A Century of Sonnets A Century of Sonnets The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850 EDITED BY Paula R Feldman Daniel Robinson OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and an associated company in Berlin Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1999 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2002 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University PressLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A century of sonnets: the romantic-era revival, 1750-1850/edited by Paula R Feldman and Daniel Robinson p cm Includes index ISBN 0-19-511561-9 (cloth) ISBN 0-19-511562-7 (pbk) Sonnets, English English poetry—18th century English poetry—19th century Romanticism—Great Britain I Feldman, Paula R II Robinson, Daniel, 1969 PR1195.S5C46 1998 820.9—dc21 97-51208 Frontispiece: Queen of the Silver Bow, 1789 Illustration to Charlotte Smith's sonnet "To the Moon" from Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems Copperplate engraving by Milton after Corbauld Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Acknowledgments xxi Introduction Suggested Further Reading Editorial Principles 23 21 Thomas Edwards (1699-1757) On a Family-Picture 25 'Tongue-doughty pedant' 25 Thomas Gray (1716-71) On the Death of Mr Richard West 26 Thomas Warton (1728-90) 'While summer-suns o'er the gay prospect played' To the River Lodon 27 John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-96) 'As when, to one who long hath watched' Written at a Farm 28 On a Frightful Dream 28 On Christmas 29 27 28 Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 10 'The partial Muse has from my earliest hours' 11 Written at the Close of Spring 30 12 To a Nightingale 30 13 To the Moon 31 14 To the South Downs 31 29 vi 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 CONTENTS To Sleep 31 Supposed to be Written by Werter 32 By the Same To Solitude 32 By the Same 32 From Petrarch 33 'Blest is yon shepherd, on the turf reclined' 33 Written on the Sea Shore.—October, 1784 34 To the River Arun 34 To Melancholy Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 34 To the Naiad of the Arun 35 'Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way' 35 To Night 35 Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex 36 The Captive Escaped in the Wilds of America Addressed to the Hon Mrs O'Neill 36 To Dependence 37 Written in September 1791, During a Remarkable Thunder Storm 37 On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea 37 'Where the wild woods and pathless forests frown' 38 The Sea View 38 Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening 39 Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799 39 Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762-1837) 36 On Dreams 39 37 'No more by cold philosophy confined' 40 William Hayley (1745-1820) 38 To Mrs Hayley, On her Voyage to America 1784 Mary Hays (1760-1843) 39 'Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild' 40 41 Helen Maria Williams (1761?-1827) 40 To Twilight 42 41 To Hope 42 42 To the Moon 43 43 To the Strawberry 43 44 To the Curlew 43 45 To the Torrid Zone 44 46 To the White Bird of the Tropic 44 William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) 47 To a Friend 45 48 'Languid, and sad, and slow' 45 49 Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage 45 vii CONTENTS 50 51 52 53 54 55 Written at Bamborough Castle 46 To the River Wensbeck 46 To the River Tweed 47 To the River Itchin, Near Winton 47 On Dover Cliffs July 20, 1787 47 To the River Cherwell 48 Thomas Russell (1762-88) 56 'Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore' 48 57 To Valclusa 49 58 'Dear Babe, whose meaning by fond looks expressed' 59 To the Spider 49 60 To the Owl 50 Mary Locke (fl 1791-1816) 61 'I hate the Spring in parti-colored vest' Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) 62 To the Visions of Fancy 51 63 Sun-Rise: A Sonnet 51 64 Night 52 65 'Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve' 66 Storied Sonnet 53 67 To the Bat 53 49 50 52 Anna Maria Jones (1748-1829) 68 To Echo 54 69 To the Moon 54 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 70—80 Sonnets on Eminent Characters 70 No I To the Honorable Mr Erskine 55 71 No II, Burke 55 72 No III Priestley 56 73 No IV La Fayette 56 74 No V Kosciusko 57 75 No VI Pitt 57 76 No VII To the Rev W L Bowles 58 77 No VIII Mrs Siddons 58 78 No IX To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice 59 79 No X To Robert Southey 59 80 No XI To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq 59 81 To the Autumnal Moon 60 82 On a Discovery Made Too Late 60 83 To the River Otter 61 84 To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me 61 viii CONTENTS 85-87 Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' 85 I ('Pensive, at eve, on the hard world I mused') 61 86 II To Simplicity 62 87 III On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country 62 88 To W L Esq While He Sung a Song to Purcell's Music 62 89 Fancy in Nubibus Or The Poet in the Clouds 63 90 Work Without Hope 63 91 The Old Man's Sigh A Sonnet 64 92 Life 64 93 Pantisocracy 64 Amelia Opie (1769-1853) 94 To Winter 65 95 On the Approach of Autumn 65 John Thelwall (1764-1834) 96 To Tyranny 66 97 To Ancestry 66 98 The Vanity of National Grandeur 67 99 On the Rapid Extension of the Suburbs 67 Mary Julia Young (fl 1789-1808) 100 To Dreams 68 101 Anxiety 68 102 Friendship 69 103 To Time 69 104 To My Pen 70 105 On an Early Spring 70 Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 106 'Was it some sweet device of faery land' 71 107 'We were two pretty babes' 71 108 'O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind' 71 109 'If from my lips some angry accents fell' 72 110 The Family Name 72 Mary Robinson (1758-1800) 111-154 Sappho and Phaon 111 I Sonnet Introductory 73 112 II The Temple of Chastity 73 113 III The Bower of Pleasure 74 114 IV Sappho Discovers her Passion 74 115 V Contemns its Power 75 116 VI Describes the Characteristics of Love 75 117 VII Invokes Reason 75 118 VIII Her Passion Increases 76 119 IX Laments the Volatility of Phaon 76 120 X Describes Phaon 76 ix CONTENTS 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 XI Rejects the Influence of Reason 77 XII Previous to her Interview with Phaon 77 XIII She Endeavors to Fascinate Him 78 XIV To the Eolian Harp 78 XV Phaon Awakes 78 XVI Sappho Rejects Hope 79 XVII The Tyranny of Love 79 XVIII To Phaon 79 XIX Suspects his Constancy 80 XX To Phaon 80 XXI Laments her Early Misfortunes 81 XXII Phaon Forsakes Her 81 XXIII Sappho's Conjectures 81 XXIV Her Address to the Moon 82 XXV To Phaon 82 XXVI Contemns Philosophy 82 XXVII Sappho's Address to the Stars 83 XXVIII Describes the Fascinations of Love 83 XXIX Determines to Follow Phaon 84 XXX Bids Farewell to Lesbos 84 XXXI Describes her Bark 84 XXXII Dreams of a Rival 85 XXXIII Reaches Sicily 85 XXXIV Sappho's Prayer to Venus 85 XXXV Reproaches Phaon 86 XXXVI Her Confirmed Despair 86 XXXVII Foresees her Death 87 XXXVIII To a Sigh 87 XXXIX To the Muses 87 XL Visions Appear to her in a Dream 88 XLI Resolves to Take the Leap of Leucata 88 XLII Her Last Appeal to Phaon 88 XLIII Her Reflections on the Leucadian Rock Before She Perishes 89 154 XLIV Conclusive 89 155 Laura to Petrarch 90 Ann Yearsley (1752-1806) 156 To 90 William Beckford (1760-1844) 157 Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick 91 Charles Lloyd (1775-1839) 158 'My pleasant home! where erst when sad and faint' 159 'Oh, I have told thee every secret care' 92 160 Written at the Hotwells, near Bristol 92 161 'Erst when I wandered far from those I loved' 93 91 Index of Titles, Authors, and First Lines The following references are both to sonnet numbers (in parentheses) and to page numbers Each poet (in boldface) is alphabetized by surname; each title (in italics) by first word, except when it begins with the definite or indefinite articles, which are ignored; and each first line by first word (including articles) Since we have supplied certain sonnets with titles derived from their first lines, we have avoided the repetition of indexing both; these poems may be found alphabetized according to the first word of the first line 1801 (203) 112 1802 (286) 145 A child midst ancient mountains I have stood (412) 203 A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew (236) 124 A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne (463) 225 A light and joyous figure, one that seems (406) 200 A love-lorn maid, at some far-distant time (241) 126 A remote sky, prolonged to the sea's brim (437) 215 A Spirit came upon me in the night (422) 207 A wrinkled, crabbed man they picture thee (172) 97 Absence (363) 179 Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear (453) 221 Addressed to Haydon (310) 155 Addressed to the Same (311) 155 Admiring stranger, that with ling'ring feet (173) 97 After dark vapors have oppressed our plains (315) 157 After-State, The (422) 207 Ah dear associate of youth's tender days (174) 98 Ah! hills beloved!—where once a happy child (14) 31 Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild (39) 41 Ah! little cause has Petrarch to complain (361) 178 Ah, thankless! canst thou envy him who gains (177) 100 Ah! what a weary race my feet have run (5)27 Ah! what avails, when sinking down to sleep (200) 110 All Nature ministers to Hope The snow (405) 199 All Nature seems at work Slugs leave their lair (90) 63 265 266 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Alone, unfriended, on a foreign shore (193) 107 American Tradition (235) 124 An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king (336) 167 And dost thou still, thou mass of breathing stone (357) 176 And therefore if to love can be desert (449) 219 And this reft house is that the which he built (87) 62 And wilt thou have me fashion into speech (451) 220 And yet, because thou overcomest so (454) 221 Angelica rescued from the Sea-monster, by Ingres; in the Luxembourg (437) 215 Anxiety (101) 68 Around my porch and lowly casement spread (7) 28 As late I journeyed o'er the extensive plain (92) 64 As late I lay in slumber's shadowy vale (71) 55 As late I rambled in the happy fields (306) 154 As 'mid these moldering walls I pensive stray (261) 134 As musing pensive in my silent home (276) 141 As one who destined from his friends to part (383) 189 As one who late hath lost a friend adored (277) 141 As slow I climb the cliff's ascending side (49) 45 As slowly wanders thy sequestered stream (51) 46 As Venus wandered 'midst the Idalian bower (381) 188 As when a child, on some long winter's night (77) 58 As when far off the warbled strains are heard (73) 56 As when, to one who long hath watched, the morn (6) 28 As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood (392) 193 Awakened by the radiant beams of morn (101) 68 Bampfylde, John Codrington (6-9) 27 Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace (477) 230 Beckford, William (157) 91 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (358) 176 Behold the gloomy tyrant's awful form (192) 106 Beloved, my Beloved, when I think (458) 223 Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers (481) 231 Bereave me not of these delightful dreams (47) 45 Betham, Mathilda (258-259) 133 Bids Farewell to Lesbos (140) 84 Bird of the Tropic! thou, who lov'st to stray (46) 44 Blessed as the Gods! Sicilian Maid is he (142) 85 Blest is yon shepherd, on the turf reclined (20) 33 Blossom that lov'st on shadowy banks to lie (372) 184 Bower of Pleasure, The (113)74 Bowles, William Lisle (47-55) 44 Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art (322) 160 Bring, bring to deck my brow, ye Sylvan girls (123) 78 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (439481) 215 Bryan, Mary (294-298) 148 Brydges, Samuel Egerton (36-37) 39 Burke (71) 55 But here no cannon thunders to the gale (251) 130 But only three in all God's universe (440) 216 By Derwent's rapid stream as oft I strayed (178) 100 By the Same (18) 32 By the Same To Solitude (17) 32 Byron, George Gordon, Lord (299-300) 150 Camellia, The (381) 188 Campbell, Calder (430) 211 Can I look back, and view with tranquil eye (285) 144 Can it be right to give what I can give (447) 219 