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"O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied" 247 The French and the Spanish Guerillas 248 Maternal Grief 248

1811

Characteristics of a Child three years old 252 Spanish Guerillas, 1811 253 "The power of Armies is a visible thing" 254 "Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise" 255 Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. 256 Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty years after its composition 267 Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture 271 To the Poet, John Dyer 273

1812

Song for the Spinning Wheel 275 Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812 276 Water-fowl 277

1813

View from the Top of Black Comb 279 Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the side of the Mountain of Black Comb 281 November, 1813 282

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WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS

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1806

Wordsworth left Grasmere with his household for Coleorton in November 1806, and there is no evidence that he returned to Westmoreland till April 1808; although his sister spent part of the winter of 1807-8 at Dove Cottage, while he and Mrs. Wordsworth wintered at Stockton with the Hutchinson family. Several of the sonnets which are published in the "Poems" of 1807 refer, however, to Grasmere, and were probably composed there. I have conjecturally assigned a good many of them to the year 1806. Some may have been composed earlier than 1806, but it is not likely that any belong to a later year.

In addition to these, the poems of 1806 include the Character of the Happy Warrior, unless it should be assigned to the close of the previous year (see the note to the poem, p. 11), The Horn of Egremont Castle, the three poems composed in London in the spring of the year (April or May)—viz. Stray Pleasures, Power of Music, and Star-gazers—the lines on the Mountain Echo, those composed in expectation of the death of Mr. Fox, and the Ode, Intimations of Immortality.[A] Southey, in writing to Sir Walter Scott, on the 4th of February 1806, said, "Wordsworth has of late been more employed in correcting his poems than in