LONDON:

E. MOXON, SON, & CO., DOVER STREET.

1870.

765614-B. 5.

CONTENTS.

INSCRIPTIONS.

In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beau-

mont, Bart., Leicestershire

In a Garden of the Same .

Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.,

and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by him at the

Termination of a newly-planted Avenue, in the same

Grounds

For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton

Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the

House (an Out-house), on the Island at Grasmere

Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of

the Mountain of Black Comb

Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a

Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the

Islands at Rydal

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In these fair vales hath many a Tree

The massy Ways, carried across these heights

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's

Cell

I.-Hopes what are they?-Beads of morning

II.-Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be

III.-Hast thou seen, with flash incessant

IV.-Troubled long with warring notions

V.-Not seldom, clad in radiant vest

For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St.

Herbert's Island, Derwent-water

On the Banks of a Rocky Stream

SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER MODERNISED.

The Prioress' Tale

The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

Troilus and Cresida

The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice

Animal Tranquillity and Decay

EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES.

Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera-

Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air.

Perhaps some needful service of the State

O Thou who movest onward with a mind

There never breathed a man who, when his life.

True is it that Ambrosio Salinero

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POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE.

The Old Cumberland Beggar .

The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale

The Small Celandine

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