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By the Side of Rydal Mere

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

The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill

The sun has long been set

Composed upon an Evening of extraordinary Splendour

Composed by the Sea-shore

The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love

To the Moon. Composed by the Sea-side, -on the Coast

To the Moon. Rydal.

To Lucca Giordano

Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high

Where lies the truth ? has Man, in wisdom's creed

POEMS, COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR,

IN THE SUMMER OF 1833.

Adieu, Rydalian Laurels ! that have grown

Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle. 145

They called Thee MERRY ENGLAND, in old time

To the River Greta, near Keswick

To the River Derwent

In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth

Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle

Nan's Well, Brigham

To a Friend. On the Banks of the Derwent

Mary Queen of Scots. Landing at the Mouth of the

Derwent, Workington ·

Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees' Heads, on

the coast of Cumberland .

In the Channel, between the coast of Cumberland and

the Isle of Man

At Sea off the Isle of Man

Desire we past illusions to recal ?.

On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man.

By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man

By a Retired Mariner. H. H.

At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be written by

Despond who will I heard a voice exclaim

In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. During an Eclipse ci

the Sun, July 17

On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-boat

On revisiting Dunolly Castle

The Dunolly Eagle

Written in a Blank Leaf of: Macpherson's Ossian

Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed

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

Iona. Upon Landing

The Black stones of Iona

Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell

“ 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

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Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways

The Monument commonly called. Long Meg and her

Daughters, near the River Eden

To the Earl of Lonsdale

The Somnambulist.

To Cordelia M---, Hallsteads, Ullswater

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned. An evening Scene on the same

Lines written in Early Spring

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman; with an Incident in

which he was concerned

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

A Poet's Epitaph

The two April Mornings

The Fountain. A Conversation

Illustrated Books and Newspapers

To the Spade of a Friend. (An Agriculturist.) Composed

while we were labouring together in his Pleasure.

ground

A Night Thought

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Inciilenu characteristic of a favourite Dog

Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog

Character of the Happy Warrior

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

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

The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields

Upon the same Occasion

This Lawn, a carpet all alive

The unremitting voice of nightly streams

Thought on the Seasons

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

The Warning. A Sequel to the foregoing

If this great world of joy and pain

The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn

Ode, composed on May Morning

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone. 278

The foregoing Subject resumed

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive

Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise

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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

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

To the Pennsylvanians

At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections, 1837 293

Young England-what is then become of Old

Feel for the wrongs to universal ken

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

Is Death, when evil against good has fought

Not to the object specially designed

Ye brood of conscience-Spectres ! that frequent

Before the world bad past her time of youth .

Fit retribution, by the moral code.

Though to give timely warning and deter

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine

Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide

See the Condemned alone within his cell

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