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POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

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Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in anticipation of leaving School.

Written in very early Youth

An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames near Richmond

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps .

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate

part of the Shore, commanding a beautiful Prospect

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain

THE BORDERERS. A Tragedy

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POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD.

My heart leaps up when I behold

To a Butterfly

The Sparrow's Nest .

Foresight

Characteristics of a Child three Years old

Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening.

The Mother's Return.

Alice Fell; or, Poverty

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

We are Seven

The Idle Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. A Pastoral

Anecdote for Fathers

Rural Architecture

The Pet-lamb. A Pastoral

To H. C. Six Years old

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the imagination in Boyhood and

early Youth

The longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter

The Norman Boy

The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy

The Westmoreland Girl.-Part I.

Part II.

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POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS.

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The Brothers

Artegal and Elidure.

To a Butterfly

A Farewell

Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence.

Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain Excursion

Strange fits of passion have I known

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

I travelled among unknown men

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew

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The Forsaken

'Tis said, that some have died for love

A Complaint .

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Yes ! thou art fair, yet be not moved

How rich that forehead's calm expanse

What heavenly smiles ! O Lady mine

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Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman

The Last of the Flock .

Repentance. A Pastoral Ballad

The Affliction of Margaret

The Cottager to her Infant

Maternal Grief

The Sailor's Mother

The Childless Father

The Emigrant Mother

Vaudracour and Julia

The Idiot Boy

X Michael. A Pastoral Poem .

The Widow on Windermere Side

The Armenian Lady's Love .

Loving and Liking. (rregular Verses, addressed to a Child .

Farewell Lines

The Redbreast. Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage

Her Eyes are Wild

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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 prevalent 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

biad made of Flowers in the Island of Madeira

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, on being reminded that she was a Month old, on that Day.

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O Nightingale ! thou surely art .

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Three years she grew in sun and shower

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A slumber did my spirit seal

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I wandered lonely as a cloud

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The Reverie of Poor Susan

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Power of Music

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Star-gazers

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Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the foot of Brother's Water

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Lyre ! though such power do in thy magic live.

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Beggars

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Sequel to the Foregoing, composed many Years after

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Gipsies

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Ruth

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Resolution and Independence

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The Thorn

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Hart-leap Well.- Part I.

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-Part II..

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Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, thc Shepherd, to

the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors

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Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during

a Tour, July 13, 1798

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It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown

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French Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement. Reprinted from “ The

Friend”

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Yes, it was the mountain Echo

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To a Sky-lark

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Laodamia

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Dion.

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The Pass of Kirkstone

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To Enterprise

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Το on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn

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To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country

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Water-fowl

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View from the top of Black Comb

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The Haunted Tree. To

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The Triad

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The Wishing-gate

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The Wishing-gate destroyed

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The Primrose of the Rock

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Presentiments

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Vernal Ode

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Devotional Incitements

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The Cuckoo-Clock

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To the Clouds

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Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise

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A Jewish Family

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On the Power of Sound

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PETER BELL.-A TALE.—Prologue

Part I.

Part II.

Part III.

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