Poems, 1815


EYESIGHT                        
1815 How sweet it is  Enter through ears and eyesight, with such gleam

EYNE                            
1815 The Brothers     the End, Eyne, or Enna. It falls into the sea a little

FACE                            
1815 An Evening Walk  Brushing with lucid wands the water's face;
1815 An Evening Walk  She lifts in silence up her lovely face;
1815 Descriptive      The face of traveller passing to and fro,
     Sketches
1815 Anecdote for     His face is fair and fresh to see; 
     Fathers
1815 The Thorn        I did not speak--I saw her face, 
1815 The Thorn        Her face--it was enough for me; 
1815 The Thorn        A baby and a baby's face, 
1815 Goody Blake and  His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow, 
     Harry Gill
1815 The Idiot Boy    And Betty's face with joy o'erflows, 
1815 The Idiot Boy    You plainly in her face may read it, 
1815 The Idiot Boy    His face unto his horse's tail, 
1815 The Old          Beat his grey locks against his withered face.
     Cumberland
1815 Animal           He travels on, and in his face, his step,
     Tranquillity and
1815 Three years she  Shall pass into her face. 
     grew in sun and
1815 A Poet's Epitaph The falsehood of thy sallow face.
1815 The Fountain     We wear a face of joy, because
1815 The Danish Boy.  Fresh as the bloom upon his face.
     A Fragment
1815 The Danish Boy.  There sits he: in his face you spy
     A Fragment
1815 Lucy Gray        But the sweet face of Lucy Gray
1815 The Brothers     Into his face, until the setting sun
1815 The Brothers     To me it does not seem to wear the face
1815 The Brothers     The old House-clock is decked with a new face;
1815 Michael          The pastoral Mountains front you, face to face.
1815 Michael          That he could look his trouble in the face, 
1815 Michael          And her face brightened. The Old Man was glad,
1815 Michael          Before I knew thy face.--Heaven bless thee, Boy!
1815 Michael          The public Way, he put on a bold face;
1815 The Pet-lamb     I unobserved could see the workings of her face:
1815 To Joanna        Smiled in my face) this were in simple truth
1815 Hart-leap Well   Sir Walter wiped his face, and cried, Till now
1815 'Tis said, that  To store up kindred hours for me, thy face
     some have died
1815 Ellen Irwin      But what is Gordon's beauteous face?
1815 The Two Thieves  Every face in the village is dimpled with smiles. 
1815 Beggars          Her face was of Egyptian brown:
1815 Beggars          And like that Woman's face as gold is like to gold.
1815 The Emigrant     An Infant's face and looks are thine,
     Mother
1815 The Emigrant     Be shed upon an Infant's face,
     Mother
1815 The Emigrant     I should behold his face again!
     Mother
1815 The Emigrant     Blessings upon that quiet face,
     Mother
1815 To the Small     'Twas a face I did not know;
     Celandine
1815 To the Small     Thou dost shew thy pleasant face
     Celandine
1815 Resolution and   Himself he propped, his body, limbs, and face,
     Independence
1815 A Farewell       To them who look not daily on thy face;
1815 September 1,     Was silent, motionless in eyes and face.
     1802
1815 Stanzas written  And a pale face that seemed undoubtedly 
     in my Pocket-
1815 Stanzas written  As if a blooming face it ought to be;
     in my Pocket-
1815 To the same      Of Nature, with that homely face,
     Flower [To the
1815 To a Highland    For never saw I mien, or face,
     Girl
1815 To a Highland    A face with gladness overspread!
     Girl
1815 Yarrow Unvisited And looked me in the face, to think
1815 Fly, some kind   No mirthful gladness:--serious is her face,
     Harbinger, to
1815 The Blind        And there he is in face of Heaven!
     Highland Boy
1815 October 1803     When, looking on the present face of things,
     ["When looking"]
1815 The Farmer of    More of soul in his face than of words on his tongue;
     Tilsbury Vale
1815 The Affliction   And never blush was on my face.
     of Margaret ----
1815 Address to my    Or the night's darkness, or its cheerful face
     Infant Daughter,
1815 Address to my    --That smile forbids the thought;--for on thy face
     Infant Daughter,
1815 The Kitten and   O'er my little Laura's face;
     Falling Leaves
1815 Ode to Duty      As is the smile upon thy face:
1815 Character of the In face of these doth exercise a power
     Happy Warrior
1815 Character of the But who, if he be called upon to face
     Happy Warrior
1815 Power of Music   It gleams on the face, there, of dusky-browed Jack,
1815 Yes, it was the  Face of thing that is to be;
     mountain Echo
1815 With how sad     How silently, and with how wan a face!*
     steps, O Moon
1815 Methought I saw  Smooth way; and I beheld the face of one 
     the footsteps
1815 Methought I saw  With her face up to heaven; that seemed to have
     the footsteps
1815 Song at the      Face of thing that is to be;
     Feast of
1815 Composed on the  No mirthful gladness:--serious is her face,
     eve of the
1815 Laodamia         Accept the gift, behold him face to face!
1815 Surprised by joy Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.

