Poems, 1815


EVENING                         
1815 An Evening Walk  Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
1815 Lines written    Before us, tinged with Evening hues,
     while sailing in
1815 Remembrance of   --The evening darkness gathers round
     Collins
1815 Descriptive      And peeps the far-off spire, his evening bourn! 
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      The viewless lingerer hence, at evening, sees
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      melancholy or cheerful tones, as it was touched by the sun's evening
     Sketches                  or
1815 Descriptive      The beams of evening slipping soft between,
     Sketches
1815 The Tables       His first sweet evening yellow.
     Turned
1815 Influence of     The orange sky of evening died away.
     Natural Objects
1815 There was a Boy  At evening, when the earliest stars began
1815 There was a Boy  At evening, I believe, that oftentimes
1815 Strange fits of  Beneath the evening Moon.
     passion have I
1815 Ruth             From morn to evening dews. 
1815 Ruth             Among the evening clouds.
1815 Ruth             At evening in his homeward walk
1815 The Brothers     It was a July evening; and he sate
1815 The Brothers     Perhaps I might; and, on a winter's evening,
1815 The Brothers     But added, that, the evening being calm,
1815 Michael          Early at evening did it burn and late,
1815 Michael          Both old and young, was named The EVENING STAR.
1815 Michael          Recovered heart. That evening her best fare
1815 Michael          With Luke that evening thitherward he walked;
1815 Michael          The Cottage which was named The EVENING STAR
1815 The Pet-lamb     While to that Mountain Lamb she gave its evening meal.
1815 There is an      And, when at evening we pursue our walk
     Eminence
1815 A Farewell       Glitter'd at evening like a starry sky;
1815 Composed by the  Fair Star of evening, Splendor of the West,
     Sea-side, near
1815 It is a          It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free;
     beauteous
1815 Composed after a Dark, and more dark, the shades of Evening fell;
     Journey
1815 When, to the     And there I sit at evening, when the steep 
     attractions
1815 The Mother's     While sweetly shone the evening sun
     Return
1815 The Mother's     --But, see, the evening Star comes forth!
     Return
1815 The fairest,     Lo, in the vale, the mists of evening spread!
     brightest

EVENING'S                       
1815 Descriptive      While Evening's solemn bird melodious weeps,
     Sketches

EVENINGS                        
1815 Goody Blake and  Her evenings then were dull and dead!
     Harry Gill
1815 Michael          Two evenings after he had heard the news,

EVENT                           
1815 The Blind        Had watch'd the event, and now can see
     Highland Boy
1815 Character of the after tidings had been received of the Death of Lord Nelson, which
     Happy Warrior             event

EVENTS                          
1815 Michael          Which, though it be ungarnished with events,
1815 Ellen Irwin      on whose Banks the events here related took place.
1815 October 1803     The great events with which old story rings
     ["When looking"]

EVERLASTING                     
1815 Influence of     And everlasting motion! not in vain,
     Natural Objects
1815 For the Spot     And meditate on everlasting things.
     where the
1815 On the           She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
     Extinction of
1815 Yes, it was the  For everlasting blossoming:
     mountain Echo
1815 Song at the      For everlasting blossoming:
     Feast of
1815 Is there a power With deeds of hope and everlasting praise:
1815 Not without      An everlasting spring! in memory
     heavy grief of

EVERLASTINGLY                   
1815 It is a          A sound like thunder--everlastingly.
     beauteous
1815 To the Supreme   And sound thy praises everlastingly.
     Being

EVERMORE                        
1815 Goody Blake and  That evermore his teeth they chatter, 
     Harry Gill
1815 The Old          They move along the ground; and evermore,
     Cumberland
1815 The Pet-lamb     And thy mother from thy side for evermore was gone.
1815 The Blind        And this for evermore will do
     Highland Boy
1815 The Affliction   And be for evermore beguiled;
     of Margaret ----
1815 Ode. Intimations And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
     of Immortality

