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Sonnets Round the Coast

by H. D. Rawnsley
Rawnsley, H. D. (1851-1920)
  
[dedication]

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BOOK I. SONNETS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND SOUTH COAST.
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BOOK II. SONNETS OF THE CORNISH COASTS.
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BOOK III. SONNETS OF THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.
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BOOK IV. SONNETS OF THE WELSH COAST.
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BOOK V. SONNETS OF THE LANCASHIRE AND CUMBERLAND COASTS.
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BOOK VI. SONNETS OF THE NORTH-EAST COAST.
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BOOK VII.
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Part I SONNETS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST—SALTBURN.
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Part II. SONNETS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST-RUNSWICK BAY.
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Part III. SONNETS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST—WHITBY.
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I. THE SORROW OF THE SEA.
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II. WHITBY.
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III. SAINT HILDA.
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IV. BY THE ESK AT WHITBY.
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V. A CONTRAST: WHITBY.
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VI. A MEMORY OF CAEDMON, WHITBY.
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VII. SUNRISE AT WHITBY.
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VIII. A SUNSET AT WHITBY.
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IX. WHITBY ABBEY.
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X. WHITBY ABBEY.
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XI. AFTER THE HERRINGS, WHITBY.
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XII. HERRINGS FINE!
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XIII. IN THE UPPER HARBOUR, WHITBY.
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XIV. THE BELL BUOY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH, WHITBY.
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XV. ON THE HARBOUR PIER, WHITBY.
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XVI. LIGHTS ON WHITBY CHURCH STAIRS.
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XVII. SAINT HILDA'S LIGHTS.
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XVIII. SUNSET LIGHTS ON THE WINDOWS OF SAINT MARY'S CHURCH, WHITBY.
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XIX. THE SIX O'CLOCK BELL, WHITBY.
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XX. THE JET WORKER.
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XXI. THE WHITBY BELLS.
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XXII. SERVICE IN THE OLD PARISH CHURCH, WHITBY.
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XXIII. DROWNED BY THE UPSETTING OF THE LIFE-BOAT, OCTOBER 6, 1841.
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XXIV. FAREWELL TO WHITBY.
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XXV. THE PENNY HEDGE.
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XXVI. THE BEGGAR'S BRIDGE, GLAISDALE.
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XXVII. ON A MOORLAND RAILWAY.
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XXVIII. PICKERING MOOR,
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XXIX. LILLA CROSS.
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XXX. GOATHLAND.
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XXXI. IN GLAISDALE WOOD.
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Part iv. SONNETS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST—SCARBOROUGH.
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BOOK VIII. SONNETS OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE COAST.

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149

III. AT STAITHES.

Hid in their tawny cleft, the fisher clan,
Untravelled, seldom climbing to the moor,
With the wild ocean knocking at their door,
Wage the same war their forefathers began;
Build the same boats; the same nets weave and tan
Eat the same bread, salt-savoured, and are poor;
Content in hopeless labour to endure,
Till death shall find for them a nobler plan.
But some there are, adventurous souls, who feel
Fresh inspiration from their prison bars;
And, stirred by narrow confines such as these,
Go forth to plant beneath their roving keel
This solid earth, this canopy of stars,
And bring back word of the Antipodes.
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