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Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the
Foot of Brother's Water
Gipsies
Beggars
Sequel to the foregoing, composed many Years after
Ruth
Laodamía
The Triad
Her eyes are wild, her head is bare
Resolution and Independence
The Thorn
Hart-leap Well
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Re-
storation of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the
Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
Yes, it was the mountain Echo
To a Sky-Lark
It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath flown
French Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at
its Commencement, reprinted from "the Friend"
Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone
Evening Ode, composed upon an Evening of extra-
ordinary Splendour and Beauty
Lines composed a few Miles above Tintern Abbey,
on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour
Peter Bell, a Tale, in Three Parts
MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
PART FIRST.
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46
52
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room
Written in very early Youth
150
ib
Admonition
"Beloved Vale!" I said, " when I shall con
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side
There is a little unpretending Rill
Her only Pilot the soft breeze, the Boat
The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade
Upon the Sight of a beautiful Picture
"Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings
Aerial Rock whose solitary brow
-
O gentle Sleep! do they belong to thee
To Sleep
The Wild Duck's Nest
Written upon a blank Leaf in "the Complete Angler'
To the Poet, John Dyer
ib.
158
On the Detraction which followed the Publication of
a certain Poem
To the River Derwent
Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on
Easter Sunday
Grief, thou hast lost an ever-ready Friend
To S. H.
Decay of Piety
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend,
in the Vale of Grasmere
From the Italian of Michael Angelo
From the Same
From the Same. To the Supreme Being
Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind
Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne
"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind"
It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go
161
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
The world is too much with us; late and soon
A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks
Personal Talk
Continued
Concluded
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret
To R. B. Haydon, Esq.
From the dark chambers of dejection freed
Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild
I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)
Retirement
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
PART SECOND.
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned
Not Love, nor War, nor the tumultuous swell
September, 1815
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said
Composed a few Days after the foregoing
The Stars are mansions built by Nature's hand
To the Lady Beaumont
To the Lady Mary Lowther
There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!
181
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climbest the sky 182
Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress
Mark the concentred Hazels that enclose
Captivity
Brook! whose society the Poet seeks
Composed on the Banks of a rocky Stream
Pure element of waters! wheresoe'er
188
184
Malham Cove
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189
Gordale
The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her
Daughters, near the River Eden
Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton
Hills, Yorkshire
These words were uttered as in pensive mood
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3. 1803
Oxford, May 30. 1820
Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth,
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
On the Death of His Majesty, (George the Third)
June, 1820
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire
Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North
Wales
To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P.
To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales
Though narrow be that Old Man's cares, and near
Strange visitation! at Jemima's lip
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle
While they, who once were Anna's Playmates, tread
To Rotha Q-
To, in her seventieth Year
196
A Grave-stone upon the Floor in the Cloisters of
Worcester Cathedral
A Tradition of Darley Dale, Derbyshire
Filial Piety
To R. B. Haydon, Esq., on seeing his Picture of
Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena
Conclusion. To
In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud
199
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND,
1803.
Departure from the Vale of Grasmere. Aug. 1803.
To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave of
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204
To a Highland Girl
Stepping Westward
In the Pass of Killicranky, an Invasion being ex-
pected, October 1803
The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband
Fly, some kind Spirit, fly to Grasmere-dale
The Blind Highland Boy