Repentance, a Pastoral Ballad

The Affliction of Margaret

The Cottager to her Infant (by a Lady)

The Sailor's Mother

The Childless Father

The Emigrant Mother

Vaudracour and Julia

The Idiot Boy .

X Michael, a Pastoral Poem
Tue WAGGONER, in Four Cantos

.

22

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILD-

HOOD

15

My heart leaps up when I behold

ib.

To a Butterfly

ib.

Foresight, or the Charge of a Child to his

younger Companion .

16

Characteristics of a Child Three Years old ib.

Address to a Child, during a boisterous Winter

Evening (by a Lady).

ib.

The Mother's Return (by the same).

ib.

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

17

We are Seven

18

Anecdote for Fathers, showing how the Prac-
tice of Lying may be taught .

ib.

Rural Architecture .

19

The Per-Lamb.

ib.

The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or Dungeon-Ghyll

Force

20

To H. C. six Years old

ib.

lotluence of Natural Objects

The Longest Day

JUVENILE PIECES .

ib.

Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem

23

Au Evening Walk, addressed to a young Lady ib.

Descriptive Sketches

The Female Vagrant

33

POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS

35

The Brothers

ib,

Artegal and Elidure

39

The Sparrow's Nest .

41

To a Butterily

ib.

A Farewell

ib,

Stanzas; written in my Pocket-copy of Thom-

son's Castle of Indolence

42

Louisa

ib.

Strange fits of passion I have koown

ib.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

43

I travelled among unknown Men

ib.

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew

ib.

To',

ib.

*T is said that some have died for love

ib.

A Complaint

44

To

ib.

llow rich that forebead's calm expanse

ib.

To **••..

il.

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the eve of

a New Year.

45

The Complaint of a forsaken lodian Woman iba

The Last of the Flock

POEMS OF THE FANCY

A Morning Exercise

To the Daisy

A whirl-blast from behind the hill

The Green Linnet

The Contrast

To the Small Celandine

To the same Flower

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom

Song for the Spinning Wheel

The Redbreast and Butterfly

The Kitten and the Falling Leaves

A Flower Garden

To the Daisy

To the same Flower

To a Sky-lark

To a Sexton

Who fancied what a pretty sight

Song for the Wandering Jew

The Seven Sisters

A Fragment

The Pilgrim's Dream

Hint from the Mountains

Stray Pleasures

On seeing a Needlecase in the form of a Harp

Address to my Infant Daughter .

.

.

.

ib.

came

127

ib.

128

it.

ib.

129

130

ib.

.

.

.

To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave

of their Father

Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirile

To a Highland Girl

Glen Almain, or the Narrow Glen

Stepping Westward

The Solitary Reaper

Address to Kilchurn Castle

upon

Loch Awe

Rob Roy's Grave

Composed at Castle

Yarrow unvisited

In the Pass of Killicranky, an Invasion being

expected, October 1803

The Matron of Jedburgh and her Husband

Fly, some kind Spirit, fly to Crasmere-dale

The Blind Highland Boy

TOUR IN 1814

The Brownie's Cell

Composed at Corra Linn, in sight of Wallace's

Tower

Effusion in the Pleasure-ground on the Banks

of the Bran, near Dunkeld

Yarrow visited .

POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES

It was an April morning, etc.

To Joanna

There is an Eminence, etc.

A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags

To M. I..

When to the attractions of the busy World

131

ib.
132

ib.
134
ib.

133

wean

ib.
137

ib.
ib
138
139

il.
1.40

Page

To Toussaint l'Ouverture

145

Driven from the soil of France, a Female

ib.

Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the

Day of Landing

ib.

Inland, within a hollow Vale, I stood

ib.

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of

Switzerland

ib.

O Friend! I know not which way I must look ib.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour ib.

Great Men have been among us, etc.

146

It is not to be thought of that the Flood ib.

When I have borne in memory what has

tamed

ib.

One might believe that natural miseries . 146

There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear ib.

These times touch monied Worldlings with dis-

may

il.

England! the time is come when thou shouldst

ib.

Then, looking on the present face of things ib.

To the Men of Kent

147

Anticipation

ib.

Another year!-another deadly blow!

ib.

ODE

ib.

On a celebrated Event in Ancient History 148

Upon the same Event

ib.

To Thomas Clarkson, on the final passing of

the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade,

March, 1807

ib.

A prophecy. February, 1807

ib.

Clouds, lingering yet

ib.

Go hack to antique Ages

ib.

Composed while the Author was engaged in

writing a Tract, occasioned by the Conven-

tion of Cintra, 1808

ib.

