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The poetical works of William Lisle Bowles

... with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan
Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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BANWELL HILL;
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THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON;
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ST JOHN IN PATMOS.
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THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.
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THE VILLAGER'S VERSE-BOOK.
  
SONG OF THE CID.
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POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.
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THE SANCTUARY:
  
CHILDE HAROLD'S LAST PILGRIMAGE.
  
THE EGYPTIAN TOMB.
  
CHANTREY'S SLEEPING CHILDREN.
  
ON MISS FITZGERALD AND LORD KERRY PLANTING TWO CEDARS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
  
THE GREENWICH PENSIONERS.
  
GLASTONBURY ABBEY AND WELLS CATHEDRAL.
  
SILCHESTER, THE ANCIENT CALEVA.
  
RESTORATION OF MALMESBURY ABBEY.
  
ON THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES THE FIRST,
  
ON SEEING PLANTS IN THE WINDOWS OF SETH WARD'S COLLEGE,
  
MORLEY'S FAREWELL TO THE COTTAGE OF ISAAK WALTON.
  
THE GRAVE OF BISHOP KEN.
  
THE LEGEND OF ST CECILIA AND THE ANGEL.
  
SUPPOSED ADDRESS TO BISHOP KEN.
  
ON AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON AT MIDNIGHT.
  
TO LADY VALLETORT,
  
ON SEEING A BUST OF R. B. SHERIDAN,
  
RETURN OF GEORGE III. TO WINDSOR CASTLE.
  
ON MEETING SOME FRIENDS OF YOUTH AT CHELTENHAM,
  
THE LAY OF TALBOT, THE TROUBADOUR.
  
THE ARK:
  
WRITTEN AFTER THE CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CHURCH AT KINGSWOOD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF DR BURGESS,
  
LINES WRITTEN ON FONTHILL ABBEY.
  
EPITAPH ON BENJAMIN TREMLYN,
  
EPITAPH ON ROBERT SOUTHEY.
  
SONNET. WRITTEN IN A COPY OF FALCONER'S “SHIPWRECK.”
  
ON FIRST HEARING CARADORI SING.
  
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.
  
LOCKSWELL.
  
ON MOZART.
  
EPITAPH ON JOHN HARDING,
  
ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM LINLEY, ESQ.,
  
INSCRIBED TO THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE
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HYMN FOR MUSIC,
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INSCRIPTIONS IN THE GARDENS OF BREMHILL RECTORY.
  
ON A TREE COMMANDING A VIEW OF THE WHOLE EXTENT OF BOWOOD.
  
ON A RURAL SEAT.
  
ON THE FRONT OF A HERMITAGE, NEAR A DIAL.
  
QUIETI ET MUSIS.

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HOPE.

As one who, long by wasting sickness worn,
Weary has watched the lingering night, and heard
Unmoved the carol of the matin bird
Salute his lonely porch; now first at morn
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Goes forth, leaving his melancholy bed;
He the green slope and level meadow views,
Delightful bathed with slow-ascending dews;
Or marks the clouds, that o'er the mountain's head
In varying forms fantastic wander white;
Or turns his ear to every random song,
Heard the green river's winding marge along,
The whilst each sense is steeped in still delight.
So o'er my breast young Summer's breath I feel,
Sweet Hope! thy fragrance pure and healing incense steal!
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