The poetical works of Wordsworth / with introductions and notes, edited by Thomas Hutchinson.

  • Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Date:
1910
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    POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. Ot the Poems in this class, “The Evening Walk” and “Descriptive Sketches” were first published in 1793. They are reprinted with some alterations that were chiefly made very soon after their publication. • * • • * • . . . . This notice, which was written some time ago, scarcely applies to the Poem, “Descriptive Sketches, as it now stands. The corrections, though numerous, are not, however, such as to prevent its retaining with propriety a place in the 1836. r. EXTRACT. FROM THE CONCLUSION OF A POEM, COM- POSED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL. [Composed 1786 — Published 1815] Pear native regions, I foretell, Prom what I feel at this farewell, That, wheresoe’er my steps may tend, And whensoe’er my course shall end, If in that hour a single tie 5 Survive of local sympathy, My soul will cast the backward view, The longing look alone ofFyou. Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest Par in the regions of the west, io Though to the vale no parting beam Be given, not one memorial gleam, A lingering light he fondly throws On the dear hills where first he rose. class of Juvenile Pieces1. II. WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH. [Composed 1786 (?).—Published Morning Post February 13, 1802 ; ed. 1807.] Calm is all nature as a resting wheel. The kine are couched upon the dewy grass; The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass, Is cropping audibly his later meal: Dark is the ground ; a slumber seems to steal 5 O’er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky. Now, in this blank of things, a har- mony, Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food; for only then, when me- mory io 1 See Appendix: Poems o/1793, pp. 591-617. B