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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the dec
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes,
- 45 The Soldier's Widow learned with honest pain 550 And homefelt force of sympathy sincere, Why thus that worn-out wretch must there sustain The jolting road and morning air severe.The wain pursued its way; and following near In pure compa.s.sion she he
- 44 And other joys my fancy to allure-- The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor 410 In barn uplighted; and companions boon, Well met from far with revelry secure Among the forest glades, while jocund June [59]Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial mo
- 43 "'Twas a hard change; an evil time was come; We had no hope, and no relief could gain: But soon, with proud parade, [28] the noisy drum Beat round to clear [29] the streets of want and pain.My husband's arms now only served to strain 275 Me
- 42 Pile of Stone-henge! so proud to hint yet keep Thy secrets, thou that lov'st to stand and hear The Plain resounding to the whirlwind's sweep, 120 Inmate of lonesome Nature's endless year; Even if thou saw'st the giant wicker rear For s
- 41 [Unwilling to be unnecessarily particular, I have a.s.signed this poem to the dates 1793 and '94; but, in fact, much of the Female Vagrant's story was composed at least two years before. All that relates to her sufferings as a sailor's wife
- 40 [Footnote Z: As Schreck-Horn, the pike of terror. Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc., etc.--W. W. 1793.][Footnote Aa: The effect of the famous air called in French Ranz des Vaches upon the Swiss troops.--W. W. 1793.][Footnote Bb: This shrine is resorte
- 39 [Sub-Variant 8: Behind the hill ... 1836.][Sub-Variant 9: Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836.]FOOTNOTES [Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836 (p. 1).--Ed.
- 38 1836. (Compressing six lines into four.) --Though Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise Red on the hills his beacons comet blaze; Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound, And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound; His larum-bell from village-tower to
- 37 That where despotic courts their gems display, 1827.] [Variant 171: 1836. In thy dear ... 1820.] [Variant 172: The previous three lines were added in the edition of 1836.] [Variant 173: 1836. The cas.e.m.e.nts shed more luscious woodbine binds, And to the
- 36 Last let us turn to where Chamouny s.h.i.+elds, 1820.] [Variant 158: 1827. Bosomed in gloomy woods, ... 1820.] [Variant 159: 1836. Here lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fannd, Here all the Seasons revel hand in hand. 1820.] [Variant 160: 1836. --Red st
- 35 For come Diseases on, and Penurys rage, Labour, and Care, and Pain, and dismal Age, Till, Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath Implores the dreadful untried sleep of Death. 1815.] [Variant 145: 1836. A Temple stands; which holds an awful shrine, 1815.]
- 34 [Variant 131: The following lines were erased in 1836, and in all subsequent editions: "Here," cried a swain, whose venerable head Bloomd with the snow-drops of Mans narrow bed, Last night, while by his dying fire, as closd The day, in luxury my
- 33 1832. He marches with his flute, his book, and sword; 1820.] [Variant 118: 1845. ... wonderous ... 1820.] [Variant 119: 1840. ... glorious ... 1820.] [Variant 120: 1836. Uncertain thro his fierce uncultured soul Like lighted tempests troubled transports r
- 32 1836. Continual fountains ... 1815.] [Variant 104: 1836. Nor Hunger forced the herds from pastures bare For scanty food the treacherous cliffs to dare. 1815.] [Variant 105: 1836. Then the milk-thistle bade those herds demand Three times a day the pail and
- 31 [Variant 89: 1836. Nought but the herds that pasturing upward creep, Hung dim-discoverd from the dangerous steep, Or summer hamlet, flat and bare, on high Suspended, mid the quiet of the sky. 1815.] [Variant 90: 1836. Broke only by the melancholy sound 18
- 30 1845. Glances the fire-clad eagles wheeling form; 1815. ... glorious form; 1836.] [Variant 76: 1845. Wide oer the Alps a hundred streams unfold, 1815. Those eastern cliffs ... 1836.] [Variant 77: 1845. ... strives to shun The west ... 1815. ... tries to s
- 29 A garden-plot the mountain air perfumes, Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms; A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff, Threading the painful crag, surmounts the cliff. 1815.... wood-cabin on the steeps. 1820.... the desert air perfumes, 1820.Thriddi
- 28 [Variant 52: 1836.By floods, that, thundering from their dizzy height, Swell more gigantic on the stedfast sight; Black drizzling crags, that beaten by the din, Vibrate, as if a voice complained within; Bare steeps, where Desolation stalks afraid, Unstedf
- 27 1836.There, by the door a h.o.a.ry-headed Sire Touched with his withered hand an ancient lyre; 1820.][Variant 43: 1836.This and the following line were expanded from Beneath an old-grey oak, as violets lie, 1820.][Variant 44: 1836.... joined the holy soun
- 26 [Variant 30: 1836. Whose flaccid sails in forms fantastic droop, Brightning the gloom where thick the forests stoop; Only in the editions 1815 to 1832.] [Variant 31: 1827. ... like swallows nests that cleave on high; 1815.] [Variant 32: 1827. While Evenin
- 25 In the editions 1815-1832 lines 61, 62 followed line 66.] [Variant 17: 1836. Nod the cloud-piercing pines their troubled heads, 1815.] [Variant 18: 1836. The cross with hideous laughter Demons mock, By angels planted on the aereal rock. 1815. The cross, b