FACES                           
1815 Her eyes are     And fiendish faces one, two, three, 
     Wild
1815 Composed near    Banners, and happy faces, far and nigh!
     Calais
1815 Rob Roy's Grave  Are faces that attest the same;
1815 Gipsies          That on their Gipsy-faces falls,
1815 November 1813    Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright,
1815 Even as a        A gay society with faces bright,
     dragon's eye

FACING                          
1815 Lines written    While, facing thus the crimson west,
     while sailing in

FACT                            
1815 Rob Roy's Grave  Judge thou of law and fact! 

FACTIONS                        
1815 Composed while   Whose factions lead astray the wise and brave;
     the Author was

FACTORS                         
1815 Rob Roy's Grave  Then rents and Factors, rights of chase,

FACTS                           
1815 The Brothers     And hence, so far from wanting facts or dates

FACULTIES                       
1815 Lines left upon  For any living thing, hath faculties 
     a Seat in a Yew-
1815 October 1803     That virtue and the faculties within
     ["These times"]
1815 The Kitten and   And have faculties to take,
     Falling Leaves

FACULTY                         
1815 I wandered       upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it. The one which
     lonely as a
1815 Character of the And faculty for storm and turbulence,
     Happy Warrior
1815 "Weak is the     Who wants the glorious faculty assigned
     will of Man

FADDLE                          
1815 The Idiot Boy    With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle; 

FADE                            
1815 An Evening Walk  Ah no! as fades the vale, they fade away: 
1815 The Reverie of   She looks, and her Heart is in heaven: but they fade,
     Poor Susan
1815 Nutting          And fade, unseen by any human eye;
1815 On the           And what if she had seen those glories fade,
     Extinction of
1815 Composed after a And from our earthly memory fade away.
     Journey
1815 There is a       Fade, and participate in Man's decline.
     bondage worse
1815 Those words were And from our earthly memory fade
     uttered
1815 Ode. Intimations And fade into the light of common day.
     of Immortality
1815 The fairest,     The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade;
     brightest

FADED                           
1815 An Evening Walk  The lone black fir, forsakes the faded plain; 
1815 Descriptive      That faded silent from the upward eye,
     Sketches
1815 Ruth             With budding, fading, faded flowers
1815 From the dark    In the low dell mid Roslin's faded grove:
     chambers of

FADES                           
1815 An Evening Walk  Ah no! as fades the vale, they fade away: 

FADING                          
1815 An Evening Walk  The bird, who ceased, with fading light, to thread
1815 Ruth             With budding, fading, faded flowers

FAERIES                         
1815 The Seven        By Faeries all are buried there,
     Sisters
1815 Yes, it was the  And the Caves where Faeries sing
     mountain Echo
1815 Song at the      And the Caves where Faeries sing
     Feast of

FAERY                           
1815 An Evening Walk  On lovelier spectacle in faery days;
1815 To H. C. Six     Thou faery Voyager! that dost float
     years old
1815 To the same      That spreads itself, some Faery bold
     Flower [To the
1815 To the Cuckoo    An unsubstantial, faery place;
1815 The Kitten and   Sylph or Faery hither tending,--
     Falling Leaves
1815 To a Skylark     Had I now the wings of a Faery, 

FAGGOT                          
1815 Guilt and Sorrow Came, where beneath the trees a faggot blazed; 
1815 Lucy Gray        And snapped a faggot-band;
1815 Characteristics  And, as a faggot sparkles on the hearth,
     of a Child

FAGGOTS                         
1815 The Idiot Boy    Or bringing faggots from the wood. 

