• III.-Hast thou seen with flash incessant IV. Near the Spring of the Hermitage. V.-Not seldom, clad in radiant vest For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the Perhaps some needful service of the State O Thou who movest onward with a mind POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE. The Old Cumberland Beggar True is it that Ambrosio Salinero Destined to war from very infancy By a blest Husband guided, Mary came Six months to six years added he remained Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, painted by Sir George Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E. I. Com- pany's Ship, the Earl of Abergavenny, in Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one Evening, after a stormy Day, the Author having just read in a Newspaper Invocation to the Earth. February, 1816. Lines written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem "The Excursion,” upon Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B., upon the death of his Sister-in-Law Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Coleorton SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. IN SERIES. I. SUGGESTED BY THE VIEW OF LANCASTER CASTLE (ON THE ROAD FROM THE SOUTH). THIS Spot-at once unfolding sight so fair Might soothe in human breasts the sense of ill, Thousands, as toward yon old Lancastrian Towers, A prison's crown, along this way they past 10 For lingering durance or quick death with shame, From this bare eminence thereon have cast Their first look-blinded as tears fell in showers Shed on their chains; and hence that doleful name. II. TENDERLY do we feel by Nature's law JO 5 source Is sympathy with the unforewarned, who died Blameless-with them that shuddered o'er his grave, And all who from the law firm safety crave. III. THE Roman Consul doomed his sons to die Who had betrayed their country. The stern word Afforded (may it through all time afford) He rested not; its depths his mind explored; 10 5 IV. Is Death, when evil against good has fought 10 Nor only palpable restraints unbind, But upon Honour's head disturb the crown, Whose absolute rule permits not to withstand In the weak love of life his least command. 5 V. Nor to the object specially designed, On Love and Fear, their several powers he blends, Copying with awe the one Paternal mind. 10 State; If she, self-shorn of Majesty, ordain |