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Can'st thou forget, O! Idol of my soul (135) 82 Captive Escaped in the Wilds of America, The (28) 36 Castle of Chillon, The (407) 200 Cat! who hast passed thy grand climacteric (319) 158 Catherine, though not from fortune's glittering stores (364) 179 "Change me, some God, into that breathing rose (226) 121 Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first (84) 61 Check every outflash, every ruder sally (390) 192 Cherwell, how pleased along thy willowed edge (55) 48 Child of my heart! My sweet, beloved first-born (374) 185 Child of the clouds! remote from every taint (221) 119 Clare, John (343-356) 170 Clench thine eyes now,—'tis the last instant, girl (438) 215 Clough, Arthur Hugh (428-429) 210 Cobbold, Elizabeth (361-364) 178 Coleridge, Hartley (398-405) 196 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (70-93) 55 Come, balmy Sleep! tired Nature's soft resort (15) 31 Come forth, and let us through our hearts receive (415) 204 Come May, the empire of the earth assume (191) 105 Come, Reason, come! each nerve rebellious bind (117) 75 Come, soft Eolian harp, while zephyr plays (124) 78 Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire (208) 114 Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802 (215) 116 Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept 3, 1803 (211) 115 Conclusion (252) 130 Conclusive (154) 89 Confessional, The (421) 207 Contemns its Power (115) 75 Contemns Philosophy (136) 82 Cook, Eliza (427) 209 Cornwall, Barry (Bryan Waller 267 Procter) (374) 184 Cover me with your everlasting arms (426) 209 Cowper, William (194-195) 107 Criticism (420) 206 Dance of Nymphs, by Andrea Mantegna; in the Louvre, A (435) 214 Dancing Girl, The (406) 200 Dangerous to hear, is that melodious tongue (120) 76 Daughter of Genius! while thy tuneful lays (267) 137 Dear Babe, whose meaning by fond looks expressed (58) 49 Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the west (83) 61 Dear, wild illusions of creative mind (62) 51 December Morning (183) 102 Dedicatory Sonnet, To S T Coleridge (399) 197 Delusive Hope! more transient than the ray (126) 79 Dependence! heavy, heavy are thy chains (29) 37 Describes her Bark (141) 84 Describes Phaon (120) 76 Describes the Characteristics of Love (116) 75 Describes the Fascinations of Love (138) 83 Determines to Follow Phaon (139) 84 Dewdrops are the gems of morning (91) 64 Did then the bold slave rear at last the sword (169) 96 Doubleday, Thomas (339-341) 168 Dovaston, John F M (365-366) 180 Dream of Blue Eyes, A (423) 207 Dreams of a Rival (142) 85 Early Aspirations (431) 212 Earth has not any thing to show more fair (211) 115 Edwards, Thomas (1-2) 25 Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick (157) 91 Elliott, Ebenezer (419-420) 206 England in 1819 (336) 167 Ere we had reached the wished-for place, night fell (208) 114 Ere yet our course was graced with social trees (225) 120 268 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Erst when I wandered far from those I loved (161) 93 Eternal spirit of the chainless mind (299) 151 Evance, Susan (260-265) 134 Exists there one, who carelessly can view (271) 139 Friendship (102) 69 From haunt of man, from day's obtrusive glare (67) 53 From low to high doth dissolution climb (253) 131 From Petrarch (19) 33 From this deep chasm—where quivering sunbeams play (234) 124 Faber, Frederick William (421-424) 206 Faery Chasm, The (230) 122 Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore (407) 200 Fair star of evening, splendor of the west (215) 116 False Poets and True (378) 187 Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy (321) 159 Family Name, The (110) 72 Fancy (370) 182 Fancy in Nubibus Or The Poet in the Clouds (89) 63 Fancy! to thee, I pour a votive strain (266) 136 Far o'er the waves my lofty bark shall glide (141) 84 Farewell, false Friend!—our scenes of kindness close (182) 101 Farewell! gay Summer! now the changing wind (95) 65 Farewell to France (367) 181 Farewell, ye coral caves, ye pearly sands (129) 80 Farewell, ye towering cedars, in whose shade (139) 84 Father, and Bard revered! to whom I owe (399) 197 Favored by Heaven are those, ordained to taste (111) 73 Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte (331) 163 Finch, Mrs B (198-199) 109 First Birthday, The (403) 198 First time he kissed me, he but only kissed (476) 230 Flowers (225) 120 Foliage (415) 204 Foresees her Death (147) 87 Forget-Me-Not, The (372) 184 Forsaken, The (394) 194 Friends, when my latest bed of rest is made (341) 169 Gardner, Edward (173-174) 97 Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild (196) 108 Give me a golden pen, and let me lean (309) 155 Gladstone, William Ewart (371) 183 Go, cruel tyrant of the human breast (16) 32 Go from me Yet I feel that I shall stand (444) 218 Go, rural Naiad! wind thy stream along (24) 35 God help thee, Traveler, on thy journey far (197) 109 God of the changeful year! (382) 189 Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone (313) 156 Grave Bird, that sheltered in thy lonely bower (60) 50 Gray, Thomas (3) 26 Great spirits now on earth are sojourning (311) 155 Green little vaunter in the sunny grass (289) 146 Gypsy's Evening Blaze, The (344) 171 Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs (303) 152 Hail, gentle spirits, who with magic wing (100) 68 Hail to the fields—with dwellings sprinkled o'er (232) 123 Hamilton, Sarah (367-368) 181 Hanson, Martha (266-269) 136 Happy is England! I could be content (314) 157 Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak (316) 157 Hayley, William (38) 40 Hays, Mary (39) 41 Hearken, thou craggy ocean-pyramid (318) 158 Hemans, Felicia (409-415) 201 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Hence with your jeerings, petulant and low (385) 190 Her Address to the Moon (134) 82 Her Confirmed Despair (146) 86 Her Last Appeal to Phaon (152) 88 Her Passion Increases (118) 76 Her Reflections on the Leucadian Rock Before She Perishes (153) 89 Here am I yet, another twelvemonth spent (428) 210 Here droops the muse! while from her glowing mind (154) 89 Here let us rest, while with meridian blaze (282) 143 High in the air exposed the slave is (170) 96 High on a rock, coeval with the skies (112) 73 Highmindedness, a jealousy for good (310) 155 Hints for the Fancy (231) 122 His was a chamber in the topmost tower (389) 192 Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain (165) 94 Honora, should that cruel time arrive (180) 101 Hood, Thomas (376-379) 186 How I love thee? Let me count the ways (480) 231 How far, ye Nymphs and Dryads! must we stray (99) 67 How gladly would I lay my aching head (338) 168 How many a throb of the young poetheart (431) 212 How many bards gild the lapses of time (305) 153 How proudly Man usurps the power to reign (268) 137 How shall I paint thee?