THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN MORLEY

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

COPYRIGHT

First printed 1888

Reprinted 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, IG13

1919

A LIST OF WORDSWOI'S POEMS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER,

AS FAR AS CAN BE DETERMINED FROM ACCESSIBLE DATA.1

Com- First

1785 to 1797

posed. Published.

PAGE

1785 1850

Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, anno ætatis 14

And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven.

Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem composed in anticipation

of leaving School

2

3

3

1789 1798

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening

How richly glows the waters' breast.

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames near

Richmond

IO

Glide gently, thus for ever glide.

1793

1793

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among

the Alps.

ΤΟ

1793-94 1842

1795

1798

Were there, below, a spot of holy ground.

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain

[One-third of this poem was published under the title of "The Female

Vagrant" in 1798.]

A Traveller on the skirt of Sarum's Plain.

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake

of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the Shore, commanding

a beautiful Prospect.

Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands.

The Borderers. A Tragedy

In every instance of a Poem published during Wordsworth's lifetime the title is that which he
opted in his final edition. The first line of the Poem follows in smaller print. When no title was
en-as in the case of many of the Sonnets, etc.-the first line alone is printed.