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Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III

Author: William Wordsworth

Release Date: May 19, 2004 [EBook #12383]

Language: English

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THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT

VOL. III

1896

CONTENTS

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1804

"She was a Phantom of delight" "I wandered lonely as a cloud" The Affliction of Margaret--

The Forsaken

Repentance

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora

The Kitten and Falling Leaves

The Small Celandine

At Applethwaite, near Keswick

Vaudracour and Julia

1805

French Revolution

Ode to Duty

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To a SkyLark

Fidelity

Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog To the Daisy (#4)

Elegiac Stanzas

Elegiac Verses

"When, to the attractions of the busy world"

The Cottager to her Infant

The Waggoner

The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind

From the Italian of Michael Angelo

From the Same

From the Same. To the Supreme Being

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APPENDICES

I II III IV V VI VII

WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS

1804

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The poems written in 1804 were not numerous; and, with the exception of

'The Small Celandine', the stanzas beginning "I wandered lonely as a cloud," and "She was a Phantom of delight," they were less remarkable than those of the two preceding, and the three following years. Wordsworth's poetical activity in 1804 is not recorded, however, in Lyrical Ballads or Sonnets, but in 'The Prelude', much of which was

thought out, and afterwards dictated to Dorothy or Mary Wordsworth, on the terrace walk of Lancrigg during that year; while the 'Ode,

Intimations of Immortality' was altered and added to, although it did

not receive its final form till 1806. In the sixth book of 'The

Prelude', p. 222, the lines occur:

'Four years and thirty, told this very week, Have I been now a sojourner on earth.'

That part of the great autobiographical poem must therefore have been composed in April, 1804.--Ed.

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"SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT"

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Composed 1804.--Published 1807

[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. The germ of this poem was four lines composed as a part of the verses on the 'Highland Girl'. Though beginning in this way, it was written from my heart, as is sufficiently obvious.--I. F.]

One of the "Poems of the Imagination."--Ed.

She was a Phantom of delight

When first she gleamed upon my sight; [A]

A lovely Apparition, sent

To be a moment's ornament;

Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; 5

Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn

From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; [1] A dancing Shape, an Image gay,

To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. 10

I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too!

Her household motions light and free,

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And steps of virgin-liberty;

A countenance in which did meet 15

Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food;

For transient sorrows, simple wiles,

Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 20

And now I see with eye serene

The very pulse of the machine;

A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between [2] life and death;

The reason firm, the temperate will, 25

Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, [3] nobly planned,

To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright

With something of angelic light. [4] 30

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