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Composed.

1833.

[Poems-continued.]

XXXV. Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell.

XXXVI. Greenock.

We have not passed into a doleful City.

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

pride.

XXXVIII. The River Eden, Cumberland.

Eden! till now thy beauty had I viewed.

XXXIX. Monument of Mrs. Howard (by Nol-
lekens) in Wetheral Church, near
Corby, on the Banks of the Eden.

Stretched on the dying Mother's lap, lies dead.

XL. Suggested by the foregoing.

Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou.

XLI. Nunnery.

First Published.

The floods are roused, and will not soon be weary.

XLII. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways.

Motions and Means, on land and sea at war.

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

A weight of awe, not easy to be borne.

XLIV. Lowther.

Lowther in thy majestic Pile are seen.

XLV. To the Earl of Lonsdale.

Lonsdale! it were unworthy of a Guest.

XLVI. The Somnambulist.

List, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower.

XLVII. To Cordelia M, Hallsteads, Ulls

water.

Not in the mines beyond the western main.

1835

XLVIII. Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes.

1833.

What mischief cleaves to unsubdued regret,

1845

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1835.

Evening Voluntaries, To the Moon. (Composed
by the Sea-side,-on the Coast of Cumber-

1836

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1835.

June 23.

Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of a Bird of
Paradise in an Album.

1836

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

1835.

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

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Composed.

1837.

1837.

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837,

I. To Henry Crabb Robinson.

Companion! by whose buoyant Spirit cheered.

II. Musings near Aquapendente.
1837.

April,

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First Published.

Niebuhr and other modern Histo

rians.

Those old credulities, to nature dear.

VI. Continued.

Complacent Fictions were they, yet the same.

VII. Plea for the Historian.

Forbear to deem the Chronicler unwise.

VIII. At Rome.

They--who have seen the noble Roman's scorn.

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

Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn.

x. At Albano.

Days passed-and Monte Calvo would not clear.

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

XII. From the Alban Hills, looking towards
Rome.

Forgive, illustrious Country! these deep sighs.

XIII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene.

When here with Carthage Rome to conflict came.

1842

Composed.

1837.

First Published.

1842

[Memorials of a Tour in Italy-continued.]

XIV. Near the same Lake.

For action born, existing to be tried.

XV. The Cuckoo at Laverna. May 25,

1837.

List-'twas the Cuckoo.-O with what delight.

XVI. At the Convent of Camaldoli.

Grieve for the Man who hither came bereft.

XVII. Continued.

The world forsaken, all its busy cares.

XVIII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of
Camaldoli.

What aim had they, the Pair of Monks, in size.

XIX. At Vallombrosa.

"Vallombrosa-I longed in thy shadiest wood.

XX. At Florence.

Under the shadow of a stately Pile.

XXI. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by
Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence.

The Baptist might have been ordained to cry.

XXII. At Florence. From Michael Angelo.

Rapt above earth by power of one fair face.

XXIII. At Florence.-From M. Angelo.

Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load.

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

Ye Trees! whose slender roots entwine.

XXV. In Lombardy.

See, where his difficult way that Old Man wins.

XXVI. After leaving Italy.

Fair Land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few.

XXVII. Continued.

As indignation mastered grief, my tongue.

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