EVIL                            
1815 The Tables       Of moral evil and of good,
     Turned
1815 The Last of the  Alas! it was an evil time; 
     Flock
1815 The Idiot Boy    And like the very soul of evil, 
1815 Tintern Abbey    With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 
1815 The Old          In this cold abstinence from evil deeds,
     Cumberland
1815 Ruth             But ill he lived, much evil saw
1815 Michael          To my own family. An evil Man
1815 Michael          That was, and made an evil choice, if he
1815 Michael          When thou art gone away, should evil men
1815 Michael          To evil courses: ignominy and shame
1815 Near Dover,      What mightiness for evil and for good!
     September 1802
1815 It is not to be  Should perish; and to evil and to good
     thought of
1815 Character of the To evil for a guard against worse ill, 
     Happy Warrior
1815 The Horn of      By what evil spirit brought?
     Egremont Castle
1815 Yes, it was the  Alas! when evil men are strong
     mountain Echo
1815 Yes, it was the  I said, when evil Men are strong,
     mountain Echo
1815 Personal Talk    From evil-speaking; rancour, never sought,
1815 To Sleep ["Fond  All anguish; Saint that evil thoughts and aims
     words"]
1815 Ode. Intimations Oh evil day! if I were
     of Immortality
1815 Gipsies          Better vain deeds or evil than such life!
1815 Song at the      Alas! when evil men are strong
     Feast of
1815 Song at the      I said, when evil Men are strong,
     Feast of
1815 Here pause       In the worst moment of these evil days;

EWBANK                          
1815 The Brothers     Ewbank.
1815 The Brothers     That Leonard Ewbank was come home again,

EWBANKS                         
1815 The Brothers     Had clothed the Ewbanks for a thousand years.

EWE                             
1815 The Last of the  Yet, so it was, a Ewe I bought; 
     Flock
1815 The Last of the  And from this one, this single Ewe, 
     Flock
1815 The Last of the  A lamb, a weather, and a ewe;--
     Flock
1815 The Oak and the  Beneath my shade the mother Ewe
     Broom

EXACT                           
1815 Tintern Abbey    line of Young, the exact expression of which I cannot recollect.

EXALT                           
1815 Address to my    The affections, to exalt them or refine;
     Infant Daughter,

EXALTED                         
1815 The Old          By their good works exalted, lofty minds
     Cumberland
1815 O'er the wide    But more exalted, with a brighter train.
     earth
1815 Call not the     He sits a more exalted Potentate,
     royal Swede
1815 Written with a   Upon the exalted hills. He made report 
     Slate Pencil

EXAMPLE                         
1815 The King of      By one example hath set forth to all
     Sweden
1815 To the Sons of   Your Father such example gave,
     Burns

EXCEEDING                       
1815 The Thorn        From her exceeding pain. 
1815 Michael          Exceeding was the love he bare to him,
1815 The Kitten and   Of her own exceeding pleasure! 
     Falling Leaves

EXCELLENT                       
1815 Written in       Our earth is no doubt made of excellent stuff;
     Germany
1815 The Farmer of    Was the boast of the country for excellent cheer:
     Tilsbury Vale

EXCELLING                       
1815 Written at the   --There, though by right the excelling Painter sleep
     Request of Sir

EXCEPT                          
1815 I wandered       except for the reason given in the foregoing note.
     lonely as a

EXCESS                          
1815 Laodamia         For this the passion to excess was driven--

EXCHANGE                        
1815 To Joanna        And, after short exchange of village news,

EXCLAIMED                       
1815 The Waterfall    Exclaimed a thundering Voice,
     and the

EXCLAIMS                        
1815 Yes, it was the  'Quell the Scot,' exclaims the Lance,
     mountain Echo
1815 Song at the      'Quell the Scot,' exclaims the Lance,
     Feast of

EXCLUDE                         
1815 O mountain       Nor would the nicest Anchorite exclude
     Stream!

