POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D. C. L., POET LAUREATE, ETC., ETC. VOLUME I. . BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: BLAKEMAN AND MASON. M.DCCCLIX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa chusetts. CAMBRIDGE: METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS. IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness,) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge Of some dark mountain; or than those which seem CONTENTS. An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening 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 |