Composed at the same time, and on the same

Occasion

1.49

Hoffer

ib.

Advance come forth from thy Tyrolean

ground

ib.

Feelings of the Tyrolese

ib.

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest ib.

And is it among rude untutored Dales

ib.

O'er the wide carth

ib.

On the final Submission of the Tyrolese. ib.

Hail, Zaragoza! etc.

150

Say, what is Honour ? etc.

ib.

The martial courage of a day is vain

ib.

Brave Schill! by death delivered

Call not the Royal Swede unfortunate

Look now on that Adventurer

ib.

Is there a Power

ib.

Ah! wliere is Palafox? etc.

ib.

Jo due observance of an ancient rite

151

Feeling of a noble Biscayan at one of these

Funerals

il.

The Oak of Gucrnica

ib.

Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard . ib.

Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind

ib.

O'erweening Statesmen bave full long relied il.

The French and the Spanish Guerillas

152

Spanish Guerillas, 1911

ib.

The power of Armies is a visible thing

ib

.

INSCRIPTIONS

141
lo the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir

George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire ib.
In a Garden of the same

ib.
Written for an Urn, placed at the Termination
of a newly-planted Avenue

ib.
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton

ib.

Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the

Wall of an Out-house on the Island of Gras-

mere

ib.

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 leap lying near a deserted

Qurry, upou one of the Islands at Rydale ib.
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR

A HERMIT'S CELL:
Hopes what are they? etc
Toscribed
upon a Rock

143
llast thou scen with flash incessant

ib.
Near the Spring of the Hermitage

ib.
Not seldom, clad in radiant vest

ib.
For the Spot where the Uermitage stood ou
St Herbert's Island, Derwent-water

ib.

142

SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY
Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, Aug.

1892

Calais, August, 1802

To a Friend

I frieved for Bonaparte, etc.

Calais, Augast 15, 1802

0o the Extinction of the Venetina Republic

The king of Sweden

ib.

ib.

ih.

152

· 153

Page

ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES.

172
PART J.--Introduction.

ib.
Conjectures.
Trepidation of the druids.
Druidical Excommunication.
Uncertainty.
Persecution.
Recovery.
Temptations from Roman Refinements.
Dissensions.

ib.
Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians. ib.
Saxon Conquest.

175
Monastery of Old Bangor.

il.

Casual Incitement..

1

ib.

Glad Tidings.

ib.

Paulinus.

ib.

Persuasiou.

ib.

Conversion.

175

Apology

Primitive Saxon Clergy.

ib.

Other loquences.

Seclusiou.

ib.

--(continued).

Reproof.

Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of

the Religion.

Missions and Travels.

Alfred

ib

llis Descendants.

ib.

Influence abused.

ib.

Danish Conquests.

ib.

Canute.

177

The Norman Conquest.

ib.

The Council of Clermont.

Crusades..

ib.

Richard l..

ib. i

Ao loterdict.

ib.

Papal abuses.

ib. 1

Scene in Venice.

178

Papal Dominion.

ib.

160

ib.

176

Page

Here pause :

the Poet claims at least this

praise

The French Army in Russia

ib.

On the same Occasion

il.

By Moscow self-devoted

The Germans on the Heights of Hockheim ib.

Now that all hearts are glad

ib.

On the Disinterment of the Remains of the

Duke D'Enghien .

ib.

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo

ib.

0, for a kindling touch of that pure flame ib.

Occasioned by the same Battle

ib.

Emperors and Kings, bow oft have Temples

rung

154

ODE.

ib.

THANKSGIVING ODE

155

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT,

IN 1820.

159

Fish-Women. --On landing at Calais

ib.

Bruges

Bruges

After visiting the field of Waterloo.

ib.

Scenery between Namur and Liege. .

ib.

Aix-la-Chapelle.

ib.

In the Cathedral at Cologne.

ib.

In a Carriage upon the Banks of the Rhine. ib.
Hymn for the Boatmen, as they approach the

Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg. ib.

The Source of the Danube. .

161

Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun. ib.

Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons of

Switzerland. .

ib.

On approaching the Staub-Bach, Lauterbrun-

ib.

The Fall of the Aar-Handec.

162

Scene on the Lake of Brientz.

il

Engelberg, the Bill of Angels.

ib.

Our Lady of the Snow. .

ib.

Effusion in Presence of the painted Tower of

163

The Town of Schwytz.

ib.

On hearing the « Ranz des Vaches» on the Top

of the Pass of St Gothard.

ib.

The Church of San Salvador, seen from the

Lake of Lugano. .

ib.

Fort Fuentes.

