IV. To the River Greta, near Keswick.

V. To the River Derwent.

VI. In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth. VII. Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle.

VIII. Nun's Well, Brigham.

IX. To a Friend. On the Banks of the
Derwent.

X. Mary Queen of Scots. Landing at
the Mouth of the Derwent, Work-
ington.

XI. Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off
Saint Bees' Head, on the Coast of

Cumberland.

XII. In the Channel, between the Coast of
Cumberland and the Isle of Man.

XIII. At Sea off the Isle of Man.

XIV. Desire we past illusions to recall?

XV. On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man.
XVI. By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man.

XVII. Isle of Man.

XVIII. Isle of Man.

XIX. By a Retired Mariner. (A Friend of
the Author.)

XX. At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed
to be written by a Friend.)

XXI. Tynwald Hill.

XXII. Despond who will-I heard a voice

exclaim.

XXIII. In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag.
During an Eclipse of the Sun, July 17.
XXIV. On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-

boat.

XXV. On revisiting Dunolly Castle.

XXVI. The Dunolly Eagle.

XXVII. Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpher

son's Ossian.

XXVIII. Cave of Staffa.

XXIX. Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had

departed.

XXX. Cave of Staffa.

COMPOSED.

1833.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

XXXI. Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at
the Entrance of the Cave.

XXXII. Iona.

XXXIII. Iona. Upon Landing.

XXXIV. The Black Stones of Iona.

XXXV. Homeward we turn.

Cell.

XXXVI. Greenock.

Isle of Columba's

XXXVII. "There!" said a Stripling, pointing
with meet pride.

XXXVIII. The River Eden, Cumberland.
XXXIX. Monument of Mrs Howard (by Nolle-
kens (in Wetheral Church, near

Corby, on the Banks of the Eden.

XL. Suggested by the foregoing.

XLI. Nunnery.

XLII. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways.

XLIII. The Monument commonly called Long
Meg and her Daughters, near the
river Eden.

XLIV. Lowther.

XLV. To the Earl of Lonsdale.

XLVI. The Somnambulist.

1835

XLVII. To Cordelia M

water.

Hallsteads, Ulls

1834.

1834.

1834.

1834.

"The leaves that rustled on

XLVIII. Most sweet it is with uplifted eyes.

1834.

Evening Voluntaries, "Not in the lucid intervals
of life,"

By the side of Rydal Mere, "The linnet's
warble sinking to a close,"

"Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge-the
Mere,"

crowned hill,"

Lines suggested by a portrait from the pencil of
F. Stone,

Lines, written in the album of the Countess of

COMPOSED.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

1835.

1835.

1835.

1835.

1835.

Evening Voluntary, To the Moon, composed
by the sea-side on the Coast of Cumberland,. 1836
Evening Voluntary, To the Moon. Rydal, 1836
Written after the death of Charles Lamb,
Extempore effusion upon the death of James
Hogg,

1835, June 23. Upon seeing a coloured drawing of a bird of Paradise in an album,

1835.

1836

1836

[The following Sonnets appear in the volume
"Yarrow revisited, and other Poems" (1835),
and must therefore belong to that, or to a
previous year.]

I. "Desponding Father, mark this altered

bough,".

II. Roman Antiquities discovered, at Bishop-
stone, Herefordshire, "While poring
Antiquarians search the ground."

III. St Catherine of Ledbury, "When human
touch (as monkish books attest)."

IV. "Why art thou silent? Is thy love a
plant."

V. "Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein.”
VI. To —, “Wait, prithee, wait!' this

answer Lesbia threw."

VII. "Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud.”

1835

1836.

1836, November. Sonnet, November 1836, "Even so for me a

"By a blest Husband guided, Mary came," 1836 'Six months to six years added he remained," . 1836

1837.

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837,

I. To Henry Crabb Robinson.

II. Musings near Aquapendente, 1837.
III. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome.
IV. At Rome.

V. At Rome.-Regrets. In allusion to
Niebuhr and other modern Historians.

VI. Continued.

VII. Plea for the Historian.

VIII. At Rome.

1842

COMPOSED.

1837.

1837.

1837.

1837.

1838.

1838.

FIRST PUBLISHED.

IX. Near Rome, in sight of St Peter's.
X. At Albano.

XI. "Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle
Dove."

XII. From the Alban Hills, looking towards

Rome.

XIII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene.

XIV. Near the same Lake.

XV. The Cuckoo at Laverna.

XVI. At the Convent of Camaldoli.

XVII. Continued.

XVIII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of
Camaldoli.

XIX. At Vallombrosa.

XX. At Florence.

XXI. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by
Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence.
XXII. At Florence.-From Michael Angelo.
XXIII. At Florence.-From M. Angelo.

XXIV. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the
Apennines.

XXV. In Lombardy.

XXVI. After leaving Italy.

XXVII. Continued.

At Bologna, in remembrance of the late insur-
rections-

I. "Ah, why deceive ourselves! by no mere
fit,"

II. "Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined,
to learn,"

III. "As leaves are to the tree whereon they

Sonnet, "What if our numbers barely could
defy,"

1842

1845

1845

1845

1837

Sonnet, Composed after reading a newspaper of
the day, "People! your chains are severing
link by link," .

1838.

. 1837

Sonnet, To the Planet Venus, upon its approxi-
mation (as an evening star) to the earth,
January 1838, "What strong allurement
draws, what spirit guides,"
Sonnet, composed at Rydal on May morning,
1838, "If with old love of you, dear Hills! I
share,"

COMPOSED.

1838.

1838.

FIRST PUBLISHED,

"Life

Sonnet, composed in the same morning,
with you Lambs, like day, is just begun,"
Sonnet, "Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, un-
depressed,"

1838

1838

Sonnet, "Tis He whose yester-evening's high 1838 disdain,"

1838.

Sonnet, "Oh what a wreck! How changed in
mien and speech,"

1839

1838.

Sonnet, A Poet to his Grandchild (sequel to

the foregoing), "Son of my buried Son, while
thus thy hand,"

1838

1838.

Sonnet, "Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's
unselfish will,”

1839

1838.

1838.

1838.

Sonnet Valedictory, at the close of the volume
of Sonnets, "Serving no haughty Muse, my
hands have here,"
Sonnet, To a Painter, "All praise the Likeness
by thy skill portrayed,"

Sonnet, On the same subject, “Though I beheld
at first with blank surprise,"

1840.

1840, Jan. 1.

Sonnet, On a Portrait of I. F., painted by Mar-
garet Gillies,

1840, February. Sonnet, To I. F., "The Star which comes at close of day to shine,"

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death,

I. Suggested by the View of Lancaster
Castle (on the Road from the South),

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"This spot-at once unfolding sight
so fair."

II. "Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law."
III. "The Roman Consul doomed his sons

to die."

IV. "Is Death, when evil against good has
fought."

V. "Not to the object specially designed."
VI. "Ye brood of conscience-Spectres!

that frequent."

VII. "Before the world had passed her time
of youth."

VIII. "Fit retribution, by the moral code."
IX. "Though to give timely warning and

deter."