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A WREN'S NEST

THE KITTEN AND FALLING LEAVES

STAR-GAZERS

SONNET-There is a pleasure in poetic pains

SONNET-When haughty expectations prostrate lie

A JEWISH FAMILY

CONTENTS

SONNET-TO-, in her seventieth year

GOLD AND SILVER FISHES IN A VASE

SONNET-Oxford, May 30, 1820

CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR

PRELUDE-Prefixed to the Volume entitled "Poems chiefly of

early and late years"

INSCRIPTIONS-Supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's Cell:

I. Hopes what are they? Beads of morning

II. Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be

SONNET-To a Snow-Drop

EPITAPHS:

I. Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air

II. There never breathed a man who, when his life

III. O flower of all that springs from gentle blood

IV. By a blest husband guided, Mary came

THREE YEARS SHE GREW IN SUN AND SHOWER

THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN

SONNET-Composed during a Storm

LAODAMIA

ON THE POWER OF SOUND

RUTH

TO THE CUCKOO

ODE-Composed upon an Evening of extraordinary Splendor and
Beauty

LINES-Composed near Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of

the Wye

SONNET-Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais

TO A LADY-In answer to a Request that I would write her a

Poem upon some Drawings that she had made of Flowers

in the Island of Madeira

PETER BELL. A Tale.

SONNET-One might believe that natural miseries

TO THE SONS OF BURNS-After visiting the Grave of their Father

LINES-Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree

ROB ROY'S GRAVE

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SONNET-Alas! what boots the long laborious quest

A POET'S EPITAPH

ELEGIAC STANZAS

SONNET-Oh what a wreck! how changed in mien and speech

THE FARMER OF TILSBURY VALE

INCIDENT AT BRUGES

SONNET-Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

YARROW VISITED

GRACE DARLING

SONNET-Great men have been among us; hands that penned

THE BROTHERS

SONNET-TO Sleep

THE IDIOT BOY

SONNET-Her only Pilot the soft breeze, the boat

PRESENTIMENTS

MEMORY

THE RUSSIAN FUGITIVE

SONNET-From the Italian of Michael Angelo

GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD

SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH:

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I. Fit retribution, by the moral code

II. Though to give timely warning and deter

III. Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine

IV. Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide

V. See the Condemned alone within his cell

VI. Yes, though he well may tremble at the sound

VII. The formal world relaxes his cold chain

EVENING VOLUNTARIES:

LIFE

III. To the Moon. Composed by the Sea-side

IV. To the Moon. Rydal.

SONNET TO B. R. Haydon

THE FORCE OF PRAYER; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory

TO JOANNA

SONNET It is & beauteous evening, calm and free

To A SEXTON

ODE-Composed on May morning