164

The Italian ltioerant, and the Swiss Goatherd. ib.
The last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the

Refectory of the Convent of Maria della Cra-
zia-Milan.

163

The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820.

ib.

The Three Cottage Girls.

166

The Column intended by Bonaparte for a

triumphal Edifice in Milan, now lying by

the Wayside in the Simplon Pass. .

il.

Stanzas, composed in the Simplon Pass.

Echo, upon the Gemmi.

il,

Processions.

Elegiac Stanzas.

163

Sky.prospect from the Plain of France. 16)

On being stranded near the Harbour of Bou-

logoe.

il.

After landing--the Valley of Dover.--Nov. 1820. il.

Desultory Stanzas.

il.

To Enterprise..

10

ib.

ib.

ib.

nen.

ib.

ib.
ib.
ib.

179

Part II.-Cistertian Monastery.

Mooks and Schoolmen.

Other Benefits..

-(continued).

Crusaders..

Transubstantiation.

Waldenses.

Archbishop Chicbely to Henry V.

Wars of York and Lancaster.

Wicliffe.

Corruptions of the higher Clergy.

Abuse of Monastic Power.

Monastic Voluptuousness.

Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The same Subject.

Page

213

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

214

ib.

ib.

Laud..

Flowers.

Change me, some God.

What aspect bore the Man.

The Stepping-Stones.

The same Subject.

The Faery Chasm.

Hints for the Fancy.

Open Prospect.

O mountain Stream!

From this deep chasm.

American Tradition.

Return.

Scathwaite Chapel.

Tributary Stream

The Plain of Donnerdale.

Whence that low voice?

Tradition.

Sheep-Washing.

The Resting-Place. .

Methinks 'I were no unprecedented feat.

Return, Content !

Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap.

Journey renewed.

No record tells of lance opposed to lance.

Who swerves from innocence.

The Kirk of Ulpha.

Not hurled precipitous.

Conclusion.

+ After-thought.

Postscript and Notes to the River Duddon

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

215

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

216

ib.

ib.

Page

Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution

of Joan of Kent. .

18)

Revival of Popery. .

ib.

Latimer and Ridley.

ib.

Cranmer. .

182

General View of the Troubles of the Refor-

mation. .

ib.

English Reformers in Exile.

ib.

Elizabeth.

ib.

Eminent Reformers.

ib.

The Same.

183

Distractions.

ib.

Gunpowder Plot.

ib.

Illustration,

ib.

Troubles of Charles the First.

ib.

ib.

Afflictions of England.

184

Part III.-I saw the figure of a lovely Maid. ib.

Patriotic Sympathies.

ib.

Charles the Second

ib.

Latitudinarianism. .

ib.

Clerical Integrity.

ib.

Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters. ib.

Acquittal of the Bishops.

William the Third.

ib.

Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty. ib.

Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design ib.

Walton's Book of Lives.

ib.

Sacheverell.

ib.

Places of Worship. .

ib.

Pastoral Character.

ib.

The Liturgy

186

Baptism.

ib.

Catechising.

ib.

Confirmation.

ib.

(continued).

ib.

Sacrament.

187

Rural Ceremony

ib.

Regrets.

ib.

Mutability

ib.

Old Abbies.

ib.

Einigrant French Clergy.

ib.

Congratulation.

ib.

New Churches.

Church to be erected.

ib.

(continued).

ib.

New Church-yard.

ib.

Cathedrals, etc.

ib.

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge ib.

The Same.

ib.

(continued).

ib.

Ejaculation.

189

Conclusion.

ib.

. 185

ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.

.

217

my

188

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. 224

Expostulation and Reply.

ib,

The Tables turned.

ib.

Written in Germany, on one of the coldest

days of the Century.

225

Lines left upon a Scat in a Yew-tree.

ib.

Character of the happy Warrior.

226

A Poet's Epitaph.

ib.

To the Spade of a Friend (an Agriculturist). 227

To Sister.

ib.

To a young Lady.

228

Lines written in early Spring.

ib.

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman.

ib.

Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog. 229

Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog.

ib.

If Nature, for a favourite Child.

230

* The Two April Mornings.

il.

The Fountain.

231

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Even-

ing:

il.

Remembrance of Collins.

ib.

If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven. 232

Written in a blank Leaf of Macpherson's Os-

sian,

ib.

Vernal Ode.

ib.

20de to Lycoris.

234

To the same.

ib.

Fidelity.

il.

To the Lady

on seeing the Foundation

preparing for the erection of

- Chapel,

Westmorland.

235

On the same Occasion.

236

The Force of Prayer.

il.

A Fact, and an Imagination.

237