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Poems of William Wordsworth
Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth is a public-domain classic of nature, memory, childhood, feeling, and Romantic poetry. This edition presents the text in a clean reading format for sustained reading and catalog discovery.
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William Wordsworth died in 1850, and Poems of William Wordsworth was first published around 1800. These dates support the public-domain basis for the source text used in this edition.
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Old Man Travelling
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The little hedge-row birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.
He travels on, and in his face, his step,
His gait, is one expression; every limb,
His look and bending figure, all bespeak
A man who does not move with pain, but moves
With thought – He is insensibly subdued
To settled quiet: he is one by whom
All effort seems forgotten, one to whom
Long patience has such mild composure given,
That patience now doth seem a thing, of which
He hath no need. He is by nature led
To peace so perfect, that the young behold
With envy, what the old man hardly feels.
– I asked him whither he was bound, and what
The object of his journey; he replied
‘Sir! I am going many miles to take
A last leave of my son, a mariner,
Who from a sea-fight has been brought to Falmouth,
And there is dying in an hospital.'
Table of contents
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- 01Full text
- 02Old Man Travelling
- 03Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch
- 04The Ruined Cottage
- 05Second Part
- 06A Night-Piece
- 07The Old Cumberland Beggar
- 08A Description
- 09Lines
- 10Written at a Small Distance from my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed
- 11Goody Blake and Harry Gill
- 12A True Story
- 13The Thorn
- 14The Idiot Boy
- 15Lines Written in Early Spring
- 16Anecdote for Fathers
- 17Shewing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught
- 18We Are Seven
- 19Expostulation and Reply
- 20The Tables Turned
- 21An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject
- 22Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798
- 23The Fountain
- 24A Conversation
- 25The Two April Mornings
- 26‘A slumber did my spirit seal’
- 27Song
- 28‘Strange fits of passion I have known’
- 29Lucy Gray
- 30Nutting
- 31‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’
- 32The Brothers
- 33Hart-Leap Well
- 34from Home at Grasmere
- 35FROM POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES
- 36II
- 37To Joanna
- 38IV‘A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags’
- 39Michael
- 40A Pastoral Poem
- 41‘I travelled among unknown Men’
- 42To a Sky-Lark
- 43Alice Fell
- 44Beggars
- 45To a Butterfly
- 46To the Cuckoo
- 47‘My heart leaps up when I behold’
- 48To H. C., Six Years Old
- 49‘Among all lovely things my Love had been’
- 50To a Butterfly
- 51Resolution and Independence
- 52‘Within our happy Castle there dwelt one’
- 53‘The world is too much with us’
- 54‘With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh’
- 55‘Dear Native Brooks your ways have I pursued’
- 56‘Great Men have been among us’
- 57‘It is not to be thought of that the Flood’
- 58‘When I have borne in memory what has tamed’
- 59‘England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean’
- 60Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais August, 1802
- 61‘It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free’
- 62To Toussaint L'Ouverture
- 63Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of Landing
- 64Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- 65Sept. 2, 1802
- 66London
- 671802
- 68‘Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room’
- 69Yarrow Unvisited
- 70‘She was a Phantom of delight’
- 71Ode to Duty
- 72Ode
- 73Paulò majora canamus
- 74‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’
- 75Stepping Westward
- 76The Solitary Reaper
- 77Elegiac Stanzas
- 78Painted by Sir George Beaumont
- 79A Complaint
- 80Gipsies
- 81St Paul's
- 82‘Surprized by joy – impatient as the Wind’
- 83Yew-Trees
- 84Composed at Cora LinnIn Sight of Wallace's Tower
- 85Yarrow Visited
- 86September, 1814
- 87To B. R. Haydon, Esq.
- 88Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars]Composed Many Years After
- 89Ode
- 90Composed upon an Evening of ExtraordinarySplendor and Beauty
- 91The River Duddon
- 92Conclusion
- 93‘The unremitting voice of nightly streams’
- 94Airey-Force Valley
- 95Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
- 96‘Glad sight wherever new with old’
- 97At Furness Abbey
- 98‘I know an aged Man constrained to dwell’
- 99FROM THE PRELUDE
- 100Book One
- 101Introduction – Childhood and School-Time
- 102Book Two
- 103School-Time (continued)
- 104Book Three
- 105Residence at Cambridge
- 106Book Four
- 107Summer Vacation
- 108Book Five
- 109Books
- 110Book Six
- 111Cambridge and the Alps
- 112Book Seven
- 113Residence in London
- 114Book Eight
- 115Retrospect. – Love of Nature Leading toLove of Mankind
- 116Book Nine
- 117Residence in France
- 118Book Ten
- 119Residence in France and French Revolution
- 120Book Eleven
- 121Imagination, How Impaired and Restored
- 122Book TwelveSame Subject (continued)
- 123Book Thirteen
- 124Conclusion
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