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The worship of this sabbath Morn
How sweetly it begins!
With the full choral hymn of birds
Mingles no sad lament for sins,
Alas! my feet no more may join
The chearful sabbath train
But if I inwardly lament
Oh! may a will subdued
All grief restrain!
No prisoner am I on this couch
My mind free to roam
And leisure, peace & loving friends
Are the best treasures of an earthly home

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Such gifts are mine
Then why deplore the body’s gentle slow decay?
A warning mercifully sent
To fix my hopes upon a surer stay.

                               Dorothy Wordsworth
                               Rydal Mount, April 26th
                                                             1849
                               To Mr. Graham.

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Introduction to Poems from the Commonplace Book (DCMS 120)
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Table of Contents: Ordering the Commonplace Book Poems (DCMS 120)
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Table of Contents 1A: Starting from Front Cover
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Table of Contents 1B: Starting from Back Cover
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Table of Contents 2: Sorted by Poem (from Its First Appearance in the Notebook)
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[1] [A Two Fold Harmony is Here]
[2] Lines addressed to Joanna Hutchinson from Gwerndovenant June 1826
[3] Irregular Stanzas Holiday at Gwerndovennant May 1826 [Version A]
[4] A Holiday at Gwerndovennant Irregular Stanzas [Version B of “Irregular Stanzas Holiday at Gwerndovennant May 1826”]
[5] Grasmere - A Fragment [Version A]
[6] [Lines written (rather say begun)] [Version A]
[7] A Sketch
[8] A Cottage in Grasmere Vale A Fragment [Version B of "Grasmere - A Fragment"]
[9] After recollections at sight of the same Cottage. [Version C of "Grasmere - A Fragment"]
[10] A Winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale [Version D of "Grasmere - A Fragment"]
[11] To Julia Marshall - A Fragment [Version A]
[12] Lines intended for my Niece's Album [Version A]
[13] To Dora Wordsworth [Version B of "Lines intended for my Niece's Album"]
[14] Lines intended for Edith Southey's album
[15] Floating Island at Hawkhead, An Incident in the schemes of Nature
[16] Thoughts on my sickbed
[17] [Irregular Verses] [Version B of "To Julia Marshall—A Fragment"]
[18] To E.C.
[19] Fragment Christmas-day –
[20] [Untitled Fragment]
[21] Fragments Xmas day
[22] [Version B of "Lines Written (rather say begun)"].
[23] To D.
[24] [Lines written (rather say begun) on the morning of Sunday April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illness began. It was a morning of surpassing beauty. [Version C of “Lines Written (rather say begun)”]
[25] On a most beautiful Sunday morning, April 1824 [Version D of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[26] [Version E of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[27] [Version F of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[28] To. ["To things the fairest in this world"]
[29] [To Sarah Foxcroft's Infant]
[30] ["When shall I tread your garden path?"]
[31] Loving and Liking [Version A]
[32] Lines written (rather begun) on the morning of Sunday, April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illnes began. [Version G of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[33] Loving & Liking [Version B of "Loving and Liking"]
[34] Lines to Dora H. [Version A]
[35] Lines to Dora H. [Version B of “Lines to Dora H."]
[36] Liking and Loving [Version C of “Loving and Liking”]
[37] A Tribute to the memory of the Revd John Curwen