Volume 2 — Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: 1803

Edited by William Knight

1896

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1803

The Green Linnet Yew-Trees "Who fancied what a pretty sight" "It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown" Memorials of a Tour in Scotland Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. (August, 1803) At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after his Death Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence To the Sons of Burns, after Visiting the Grave of their Father To a Highland Girl Glen-Almain; or, The Narrow Glen Stepping Westward The Solitary Reaper Address to Kilchurn Castle Rob Roy's Grave Sonnet composed at —— Castle Yarrow Unvisited The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale" The Blind Highland Boy October, 1803 "There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear" October, 1803 (2) "England! the time is come when thou should'st wean" October, 1803 (3) To the Men of Kent. October, 1803 In the Pass of Killicranky Anticipation. October, 1803 Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803

The poems associated with the year 1803 consist mainly of the "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland," which Wordsworth and his sister took—along with Coleridge—in the autumn of that year, although many of these were not written till some time after the Tour was finished. The Green Linnet and Yew-trees were written in 1803, and some sonnets were composed in the month of October; but, on the whole, 1803 was not a fruitful year in Wordsworth's life, as regards his lyrics and smaller poems. Doubtless both The Prelude and The Excursion were revised in 1803.—Ed.

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