Wordsworth's



Poetical Works

volume 1




edited by

William Knight



1896

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School
• Written in very Early Youth
• An Evening Walk
• Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening
• Remembrance of Collins
• Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps
• Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain
• Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect
• The Borderers
• The Reverie of Poor Susan
• 1798: A Night Piece
• We are Seven
• Anecdote for Fathers
• "A whirl-blast from behind the hill"
• The Thorn
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill
• Her Eyes are Wild
• Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
• Lines written in Early Spring
• To my Sister
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables Turned
• The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
• The Last of the Flock
• The Idiot Boy
• The Old Cumberland Beggar
• Animal Tranquillity and Decay

• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Appendix V
• Appendix VI
• Appendix VII
• Appendix VIII

Preface

During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailedstudy of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library editionof his Poetical Works in eight volumes, including the "Prefaces" and"Appendices" to his Poems, and a few others of his Prose Works, such ashis

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