THE GRAVE AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. 491 to the grave by an immense concourse of persons of all ranks and all ages-a sweet and appropriate place for a poet's tomb, in that deep silence, broken only by the murmurs of the river, or of the complaining winds, among the simple peasants and dalesmen whose history he has recorded. In a grave surrounded by the Sycamore and the Yew, next to that of Hartley Coleridge, next to his own children early lost; there is a large plain slab of grey limestone, and on it the simple inscription "WILLIAM WORDSWORTH." Within Grasmere Church, over the pew which the Poet occupied, his friends and neighbours have placed an elegant tablet with a very good medallion likeness. and the following inscription: A TRUE PHILOSOPHER AND POET, WHO, BY THE SPECIAL GIFT AND CALLING OF ALMIGHTY GOD, WHETHER HE DISCOURSED ON MAN OR NATURE, OF FAILED NOT TO LIFT UP THE HEART TO HOLY THINGS; TIRED NOT OF MAINTAINING THE CAUSE THE POOR AND SIMPLE, AND SO IN PERILOUS TIMES WAS RAISED UP TO BE A CHIEF MINISTER NOT ONLY OF NOBLEST POESY, BUT OF HIGH AND SACRED TRUTH. THIS MEMORIAL IS PLACED HERE BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS, IN TESTIMONY OF A Monument has also been placed in Westminster Abbey, which it may be hoped will by-and-by stand where it may be seen at present it occupies a place in almost ignominious isolation. Childhood, The Soul of Charles Lamb, his Review of the Excursion Letters to Wordsworth Suppers and Literary Circles at Christian Individualism Cintra, Congress at, Wordsworth on the . Classical Drama, The Cockermouth, Wordsworth's Birth-place, described Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Description of, by Miss Wordsworth his Intimacy with Wordsworth Compact with Wordsworth PAGE 341 437 440 referred to 352 325-326 His Definition of Poetry. 374 "Hartley, quoted 66 Miss Mr. Justice, quoted Comedy, the Spiritual Purpose of Companions, Wordsworth's 387 445 302 295 436 Congress of Cintra 395 Crabbe 328-329 Creed; Wordsworth's Esthetic and Ethic 381 Critics 323-331 Day's, A, Wanderings in the Land of Wordsworth De Quincey: his Essay on the Laocoon 211 Dorothy Wordsworth, the Poet's Sister, her Beautiful Relations |