Autograph manuscript of his poem ‘First Floweret of the Year’, signed (“Wm Wordsworth”) and dated “Whitehaven Castle 1st Oct.br 1823”, comprising sixteen lines beginning: “First Floweret of the year is that which shows/ Its rival whiteness mid surrounding snows” and ending: “Strangers! forgive the deed, an unsought task,/ For what you look on, Friendship deigned to ask”; written at the head of an album containing verses and illustrated with poems and drawings, in watercolour, grey washes, pencil and pen-and-ink in various amateur hands, including a transcript, in an early nineteenth century, probably female, hand of Southey’s lines written for the Countess of Lonsdale’s album, 1821, headed with a vignette view of Rydal Water and concluded with a finely romantic view of Lowther Castle seen across rolling woodland; the last verse in the album dated 15 April 1826, Wordsworth’s poem on one page, a dozen other pages filled otherwise remaining blank, one leaf seemingly extracted, half red morocco over boards, 8vo, 1823-1826
Autograph manuscript of his poem ‘First Floweret of the Year’, signed (“Wm Wordsworth”) and dated “Whitehaven Castle 1st Oct.br 1823”, comprising sixteen lines beginning: “First Floweret of the year is that which shows/ Its rival whiteness mid surrounding snows” and ending: “Strangers! forgive the deed, an unsought task,/ For what you look on, Friendship deigned to ask”; written at the head of an album containing verses and illustrated with poems and drawings, in watercolour, grey washes, pencil and pen-and-ink in various amateur hands, including a transcript, in an early nineteenth century, probably female, hand of Southey’s lines written for the Countess of Lonsdale’s album, 1821, headed with a vignette view of Rydal Water and concluded with a finely romantic view of Lowther Castle seen across rolling woodland; the last verse in the album dated 15 April 1826, Wordsworth’s poem on one page, a dozen other pages filled otherwise remaining blank, one leaf seemingly extracted, half red morocco over boards, 8vo, 1823-1826
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