I sing: "fit audience let me find though few!"
So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard
In holiest mood. Urania, I shall need
Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such
Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven!
Descend from Heaven, Urania. . . .

.... Still govern thou my song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Under the covert of these clustering elms.
Under the covert of some ancient oak.

That left half-told the preternatural tale.
That left half told The story.

Commenced in pain,

In pain commenced, and ended without peace.
Though fall'n on evil days,

On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

Yet cease I not to struggle, and aspire.
Yet not the more

Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt.

Who dwell on earth, yet breathe empyreal air.

I have presumed,

An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air.

White Doe, vii. 142.

Excursion, v. 80-81.
Peter Bell, 855.

Allegro, 77-8.
Penseroso, 73.

Tyrolese Sonnets, ii. 2-3.
Allegro, 36.

Spanish Guerillas, 3-4.

P. L. vi. 233-6.

View from Black Comb, 27.
P. L. ii. 395.

Excursion, preface, 23-7.

P. L. vii. 1, 30-31.

Ib. i. 51.

P. R. i. 305; cf. ii. 262-3.
Ib. i. 179.
Penseroso, 109–10.

Ib. iv. 2-3.

P. L. vii. 25-6.

Ib. iv. 126.

P. L. iii. 26-7.

Ib. iv. 231.

P. L. vii. 13-14.

("Empyreal air" occurs again in Epitaphs from Chiabrera, viii. 20, and
"empyreal" in five other places.)

Upon the breast of new-created earth

Man walked; and when and wheresoe'er he moved,

Alone or mated, solitude was not.

He heard, borne on the wind, the articulate voice

Of God; and Angels to his sight appeared

Crowning the glorious hills of paradise;

Or through the groves gliding like morning mist
Enkindled by the sun. He sate- and talked
With winged Messengers.

Ib. iv. 631-9.

(This appears to be a reference to God's talks with Adam and Eve, the
visit of Raphael, Michael, etc., in Paradise Lost. Lines 634-7 seem to
refer to the passages,

How often, from the steep

Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard

Celestial voices!

P. L. iv. 680-82.

P. L. xi. 228–30.

P. L. xii. 628-9; cf. ix. 179–80.)

Ib. v. 145-6.
Penseroso, 158.

Ib. v. 318-20.

P. L. i. 157.

Ib. vi. 260.

P. L. v. 899.

(Wordsworth's "Self-reviewed, self-catechised, self-punished, ib. vi. 386–
7, seems made by analogy to this line of Milton's and similar ones: e. g.,
P. L. ii. 185, iii. 372-5, and particularly iii. 130, "self-tempted, self-
depraved.")

(Wordsworth also has "instinct with " music, freshness, malice, etc.:
Morning Exercise, 29; Duddon, iii. 13; Eccl. Sonnets, I. vi. 2; etc.)

(Wordsworth also speaks of the lapse of water in three other places:
"Never enlivened," 14; Prelude, iv. 383; Excursion, iii. 93.)

Their human form divine.

Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

They know if I be silent, morn or even.
Witness if I be silent, morn or even.

Excursion, ix. 151.

P. L. iii. 44.

Ib. ix. 750.

P. L. v. 202.

7.

Redundant are thy locks.

Laodamia, 59.

Graced with redundant hair, Iopas sings.

Aeneid, 121.

These redundant locks.

Samson, 568.

(Virgil's word is "crinitus," long-haired.)

Thus was a Brother by a Brother saved;
With whom a crown (temptation that hath set
Discord in hearts of men till they have braved
Their nearest kin with deadly purpose met)
'Gainst duty weighed, and faithful love, did seem
A thing of no esteem.

Thus was a Brother sav'd by a Brother, to whom love of a
Crown, the thing that so often dazles, and vitiats mortal
men, for which, thousands of neerest blood have destroy'd
each other, was in respect of Brotherly dearness, a con-
temptible thing.

Bisect her orbed shield.

Gripe fast his orbed shield.

But with majestic lowliness endued.
With lowliness majestic.

Your once sweet memory, studious walks and shades!
Her sweet recess... studious walks and shades.

Artegal and Elidure, 234-9.

History of Britain, book i.
"Who rises on the banks," 27.
P. L. vi. 543.

Her waves rolled on....

