Wordsworth's Poetical Works

Wordsworth's Poetical Works Glossary

boon

a gift

bower

a rustic dwelling

burthen

burden

cataract

a waterfall

copses

patches of brush or growth

coronal

a crown of flowers

corporeal

bodily

creed

a system of belief

culling

to gather

diurnal

daily

dower

a natural gift

enmity

hatred

equipage

a carriage

fen

a swampy marshland

fretted

irritated

Hebrides

a grouping of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

jocund

joyful

lea

an open tract of land

linnet

a small finch (bird)

lore

a traditional body of knowledge

palsied

having lost strength from age

pensive

deeply thoughtful

porringer

a bowl for porridge

recompense

compensation

roe

a small deer

sordid

morally degraded

stagnant

stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water

steep

to soak or saturate

tabor

a small drum

throstle

a song thrush (bird)

vernal

of or pertaining to spring

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