LONDON:
E. MOXON, SON, & CO., DOVER STREET.

1870.

765614-B. 2

CONTENTS.

POEMS OF THE FANCY.

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A Morning Exercise

A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire

A whirl-blast from behind the hill .

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral

To a Sexton

To the Daisy

To the same Flower .

The Green Linnet.

To a Sky-lark

To the Small Celandine.

To the same Flower .

The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie

Who fancied what a pretty sight

The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

Song for the Spinning Wheel. Founded upon a Belief pre-

valent among the Pastoral Vales of Westmoreland

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders .

On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp

To a Lady, in answer to a request that I would write her

a Poem upon some Drawings that she had made of

Flowers in the Island of Madeira

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Glad sight wherever new with old.

The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren

The Danish Boy. A Fragment

Song for the Wandering Jew

Stray Pleasures

The Pilgrim's Dream ; or, the Star and the Glow-worm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove

A Wren's Nest.

Love lies Bleeding .

Companion to the foregoing

Rural Illusions

The Kitten and Falling Leaves

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora, on being reminded

that she was a Month old, that Day, September 16

THE WAGGONER.-Canto I.

Canto II. .

Canto III.

Canto IV.

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POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.

There was a Boy

To the Cuckoo

A Night-piece

Airey-force Valley

Yew-trees

Nutting.

The Simplon Pass

She was a Phantom of delight

O Nightingale! thou surely art

Three years she grew in sun and shower

A slumber did my spirit seal