—Be this naked stone (222) 119 How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks (206) 113 Hucks, Joseph (175) 98 Huge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred (351) 173 Huge vapors brood above the clifted shore (34) 39 Hunt, Leigh (287-293) 145 Hunter, Ann Home (192) 106 I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, 269 love (329) 162 I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain (203) 112 I hate the Spring in parti-colored vest (61) 50 I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan (331) 163 I know thee not, bright creature, ne'er shall know (359) 177 I left thee when the midnight bell had tolled (423) 207 I lift my heavy heart up solemnly (443) 217 I lived with visions for my company (464) 225 I love thee, mournful, sober-suited Night (26) 35 I love to rise ere gleams the tardy light (183) 102 I met a traveler from an antique land (332) 164 I never gave a lock of hair away (456) 222 I never saw a man in all my days (350) 173 I rose while yet the cattle, heatoppressed (246) 128 I saw an infant—health, and joy, and light (396) 195 I saw her in the fleeting wind (68) 54 I see thine image through my tears tonight (468) 227 I thank all who have loved me in their hearts (479) 231 I think of thee!—my thoughts twine and bud (467) 226 I thought of thee, my partner and my guide (252) 130 I thought once how Theocritus had sung (439) 216 I wake! delusive phantoms hence, away (143) 85 Idiot Girl, The (274) 140 If by dull rhymes our English must be chained (320) 159 If, by his torturing, savage foes untraced (28) 36 If from my lips some angry accents fell (109) 72 If I have sinned in act, I may repent (404) 198 270 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange (473) 228 If thou didst feed on western plains of yore (171) 97 If thou must love me, let it be for naught (452) 221 III fares the land to giddy lust of power (98) 67 In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone (342) 170 In every breast affection fires, there dwells (184) 102 In the cold change, which time hath wrought on love (416) 204 In vain to me the smiling mornings shine (3) 26 Indeed this very love which is my boast (450) 220 Indian, The (193) 107 Infant, The (396) 195 Ingenious insect, but of ruthless mould (59) 49 Ingratitude, how deadly is thy smart (181) 101 Invocation to the Spirit Said to Haunt Wroxall Down (273) 139 Invokes Reason (117) 75 Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead (461) 224 Is it to love, to fix the tender gaze (116) 75 Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No (401) 197 Is then no nook of English ground secure (257) 132 Is there a solitary wretch who hies (31) 37 It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands (293) 148 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (214) 116 Itchin, when I behold thy banks again (53) 47 Jesus Wept (432) 212 Johnson, Mary F (270-275) 138 Johnston, Charles (359-360) 177 Jones, Anna Maria (68-69) 54 Journey Renewed (246) 128 Keats, John (301-329)151 Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there (307) 154 Kemble, Frances Anne (425-426) 208 Kosdusko (74) 57 La Fayette (73) 56 Lamb, Charles (106-110) 70 Laments her Early Misfortunes (131) 81 Laments the Volatility of Phaon (119) 76 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (406-407) 199 Languid, and sad, and slow from day to day (48) 45 Last of April, The (347) 172 Laura to Petrarch (155) 90 Lead me, Sicilian Maids, to haunted bowers (146) 86 Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife (462) 224 Life (92) 64 Light weed, whose poisoned scent with sickly power (368) 181 Lift not the painted veil which those who live (335) 167 Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs (417) 205 Lloyd, Charles (158-164) 91 Lo! dreary Winter, howling o'er the waste (156) 90 Lo, on her dying couch, the sufferer lies (337) 168 Locke, Mary (61) 50 London, 1802 (217) 117 Long time a child, and still a child, when years (398) 196 Look how the lark soars upward and is gone (378) 187 Look where she sits in languid loveliness (373) 184 Loose to the wind her golden tresses streamed (19) 33 Loud, louder still, resounds the thundering peal (270) 138 Loud midnight-soothing melancholy bird (380) 188 Love steals unheeded o'er the tranquil mind (127) 79 Low murmurs creep along the woody vale (35) 39 Lyre of the sonnet, that full many a time (190) 104 Make there my tomb, beneath the limetree's shade (18) 32 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Malicious insect, little vengeful bee (346) 172 Maniac, The (Bryan) (294) 148 Maniac, The (Strickland) (395) 195 Marked you, by yon thatched farm that skirts the down (272) 139 Marriage of St Katharine, by the same; in the Hospital of St John at Bruges, A (434) 213 Mary at the Feet of Christ (410) 202 Mary! I want a lyre with other strings (194) 107 Mary rose up, as one in sleep might rise (432) 212 Mathews, Eliza Kirkham (193) 106 Meek Friend! I have been traversing the steep (160) 92 Meek Twilight! soften the declining day (40) 42 Memorial of Mary, The (411)202 Metaphysical Sonnet (164) 94 Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat (244) 127 Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne (212) 115 Mid-noon is past;—upon the sultry mead (243) 127 Mild splendor of the various-vested night (81) 60 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour (217) 117 Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free (391) 193 Mitford, Mary Russell (372-373) 183 Moore, Thomas (369-370) 182 Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes (256) 132 Motions and Means, on land and sea at war (255) 131 Mountain Sanctuaries (412) 203 Moxon, Edward (380) 187 Mrs Siddons (77) 58 Much have I traveled in the realms of gold (302) 152 Mutability (253) 131 My Angel Sister, though thy lovely form (188) 104 My frame hath often trembled with delight (238) 125 My heart has thanked thee, Bowles! for those soft strains (76) 58 My letters! all dead paper, mute and white (466) 226 271 My own Beloved, who hast lifted me (465) 225 "My own Maria!