"Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever."

Thoughts suggested on the Banks of the Nith.

"The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!"

Thoughts suggested on the Banks of the Nith.

"For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago."

The Solitary Reaper.

"Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again."

The Solitary Reaper.

"The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more."

The Solitary Reaper.

"Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance."

Address to Kilchurn Castle.

"A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy."

Rob Roy's Grave.

"Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."

Rob Roy's Grave.

"The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below."

Rob Roy's Grave.

"A brotherhood of venerable trees."

Sonnet composed at ---- Castle.

"Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!"

Yarrow Unvisited.

"Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath."

These Times strike Monied Worldlings.

"A remnant of uneasy light."

The Matron of Jedborough.

"Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!"

Sonnet, in the Pass of Killicranky.

"O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?"

To the Cuckoo.

"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn."

She was a Phantom of Delight.

"A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles."

She was a Phantom of Delight.

"The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command."

She was a Phantom of Delight.

"That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude."

I wandered lonely.

"To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,--behold our lot!"

The Small Celandine.

"Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!"

Ode to Duty.

"A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove."

Ode to Duty.

"Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!"

Ode to Duty.

"The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream."

Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm. Stanza 4.

"Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made."

To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature.

"But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave."

To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature.

"Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone."

The Prelude. Book iii.

"Another morn Risen on mid-noon."

The Prelude. Book vi.

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"

The Prelude. Book xi.

"The budding rose above the rose full blown."

The Prelude. Book xi.

"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."

The Prelude. Book xi.

"Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!-- Turns his necessity to glorious gain."

Character of the Happy Warrior.

"Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives."

Character of the Happy Warrior.

"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."

Character of the Happy Warrior.

"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."

Character of the Happy Warrior.

"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."

Character of the Happy Warrior.

"Like,--but oh how different!"

Yes, it was the Mountain Echo.

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.

"Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn."

Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.

"Maidens withering on the stalk."

Personal Talk. Stanza 1.

"Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet."

Personal Talk. Stanza 2.

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow."

Personal Talk. Stanza 3.

"The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb."

Personal Talk. Stanza 3.

"Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!-- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays."

Personal Talk. Stanza 4.

"A power is passing from the earth."

Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox.

"The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose."

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2.

"The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2.

"Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy."

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.

"At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day."

Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.