affections have been moved, and my imagination exercised, under and for the guidance of reason.
Here might I pause, and bend in reverence To Nature, and the power of human minds; To men as they are men within themselves. How oft high service is performed within, When all the external man is rude in show; Not like a temple rich with pomp and gold, But a mere mountain chapel that protects Its simple worshippers from sun and shower! Of these, said I, shall be my song; of these, If future years mature me for the task, Will I record the praises, making verse Deal boldly with substantial things-in truth And sanctity of passion, speak of these, That justice may be done, obeisance paid Where it is due. Thus haply shall I teach, Inspire, through unadulterated ears
Pour rapture, tenderness, and hope; my theme No other than the very heart of man,
As found among the best of those who live,
Not unexalted by religious faith,
Nor uninformed by books, good books, though few, In Nature's presence: thence may I select Sorrow that is not sorrow, but delight,
And miserable love that is not pain
To hear of, for the glory that redounds
Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
Be mine to follow with no timid step
Where knowledge leads me; it shall be my pride That I have dared to tread this holy ground, Speaking no dream, but things oracular, Matter not lightly to be heard by those Who to the letter of the outward promise Do read the invisible soul; by men adroit In speech, and for communion with the world Accomplished, minds whose faculties are then Most active when they are most eloquent, And elevated most when most admired. Men may be found of other mould than these; Who are their own upholders, to themselves Encouragement and energy, and will; Expressing liveliest thoughts in lively words As native passion dictates. Others, too, There are, among the walks of homely life, Still higher, men for contemplation framed; Shy, and unpractised in the strife of phrase;
Meek, men, whose very souls perhaps would sink Beneath them, summoned to such intercourse. Theirs is the language of the heavens, the power, The thought, the image, and the silent joy: Words are but under-agents in their souls; When they are grasping with their greatest strength They do not breathe among them; this I speak In gratitude to God, who feeds our hearts For his own service, knoweth, loveth us, When we are unregarded by the world."
Applethwaite, At, ii. 286 Aquapendente, Musings near, iii. 181 Armenian Lady's Love, The, i. 328 Artegal and Elidure, i. 233 Authors, A plea for, ii. 863 Author's Portrait, To the, ii. 353 Autumn (Sept.), ii. 318
(Two Poems), iv. 249 Avon, The (Annan), iv. 115
BANGOR, Monastery of Old, iv. 9 Banks of a Rocky Stream, On the,
Baptism, iv. 72
Barbara, i. 254
Beaumont, Sir George, Epistle to, iv. 306
To the Lady, ii. 322
Beggar, Old Cumberland, v. 46 Beggars (Two Poems), ii. 118 Benefits, Other (Two Son.), iv. 31 Bible, Translation of the, iv. 46
America, Aspects of Christianity in, Bird of Paradise, Coloured Drawing
American Episcopacy, iv. 68
American Tradition, iii. 252
Ancient History, On a celebrated
Event in (Two Son.), iii. 81
Anecdote for Fathers, i. 190
Suggested by a
Biscayan Rite (Two Son.), iii. 96 Bishops, Acquittal of, iv. 64 Bishops and Priests, iv. 69
Animal Tranquillity and Decay, v. 60 Black Comb, Inscription on a stone
View from the top of,
ii. 195 Boat, Sailing in, at Evening, i. 17 Bologna, At (Three Son.), iv. 293 Bolton Priory, The founding of, iv. 237
Books and Newspapers, Illustrated,
iv. 221 Borderers, The, i. 73
Bothwell Castle, iv. 113 Boulogne, Near the Harbour of, iii. 174
Bran, Effusion on the Banks of, iii. 50
Breadalbane's, The Earl of, Ruined Mansion, iv. 106
Brientz, Scene on the Lake of, iii. 143 Britain, iv. 165
British Freedom, iii. 69 Britons, Struggle of the, iv. 8 Brook, ii. 330
Brothers, The, i. 218
Brother's Water, Bridge at the foot of, ii. 116
Brougham Castle, Song at the Feast of, ii. 154
Brownie's Cell, iii. 44 Brownie, The, iv. 112 Brugés (Three Poems), iii. 131 Buonaparte (Two Son.), iii. 61 Burial Place in the South of Scot- land, iv. 99
Burns, At the Grave of, iii. 2
Chichely, Archbp., to Henry the Fifth, iv. 37
Child, Áddress to a, i. 171
Characteristics of a, i. 170 Childhood, Poems referring to the period of, i. 166
Childless Father, The, i. 280 Child, To a (written in her Album), iv. 353
Churches, New, iv. 84
Church to be erected (Two Son.), iv. 84
Church-yard, New, iv. 86 Clarkson, Thomas, To, iii. 82 Clergy, Corruptions of the Higher, iv. 39
Emigrant French, iv. 82 Clerical Integrity, iv. 62 Clouds, To the, ii. 226
Clyde, In the Frith of (Two Son.), iv. 166
Cockermouth Castle, Address from the Spirit of, iv. 148
Cockermouth, In sight of, iv. 147.
Thoughts suggested near the Coleorton Hall, Elegiac Musings in
- Juscription for an Urn for a Seat
CALAIS (Three Son.), iii. 59
Fishwomen at, iii. 130
Camaldoli, at the Convent of (Three Son.), iii. 209
Canute, iv. 21
Canute and Alfred, iv. 240
Captivity. Mary Queen of Scots, ii. 327
Castle, composed at - iii. 27 "Castle of Indolence," Written in my Pocket Copy of, i. 245 Casual Incitement, iv. 10 Catechising, iv. 73 Cathedrals, &c., iv. 86
Catholic Cantons, Composed in one of the (Two Poems), iii. 142 Celandine, The Small, v. 57
To the Small (Two Poems),
ii. 23 Cenotaph (Mrs. Fermor), v. 70 Chamouny, Processions in the Vale of, iii. 166
Character, A, iv. 199
Charles the First, Troubles of, iv. 56 -the Second, iv: 60 Chatsworth, ii. 350
Chaucer. Selections from, v. 17 Chiabrera, Epitaphs translated from, v. 61
(Son. Punishment of Death), iv. 304 Confirmation (Two Son.), iv. 74 Congratulation, iv. 83 Conjectures, iv. 2
Contrast, The. The Parrot and the Wren, ii. 40
Convent in the Apennines, iii. 217 Convention of Cintra, composed while writing a Tract on (Two Son.), iii. 85 Conversion, iv. 13
Cora Linn, Composed at, iii. 48 Cottage Girls, The Three, iii. 161 Council of Clermont, The, iv. 23 Countess' Pillar, iv. 118
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