Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's Ossian.

Cave of Staffa

Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed

Cave of Staffa

206

209

210

211

Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the

Iona

Cave.

Iona. Upon Landing

The Black Stones of Iona

Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell

Greenock.

"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

Suggested by the foregoing

Nunnery

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways

The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her

Daughters, near the River Eden

Lowther

To the Earl of Lonsdale

The Somnambulist

To Cordelia M, Hallsteads, Ullswater

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes

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POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.

Expostulation and Reply

230

The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the same

Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman: with an Incident in

which he was concerned

237

Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the

Century

241

To the Spade of a Friend. (An Agriculturist.) Com-

posed while we were laboring together in his Pleas-

ure-Ground

257

The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory.

A Tradition

271

A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on

the Sea-shore

: 274

To, upon the Birth of her First-born Child, March,

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone 313

The foregoing Subject resumed

318

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive

Upon seeing a Colored Drawing of the Bird of Paradise

in an Album

819

320

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

French Revolution

323

324

324

325

325

Continued

326

Concluded

327

Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark book

327

To the Pennsylvanians

328

At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections,

Young England, - what is then become of Old

Feel for the wrongs to universal ken

330

331

SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.

Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road

from the South)

Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die

332

333

333

Is Death, when evil against good has fought.

334

Not to the object specially designed

334

Ye brood of conscience, Spectres! that frequent

Before the world had passed her time of youth

Fit retribution, by the moral code

335

336

336

Though to give timely warning and deter

337

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine

337

Ah! think how one compelled for life to abide

338

See the Condemned alone within his cell.

Conclusion

Apology

339

339

340

841

THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;

OR,

THE FATE OF THE NORTONS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

DURING the Summer of 1807, I visited, for the first time, the beautiful country that surrounds Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire; and the Poem of the WHITE DOE, founded upon a tradition connected with that place, was composed at the close of the same year.

DEDICATION.

In trellised shed with clustering roses gay,
And, MARY! oft beside our blazing fire,
When years of wedded life were as a day
Whose current answers to the heart's desire,
Did we together read in Spenser's Lay
How Una, sad of soul, - in sad attire,
The gentle Una, of celestial birth,

To seek her Knight went wandering o'er the earth.

Ah, then, Beloved! pleasing was the smart,

And the tear precious in compassion shed

For her, who, pierced by sorrow's thrilling dart,

Did meekly bear the pang unmerited;