—Ah my own—my own (294) 148 My pleasant home! where erst when sad and faint (158) 91 My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes (455) 222 My soul's an atom in the world of mind (164) 94 My spirit is too weak—Mortality (317) 158 Mysterious night, when the first man but knew (375) 185 Mystery: God, Man's Life, born into man (433) 213 Mystery: Katharine, the bride of Christ (434) 213 Night (64) 52 Night and Death (375) 185 Nile, The (293) 148 No fiction was it of the antique age (230) 122 No—Leave My Heart to Rest (369) 182 No—Leave my heart to rest, if rest it may (369) 182 No more by cold philosophy confined (37) 40 No more my visionary soul shall dwell (93) 64 No record tells of lance opposed to lance (247) 128 No trace is left upon the vulgar mind (386) 190 No walk today;—November's breathings toss (340) 169 Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame (334) 166 Norton, Caroline (416-418) 204 Not always should the tear's ambrosial dew (75) 57 Not envying shades which haply yet may throw (220) 118 Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep (250) 130 Not so that pair whose youthful spirits dance (229) 122 November (402) 198 Now, o'er the tessellated pavement strew (122) 77 Now, round my favored grot let roses rise (125) 78 272 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve (65) 52 Now thou hast seen my heart Was it too near (421) 207 Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room (205) 112 Nutting (354) 175 O Autumn! how I love thy pensive air (279) 142 O Chatterton! how very sad thy fate (325) 161 O! formed t'illume a sunless world forlorn (78) 59 O gentle Sleep, come, wave thine opiate wing (36) 39 O Hell-bom Tyranny! how blest the land (96) 66 O! How can Love exulting Reason quell (115) 75 O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind (108) 71 O! I love thee, meek Simplicity (86) 62 O! it is pleasant, with a heart at ease (89) 63 O land of elegance, where every grace (367) 181 O Mountain Stream! the shepherd and his cot (233) 123 O! Reason! vaunted Sovereign of the mind (121) 77 O soft embalmer of the still midnight (324) 160 O solitary wand'rer! whither stray (155) 90 O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell (301) 152 O Solitude! to thy sequestered vale (17) 32 O, that there were, indeed, some hidden charm (97) 66 O, thou art far away from me—dear boy (295) 149 O thou! meek Orb! that stealing o'er the dale (134) 82 O thou most terrible, most dreaded power (284) 144 O thou unknown disturber of my rest (297) 150 O thou! whose face hath felt the winter's wind (326) 161 O timeless guest!—so soon returned art thou (298) 150 O Tweed! a stranger, that with wandering feet (52) 47 O vale and lake, within your mountainurn (414) 203 O! what a loud and fearful shriek was there (74) 57 O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being (333) 164 O ye who ride upon the wandering gale (263) 135 Occasioned by Reading Mrs M.[ary] Robinson's Poems (267) 137 October, 1803 (218) 117 Ode to the West Wind (333) 164 O'er the dim breast of ocean's wave (64) 52 O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main (140) 84 O'erladen with sad musings, till the tear (387) 191 Oft let me wander, at the break of day (63) 51 Oh, blessed ease! no more of heaven I ask (376) 186 Oh! blest beyond all daughters of the earth (410) 202 Oh! can'st thou bear to see this faded frame (152) 88 Oh, ever skilled to wear the form we love (41) 42 Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run (167) 95 Oh! I could toil for thee o'er burning plains (130) 80 Oh, I have told thee every secret care (159) 92 Oh! if thou lov'st me, love me not so weU (408) 201 Oh, my rash hand! what hast thou idly done (281) 143 Oh, she was almost speechless! nor could hold (162) 93 Oh Sigh! thou steal'st, the herald of the breast (148) 87 Oh! ye bright Stars! that on the ebon fields (137) 83 Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours (478) 230 Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn (347) 172 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Old feeble Winter to gay Spring resigns (105) 70 Old Man's Sigh A Sonnet, The (91) 64 Old-fashioned uncouth measurer of the day (345) 171 On a Beautiful Woman (373) 184 On a Discovery Made Too Late (82) 60 On a Family-Picture (1) 25 On a Frightful Dream (8) 28 On a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward's Hair Who Died in her Twentieth Year (188) 104 On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country (87) 62 On an Early Spring (105) 70 On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea (31) 37 On Being Forced to Part with his Library for the Benefit of his Creditors (383) 189 On Chilian (299) 151 On Christmas (9) 29 On Dover Cliffs, July 20, 1787 (54) 47 On Dreams (36) 39 On Fame (321) 159 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (302) 152 On Gallia's land I saw thy faded form (175) 99 On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour (309) 155 On, loitering Muse!