Ode-Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Observations Prefixed to the Second Edition of Several of the Foregoing Poems, On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples. Four fiery Steeds impatient of the Rein Gold and Silver Fishes, in a Vase Liberty. (Sequel to the above) Sonnets composed during a Tour in Scotland in 1833 Adieu! Rydalian Laurels! that have grown Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle They called Thee merry England, in old Time. To a Friend (on the Banks of the Derwent) Mary Queen of Scots (landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington) 543 In the Channel, between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man The Retired Marine Officer, Isle of Man By a Retired Mariner (a Friend of the Author) At Bala-sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be written by a Friend) Despond who will-I heard a voice exclaim In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. (July 17, 1833) —, upon the Birth of her first-born Child, March, 1833 Sonnet, composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day. Loving and Liking: irregular Verses addressed to a Child St. Bees, suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees' Heads Praised be the Rivers, from their Mountain-springs MEMOIR. ILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the most distinguished philosophical poet that England has produced, was born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, on the 7th of April, 1770. The family of Wordsworth appears to have been of some little antiquity, as members of it are found settled at Pennistone, near Doncaster, so far back as the reign of Edward III., and the poet himself had in his possession an antique oak chest, or almery, of the reign of Henry VIII. (1525), on which was recorded, in curious carving, some generations of the family pedigree. But the branch from which he sprang was originally planted at Falthwaite, near Stainborough, and removed thence to Sockbridge, in Westmoreland, about the beginning of the last century. The poet's father, who is said to have been a man of vigorous mental powers and of some eloquence, was an attorney, and held the appointment of law-agent to the Earl of Lonsdale. Ann Cookson, the poet's mother, was the daughter of a mercer of Penrith, and was descended, on her mother's side, from a very ancient family— the Crackanthorpes-who had been seated at Newbiggen Hall, in Westmoreland, for more than five hundred years. She appears to have been a woman of gentle and affectionate disposition, of much wisdom, high moral principle, and unaffected piety. She died when the poet was in his eighth year; so that, like Cowper, he had hardly listened to the language of maternal love when it was lost to him for ever. Henceforth he was confided to the care of strangers. But the impressions left upon his mind by his mother's tender treatment, and by the liberal and enlarged, yet gentle and confiding spirit in which she conducted the moral and mental training of his childhood, appear to have been deep and abiding, for he has embodied them in one or two passages of his poems, in lines as full of truthful feeling and tender pathos as any in the language. The family consisted of five children-four sons and one daughter. The eldest son became an attorney and died in 1816; the third went to sea, became commander of the Earl of Abergavenny, East Indiaman, and perished by shipwreck off Weymouth in 1805. The youngest, Christopher, entered the Church, and became well known as Dr. Wordsworth,* author of a work entitled "Ecclesiastical * Two of Dr. Wordsworth's sons have become somewhat distinguished. One of themChristopher Wordsworth, D.D.-is the present able and learned Bishop of Lincoln, the writer of |