EXCLUDES                        
1815 Yarrow Visited   Mild dawn of promise! that excludes

EXCURSION                       
1815 French           account is given in the Preface to the EXCURSION.
     Revolution

EXECUTE                         
1815 Address to my    Doth all too often harshly execute
     Infant Daughter,

EXEMPTIONS                      
1815 The Old          His charters and exemptions; and, perchance,
     Cumberland

EXERCISE                        
1815 Michael          Would Michael exercise his heart with looks
1815 For the Spot     After long exercise in social cares
     where the
1815 French           Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
     Revolution
1815 French           Were called upon to exercise their skill,
     Revolution
1815 Character of the In face of these doth exercise a power
     Happy Warrior

EXERTION                        
1815 I wandered       upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it. The one which
     lonely as a

EXHALE                          
1815 Descriptive      For him lost flowers their idle sweets exhale;
     Sketches

EXHALED                         
1815 Not without      From thy mild manners, quietly exhaled.
     heavy grief of

EXHILARATED                     
1815 The Old          Returning with exhilarated heart, 
     Cumberland

EXHORTATION                     
1815 Nutting          By exhortation of my frugal Dame.

EXHORTATIONS                    
1815 Tintern Abbey    And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance, 

EXIST                           
1815 The Old          The dullest or most noxious, should exist
     Cumberland

EXISTENCE                       
1815 Tintern Abbey    Of past existence, wilt thou then forget 
1815 Laodamia         The end of man's existence I discerned,

EXISTING                        
1815 Written with a   The skeletons and pre-existing ghosts
     Pencil upon a

EXPANDS                         
1815 Laodamia         Her countenance brightens,--and her eye expands,

EXPECT                          
1815 Simon Lee        And I'm afraid that you expect 
1815 Resolution and   But how can He expect that others should
     Independence

EXPECTATION                     
1815 Nutting          And weary expectation, have been blessed

EXPECTATIONS                    
1815 The Brothers     His expectations to the fickle winds

EXPECTED                        
1815 Michael          The expected letter from their Kinsman came,

EXPECTS                         
1815 Laodamia         And she expects the issue in repose.

EXPEDIENTS                      
1815 Stanzas written  Expedients, too, of simplest sort he tried:
     in my Pocket-

EXPENSE                         
1815 Written in       Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense,
     London,

EXPERIENCE                      
1815 The Old          And that half-wisdom half-experience gives
     Cumberland

EXPIRE                          
1815 Descriptive      Where in a mighty crucible expire
     Sketches

EXPIRING                        
1815 Descriptive      While mists, suspended on the expiring gale, 
     Sketches

EXPLORE                         
1815 Address to my    Feelers of love,--put forth as if to explore
     Infant Daughter,
1815 Composed while   And through the human heart explore my way,
     the Author was

EXPOSED                         
1815 Address to my    Or to the churlish elements exposed
     Infant Daughter,
1815 Character of the As more exposed to suffering and distress;
     Happy Warrior

EXPRESS                         
1815 Elegiac Stanzas  To express what then I saw; and add the gleam,

EXPRESS'D                       
1815 The Emigrant     My song the workings of her heart express'd.
     Mother
1815 Glen Almain      Was moved; and in such way express'd 

EXPRESSED                       
1815 Composed after a Substantially expressed--a place for Bell
     Journey
1815 The Farmer of    Of the unfaded rose is expressed on his cheek.
     Tilsbury Vale

EXPRESSION                      
1815 Tintern Abbey    line of Young, the exact expression of which I cannot recollect.
1815 Animal           His gait, is one expression; every limb,
     Tranquillity and

EXPRESSIVE                      
1815 Descriptive      † Sugh, a scotch word expressive of the sound of
     Sketches

EXQUISITELY                     
1815 To H. C. Six     Thou art so exquisitely wild,
     years old

EXTEND                          
1815 Address to my    A measure is of Thee, whose claims extend
     Infant Daughter,
1815 The Oak of       Which should extend thy branches on the ground, 
     Guernica