FAIL                            
1815 Extract from the Though his departing radiance fail
     Conclusion of a
1815 The Idiot Boy    As if her very life would fail. 
1815 The Idiot Boy    No wonder if her senses fail, 
1815 Three years she  Nor shall she fail to see
     grew in sun and
1815 Michael          By tendency of nature needs must fail. 
1815 A narrow girdle  Nor did we fail to see within ourselves
     of rough stones
1815 Hart-leap Well   But breath and eye-sight fail; and, one by one,
1815 Hart-leap Well   Till the foundations of the mountains fail
1815 The Matron of    Where common cheerfulness would fail:
     Jedborough
1815 Say, what is     Of perilous war her weightiest Armies fail,
     Honour?
1815 Feelings of a    Will fail to illuminate the Infant's bier;
     Noble Biscayan
1815 O'erweening      Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride
     Statesmen

FAILED                          
1815 The Brothers     Failed in him, and, not venturing to inquire
1815 Michael          And his heart failed him. Isabel, said he,
1815 The Force of     Nor failed at Even-song. 
     Prayer

FAILING                         
1815 Personal Talk    There do I find a never-failing store

FAILS                           
1815 An Evening Walk  On the dark earth the baffled vision fails;
1815 Star-gazers      A Boaster, that when he is tried, fails, and is put to shame? 
1815 And is it among  Ah no!--though Nature's dread protection fails,
     rude untutored

FAINT                           
1815 Descriptive      Faint wail of eagle melting into blue
     Sketches
1815 Tintern Abbey    With many recognitions dim and faint, 
1815 Tintern Abbey    Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts 
1815 Personal Talk    Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong.

FAINTED                         
1815 The Blind        She who had fainted with her fear,
     Highland Boy

FAIR                            
1815 An Evening Walk  How fair it's lawns and sheltering woods appear!
1815 Remembrance of   As now, fair River! come to me.
     Collins
1815 Remembrance of   Oh glide, fair Stream! for ever so,
     Collins
1815 Descriptive      Or marks, mid opening cliffs, fair dark-eyed maids
     Sketches
1815 Descriptive      Fair smiling lights the purpled hills illume!
     Sketches
1815 We are Seven     Her eyes were fair, and very fair, 
1815 We are Seven     When it is light and fair, 
1815 Anecdote for     His face is fair and fresh to see; 
     Fathers
1815 The Thorn        As if by hand of lady fair 
1815 The Thorn        An infant's grave was half so fair. 
1815 The Thorn        Beneath that Hill of moss so fair. 
1815 The Thorn        Beneath that Hill of moss so fair. 
1815 Her eyes are     Be changed, that was so fair to view, 
     Wild
1815 Her eyes are     'Tis fair enough for thee, my dove! 
     Wild
1815 Simon Lee        That's fair behind, and fair before; 
1815 Lines written in To her fair works did Nature link 
     Early Spring
1815 The Idiot Boy    Beneath the Moon, yet shining fair, 
1815 Tintern Abbey    Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend, 
1815 There was a Boy  Fair are the woods, and beauteous the spot,
1815 She dwelt among  --Fair as a star, when only one
     the untrodden
1815 The two April    To see a Child so very fair,
     Mornings
1815 The Danish Boy.  So steady or so fair.
     A Fragment
1815 Ruth             Was not so fair as he;
1815 Ruth             Fair trees and lovely flowers;
1815 Ruth             For passions linked to forms so fair
1815 The Brothers     When, whether it blew foul or fair, they two
1815 The Pet-lamb     fair!
1815 To Joanna        The fair Joanna drew, as if she wished
1815 There is an      In the mid heavens, is never half so fair
     Eminence
1815 A narrow girdle  To pluck, some flower or water-weed, too fair
     of rough stones
1815 A narrow girdle  Fair Ferns and Flowers, and chiefly that tall Fern
     of rough stones
1815 'Tis said, that  Thou one fair shrub, oh! shed thy flowers,
     some have died
1815 Ellen Irwin      Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sate
1815 Ellen Irwin      Fair Ellen saw it when it came,
1815 The Two Thieves  There's ninety good seasons of fair and foul weather
1815 Written with a   Fair sights--and visions of romantic joy.
     Pencil upon a
1815 The Sailor's     Such strength, a dignity so fair: 
     Mother
1815 Foresight        Small and low, though fair as any:
1815 A Farewell       Sweet Garden-orchard, eminently fair,
1815 A Farewell       Fair in thyself and beautiful alone,
1815 Composed upon    Earth has not anything to shew more fair:
     Westminster
1815 Composed by the  Fair Star of evening, Splendor of the West,
     Sea-side, near
1815 Composed near    Fair seasons yet to come, and hopes as fair.
     Calais
1815 Near Dover,      Was like a Lake, or River bright and fair,
     September 1802
1815 Composed after a Did we behold, fair sights that might repay
     Journey
1815 To the same      Not quite so fair as many are
     Flower [To the
1815 To a Highland    As fair before me shall behold,
     Girl
1815 Yarrow Unvisited Fair hangs the apple frae the rock*,
1815 Yarrow Unvisited For when we're there although 'tis fair,
1815 England! the     Fair seed-time, better harvest might have been
     time is come
1815 She was a        Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
     Phantom of
1815 The Seven        Of your fair household, Father Knight,
     Sisters
1815 The Seven        Away the seven fair Campbells fly,
     Sisters
1815 The Seven        For us be fair and kind!
     Sisters
1815 The Seven        The Fishers say, those Sisters fair,
     Sisters
1815 Address to my    Fair are ye both, and both are free from stain:
     Infant Daughter,
1815 The Kitten and   Of this morning bright and fair,
     Falling Leaves
1815 The Small        O Man, that from thy fair and shining youth
     Celandine
1815 Ode to Duty      Nor know we any thing so fair
1815 The Horn of      To Egremont's Domains and Castle fair.
     Egremont Castle
1815 The Horn of      Flourishing in fair estate.
     Egremont Castle
1815 Star-gazers      And he's as happy in his night, for the heavens are blue and fair;
1815 Yes, it was the  Fair greeting doth she send to all
     mountain Echo
1815 Yes, it was the  For one fair House by Emont's side,
     mountain Echo
1815 With how sad     What strife would then be yours, fair Creatures, driven
     steps, O Moon
1815 Ode. Intimations Are beautiful and fair;
     of Immortality
1815 The Mother's     Where two fair swans together glide.
     Return
1815 Song at the      Fair greeting doth she send to all
     Feast of
1815 Song at the      For one fair House by Emont's side,
     Feast of
1815 In a Garden of   Of this fair Garden, and its alleys dim,
     the Same
1815 Laodamia         Redundant are thy locks, thy lips as fair
1815 Yarrow Visited   But thou, that didst appear so fair
1815 Yarrow Visited   Fair scenes for childhood's opening bloom,
1815 To the Poet,     That Work a living landscape fair and bright;
     John Dyer

