Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree which stands near the lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, yet commanding a beautiful prospect ; The nightingale : a conversational poem ; The female vagrant ...
| dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou Computing Service, University of Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:59:34Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:59:34Z |
| dc.date.created | 1800 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0151 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0151 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Contents: Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree. The nightingale. The female vagrant. Goody Blake and Harry Gill. Lines written at a small distance from my house. Simon Lee. Anecdote for fathers. We are seven. Lines written in early Spring. The thorn. The last of the flock. The dungeon. The mad mother. The idiot boy. Lines written near Richmond. Expostulation and reply. The tables turned. Old man travelling. The complaint of a forsaken Indian woman. The convict. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey A selection of poems from the Lyrical ballads by Wordsworth. The printed collection also contained works by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Poems -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Lyric poems -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
| dc.title | Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree which stands near the lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, yet commanding a beautiful prospect ; The nightingale : a conversational poem ; The female vagrant ... |
| dc.type | Text |
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| identifier.ee | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/wordswilli028005 |
| identifier.lccn | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006595 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<V 2> <A W> <L 0> <R 1> <P 35> $LINES LEFT UPON A $SEAT IN A $YEW-TREE + WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF $ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, + YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT =$NAY, $TRAVELLEY! REST. THIS LONELY YEW-TREE STANDS $FAR FROM ALL HUMAN DWELLING: WHAT IF HERE $NO SPARKLING RIVULET SPREAD THE VERDANT HERB; $WHAT IF THESE BARREN BOUGHS THE BEE NOT LOVES; $YET, IF THE WIND BREATHE SOFT, THE CURLING WAVES, $THAT BREAK AGAINST THE SHORE, SHALL LULL THY MIND $BY ONE SOFT IMPULSE SAVED FROM VACANCY. <P 36> =$WHO HE WAS $THAT PILED THESE STONES, AND WITH THE MOSSY SOD $FIRST COVERED O'ER, AND TAUGHT THIS AGED TREE, $NOW WILD, TO BEND ITS ARMS IN CIRCLING SHADE, $I WELL REMEMBER.=$HE WAS ONE WHO OWN'D $NO COMMON SOUL. $IN YOUTH, BY GENIUS NURS'D, $AND BIG WITH LOFTY VIEWS, HE TO THE WORLD $WENT FORTH, PURE IN HIS HEART, AGAINST THE TAINT $OF DISSOLUTE TONGUES, 'GAINST JEALOUSY, AND HATE, $AND SCORN, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES PREPARED, $ALL BUT NEGLECT: AND . . .