—The swift stream chides us—on (231) 122 On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress (202) 111 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (317) 158 On some rude fragment of the rocky shore (21) 34 On Some Violets Planted in My Garden by a Friend (364) 179 On the Approach of Autumn (95) 65 On the damp margin of the sea-beat shore (189) 104 On the Death of Mr Richard West (3) 26 On the Grasshopper and Cricket (Hunt) (289) 146 On the Grasshopper and Cricket (Keats) (312) 156 On the low margin of a murmuring stream (150) 88 On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway (257) 132 273 On the Rapid Extension of the Suburbs (99) 67 On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood (54) 47 On thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn (22) 34 Once in our customed walk a wounded bird (296) 149 Open Prospect (232) 123 Opie, Amelia (94-95) 65 Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore (56) 48 Ozymandias (Shelley) (332) 164 Oxymandias (Smith) (342) 170 Pantisocracy (93) 64 Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make (475) 229 Pathway of light! o'er thy empurpled zone (45) 44 Pensive, at eve, on the hard world I mused (85) 61 Phaon Awakes (125) 78 Phaon Forsakes Her (132) 81 Pitt (75) 57 Plain of Donnerdale, The (239) 125 Poems on the Slave Trade (165-170) 94 Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know (330) 163 Poetical Happiness (397) 196 Political Greatness (334) 166 Poor child of Sorrow! who did'st boldly spring (371) 183 Poor, fond deluded heart! wilt thou again (280) 142 Poor melancholy bird—that all night long (12) 30 Poppies, that scattered o'er this arid plain (339) 168 Poppy, The (368) 181 Power of the awful wind, whose hollow blast (94) 65 Powers of the Sonnet (419) 206 Praised be the poet, who the sonnet's claim (185) 103 Prepare your wreaths, Aonian maids divine (149) 87 Pressed by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides (27) 36 Previous to her Interview with Phaon (122) 77 274 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Priestley (72) 56 Primrose, The (343) 170 Queen of the silver bow!—by thy pale beam (13) 31 Radcliffe, Ann (62-67) 51 Rare composition of a poet-knight (379) 187 Reaches Sicily (143) 85 Rejects the Influence of Reason (121) 77 Remembrance of Grasmere, A (414) 203 Reproach (361) 178 Reproaches Phaon (145) 86 Resolves to Take the Leap of Leucata (151) 88 Resting-Place, The (243) 127 Return (236) 124 Return, content! for fondly I pursued (245) 128 River Duddon, The (220-252) 118 Robinson, Mary (111-155) 73 Rogers, Samuel (357) 176 Romney! expert infallible to trace (195) 108 Roscoe, William (381-383) 188 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (433-438) 213 Rossetti, William Michael (432) 212 Rouse thee, old Time, thy folded pinions shake (103) 69 Rousseau—Voltaire—our Gibbon—and de Stael (300) 151 Rural Scenes (350) 173 Russell, Thomas (56-60) 48 Sacred Religion, "mother of form and fear (237) 125 Sad thoughts, avaunt!—the fervor of the year (242) 127 Same, The (438) 215 Same Subject, The (229) 122 Sappho and Phaon (111-154) 73 Sappho Discovers Her Passion (114) 74 Sappho Rejects Hope (126) 79 Sappho's Address to the Stars (137) 83 Sappho's Conjectures (133) 81 Sappho's Prayer to Venus (144) 85 Sargant, Jane Alice (337-338) 167 Say over again, and yet once over again (459) 223 Say, spotless plume, if Damon bade thee go (104) 70 Scarcely, I think; yet it indeed may be (435) 214 Scorn not the Sonnet; critic, you have frowned (254) 131 Scott, William Bell (431) 211 Sea View, The (33) 38 Seathwaite Chapel (237) 125 Second Evening (271) 139 See, o'er its withering leaves, the muskrose bend (198) 109 Seek not, my Lesbia, the sequestered dale (179) 100 Self-Devoted, The (393) 194 Seward, Anna (176-190) 99 Shadows (355) 175 Shall I rebuke thee, Ocean, my old love (377) 186 She came, fair Friendship came, with aspect bland (102) 69 She Endeavors to Fascinate Him (123) 78 She hath forsaken courtly halls and bowers (393) 194 She wept—Life's purple tide began to flow (202) 111 Sheep Washing (242) 127 Shelley, Percy Bysshe (330-336) 163 Shepherd's Tree, The (351) 173 Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way (25) 35 Silent companions of the lonely hour (418) 205 Simpson, Jane Cross (408) 200 Smallpiece, Anna Maria (200-201) 110 Smith, Charlotte (10-35) 29 Smith, Horace (342) 170 So thou art come again, old blackwinged night (358) 176 Soft blushing flower! my bosom grieves (259) 133 Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played (224) 120 Sonnet Introductory (111)73 Sonnet to a Sonnet (379) 187 Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' (85-87) 61 Sonnets for Pictures (433-438) 213 Sonnets from the Portuguese (439—481) 216 Sonnets of Laura (361-363) 178 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Sonnets on Eminent Characters (70—80) 55 Sonnet-writing To F W F (424) 208 Soothed by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore (44) 43 Southey, Robert (165-172) 94 Southey! thy melodies steal o'er mine ear (79) 59 Spirit of evil, with which the earth is rife (360) 177 Spring's sweet attendant! modest simple flower (262) 135 Start not at her, who, in fantastic game (274) 140 Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways (255) 131 Stepping-Stones, The (228) 121 Storied Sonnet (66) 53 Straight remnant, of the spiry birchen bough (157) 91 Streamlet! methinks thy lot resembles mine (365) 180 Strickland, Agnes (393-396) 193 Such fruitless questions may not long beguile (235) 124 Sun-Rise: A Sonnet (63) 51 Supposed to be Written by Werter (16) 32 Surprised by joy—impatient as the wind (219) 118 Suspects his Constancy (129) 80 Sweet Poetess! as pensive oft I stray (269) 138 Sweet summer flowers were braided in her hair (395) 195 Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair (287) 145 Take, cradled nursling of the mountain, take (223) 119 Temple of Chastity, The (112) 73 Tennyson, Alfred (390-392) 192 Tennyson, Frederick (397) 195 That summer bird its oft-repeated note (353) 174 The bliss of Heaven, Maria, shall be thine (388) 191 The bloom of youth had faded from her face (394) 194 The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone (323) 160 The face of all the world is changed, I think (445) 218 275 The fairest summer hath its sudden showers (355) 175 The first time that the sun rose on thine oath (470) 227 The garlands fade that Spring so lately wove (11) 30 The glitt'ring colors of the day are fled (42) 43 The Kirk of Ulpha