Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in

Anticipation of leaving School

Written in very early Youth

An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady.

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the Thames

near Richmond

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour

among the Alps

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near

the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate Part of the

Shore, commanding a beautiful Prospect

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain 51

THE BORDERERS. A Tragedy.

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF

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80

Foresight

189

Characteristics of a Child Three Years old

190

Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening 191

The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. A

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and

strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and early

Youth

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209

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213

217

219

The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter, Dora

The Norman Boy.

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225

Stanzas written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson s Castle

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses, addressed to a

It was an April morning: fresh and clear

To Joanna

There is an Eminence, of these our hills

A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags

To M. H.

When, to the attractions of the busy world

Forth from a jutting ridge, around whose base

A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire

A whirl-blast from behind the hill

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral

The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie

Who fancied what a pretty sight.

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The Redbreast chasing the Butterfly

Song for the Spinning-Wheel. Founded upon a Belief

prevalent among the Pastoral Vales of Westmoreland

Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders

On seeing a Needle-Case in the Form of a Harp .

To a Lady, in Answer to a Request that I would write

her a Poem upon some Drawings that she had made

of Flowers in the Island of Madeira

Glad sight wherever new with old

The Contrast. The Parrot and the Wren

The Danish Boy. A Fragment

Song for the Wandering Jew

Stray Pleasures

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The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glowworm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove

Rural Illusions

The Kitten and Falling Leaves

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora, on being remind-

ed that she was a Month old that Day, September 16

Written in March, while resting on the Bridge at the Foot

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live

Beggars

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135

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Resto-

ration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates

and Honors of his Ancestors

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