"WHAT HEAVENLY SMILES! O LADY MINE." Composed 1845. Published 1845 WHAT heavenly smiles ! O Lady mine, And from the headlong streams. "GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD." Composed 1845. Published 1845 GLAD sight wherever new with old Depends upon that mystery. We gaze, we also learn to love. "SO FAIR, SO SWEET, WITHAL SO SENSITIVE." Composed 1845. Published 1845 So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, That to this mountain-daisy's self were known And what if hence a bold desire should mount So might he ken how by his sovereign aid And were the Sister-power that shines by night Fond fancies! wheresoe'er shall turn thine eye All vain desires, all lawless wishes quelled, 1846. "THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS." Composed 1846. Published 1846. THE unremitting voice of nightly streams If neither soothing to the worm that gleams Nor unto silent leaves and drowsy flowers, That voice of unpretending harmony Or tax high Heaven with prodigality?) NOTES. (1) This Yew-tree has disappeared. It stood on the eastern shore of Esthwaite-water, about three-quarters of a mile from Hawkshead. (2) "This arose out of the affecting music of these birds, hanging in the London streets, during the freshness and stillness of the spring morning."-Wordsworth. (3) "Composed on the road between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden." -Wordsworth. (4) "At once the clouds seemed to cleave asunder, and left her" (the moon) "in the centre of a black-blue vault. She sailed along, followed by multitudes of stars, small, and bright, and sharp; their brightness seemed concentrated."-Dorothy Wordsworth, January 25, 1798. (5) The first stanza of this poem was written by Coleridge. The little girl was met by Wordsworth in the ruined area of Goodrich Castle, in 1793. (6) "I began it upon leaving Tintern, and concluded it as I was entering Bristol in the evening. Not a line of it was altered, nor any part of it written down till I reached Bristol."- Wordsworth. (7) A reminiscence of Wordsworth's first visit to Switzerland, with Robert Jones, in 1790; published in The Prelude, Book vi. (8) First published in The Friend, afterwards in The Prelude, Book i. (9) Of Hawkshead. (10) Hawkshead. (11) Between Esthwaite and Graythwaite. (12) This, and the four following poems on "Lucy," were written at Goslar in Germany. (13) The "Doctor" of v. 3 is a Divine; unless, indeed, we take "physician" of v. 5 to mean physicist. U (14) "In the School of Hawkshead is a tablet, on which are inscribed, in gilt letters, the Names of the several persons who have been Schoolmasters there since the foundation of the School, with the time at which they entered upon and quitted their office. Opposite to one of those Names the Author wrote the following lines." - Wordsworth. (15) The school was that of Hawkshead. (16) The Rev. William Taylor was the Schoolmaster from 1782 to 1786. (17) On settling at Dove Cottage, Town-End, Grasmere, where Wordsworth and his sister took up their abode on the shortest day of 1799. (18) The winter journey to Grasmere through Wensleydale. (19) Joanna Hutchinson. (20) "Ghyll, in the dialect of Cumberland and Westmoreland, is a short and, for the most part, a steep narrow valley, with a stream running through it. Force is the word universally employed in these dialects for waterfall." - Wordsworth. (21) The nest was in a hedge of privet and roses, on the low terrace wall of the garden at Cockermouth. In his poems Wordsworth named his lady sister Dorothy, "Emmeline," " Emily," or "Emma." (22) The "Lucy" of this poem was not the Lucy of the Goslar poems, but his sister Dorothy. The incident occurred at Racedown in 1795. (23) The first four stanzas refer to Wordsworth himself; the fifth, sixth, and seventh refer to Coleridge. (24) The "bower" is gone, but the "rocky well" exists; and the steep rock's breast" is "thronged with primroses" still in springtime. (25) In The Morning Post. (26) To Hartley Coleridge. (27) In the Town-End cottage garden, Grasmere. (28) The Lorton Yew still exists, but is a fragment of its former self. The fraternal four of Borrowdale were seriously damaged in the winter of 1883. (29) These lines refer to Mrs. Wordsworth. (30) The lines "They flash upon that inward eye were written by Mrs. Wordsworth. Dorothy Wordsworth thus describes these daffodils :-"There was |