Words/Worth

• About this book
• Narrow bounds – Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
• Critics, be cautious – Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned
• Leave me alone – Calm is all nature as a resting wheel
• Stars – I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret
• High mountain – How clear, how keen, how marvelously bright
• Wind of September – While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields
• Pleasure in taking pains – “There is a pleasure in poetic pains”
• Youthful Oxford – Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth!
• Parsonage – Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends
• Hail, Twilight – Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!
• Tomb – Mark the concentred hazels that enclose
• If home – If with old love of you, dear Hills! I share
• Poetry – Though the bold wings of Poesy affect
• Mounts – Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side
• Asleep – A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
• Nurse – Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep!
• Eden River – Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewed
• Joy – Surprised by joy impatient as the Wind
• Here – Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat
• Women – With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
• Where – Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?
• Silly children – Sole listener, Duddon! to the Breeze that played
• Here rested – What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled
• Hearty diversion – Hail to the fields—with dwellings sprinkled o’er
• The stepping stones – The struggling Rill insensibly is grown
• Whisper – Whence that low voice? A whisper from the heart
• Gone – I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide
• Brook – Brook! whose society the poet seeks
• Mountain cave – Methinks that to some vacant hermitage
• Thinking – There is a little unpretending Rill
• Went fishing – While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport
• Where to go – Oh Friend! I know not which way I must look
• Too much – The world is too much with us; late and soon
• Milton – Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour
• Greatness – Great men have been among us; hands that penned
• Ideal of freedom – It is not to be thought of that the Flood
• Bulwark – When I have borne in memory what has tamed
• Inland – Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood
• Standoff – Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent
• Two voices – Two voices are there; one is of the sea
• Contests – Six thousand veterans practised in war’s game
• Peace – Here, on our native soil, we breathe once more
• Not passion – Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell
• Toussaint L’Ouverture – Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men!
• Hope – When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle
• We shall overcome – When haughty expectations prostrate lie
• Soul – O’er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain
• Once – Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee
• By a lake – Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars
• Fair star – Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the west
• Insurrection – As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow
• Adieu – Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown
• Thoughts – There’s not a nook within this solemn Pass
• Admonition – Well may’st thou halt—and gaze with brightening eye
• The preserve – The forest huge of ancient Caledon
• Aix-La-Chapelle – Was it to disenchant, and to undo
• When – What lovelier home could gentle Fancy choose?
• Westminster Bridge – Earth has not any thing to show more fair
• Roman artifacts – How profitless the relics that we cull
• Ancient awe – A weight of awe, not easy to be borne
• There – “There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride
• Mary vs. Elizabeth – Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed
• Absolution – A point of life between my Parents’ dust
• Graveyard – Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep
• Meditation – Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
• The ceiling – Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense
• Refuge – They dreamt not of a perishable home
• Ceremony – Closing the sacred Book which long has fed
• A constellation – As star that shines dependent upon star
• Wheedling promises – Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high
• Displacement – The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said
• Lunar comparisons – With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the sky
• Teaching – The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand
• Lone flower – Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they
• Hark – Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest
• Wind – I dropped my pen; and listened to the Wind
• In tune – It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
• Nature calls – Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard
• Doves – Near Anio’s stream I spied a gentle Dove
• Innocence – Life with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun
• I’d rather stay home – I am not one who much or oft delight
• Forget appearances – “Yet life,” you say, “is life; we have seen and see”
• Wings – Wings have we—and as far as we can go
• Sailing – Nor can I not believe but that hereby
• Having it all – How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks
• Why so silent? – Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant
• To Venus – Though joy attend Thee orient at the birth
• So, I’ve picked the flowers – Serving no haughty Muse, my hands have here