8. Address to the Sons of Burns after visiting their Father's Grave, Aug. 14th, 1803
9. Yarrow Unvisited
MOODS OF MY OWN MIND.
1. To a Butterfly
2.
3.
4.
5. Written in March while resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water
6. The small Celandine
7.
8.
9. The Sparrow's Nest
10. Gipsies
11. To the Cuckoo
12. To a Butterfly
13.
THE BLIND HIGHLAND BOY.
The Blind Highland Boy
The Green Linnet
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country
By their floating Mill, &c
Star-gazers
Power of Music
To the Daisy
To the same Flower
Incident, characteristic of a favourite Dog,
which belonged to a Friend of the Author
Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet to Thomas Clarkson
Once in a lonely Hamlet, &c
Foresight, or the Charge of a Child to his younger Companion
A Complaint
I am not One, &c
Yes! full surely 'twas the Echo, &c
To the Spade of a Friend
Song, at the Feast of Brougham Castle
Lines, composed at Grasmere
Elegiac Stanzas
Ode
Notes
Critical reception
Poems in Two Volumes has been considered to be the peak of Wordsworth's power, and of his popularity. However, it was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron,[4] whom Wordsworth would come to despise. Byron said of the volume, in one of its first reviews, "Mr. W[ordsworth] ceases to please, ... clothing [his ideas] in language not simple, but puerile".[5] Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire". Of any positives within Poems in Two Volumes, perceived masculinity in "The Happy Warrior" was one. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" couldn't have been further from it. Wordsworth took the reviews stoically.[citation needed]