EXTENDED                        
1815 Ellen Irwin      His body he extended,

EXTENSIVE                       
1815 Written with a   parts; and, from its situation, the summit commands a more extensive
     Slate Pencil              view

EXTENT                          
1815 Written with a   covers a much greater extent of ground than any other Mountain in
     Slate Pencil              these

EXTERIOR                        
1815 Ode. Intimations Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
     of Immortality

EXTERNAL                        
1815 O'erweening      On fleets and armies, and external wealth:
     Statesmen

EXTINGUISHED                    
1815 Tintern Abbey    And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
1815 Written with a   Extinguished in a moment; total gloom,
     Slate Pencil

EXTRACT                         
1815 French           * This, and the Extract, vol I. page 44, and the
     Revolution

EXTREME                         
1815 Resolution and   Nor all asleep; in his extreme old age:
     Independence
1815 Tribute to the   Extreme old age had wasted thee away;
     Memory of the

EXTREMELY                       
1815 Ruth             which are alluded to a few stanzas below, are extremely beautiful,
                               and

EXTREMITY                       
1815 Here pause       And justice labours in extremity,
1815 Written with a   Black Comb stands at the southern extremity of Cumberland: its base
     Slate Pencil

EXULT                           
1815 November 1806    We shall exult, if They who rule the land 

EXULTATIONS                     
1815 To Toussaint     Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
     L'Ouverture

EXULTING                        
1815 Descriptive      Exulting mid the winter of the skies,
     Sketches
1815 Influence of     Proud and exulting like an untired horse
     Natural Objects
1815 Nutting          Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings,
1815 Ruth             And there, exulting in her wrongs,