to the pilgrim's eye (249) 129 The mellow year is hasting to its close (402) 198 The more I've viewed this world, the more I've found (370) 182 The old inventive poets, had they seen (239) 125 The Palm—the Vine—the Cedar—each hath power (413) 203 The partial Muse has from my earliest hours (10) 29 The poetry of earth is never dead (312) 156 The small wind whispers through the leafless hedge (348) 172 The solemn moon-beams fall, soft dews distill (273) 139 The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise (457) 222 The strawberry blooms upon its lowly bed (43) 43 The struggling rill insensibly is grown (228) 121 The Sun had stooped, his westward clouds to win (354) 175 The sun, sweet girl, hath run his yearlong race (403) 198 The upland shepherd, as reclined he lies (33) 38 The veil's removed, the gaudy, flimsy veil (201) 111 The weary traveler, who, all night long (66) 53 The world is too much with us; late and soon (213) 115 The world, its hopes, and fears, have passed away (349) 173 Thelwall, John (96-99) 66 There are who say the sonnet's meted maze (366) 180 There is a fountain, to whose flowery side (397) 196 276 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES These words were uttered in a pensive mood (209) 114 This morn ere yet had rung the matin peal (8) 28 Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy distress (82) 60 Thou comest! all is said without a word (469) 227 Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor (442) 217 Thou hast thy record in the monarch's hall (411) 202 Thou lovely sorceress of the witching night (69) 54 Thou vexed Atlantic, who hast lately seen (38) 40 Though king-bred rage, with lawless uproar rude (72) 56 Though storms and tempests mark thy gloomy reign (199) 110 Thunder Storm (270) 138 Thy summer's day was long, but couldst thou think (286) 145 Tighe, Mary (276-286) 141 Time, and thy charms, thou fanciest will redeem (186) 103 'Tis midnight! and pale Melancholy stands (427) 209 'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep (168) 95 'Tis well you think me truly one of those (292) 147 To a Cat (319) 158 To a Friend (Bowles) (47) 45 To a Friend (Coleridge) (400) 197 To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me (84) 61 To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses (306) 154 To a Friend, Who Thinks Sensibility a Misfortune (177) 100 To a Goose (171) 97 To a Llangollen Rose, the Day after It Had Been Given by Miss Ponsonby (259) 133 To a Nightingale (12) 30 To a Rejected Sonnet (371) 183 To a Sigh (148) 87 To a Violet (262) 135 To a Young Lady, Purposing to Marry a Man of Immoral Character in the Hope of his Reformation (186) 103 To Ailsa Rock (318) 158 To an Angry Bee (346) 172 To an Hour Glass (345) 171 To Ancestry (97) 66 To Death (284) 144 To Dependence (29) 37 To Dreams (100) 68 To Echo (68) 54 To Etna's scorching sands my Phaon flies (133) 81 To Fancy (266) 136 To Freedom (175) 99 To George Romney, Esq (195) 108 To Hampstead (287) 145 To Hampstead (288) 146 To Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles (316) 157 To Honora Sneyd (180) 101 To Hope (41) 42 To John Keats (292) 147 To Kosciusko (313) 156 To Love (174) 98 To May (191) 105 To me how wildly pleasing is that scene (344) 171 To Melancholy (260) 134 To Melancholy Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 (23) 34 To Mr Henry Cary, On the Publication of his Sonnets (185) 103 To Mrs Charlotte Smith (269) 138 To Mrs Hayley, On her Voyage to America 1784 (38) 40 To Mrs Umvin (194) 107 To My Books (418) 205 To My Brother (295) 149 To My Brother (296) 149 To My Child (374) 185 To My Pen (104) 70 To Night (Beddoes) (358) 176 To Night (Smith) (26) 35 To one who has been long in city pent (308) 154 To Percy Shelley, on the Degrading Notions of Deity (290) 146 To Phaon (128) 79 To Phaon (130) 80 To Phaon (135) 82 To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq (80) 59 To Robert Southey (79) 59 To Simplicity (86) 62 To Sleep (Keats) (324) 160 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES To To To To To To To Sleep (Smith) (15) 31 Solitude (301) 152 the Autumnal Moon (81) 60 the Bat (67) 53 the Clouds (263) 135 the Eolian Harp (124) 78 the Fragment of a Statue of Hercules, Commonly Called the Torso (357) 176 To the Honorable Mr Erskine (70) 55 To the Memory of John Keats (349) 173 To the Moon (Jones) (69) 54 To the Moon (Smith) (13) 31 To the Moon (Williams) (42) 43 To the Muses (149) 87 To the Naiad of the Arun (24) 35 To the Ocean (377) 186 To the Owl (60) 50 To the Poppy (187) 103 To the Rev W.L Bowles (76) 58 To the River Arun (22) 34 To the River Cherwell (55) 48 To the River Itchin, Near Winton (53) 47 To the River Lodon (5) 27 To the River Otter (83) 61 To the River Tweed (52) 47 To the River Wensbeck (51) 46 To the Same (291) 147 To the South Downs (14) 31 To the Spider (59) 49 To the Strawberry (43) 43 To the Torrid Zone (45) 44 To the Visions of Fancy (62) 51 To the White Bird of the Tropic (46) 44 To Time (103) 69 To Toussaint L'Ouverture (216) 117 To Twilight (40) 42 To Tyranny (96) 66 To Valclusa (57) 49 To W L, Esq While He Sung a Song to Purcell's Music (88) 62 To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice (78) 59 To Winter (94) 65 To Wordsworth (330) 163 Tongue-doughty pedant; whose ambitious mind (2) 25 Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men (216) 117 Tradition (241) 126 Tributary Stream (238) 125 Turn to yon vale beneath, whose tangled shade (113) 74 277 Turner, Charles Tennyson (384-389) 189 Tyranny of Love, The (127) 79 Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart (441) 216 Urge me no more! nor think, because I seem (258) 133 Vanity of National Grandeur, The (98) 67 Veil, The (362) 179 Venetian Pastoral, by Giorgione; in the the Louvre, A (436) 214 Venus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing (144) 85 Vigil of Rizpah, The (409) 201 Village Maid, The (272) 139 Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmeling; in the Academy of Bruges, A (433) 213 Visions Appear to her in a Dream (150) 88 Walton, Thomas (4-5) 26 Was it some Spirit, Sheridan! that breathed (80) 59 Was it some sweet device of faery land (106) 71 Water, for anguish of the solstice,—yea (436) 214 We were two pretty babes, the youngest she (107) 71 Weak is the sophistry, and vain the art (138) 83 Welcome, pale Primrose! starting up between (343) 170 West, Jane (191) 105 What aspect bore the man who roved or fled (227) 121 What awful pageants crowd the evening sky (30) 37 What boots it that thy steps to distant shores (363) 179 What can I give thee back, O liberal (446) 218 What means the mist opaque that veils these eyes (145) 86 What reason first imposed thee, gentle name (110) 72 What though, for showing truth to flattered state (304) 153 What though, Valclusa, the fond Bard be fled (57) 49 What weak remonstrance!