- 24 1827. No sad vacuities [i] his heart annoy;-- Blows not a Zephyr but it whispers joy; For him lost flowers their idle sweets exhale; He tastes the meanest note that swells the gale; For him sod-seats ... 1815. Breathes not a zephyr but it whispers joy; Fo
- 23 There, [127] safely guarded by the woods behind, He hears the chiding of the baffled wind, Hears Winter calling all his terrors round, 490 And, blest within himself, he shrinks not from the sound. [128]Through Nature's vale his homely pleasures glide
- 22 By choice or doom a gipsy wanders here, 175 A nursling babe her only comforter; Lo, where she sits beneath yon s.h.a.ggy rock, A cowering shape half hid in curling smoke! [48]When lightning among clouds and mountain-snows Predominates, and darkness comes
- 21 DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR AMONG THE ALPS Composed 1791-2. [A]--Published 1793 TO THE REV. ROBERT JONES, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE DEAR SIR, [B]--However desirous I might have been of giving you proofs of the hi
- 20 Glide gently, thus for ever glide,[B] O Thames! that other bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me. O glide, fair stream! for ever so, 5 Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep water
- 19 [Footnote S: The quotation is from Collins' 'The Pa.s.sions', l. 60.Compare 'Personal Talk', l. 26.--Ed.][Footnote T: Alluding to this pa.s.sage of Spenser: ... Her angel face As the great eye of Heaven s.h.i.+ned bright, And made
- 18 [Footnote B: It may not be irrelevant to mention that our late poet, Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.--Ed.][Footnote C: These lines are only appl
- 17 [Variant 100: 1836.The scene is waken'd, yet its peace unbroke, By silver'd wreaths of quiet charcoal smoke, That, o'er the ruins of the fallen wood, Steal down the hills, and spread along the flood. 1793.][Variant 101: 1836.All air is, as
- 16 [Variant 89: 1827.Beyond the mountain's giant reach that hides In deep determin'd gloom his subject tides.--Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams, As touch'd with dawning moonlight's h.o.a.ry gleams, Long streaks of fairy ligh
- 15 ... and called thee bless'd; The whilst upon some sultry summer's day She dragged her babes along this weary way; Or taught their limbs along the burning road A few short steps to totter with their load. 1820.The while ... 1832.][Variant 78: 184
- 14 [Variant 67: 1836.I love beside the glowing lake to stray, 1793.How pleasant near the tranquil lake to stray, 1815.][Variant 68: 1836.... to stray, Where winds the road along the secret bay; By rills that tumble down the woody steeps, And run in transport
- 13 [Variant 54: 1827. ... in ... 1793.] [Variant 55: 1836. That, barking busy mid the glittering rocks, Hunts, where he points, the intercepted flocks; 1793.] [Variant 56: 1845. The Druid stones [ii] their lighted fane unfold, 1793. ... a burnished ring unfo
- 12 [Variant 40: This couplet was first printed in the edition of 1820.] [Variant 41: 1836. Brightning the cliffs between where sombrous pine, And yew-trees ... 1793.] [Variant 42: 1836. How busy the enormous hive within, 1793.] [Variant 43: 1836. ... with th
- 11 [Variant 26: 1845. ... zephyrs ... 1820.] [Variant 27: This stanza was added in the edition of 1820.] [Variant 28: 1845. This couplet was added in 1845.] [Variant 29: 1845. And now the universal tides repose, And, brightly blue, the burnished mirror glows
- 10 When, at the barren wall's unsheltered end, Where long rails far into the lake extend, Crowded the shortened herds, and beat the tides With their quick tails, and lash'd their speckled sides; 1820.][Variant 14: 1836.And round the humming elm, a
- 9 1836. His wizard course where h.o.a.ry Derwent takes Thro craggs, and forest glooms, and opening lakes, Staying his silent waves, to hear the roar That stuns the tremulous cliffs of high Lodore: Where silver rocks the savage prospect chear Of giant yews t
- 8 While, near the midway cliff, the silvered kite In many a whistling circle wheels her flight; Slant watery lights, from parting clouds, apace Travel along the precipice's base; Cheering its naked waste of scattered stone, 95 By lichens grey, and scan
- 7 Ed.][Variant 1: 1827.Is up, and cropping yet ... 1807.][Variant 2: 1838.... seems ... 1807.]AN EVENING WALK ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY Composed 1787-9. [A]--Published 1793 [The young Lady to whom this was addressed was my Sister. It was composed at School,
- 6 [Footnote A: See the Memoirs of William Wordsworth, by Christopher Wordsworth (1851), vol. i. pp. 10-31.--ED] [Footnote B: Compare the Ode, composed in January 1816, stanza v.--Ed.] [Variant 1: 1832. ....shall 1815.] [Variant 2: 1815. That, when the close
- 5 [Footnote 5: See the 'Life of Sir W. Rowan Hamilton', vol. ii. pp, 132, 135.][Footnote 6: See the Preface to the American edition of 1837.][Footnote 7: It need hardly be explained that, in the case of a modern poet, these various readings are no
- 4 If it be objected that several of the places which we try to identify--and which some would prefer to leave for ever undisturbed in the realm of imagination--were purposely left obscure, it may be replied that Death and Time have probably now removed all
- 3 In the light of what has been said above, and by reference to the Bibliography, it will be seen from these two dates that the original text of 1793--given in the footnote--was continued in the editions of 1820, 1827, and 1832 (it was omitted from the &quo
- 2 [5] I confess that it is often difficult to see why some of the poems were a.s.signed by their author to the realm of the "Fancy," the "Imagination," and "Sentiment and Reflection" respectively. In a note to 'The Horn of
- 1 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes,