Poems of Wordsworth / chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold
1946, Reprint. London ; New York : Macmillan and Co. Finely bound in full aniline calf. Top edge gilt. Raised bands; very impressively finished. Spine band and boards slightly rubbed as by age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Item #439332
Physical description: xxxi, 331 pages. Series: Golden treasury series. Contents: Preface -- POEMS OF BALLAD FORM -- We are seven -- Lucy Gray -- Anecdote for fathers -- Alice fell -- The pet lamb -- The childless father -- The reverie of poor Susan -- Power of music -- Star-gazers -- NARRATIVE POEMS -- Ruth -- Simon Lee -- Fidelity -- Incident Characteristic of a favourite dog -- Hart-leap well -- The force of prayer -- The affliction of Margaret -- The complaint of a forsaken Indian woman -- Song at the feast of Brougham Castle -- The leech-gatherer, or, resolution and independence -- The brothers -- Michael -- Margaret -- LYRICAL POEMS -- "My heart leaps up" -- To a butterfly -- The sparrow's nest -- To a butterfly -- The redbreast and butterfly -- "The cock is crowing" -- To the daisy -- To the same -- To the small celandine -- To the same flower -- "I wandered lonely as a cloud" -- The green linnet -- To a sky-lark -- Stray pleasures -- To my sister -- Lines written in early spring -- Expostulation and reply -- The tables turned -- To a young lady -- To Hartley Coleridge -- "O nightingale, thou surely art" -- "Strange fits of passion have I known" -- "Three years she grew" -- "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" -- "A slumber did my spirit seal" -- "I travelled among unknown men" -- To the cuckoo -- The cuckoo again -- To a sky-lark -- "She was a phantom of delight" -- To a highland girl -- Stepping westward -- The solitary reaper -- At the grave of Burns -- Thoughts suggested the day following -- Yarrow unvisited -- Yarrow visited -- Yarrow revisisted -- To May -- The primrose of the rock -- POEMS AKIN TO THE ANTIQUE, AND ODES -- Laodameia -- Dion -- Character of the happy warrior -- Lines on the expected invasion -- The pillar of Trajan -- September 1819 -- Ode to Lycoris -- Ode to duty -- Ode on intimations of immortality -- SONNETS -- I. Composed by the sea-side, near Calais, August 1802 -- II. Calais, August 1802 -- III. On the extinction of the Venetian Republic -- IV. To Toussaint l'Ouverture -- V. September 1802 -- VI. Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland -- VII. Written in London, September 1802 -- VIII. "The world is too much with us" -- IX. London, 1802 -- X. "It is not to be thought of" -- XI. "When I have borne in memory" -- XII. Ocotber 1803 -- XIII. To the men of Kent. October 1803 -- XIV. In the pass of Killicranky, an invasion being expected, October 1803 -- XV. "England! the time is come" -- XVI. November 1806 -- XVII. To Thomas Clarkson -- XVIII. 1811 -- XIX. "Scorn not the sonnet" -- XX. "Nuns fret not" -- XXI. Catherine Wordsworth -- XXII. To the author's portrait -- XXIII. Personal talk -- XXIV. Continued -- XXV. Concluded -- XXVI. To sleep -- XXVII. Composed upon the beach near Calais, 1802 -- XXVIII. "Where lies the land?" -- XXIX. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 -- XXX. Scenery between Namur and Liege -- -- XXXI. Admonition -- XXXII. "I watch, and long have watched" -- XXXIII. "Sole listener, Duddon!" -- XXXIV. "Wansfell! this household has a favoured lot" -- XXXV. "Return, content!" -- XXXVI. After-thought -- XXXVII. Seclusion -- XXXVIII. Rush-bearing -- XXXIX. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge -- XL. Continued -- XLI. Mary, Queen of Scots, landing at the mouth of the Derwent, Workington -- XLII. "Most sweet is it" -- XLIII. On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples -- XLIV. To R. B. Haydon, Esq. -- XLV. Mutability -- XLVI. "The pibroch's note, discountenanced or mute" -- XLVII. "A poet!" -- XLVIII. The pine of Monte Mario at Rome -- XLIX. To the memory of Raisley Calvert -- L. To Rotha Quillinan -- LI. To Lady Fitzgerald, in her seventieth year -- LII. Composed on a May morning, 1838 -- LIII. Highland hut -- LIV. "There! said a stripling" -- LV. To a painter -- LVI. On the same subject -- LVII. In sight of the town of Cockermouth -- LVIII. Tranquility -- LIX. Death -- LX. The everlasting temple -- REFLECTIVE AND ELEGIAC POEMS -- "If thou indeed" -- Influence of natural objects -- "There was a boy" -- Yew-trees -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey -- Address to my infant daughter Dora -- Lines left upon a seat in a Yew-tree -- French revolution -- The Simplon Pass -- Fragment from the recluse -- The old Cumberland beggar -- Animal tranquility and decay -- Nutting -- To Joanna -- The fir-grove path -- A farewell -- Stanzas written in Thomson's castle of indolence -- Tribute to the memory of a dog -- The small celandine -- Beggars -- Sequel to the foregoing -- Matthew -- The two April mornings -- The fountain -- A poet's epitaph -- Lines written on the expected death of Mr. Fox -- Elegiac stanzas, suggested by a picture of Peele Castle -- Glen-Almain ; or, the narrow glen -- Written on a blank leaf of Macpherson's Ossian -- The wishing-gate -- To the Lady Fleming -- To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth -- Evening voluntaries- I. "Not in the lucid intervals of life" II. "The sun, that seemed so mildly to retire" -- To Mary Wordsworth -- To a child -- Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg -- Devotional incitements -- Inscription for a stone in the grounds of Rydal Mount. Subject: English poetry 19th century.
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