—how I joy to find (362) 179 278 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES What wonder, Percy, that with jealous rage (290) 146 When British Freedom for an happier land (70) 55 When glowing Phoebus quits the weeping earth (278) 142 When I have fears that I may cease to be (327) 161 When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead (147) 87 When latest Autumn spreads her evening veil (23) 34 When Life's realities the Soul perceives (176) 99 When, looking on the present face of things (218) 117 When lovers' lips from kissing disunite (384) 190 When midst the summer-roses the warm bees (430) 211 When our two souls stand up erect and strong (460) 224 When pensive on that portraiture I gaze (1) 25 When we met first and loved, I did not build (474) 229 When we were idlers with the loitering rills (400) 197 When wintry tempests agitate the deep (260) 134 Whence that low voice?—A whisper from the heart (240) 126 Whene'er I recollect the happy time (425) 208 Where antique woods o'erhang the mountain's crest (136) 82 Where are the tearful smiles of youthful Spring (264) 135 Where lies the land to which yon ship must go (207) 113 Where the wild woods and pathless forests frown (32) 38 Whether thou smile or frown, thou beauteous face (163) 93 While from the dizzy precipice I gaze (153) 89 While her fond heart against the deed rebels (275) 140 While my young cheek retains its healthful hues (88) 62 While summer roses all their glory yield (187) 103 While summer-suns o'er the gay prospect played (4) 27 White, Henry Kirke (196-197) 108 White, Joseph Blanco (375) 185 Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce (248) 129 Who watches on the mountain with the dead (409) 201 Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why (128) 79 Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell (328) 162 Why I live to loathe the cheerful day (131) 81 Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair (166) 95 Why is the cuckoo's melody preferred (352) 174 Why should I fear the spirits of the dead (265) 136 Why should the tiny harp be chained to themes (419) 206 Why, through each aching vein, with lazy pace (118) 76 Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes (114) 74 Widow's Remarriage, The (275) 140 Wild is the foaming sea! The surges roar (132) 81 Williams, Helen Maria (40-46) 42 Winter (Clare) (347) 172 Winter (Hunter) (192) 106 Winter (Southey) (172) 97 Winter has reached thee once again at last (288) 146 Winter Traveler, The (197) 109 With footstep slow, in furry pall yclad, (9) 29 "With how sad steps, O Moon thou climb'st the sky (204) 112 With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh (210) 114 With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee (472) 228 Within this pleasant wood, beside the lane (356) 175 Woodland Seat, A (356) 175 Wordsworth, William (202-257) 111 Work Without Hope (90) 63 Wren, The (352) 174 Written at a Farm (7) 28 Written at Bamborough Castle (50) 46 INDEX OF TITLES, AUTHORS, AND FIRST LINES Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799 (35) 39 Written at Killamey July 29, 1800 (283) 143 Written at Netley Abbey (265) 136 Written at Rossana November 18, 1799 (281) 143 Written at Scarborough August, 1799 (276) 141 Written at the Close of Spring (11) 30 Written at the Couch of a Dying Parent (427) 209 Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killamey July 26, 1800 (282) 143 Written at the Hotwells, near Bristol (160) 92 Written at Tinetnouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage (49) 45 Written December 1790 (190) 104 Written in a Shrubbery Towards the Decline of Autumn (198) 109 Written in a Winter's Morning (199) 110 Written in Autumn (279) 142 Written in III Health (200) 110 Written in III Health at the Close of Spring (264) 135 Written in September 1791, During a Remarkable Thunder Storm (30) 37 Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex (27) 36 279 Written in the Workhouse (376) 186 Written in Tintem Abbey, Monmouthshire (173) 97 Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening (34) 39 Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison (304) 153 Written on the Sea Shore.—October, 1784 (21) 34 Wryneck's Nest, The (353) 174 Ye holy towers that shade the waveworn steep (50) 46 Ye, who in alleys green and leafy bowers (119) 76 Yearsley, Ann (156) 90 Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear (471) 228 Yes, I have lied, and so must walk my way (429) 210 Yes, I will go, where circling whirlwinds rise (151) 88 Yet art hath less of instinct than of thought (420) 206 Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed (448) 219 Yet, Percy, not for this, should he whose eye (291) 147 Young, Mary Julia (100-105)68 Young men should not write sonnets, if they dream (424) 208 ... staple and a means for poets to assert themselves as proficient in the art of lyric poetry The story of the Romantic- era sonnet revival begins hundreds of years earlier in the aftermath of the English.. .A Century of Sonnets A Century of Sonnets The Romantic- Era Revival 1750- 1850 EDITED BY Paula R Feldman Daniel Robinson OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Auckland... eighteenth -century readers hungry for satire, reason, and clarity rather than for the eroticism, emotion, and conceit of Renaissance sonnets Alexander Pope satirizes the sonnet in part two of his Essay