EYE                             
1815 An Evening Walk  No favoured eye was e'er allowed to gaze
1815 Descriptive      Moves there a cloud o'er mid-day's flaming eye?
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      The maidens eye him with inquiring glance, 
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      How bless'd, delicious scene! the eye that greets
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      Loose hanging rocks the Day's bless'd eye that hide,
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      That faded silent from the upward eye,
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      In solemn shapes before the admiring eye
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stayed.
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      Oh! give not me that eye of hard disdain
     Sketches
1815 Lines left upon  Fixing his down-cast eye, he many an hour 
     a Seat in a Yew-
1815 Lines left upon  Till his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale 
     a Seat in a Yew-
1815 Lines left upon  Is in its infancy. The man whose eye 
     a Seat in a Yew-
1815 A Night-Piece    His lonesome path, with unobserving eye 
1815 Anecdote for     It caught his eye, he saw it plain--
     Fathers
1815 The Thorn        And cups, the darlings of the eye, 
1815 The Thorn        As now to any eye was plain; 
1815 Her eyes are     Her eye-brows have a rusty stain, 
     Wild
1815 Simon Lee        And, though he has but one eye left, 
1815 Simon Lee        Of his right eye, as you may see: 
1815 Expostulation    The eye--it cannot choose but see;
     and Reply
1815 Tintern Abbey    As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: 
1815 Tintern Abbey    While with an eye made quiet by the power 
1815 Tintern Abbey    Unborrowed from the eye.--That time is past, 
1815 Tintern Abbey    Of eye and ear, both what they half-create *,
1815 The Old          As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
     Cumberland
1815 The Old          So in the eye of Nature let him die.
     Cumberland
1815 Nutting          And fade, unseen by any human eye;
1815 Strange fits of  Upon the Moon I fixed my eye,
     passion have I
1815 She dwelt among  Half hidden from the eye!
     the untrodden
1815 A Poet's Epitaph The hardness of thy coward eye,
1815 A Poet's Epitaph --The harvest of a quiet eye
1815 Matthew          Cypher and syllable, thine eye 
1815 The two April    And fixing still his eye
     Mornings
1815 Written in       His eye-sight and hearing are lost;
     Germany
1815 The Brothers     Even with the organs of his bodily eye,
1815 To Joanna        And traced the lofty barrier with my eye
1815 Hart-leap Well   But breath and eye-sight fail; and, one by one,
1815 Hart-leap Well   More doleful place did never eye survey;
1815 The Two Thieves  Old Daniel begins, he stops short and his eye
1815 Beggars          And, in the twinkling of an eye,
1815 Resolution and   In my mind's eye I seem'd to see him pace
     Independence
1815 Composed after a All disappointment! and, as such, the eye
     Journey
1815 To the same      A little Cyclops, with one eye
     Flower [To the
1815 Stepping         Its power was felt; and while my eye 
     Westward
1815 The Matron of    He sits, and with a vacant eye;
     Jedborough
1815 The Matron of    A trouble in her strong black eye;
     Jedborough
1815 The Blind        By any human eye. 
     Highland Boy
1815 She was a        And now I see with eye serene
     Phantom of
1815 I wandered       * They flash upon that inward eye
     lonely as a
1815 The Kitten and   In her upward eye of fire!
     Falling Leaves
1815 The Kitten and   Were her antics played in the eye
     Falling Leaves
1815 The Kitten and   Or an Infant's laughing eye
     Falling Leaves
1815 Ode to Duty      There are who ask not if thine eye
1815 When, to the     He had surveyed it with a finer eye, 
     attractions
1815 When, to the     And an eye practised like a blind man's touch.
     attractions
1815 Character of the Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye,
     Happy Warrior
1815 Stray Pleasures  In the broad open eye of the solitary sky,
1815 Yes, it was the  The pair were Servants of his eye
     mountain Echo
1815 Yes, it was the  Among the Heavens his eye can see
     mountain Echo
1815 Admonition       Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye!
1815 Ode. Intimations Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind,
     of Immortality
1815 Ode. Intimations Do take a sober colouring from an eye
     of Immortality
1815 The Mother's     And closed the sparkling eye.
     Return
1815 Though narrow be An ample sovereignty of eye and ear.
     that old Man's
1815 Song at the      The pair were Servants of his eye
     Feast of
1815 Song at the      Among the Heavens his eye can see
     Feast of
1815 The Force of     And from the look of the Falconer's eye; 
     Prayer
1815 Feelings of the  We read the dictate in the Infant's eye;
     Tyrolese
1815 O'er the wide    Even to the death:--else wherefore should the eye
     earth
1815 Hail, Zaragoza!  Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
1815 The power of     No eye can follow, to a fatal place
     Armies
1815 Here pause       On prosperous Tyrants with a dazzled eye;
1815 View from the    And, in a line of eye-sight linked with these,
     top of Black
1815 Laodamia         Her countenance brightens,--and her eye expands,
1815 The fairest,     He who stood visible to Mirzah's eye,
     brightest
1815 Even as a        Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress
     dragon's eye

EYED                            
1815 Descriptive      Or marks, mid opening cliffs, fair dark-eyed maids
     Sketches
1815 Nutting          Voluptuous, fearless of a rival, eyed
1815 The Fountain     In silence Mathew lay, and eyed
1815 The Two Thieves  Old Man! whom so oft I with pity have eyed,
1815 And is it among  By Ladies, meek-eyed Women without fear;
     rude untutored

