The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton

Priory. A Tradition

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Ode to Lycoris

449

"The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields"

450

"So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive"

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS-

To a Redbreast-(in Sickness).

Sonnet. To an Octogenarian

Floating Island

The Horn of Egremont Castle

To a Child. Written in her Album

INSCRIPTIONS-

In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George

Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire

In a Garden of the Same

Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont,

Bart., and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by

him at the Termination of a newly-planted

Avenue, in the same Grounds

For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton

Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of

the House (an Out-house), on the Island at

Grasmere

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INSCRIPTIONS-continued

Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side

of the Mountain of Black Comb

Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest

of a Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon

one of the Islands at Rydal

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a

Hermit's Cell-

I. "Hopes what are they?-Beads of morning"

II. "Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be "

III. "Hast thou seen with flash incessant "

IV. Near the Spring of the Hermitage

For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St.

Herbert's Island, Derwent-water

REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF

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POEMS

EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES-

"Six months to six years added he remained"

Address to the Scholars of the Village School of

Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele

Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George

Beaumont

To the Daisy

Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John

Wordsworth, Commander of the E. I. Company's

Ship, the "Earl of Abergavenny," in which he

perished by calamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6, 1805

Sonnet

Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one

Evening, after a stormy Day, the Author having

just read in a Newspaper that the Dissolution of

Mr. Fox was hourly expected

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Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B. upon

the Death of his Sister-in-Law

505

Written after the Death of Charles Lamb

506

EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES-continued

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg

Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church,

in the Vale of Keswick

ODE. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RE-

COLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

THE PRELUDE, or, GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND-

Book I. Introduction-Childhood and School-time

II. School-time (continued)

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VIII. Retrospect.-Love of Nature leading to

XIII. Imagination and Taste, how Impaired

and Restored (concluded)

568

IX. Discourse of the Wanderer, and an

Evening Visit to the Lake

INDEX TO FIRST LINES

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POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH

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