Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's Ossian.

Cave of Staffa .

Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the

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Greenock.

"There!" said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride

The River Eden, Cumberland.

Monument of Mrs. Howard, (by Nollekens,) in Wetheral

Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden .

Suggested by the foregoing

Nunnery.

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways

The Monument commonly called Long Meg and her

Daughters, near the River Eden

Lowther

To the Earl of Lonsdale

The Somnambulist

To Cordelia M, Hallsteads, Ullswater

Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.

Expostulation and Reply

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The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the same

Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman: with an Incident in

Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the

Century

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Illustrated Books and Newspapers

To the Spade of a Friend. (An Agriculturist.) Com-

posed while we were laboring together in his Pleas-

The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory.

A Tradition

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A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on

the Sea-shore

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The unremitting voice of nightly streams

Thoughts on the Seasons

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To

-, upon the Birth of her First-born Child, March,

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone 313

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So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive

Upon seeing a Colored Drawing of the Bird of Paradise

in an Album

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SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER.

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day

Upon the late General Fast. March, 1832

Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud

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Blest Statesman he, whose Mind's unselfish will

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In Allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the

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

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At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insurrections,

Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road

from the South).

Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die

Is Death, when evil against good has fought.

Not to the object specially designed

Ye brood of conscience, Spectres! that frequent

Before the world had passed her time of youth

Fit retribution, by the moral code

Though to give timely warning and deter

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine

Ah! think how one compelled for life to abide.

THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;

OR,

THE FATE OF THE NORTONS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

DURING the Summer of 1807, I visited, for the first time, the beautiful country that surrounds Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire; and the Poem of the WHITE DOE, founded upon a tradition connected with that place, was composed at the close of the same year.

DEDICATION.

IN trellised shed with clustering roses gay,
And, MARY! oft beside our blazing fire,
When years of wedded life were as a day
Whose current answers to the heart's desire,
Did we together read in Spenser's Lay
How Una, sad of soul,-in sad attire, -

The gentle Una, of celestial birth,

To seek her Knight went wandering o'er the earth.

Ah, then, Beloved! pleasing was the smart,

And the tear precious in compassion shed

For her, who, pierced by sorrow's thrilling dart,
Did meekly bear the pang unmerited;