COMPOSED.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

The two following Sonnets "On a celebrated event in ancient History," probably composed in 1807, were first published in 1815 :— Sonnet, "A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground,"

1807.

1807.

1808.

1808.

1808.

1808.

1808.

1808.

1808.

Sonnet, "When, far and wide, swift as the
beams of morn,"

1808.

Sonnet, composed while the author was engaged
in writing a tract occasioned by the Conven-
tion of Cintra, "Not 'mid the world's vain
objects that enslave," .

Sonnet, composed at the same time and on the
same occasion, "I dropped my pen; and
listened to the wind,"

The Force of Prayer; or, the founding of
Bolton Priory,

1815

1815

1815

1815

1815

1815

In the Grounds of Coleorton, the seat of Sir
George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire,
In a Garden of the same, "Oft is the medal
faithful to its trust,"

Written at the request of Sir George Beaumont,
Bart., and in his name, for an Urn, placed by
him at the termination of a newly planted
avenue in the same grounds,

For a Seat in the groves of Coleorton, "Beneath
yon eastern ridge,"

1809.

Sonnet, Hoffer, "Of mortal parents is the hero
born,"

Sonnet, 'Advance, come forth from thy Tyro-
lean ground,"

Sonnet, Feelings of the Tyrolese, "The land we
from our fathers had in trust,"
Sonnet, "Alas! what boots the long, laborious
quest,"
Sonnet, "And is it among rude, untutored
Dales,"

1809.

1815

1809.

Sonnet, "O'er the wide earth, on mountain and
on plain,"

1815

1809.

1809.

Sonnet, On the final submission of the Tyrolese,
"It was a moral end for which they fought."
Sonnet, Hail Zaragoza! if with unwet eye," . 1815

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1815

COMPOSED.

1809.

1809.

1809.

1809. 1809.

1809.

1810.

1810. 1810.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Sonnet, "Say what is Honour? "Tis the finest
sense,"

Sonnet, "The martial courage of a day is vain," 1815
Sonnet, Brave Schill! by death delivered,
take thy flight,"

Sonnet, "Call not the royal Swede unfortunate,"
Sonnet, "Look now on that Adventurer who
hath paid,"

Sonnet, "Is there a Power that can sustain and
cheer?"

Sonnet, Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue
nor pen,"
Sonnet, "In due observance of an ancient rite,"
Sonnet, Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of
these Funerals, "Yet, yet Biscayans, we must
meet our foes,"

1815

1815

1815

1810.

Sonnet, The Oak of Guernica, "Oak of Guernica!
Tree of holier power,” .

Sonnet, Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard,
"We can endure that He should waste our
lands,"
Sonnet, "Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind," 1815
Sonnet, "O'er weening Statesmen have full long
relied," .

1815

.

1815

1810.

Sonnet, The French, and the Spanish Guerillas,

1810.

"Hunger, and sultry heat, and nipping blast," 1815 Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera

66 'Weep not, belov'd Friends! nor let the air," 1837 "Perhaps some needful service of the State,"

"O Thou who movest onward with a mind," .
"There never breathed a man who, when his

"O flower of all that springs from gentle blood," 1837 "Not without heavy grief of heart did He," 1815 "Pause, courteous Spirit !—Balbi supplicates," 1815 Maternal Grief,

1811.

Characteristics of a Child three years old,

1842

1815

Sonnet, Spanish Guerillas, "They seek, are
sought; to daily battle led,"

COMPOSED.

1811.

1811.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Sonnet, "The power of Armies is a visible thing," 1815
Conclusion, "Here pause; the Poet claims at
least this praise,"

Sonnet, Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture,
"Prised be the Art whose subtle power could
stay,"

1815

1815

1811.

1841.

Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.,
from the South-West Coast of Cumberland,
Upon perusing the foregoing epistle thirty years
after its composition,

1842

1842

1812.

1812.

Song for the spinning wheel,

1820

1812.

1812.

Sonnet, composed on the eve of a marriage of a
friend in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812, “What
need of clamorous bells, or ribands gay,"
Water-Fowl,

1813.

1813. 1813.

View from the top of Black Comb,

Written with a slate pencil on a Stone, on the
side of the mountain of Black Comb, .

1813, November. Sonnet, "Now that all hearts are glad, all faces

bright,"

Composed at Cora Linn,

Effusion in the pleasure-ground on the banks

Yarrow visited, September 1814,
Lines written on a blank leaf in a copy of the
Author's poem, "The Excursion," upon hear-
ing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal,
Sonnet, "From the dark chambers of dejection
freed," .

1815.

1815, April 15. Dedication to "the White Doe of Rylstone, in

COMPOSED.

1815.
1815, Sept.

1815, Nov. 1.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Ode, "Imagination-ne'er before content,"
Sonnet, "While not a leaf seems faded; while
the fields,"

1845

1816

1816

Sonnet, "How clear, how keen, how marvellously
bright,"

[The following sonnets were originally published in the edition of 1815. It is impossible to determine the precise year of composition, but they fall within the years 1810-1815.]

1811 (?)

1815

"The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade,” 1815
"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind," 1815
"Hail, twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!" 1815
"The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said," .
"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress,"
"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose,"
To the Poet Dyer, "Bard of the Fleece, whose
skilful genius made,"
"Brook! whose society the Poet seeks,"
"Surprised by joy,-impatient as the wind,"

1815

1815

1816, Jan.

Ode, composed in January 1816, "When the
soft hand of sleep had closed the latch,"

1816, Jan. 18. Ode, The morning of the day appointed for a

general thanksgiving, January 18, 1816, Invocation to the Earth,

1816, Feb.

1816, Feb.

The French Army in Russia,

1816, Feb.

1816, Feb.

1816, Feb.

1816, Feb.

1816, Feb.

1816.

Sonnet, on the same occasion, "Ye storms, re-
sound the praises of your king,"

Sonnet, "By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze," .
Sonnet, The Germans on the Heights of Hoch-

heim, "Abruptly paused the strife ;-the field
throughout,"

Sonnet, Siege of Vienna, raised by John Sobieski,
"O, for a kindling touch from that pure flame," 1816
Sonnet, Occasioned by the battle of Waterloo,
'Intrepid Sons of Albion !—not by you,"
Sonnet, Occasioned by the same battle, "The
Bard, whose soul is meek as dawning day," 1816
Sonnet, "Emperors and Kings, how oft have
temples rung,"

Sonnet, On the disinterment of the remains of
the Duke D'Enghien, "Dear Reliques ! from
a pit of vilest mould," .

COMPOSED.

1816.

1816.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

Translation of part of the first Book of the Ænid, 1836
A fact, and an Imagination; or Canute and
Alfred on the seashore,

1820

.

1817.

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the eve of

1818.

1818.

1818.

1819, Feb.

1819.

1818.

The Pilgrim's dream: or, the Star and the
Glowworm,

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a
Hermit's cell, .

1820

1820

I. "Hopes what are they? Beads of morning."
II. "Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be."
III. “Hast thou seen, with flash incessant.”
IV. "Troubled long with warring notions."
V. "Not seldom, clad in radiant vest."
Composed on an evening of Extraordinary
Beauty and Splendour,

1819.

Sonnet, composed during a storm, "One who
was suffering tumult in his soul,"

Sonnet, suggested by Mr W. Westall's views of
the caves, &c., in Yorkshire, "Pure element
of waters! wheresoe'er,"

Sonnet, Malham Cove, "Was the aim frustrated
by force or guile,"

1819.

1819

Sonnet, Gordale, "At early dawn-or rather
when the air," .