Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's Ossian.

Cave of Staffa.

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Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed

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Cave of Staffa

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

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

216

The River Eden, Cumberland.

216

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

Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden

217

The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the same

Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman: with an Incident in

which he was concerned

237

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

Century

241

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

posed while we were laboring together in his Pleas-

ure-Ground

257

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

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

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

The foregoing Subject resumed

318

So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive

319

Upon seeing a Colored Drawing of the Bird of Paradise

In Allusion to various recent Histories and Notices of the

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

327

To the Pennsylvanians

328

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

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Ye brood of conscience, Spectres! that frequent

Before the world had passed her time of youth

Fit retribution, by the moral code

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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

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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, Belovèd! 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;