POETICAL WORKS ***
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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES,
CANON OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, AND RECTOR OF BREMHILL.
With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,
BY THE
REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL, 9 NORTH BANK STREET. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.
M.DCCC.LV.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK.
CONTENTS.
SONNETS AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
PAGE
SONNETS:--
At Tynemouth Priory, after a Tempestuous Voyage 7 Bamborough Castle 8 The River Wainsbeck 8 The Tweed Visited 9 On leaving a Village in Scotland 9 Evening 10 To the River Itchin 11 On Resigning a Scholarship of Trinity College, Oxford, and Retiring to a Country Curacy 11 Dover Cliffs 12 On Landing at Ostend 12 The Bells of Ostend 13 The Rhine 13 Influence of Time on Grief 14 The Convent 14 The River Cherwell 15 On Entering Switzerland 15 Distant View of England from the Sea 16 Hope 16 To a Friend 17 Absence 17 Bereavement 18 Oxford Revisited 19 In Memoriam 19 On the Death of the Rev. William Benwell, M.A. 20 At Malvern 20 Netley Abbey 21 Associations 21 Music 22 Approach of Summer 22 At Oxford, 1786 23 At Dover, 1786 23 Retrospection 24 On Accidentally Meeting a Lady, now no more 24 On hearing "The Messiah" performed in Gloucester Cathedral, Sept. 18, 1835 25 Woodspring Abbey, 1836 26 Lacock Nunnery, 1837 26 On a Beautiful Landscape 27 Art and Nature: the Bridge between Clifton and Leigh Woods 27 Picture of an Old Man 28 Picture of a Young Lady 29 Hour-glass and Bible 29 Milton. Two Sonnets on the bust of Milton, in Youth and Age, at Stourhead 30 To Sir Walter Scott 31
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS:--
Elegy written at the Hotwells, Bristol 32 Monody on Henry Headley 36 Howard's Account of Lazarettos 37 The Grave of Howard 42 Shakspeare 46 Abbe Thule's Lament for his Son Prince Le Boo 49 Southampton Water 51 The Philanthropic Society 52 The Dying Slave 58 Song of the American Indian 60 Monody, written at Matlock 61 The Right Honourable Edmund Burke 67 On Leaving a Place of Residence 72 Elegiac Stanzas written during Sickness at Bath 73 On leaving Winchester School 77 Hope: an Allegorical Sketch 77 The Battle of the Nile 88 A Garden-Seat at Home 94 In Horto Rev. J. Still 95 Greenwich Hospital 95 A Rustic Seat near the Sea 96 Wardour Castle 96 Pole-vellum, Cornwall 97 On a Beautiful Spring 98 On a Cenotaph to the Memory of Lieut-Col. Isaac 99 Translation of a Latin Poem, by Rev. Newton Ogle 100 St Michael's Mount 101 On an Unfortunate and Beautiful Woman 111 Hymn to Woden 113 Coombe-Ellen 115 Summer Evening at Home 125 Winter Evening at Home 126 The Spirit of Navigation 127 Water-party on Beaulieu River, in the New Forest 134 Monody on the Death of Dr Warton 135 Epitaph on H. Walmsley, Esq., in Alverstoke{a} Church, Hants 141 Age 142 On a Landscape by Rubens 142 The Harp, and Despair, of Cowper 151 Stanzas for Music 152 Music 152 Absence 153 Fairy Sketch 154 Inscription 155 Pictures from Theocritus 156 Sketches in the Exhibition, 1805 161 Do. in the Exhibition, 1807 162 Southampton Castle 164 The Winds 166 On William Sommers of Bremhill 169 The Visionary Boy 170 Cadland, Southampton River 180 The Last Song of Camoens 182 The Sylph of Summer 184 The Harp of Hoel 201 Avenue in Savernake Forest 215 Dirge of Nelson 216 Death of Captain Cooke, of "The Bellerophon" 217 Battle of Corruna 218 Sketch from Bowden Hill after Sickness 219 Sun-Dial in the Churchyard of Bremhill 223
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