Deaf was the Sea;

Then Canute, rising from the invaded throne...
Said... "He only is a King, and he alone

Deserves the name (this truth the billows preach)

Whose everlasting laws, sea, earth, and heaven, obey." Fact and Imagination, 6-14. The Sea, as before, came rowling on. . . . Wheral the King [Canute] quickly riseing... [said] that none indeed deserv'd the name of a King, but he whose Eternal Laws both Heav'n, Earth, and Sea obey.

"A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on!" A little onward lend thy guiding hand

To these dark steps, a little further on.

Thy nymph-like step swift bounding o'er the lawn.
If chance with nymph-like slep fair virgin pass.

Into the "abrupt abyss."

History of Britain, book vi.

"A little onward lend," 1-2. Samson, 1-2.

Ib. 18.

P. L. ix. 452.

Ib. 31.

(The quotation is apparently a confusion of "the vast Abyss,” P. L. i. 21,

and "the vast abrupt," ii. 409.)

Where ravens spread their plumy vans.

Ib. 32.

Who on their plumy vans received Him soft. [Of angels.] P. R. iv. 583.

"On the Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain Poem,” 1−2. A Book was writ of late called Tetrachordon,

And woven close, both matter, form, and style.

"On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises,” 1−2.

Bold Spirit! who art free to rove
Among the starry courts of Jove.
Before the starry threshold of Jove's court
My mansion is. [Of the attendant Spirit.]

The sweet Bird, misnamed the melancholy.
Sweet bird... Most musical, most melancholy!

To Enterprise, 14–15.

Comus, 1-2.

Ib. 145.
Penseroso, 61-2.

(Of the nightingale in each case.)

We feel that we are greater than we know.
And feel that I am happier than I know.
Shall lack not power the "meeting soul to pierce!"
Such as the meeting soul may pierce.

That Roland clove with huge two-handed sway.
The sword of Michael smote, and fell'd
Squadrons at once: with huge two-handed sway.

Down the irriguous valley.

After-thought (Duddon), 14.
P. L. viii. 282.

Tour on Continent, Dedication, 14.
Allegro, 138.

Aix-la-Chapelle, 12.

P. L. vi. 250-1.

Our Lady of the Snow, 26.
P. L. iv. 255.

Eclipse of the Sun, 55-60.

P. L. x. 21-4.

Three Cottage Girls, 70.
Eccl. Sonnets, I. i. 14.

Bright Spirit, not with amaranth crowned.
Immortal amaranth.

Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold:
Immortal amarant.

P. L. iii. 352-3.

(Wordsworth also has “amaranthine flower”—“Weak is the will," 11;
"amaranthine wreaths"-"When the soft hand," 50; "garlands.
of amaranthine bloom"-"On to Iona," 13; "amaranthine crown'
"The vestal priestess," 7.)

Fetch, ye that post o'er seas and lands.

O whither with such eagerness of speed? ...

... thus post ye over vale and height

To rest?

Thousands at his bidding speed,

And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

As the dread Voice that speaks from out the sea.
The dread voice is past.

Springs from the ground the morn to gratulate.
To gratulate the sweet return of morn.

Elegiac Stanzas (Goddard), 44.

To the Clouds, 4, 9–10.

Sonnet on his Blindness, 12-13.

At Dover, II.
Lycidas, 132.

Eccl. Sonnets, II. xiv. 2.
P. R. iv. 438.

(Of birds in each case. Wordsworth uses some form of "gratulate" in
seven other cases - there are two other instances in Milton-and has
"gratulant" once, perhaps by analogy to Milton's "congratulant,"
P. L. x. 458.)

Not Iris, issuing from her cloudy shrine.
Met by the rainbow's form divine,
Issuing from her cloudy shrine.
Transplanted from her cloudy shrine.

Gales sweet as those that over Eden blew.
Now gentle gales,

Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense
Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole
Those balmy spoils. [Describing Eden.]

Ib. xxii. 9.

The Triad, 84-5.
P. L. vii. 360.

Eccl. Sonnets, II. xxiv. 14.

P. L. iv. 156-9.

And the sword stopped; the bleeding wounds were closed;
And Faith preserved her ancient purity.

How little boots that precedent of good!

Ib. III. vii. 1-5.