 5, 1834 8 1835 “Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant” 12 To the Moon 13 To the Moon 15 Written after the Death of Charles Lamb 17 Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 24 Upon seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album 29 “Desponding Father! mark this altered bough” 31 “Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein” 31 To ---- 32 Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire 33 St. Catherine of Ledbury 34 “By a blest Husband guided, Mary came” 35 “Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!” 36 1836 November 1836 37 To a Redbreast--(In Sickness) 38 1837 “Six months to six years added he remained” 39 Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837--To Henry Crabb Robinson 41 I. Musings near Aquapendente, April, 1837 42 II. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome 58 III. At Rome 59 IV. At Rome--Regrets--in Allusion to Niebuhr and other Modern Historians 60