FAIRER                          
1815 A whirl-blast    A fairer bower was never seen.
     from behind the

FAIREST                         
1815 Descriptive      Usurping where the fairest herbage smiled;
     Sketches
1815 Ellen Irwin      And Gordon, fairest of them all,
1815 The fairest,     The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade;
     brightest

FAIRFIELD                       
1815 To Joanna        And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone:

FAIRIES                         
1815 Stanzas written  And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
     in my Pocket-

FAIRLY                          
1815 Rob Roy's Grave  How fairly to his mind!

FAIRS                           
1815 How sweet it is  At Wakes and Fairs with wandering Mountebanks,--

FAIRY                           
1815 Nutting          Where fairy water-breaks do murmur on
1815 Ruth             With all its fairy crowds

FAITH                           
1815 The Thorn        And then the wind! in faith, it was 
1815 Lines written in And 'tis my faith that every flower 
     Early Spring
1815 Tintern Abbey    Our chearful faith that all which we behold 
1815 Ruth             We in the Church our faith will plight,
1815 Resolution and   To genial faith, still rich in genial good;
     Independence
1815 It is not to be  That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals hold
     thought of
1815 October 1803     What do we gather hence but firmer faith
     ["These times"]
1815 Ode to Duty      This faith, even now, do entertain:
1815 Elegiac Stanzas  A faith, a trust, that could not be betray'd.
1815 Power of Music   An Orpheus! an Orpheus!--yes, Faith may grow bold,
1815 Ode. Intimations In the faith that looks
     of Immortality
1815 O Nightingale!   Of serious faith, and inward glee;
     thou surely art
1815 In due           Yet soon by Christian faith is grief subdued,
     observance of an
1815 The Oak of       (So faith too fondly deemed) a voice divine
     Guernica
1815 Laodamia         With faith, the suppliant heav'n-ward lifts her hands;
1815 Laodamia         Of Hellespont (such faith was entertained)
1815 "Weak is the     Of Faith, and round the Sufferer's temples bind
     will of Man

FAITHFUL                        
1815 Guilt and Sorrow To charm the surly House-dog's faithful bark, 
1815 Michael          Sitting alone, with that his faithful Dog,
1815 The Pet-lamb     A faithful Nurse thou hast, the Dam that did thee yean
1815 Character of the Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; 
     Happy Warrior
1815 Yes, it was the  We loudest in the faithful North:
     mountain Echo
1815 Song at the      We loudest in the faithful North:
     Feast of
1815 In a Garden of   Oft is the Medal faithful to its trust
     the Same
1815 Laodamia         Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control
1815 Surprised by joy Love, faithful love recalled thee to my mind--