Comes with the people when the bells Here walks amid the mournful waste By fractured cell, or tomb, or vault, POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. EXTRACT FROM THE CONCLUSION OF A POEM, COMPOSED UPON LEAVING SCHOOL. DEAR native regions, I foretell My soul will cast the backward view, On the dear mountain-tops where first he rose. WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH. CALM is all nature as a resting wheel. AN EVENING WALK. ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY. General Sketch of the Lakes-Author's regret of his youth which was passed amongst them-Short description of Noon-Cascade-Noontide Retreat-Precipice and sloping Lights-Face of Nature as the Sun declines-Mountain-farm, and the Cock-Slate-quarry-Sunset -Superstition of the Country connected with that moment-Swans -Female Beggar-Twilight sounds-Western Lights-Spirits-Night -Moonlight-Hope-Night-sounds-Conclusion. FAR from my dearest Friend, 'tis mine to rove Fair scenes, erewhile, I taught, a happy child, With hope reflection blends her social rays Yet still, the sport of some malignant power, He knows but from its shade the present hour. But why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain? To show her yet some joys to me remain, These lines are only applicable to the middle part of that lake. In the beginning of winter, these mountains are frequented by woodcocks, which in dark nights retire into the woods. |