1826, the assignees of the estate of Messrs. Hurst, Robinson and Co., in whose pos-session it has remained, can best explain.

A second series of the Poetical Album, comprising some of the best fugitive poetry, which has appeared from 1823 to the present time, is now preparing for publication, uniform with the present volume.

PREFACE

Sketches taken from Dover Castle during a Storm.

By William Read, Esq. :-

1. The Coming on of the Storm

2. The Progress of the Storm

3. The East Indiaman

4. The Morning after the Storm

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Sonnet on Parting with his Books. By

William

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Roscoe, Esq.

The Artist's Studio. By L. E. L.

Sonnet. By the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles .

To Mont Blanc

Ode, written for Recitation at the Farewell Dinner

in Honour of John Kemble, Esq. By Thomas

Campbell, Esq.

The Last Tear

Address to the Alabaster Sarcophagus deposited

in the British Museum. By Horace Smith,

Esq.

To the Dying Year

The Last Day. By William Beckford, Esq.

The Hall of Eblis. By Barry Cornwall

A Reflection

Stanzas written in the Church-yard of Richmond

in Yorkshire. By Herbert Knowles.

Epitaph on an Idiot Girl

The Mossy Seat. By D. M. Moir, Esq.

Sonnet. By William Wordsworth, Esq.

A Farewell to England. By Joseph Ritchie, Esq. 43

The Exchange. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

On Painting. By Thomas Campbell, Esq.

Night. By James Montgomery, Esq.

From the Arabic

Ode to France. By Lord Byron

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A Fragment. By L. E. L.

The Parting. By the Rev. George Croly

Hero and Leander. By L. E. L.

Lines written on the Field of Waterloo

A Farewell. By Lord Byron

Stanzas addressed to a Lady on reading Romeo

and Juliet. From the German

To the Spirit of Poesy. By J. S. Clarke, Esq.
Evening. By the Rev. George Croly

The Kitten. By Joanna Baillie

Song. By William Smith, Esq.

To the Rainbow. By Thomas Campbell, Esq.

Comparison

Sappho. By L. E. L.

Sappho's Song. By L. E. L.

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The Egyptian Tomb. By the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles 75

Stanzas

Helvellyn. By Barry Cornwall

My Brother's Grave. By the Rev. J. Moultrie

Inscription for a Village Spring

On the Receipt of a Letter. By the Rev. George

Crabbe

On a Child Playing. By Thomas Doubleday, Esq. 85

On an old Engraving of a Nun

Lord Byron's latest Verses.

Sappho. By the Rev. George Croly

Lines written on a first View of Fonthill Abbey.

By the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles

A Sketch. By L. E. L.

Reproach me not

From Anacreon

The Burial of Sir John Moore. By the Rev.

Charles Wolfe.

Virgil's Tomb. By the Rev. George Croly

The Moslem Bridal Song. By the Rev. George

Croly

Thermopylæ. By Lord Byron

Belshazzar. By the Rev. George Croly

Withered Violets. By William Read, Esq.

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The Dead Sea. By the Rev. George Croly

Song, written for an Indian Air. By Percy Bysshe

Shelley

Stanzas written on the back of a Letter. By Is-

mael Fitzadam

A Drinking Song. By Lord Byron

Epitaph on Joseph Atkinson, Esq. By Thomas

Moore, Esq.

A Recollection. By John Malcolm, Esq.

Inscription for a Bust of Tasso, from the Italian

of Matthias. By the Venerable the Archdea-

con Wrangham.

Richmond Hill

A Sketch. By L. E. L.

The Tournament

Epitaph

The Treasures of the Deep. By Mrs. Hemans

Magdalena. By H. A. Driver, Esq.

Rosalia. A Poetical Sketch. By L. E. L.

The Village Church. By the Rev. J. W. Cunning-

ham

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Address to the Egyptian Mummy exhibited in Bel-

zoni's Exhibition. By Horace Smith, Esq.

The Forsaken Heart

Gypsies. By the Rev. J. Beresford

Impromptu. By the Rev. C. C. Colton

Jemima, Rose and Eleanore. By Thomas Camp-

bell, Esq.

Love's Philosophy. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Storm

Lines on leaving Landogo, a Village on the Banks

of the Wye

Stanzas written on the Anniversary of the Birth-

day of Robert Burns. By James Montgome-

ry, Esq.

Epitaph on an Infant. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

Mary's Mount. By D. M. Moir, Esq.

Bellator Moriens. By the Rev. George Croly

The Spirit of Poesy

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Song

A Church-yard Scene. By Professor Wilson

A Grecian Eden. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Child. By Miss Baillie

Viola. A Fragment

To the Ivy. By Mrs. Hemans

The Return from India

Song. By L. E. L.

To the Planet Jupiter. By the Rev. George Croly 145

Stanzas on receiving from Dr. Rush of Philadel-

phia, a piece of the Tree under which Wil-

liam Penn signed his Treaty with the Indians,

converted to the purposes of an Inkstand.

By William Roscoe, Esq.

Lines on a Skull

The Ground-swell. By N. T. Carrington

Mirkwood-Mere. By Sir Walter Scott

A Prayer. By William Beckford, Esq. .

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The Contrast. Written under Windsor Terrace,

17th February 1820. By Horace Smith, Esq. 151

Fragment

Ballad. By Thomas Pringle, Esq.

Lines written under the Hebe of Canova

The Past. By Professor Wilson

Stanzas. By the Rev. J. Moultrie

An Arabian Song. By Barry Cornwall

A Portrait from Real Life

160

El Hypocondriaco. By the Rev. George Croly

Written at Spithead. By the Rev. George Croly 161

A Night Storm among the Mountains of Snowdon 162

Sonnet composed on the Sea Coast. By S. T. Cole-

ridge, Esq.

A Country Wedding

Sonnet to Ailsa Rock. By John Keats

To a Girl Thirteen Years of Age

Love. By Robert Southey, Esq., Poet Laureate

To a Sister. By W. Read, Esq.

To Louisa

The Painter. By L. E. L.