William Wordsworth's Poetry, by popularity

• Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson's Ossian

            OFT have I caught, upon a fitful breeze,
            Fragments of far-off

  81 lines
• The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice

  O NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine,
  And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne.

  58 lines
• The Horn Of Egremont Castle

  ERE the Brothers through the gateway
  Issued forth with old and young,

  124 lines
• Ode To Lycoris. May 1817

  AN age hath been when Earth was proud
  Of lustre too intense

  61 lines
• The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816

  HAIL, orient Conqueror of gloomy Night!
  Thou that canst shed the bliss of gratitude

  273 lines
• Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Sonnet Composed At ---- Castle

  DEGENERATE Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!
  Whom mere despite of heart could so far please,

  13 lines
• Stanzas Written In My Pocket Copy Of Thomson’s "Castle Of Indolence"

  WITHIN our happy Castle there dwelt One
  Whom without blame I may not overlook;

  78 lines
• Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Painted By Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart

  PRAISED be the Art whose subtle power could stay
  Yon cloud, and fix it in that glorious shape;

  13 lines
• The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer]

            "Call up him who left half told
            The story of Cambuscan bold."

  341 lines
• The Waterfall And The Eglantine

  "BEGONE, thou fond presumptuous Elf,"
  Exclaimed an angry Voice,

  72 lines
• The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition

  "What is good for a bootless bene?"
  With these dark words begins my Tale;

  83 lines
• The French Army In Russia, 1812-13

  HUMANITY, delighting to behold
  A fond reflection of her own decay,

  39 lines
• Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Yarrow Unvisited

  FROM Stirling castle we had seen
  The mazy Forth unravelled;

  70 lines
• Matthew

  IF Nature, for a favourite child,
  In thee hath tempered so her clay,

  38 lines
• The Oak And The Broom

  A Pastoral                                   

  143 lines
• On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese

  IT was a 'moral' end for which they fought;
  Else how, when mighty Thrones were put to shame,

  13 lines
• On The Same Occasion

  (The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese)
  YE Storms, resound the praises of your King!

  15 lines
• To A Sexton

  LET thy wheel-barrow alone--
  Wherefore, Sexton, piling still

  34 lines
• To B. R. Haydon

  HIGH is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art
  (Whether the instrument of words she use,

  13 lines
• Upon The Same Event

  WHEN, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn
  The tidings past of servitude repealed,

  13 lines
• Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century

  A PLAGUE on your languages, German and Norse!
  Let me have the song of the kettle;

  40 lines
• Memorials Of A Tour Of Scotland, 1803 VI. Glen-Almain, Or, The Narrow Glen

  IN this still place, remote from men,
  Sleeps Ossian, in the NARROW GLEN;

  31 lines
• Personal Talk

  I AM not One who much or oft delight
  To season my fireside with personal talk.--

  66 lines
• To---- On Her First Ascent To The Summit Of Helvellyn

  INMATE of a mountain-dwelling,
  Thou hast clomb aloft, and gazed

  43 lines
• To The Poet, John Dyer

  BARD of the Fleece, whose skilful genius made
  That work a living landscape fair and bright;

  13 lines
• To Toussaint L’Ouverture

  TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men!
  Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough

  13 lines
• Tribute To The Memory Of The Same Dog

  LIE here, without a record of thy worth,
  Beneath a covering of the common earth!

  35 lines
• When To The Attractions Of The Busy World

  WHEN, to the attractions of the busy world,
  Preferring studious leisure, I had chosen

  109 lines
• To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart From the South-West Coast Or Cumberland 1811

  FAR from our home by Grasmere's quiet Lake,
  From the Vale's peace which all her fields partake,

  278 lines
• The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same

  OAK of Guernica! Tree of holier power
  Than that which in Dodona did enshrine

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