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To the Sons of Burns, after visiting their Father's grave
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To the Spade of a Friend..
"A fig for your languages, German and Norse"
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"It is the first mild day of March"
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To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long
Lines written while sailing in a boat at evening.
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Remembrance of Collins
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Personal Talk..
Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog
Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog
The Force of Prayer
Fidelity
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Ode to Duty
Miscellaneous Sonnets.
"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room
Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture
"The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade
"Weak is the will of man, his judgment blind"
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour"
"The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said
"How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks.
"Where lies the land to which yon ship must go'
"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress
"Mark the concentrated hazels that inclose'
'Dark, and more dark, the shades of evening fell "
"These words were utter'd in a pensive mood'
"Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy lord"
To the Poet John Dyer
To Sleep
"With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh
To the River Duddon
From the Italian of Michael Angelo
To the Supreme Being (from the same)
To the Lady Beaumont
The world is too much with us; late and soon
"Calm is all nature as a resting wheel"
"Earth has not anything to show more fair"
"Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side'
"Brook! whose society the poet seeks
Admonition
"Beloved vale!' I said, 'when I shall con "Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne" Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind"
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'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"
"What need of clamorous bells or ribbons gay
On approaching Home after a tour in Scotland
"From the dark chambers of dejection freed "
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
Sonnets dedicated to Liberty.
"Fair star of evening, splendour of the west
"Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind"
'Jones! when from Calais southward you and I"
"I grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain "
"Festivals have I seen that were not names
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
The King of Sweden...
To Toussaint l'Ouverture..
"We had a fellow-passenger who came
"Dear fellow-traveller, here we are once more'
"Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood ".
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
"O friend! I know not which way I must look"
"Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour"
"Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd
"It is not to be thought of that the flood"
"When I have borne in memory what has tamed
"One might believe that natural miseries "
"There is a bondage which is worse to bear'
"These times touch money'd worldlings with dismay
"England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean" Page 209
"When, looking on the present face of things
To the Men of Kent...
"Six thousand veterans practised in war's game
"Shout, for a mighty victory is won'
"Another year! another deadly blow'
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"Not 'mid the world's vain objects that enslave
"I dropp'd my pen, and listen'd to the wind
Hôffer
"Advance! come forth from thy Tyrolean ground"
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Feelings of the Tyrolese
"Alas! what boots the long, laborious quest'
"And is it among rude untutor'd dales "
"O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain
'Hail, Zaragoza ! if with unwet eye"
"Say, what is honour? "Tis the finest sense
"The martial courage of a day is vain"
"Brave Schill! by death deliver'd, take thy flight"
"Call not the royal Swede unfortunate".
"Look now on that adventurer who hath paid'
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"Is there a power that can sustain and cheer"
"Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
"In due observance of an ancient rite"
Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of these Funerals
"The power of armies is a visible thing'
"Here pause; the Poet claims at least this praise
"Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright"
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Thanksgiving Odes.
Ode for the Morning of the Day appointed for a General
Thanksgiving.
"When the soft hand of sleep had closed the latch"
Miscellaneous Pieces.
Inscription for a National Monument in Commemoration of the
Battle of Waterloo
Occasioned by the same Battle. February, 1816
"O! for a kindling touch of that pure flame
"While not a leaf seems faded-while the fields"
"How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright"
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Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into
To B. R. Haydon, Esq.
Russia...
Sonnet on the same Occasion.
On the Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien
Ode-" Who rises on the banks of Seine "
Elegiac Verses
Poems on the Naming of Places.
“It was an April morning: fresh and clear".
To Joanna
"There is an eminence,—of these our hills
"A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags'
To M. H.
"When, to the attractions of the busy world"
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Inscriptions.
Written with a slate-pencil, upon a stone, the largest o a heap
lying near a deserted quarry, upon one of the islands at
Rydale..
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Written with a slate-pencil, on a stone, on the side of the
mountain of Black Comb, Cumberland..
245
In the grounds of Coleorton, the seat of Sir George Beaumont,
Bart., Leicestershire..
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In a garden of the same
Written at the request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in
his name, for an urn, placed by him at the termination
of a newly-planted avenue in the same grounds....
For a seat in the groves of Coleorton
Written with a pencil, upon a stone, in the wall of the house
(an out-house) on the island at Grasmere
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"Though narrow be that old man's cares, and near
For the spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's
Island, Derwentwater
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Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems.
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera :—
'Perhaps some needful service of the state"
"O thou who movest onward with a mind"
"There never breathed a man who, when his life"
"Destined to war from very infancy"
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"Not without heavy grief of heart did he "
"Pause, courteous spirit!-Balbi supplicates
Lines composed at Grasmere during a walk, one evening,
after a stormy day, the Author having just read in a
newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was hourly
expected..
Lines written November 13, 1814, on a blank leaf, in a copy
of the Author's poem "The Excursion," upon hearing of
the death of the late vicar of Kendal
Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a
storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont
To the Daisy
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