EYES                            
1815 Descriptive      And start the astonished shades at female eyes.
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      And often grasps her sword, and often eyes;
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      That hut which from the hills his eyes employs
     Sketches
1815 The Reverie of   And the colours have all passed away from her eyes.
     Poor Susan
1815 We are Seven     Her eyes were fair, and very fair, 
1815 The Thorn        Before their eyes began to stir; 
1815 Her eyes are     Her eyes are wild, her head is bare, 
     Wild
1815 Simon Lee        The tears into his eyes were brought, 
1815 The Complaint of And yet they are upon my eyes,
     a Forsaken
1815 The Idiot Boy    That should he lose his eyes and ears, 
1815 The Idiot Boy    His glimmering eyes that peep and dose!
1815 Tintern Abbey    Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while 
1815 Tintern Abbey    Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams 
1815 The Old          His eyes are turned, and, as he moves along,
     Cumberland
1815 The Old          Bowbent, his eyes for ever on the ground,
     Cumberland
1815 The Old          Few are his pleasures: if his eyes have now
     Cumberland
1815 Strange fits of  And, all the while, my eyes I kept
     passion have I
1815 I travelled      That Lucy's eyes surveyed.
     among unknown
1815 A Poet's Epitaph Physician art thou? One, all eyes,
1815 A Poet's Epitaph And He has neither eyes nor ears;
1815 Matthew          The tears which came to Mathew's eyes
1815 The Fountain     My eyes are dim with childish tears,
1815 To a Sexton      Here, alone, before thine eyes,
1815 Ruth             That our own children to our eyes
1815 The Brothers     Sent to his heart! He lifted up his eyes,
1815 The Idle         And now, all eyes and feet, hath gained
     Shepherd-boys
1815 To Joanna        Joanna, looking in my eyes, beheld
1815 Hart-leap Well   Joy sparkled in the prancing Courser's eyes;
1815 Hart-leap Well   Such sight was never seen by living eyes:
1815 The Sparrow's    She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
     Nest
1815 The Emigrant     Thine eyes are on me--they would speak,
     Mother
1815 The Redbreast    * Could Father Adam open his eyes
     chasing the
1815 To the Small     Eyes of some men travel far
     Celandine
1815 Resolution and   And there was, while he spake, a fire about his eyes.
     Independence
1815 September 1,     Was silent, motionless in eyes and face.
     1802
1815 Stanzas written  A noticeable Man with large grey eyes,
     in my Pocket-
1815 The Green Linnet While thus before my eyes he gleams,
1815 To a Highland    And yet my eyes are filled with tears.
     Girl
1815 To a Highland    Our Memory, feel that she hath eyes:
     Girl
1815 The Matron of    Of little Infants, when their eyes
     Jedborough
1815 The Blind        The Child; when she can trust her eyes,
     Highland Boy
1815 The Blind        Tears flowed in torrents from her eyes;
     Highland Boy
1815 The Farmer of    You lift up your eyes!--but I guess that you frame
     Tilsbury Vale
1815 The Farmer of    And tears of fifteen will come into his eyes.
     Tilsbury Vale
1815 She was a        Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
     Phantom of
1815 The Affliction   I now can see with better eyes;
     of Margaret ----
1815 Fidelity         He halts, and searches with his eyes
1815 Incident         Sheep and Cattle eyes with care;
     characteristic
1815 Louisa           Are hidden in her eyes.
1815 Star-gazers      Or is it good as others are, and be their eyes in fault?
1815 Star-gazers      Their eyes, or minds? or, finally, is this resplendent Vault?
1815 Yes, it was the  She is speechless, but her eyes
     mountain Echo
1815 Personal Talk    Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes,
1815 Those words were Mine eyes yet lingering on that solemn sight:
     uttered
1815 From the Same    No mortal object did these eyes behold
     ["No mortal
1815 Methought I saw  Which mists and vapours from mine eyes did shroud,
     the footsteps
1815 Ode. Intimations With light upon him from his Father's eyes!
     of Immortality
1815 Song at the      She is speechless, but her eyes
     Feast of
1815 There never      Rises no mountain to mine eyes unknown;
     breathed a man
1815 Not without      The eyes of all Savona streamed with tears.
     heavy grief of
1815 Characteristics  To dignify arch looks and laughing eyes;
     of a Child
1815 Written with a   The many-coloured map before his eyes
     Slate Pencil
1815 Written with a   In which he sate alone with unclosed eyes,
     Slate Pencil
1815 Laodamia         And while my youthful peers, before my eyes,
1815 Yarrow Visited   Nor have these eyes by greener hills
1815 Hail, Twilight   Looked ere his eyes were closed. By him was seen