HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

1834

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

The foregoing Subject resumed.

To a Child

Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale,

Nov. 5, 1834

1835

'Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant

To the Moon

To the Moon

Written after the Death of Charles Lamb

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg

Upon seeing a Coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise

in an Album

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'Desponding Father! mark this altered bough

"Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein "

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Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire 33

St. Catherine of Ledbury

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"By a blest Husband guided, Mary came

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"Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech!"

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To a Redbreast-(In Sickness)

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"Six months to six years added he remained "

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837-

To Henry Crabb Robinson

1. Musings near Aquapendente, April, 1837

II. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome

III. At Rome

IV. At Rome-Regrets-in Allusion to Niebuhr

and other Modern Historians

v. Continued

VI. Plea for the Historian

VII. At Rome

VIII. Near Rome, in Sight of St. Peter's

IX. At Albano

1836

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

XI. From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome

XII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene

XIII. Near the same Lake

XIV. The Cuckoo at Laverna

xv. At the Convent of Camaldoli

XVI. Continued

XVII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli

XVIII. At Vallombrosa

XIX. At Florence

xx. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael,

in the Gallery at Florence

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Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837, Continued-

XXI. At Florence-From Michael Angelo

XXII. At Florence-From Michael Angelo

XXIII. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines

XXIV. In Lombardy

XXV. After leaving Italy

XXVI. Continued .

At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections,

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II. Continued

III. Concluded

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"What if our numbers barely could defy'

A Night Thought

The Widow on Windermere Side

To the Planet Venus.

"Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest

"'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain'

Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838 .

Composed on a May Morning, 1838

A Plea for Authors, May 1838

"Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will "

Valedictory Sonnet

1838

1839

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death-

1. Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the

Road from the South)

II. Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law

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III. "The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, Continued—

IV. "Is Death, when evil against good has fought" . 106

"Not to the object specially designed "

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"Ye brood of conscience-Spectres! that frequent" 107

"Before the world had past her time of youth". 107

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Fit retribution, by the moral code "

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'Though to give timely warning and deter"

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"Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine "

'Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide "

XII. "See the Condemned alone within his cell "

XIII. Conclusion

XIV. Apology.

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

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1840

To a Painter

On the same Subject

Poor Robin

On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the Field
of Waterloo, by Haydon

1841

Epitaph in the Chapel-Yard of Langdale, Westmoreland

Floating Island .

"The Crescent-moon, the Star of Love"

"A Poet!-He hath put his heart to school "

1842

"Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake

Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly

of Early and Late Years"

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