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By a Retired Mariner. H. H.
At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be written by
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Despond who will—I heard a voice exclaim
In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. During an Eclipse of
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Cave of Staffa
Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the
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Iona. Upon Landing
The Black stones of Iona
Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell
Greenock
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"There!” said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride
The River Eden, Cumberland
Monument of Mrs. Howard (by Nollekens), in Wetheral
Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden
To Cordelia M, Hallsteads, Ullswater
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
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POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.
Expostulation and Reply
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The Tables Turned. An evening Scene on the same
Simon Lee, the old Huntsman; with an Incident in
Written in Germany, on one of the coldest Days of the
Century
A Poet's Epitaph
To the Daisy
Matthew
The two April Mornings
The Fountain. A Conversation
Personal Talk
Illustrated Books and Newspapers
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To the Spade of a Friend. (An Agriculturist.) Composed
while we were labouring together in his Pleasure-
ground
A Night Thought
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Character of the Happy Warrior
The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory.
A Tradition
A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on
the Sea-shore
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То
-, upon the birth of her First-born Child, March,
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone. 278
Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise
in an Album
SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER.
Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day
Upon the late General Fast. March, 1832
Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud
Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will
In allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the
Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark book
To the Pennsylvanians
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At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837 293
SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road
Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law
The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die
Is Death, when evil against good has fought
Not to the object specially designed
Ye brood of conscience-Spectres! that frequent
Before the world had past her time of youth.
Fit retribution, by the moral code
Though to give timely warning and deter
Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine
Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide
See the Condemned alone within his cell
Conclusion
Apology
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From
the South-West Coast of Cumberland.-1811.
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty Years after its
Composition
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase
Liberty. (Sequel to the above.) [Addressed to a Friend;
the Gold and Silver Fishes having been removed to a
Pool in the Pleasure-ground of Rydal Mount].
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Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)
To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the Foundation preparing
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How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high
Early and Late Years."
Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A true Story.
Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of
To a Child. Written in her Album.
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale.