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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.
  
[dedication]
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SONNETS, ETC.
  
AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.
  
BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.
  
THE RIVER WAINSBECK.
  
THE TWEED VISITED.
  
ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND.
  
EVENING.
  
TO THE RIVER ITCHIN.
  
ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD,
  
DOVER CLIFFS.
  
ON LANDING AT OSTEND.
  
THE BELLS, OSTEND.
  
THE RHINE.
  
INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF.
  
THE CONVENT.
  
THE RIVER CHERWELL.
  
ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND.
  
DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA.
  
HOPE.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
ABSENCE.
  
BEREAVEMENT.
  
OXFORD REVISITED.
  
IN MEMORIAM.
  
ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A.
  
AT MALVERN.
  
NETLEY ABBEY.
  
ASSOCIATIONS.
  
MUSIC.
  
APPROACH OF SUMMER.
  
AT OXFORD, 1786.
  
AT DOVER, 1786.
  
RETROSPECTION.
  
ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE.
  
ON HEARING “THE MESSIAH”
  
WOODSPRING ABBEY, 1836.
  
LACOCK NUNNERY.
  
ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE.
  
ART AND NATURE.
  
PICTURE OF AN OLD MAN.
  
PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY.
  
HOUR-GLASS AND BIBLE.
  
MILTON.
  
TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.
  
ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE HOTWELLS, BRISTOL, JULY, 1789.
  
MONODY ON HENRY HEADLEY.
  
ON MR HOWARD'S ACCOUNT OF LAZARETTOS.
  
THE GRAVE OF HOWARD.
  
SHAKSPEARE.
  
ABBA THULE'S LAMENT FOR HIS SON PRINCE LE BOO.
  
SOUTHAMPTON WATER.
  
THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.
  
THE DYING SLAVE.
  
SONG OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN.
  
MONODY, WRITTEN AT MATLOCK.
  
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE.
  
ON LEAVING A PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
  
ELEGIAC STANZAS. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH.
  
ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL.
  
HOPE,
  
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE.
  
A GARDEN-SEAT AT HOME.
  
IN HORTO REV. J. STILL,
  
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
  
A RUSTIC SEAT NEAR THE SEA.
  
WARDOUR CASTLE.
  
POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL.
  
ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING,
  
A CENOTAPH,
  
TRANSATION OF A LATIN POEM BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER.
  
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT.
  
ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
  
HYMN TO WODEN.
  
COOMBE-ELLEN.
  
SUMMER EVENING AT HOME.
  
WINTER EVENING AT HOME.
  
THE SPIRIT OF NAVIGATION.
  
WATER-PARTY ON BEAULIEU RIVER, IN THE NEW FOREST.
  
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DR WARTON.
  
EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ.,
  
AGE.
  
ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS.
  
THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER.
  
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
  
MUSIC.
  
ABSENCE.
  
FAIRY SKETCH.
  
INSCRIPTION.
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PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS.
  
FROM IDYL I.
  
FROM THE SAME IDYL.
  
FROM THE SAME.
  
FROM THE SAME.
  
FROM IDYL VII.
  
FROM IDYL XXII.
  
SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805.
  
EXHIBITION, 1807.
  
SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.
  
THE WINDS.
  
ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL.
  
THE VISIONARY BOY.
  
CADLAND, SOUTHAMPTON RIVER.
  
THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS.
  
THE SYLPH OF SUMMER.
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THE HARP OF HOEL.
  
AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST.
  
DIRGE OF NELSON.
  
DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOKE,
  
BATTLE OF CORRUNA.
  
SKETCH FROM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS.
  
SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
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THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA:
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THE MISSIONARY.
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VOL. II.

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

1

Come, let us, ere we go to bed,
O'er the decaying embers chat,
Though little Mary hangs her head,
And strokes no more the purring cat.

2

And let us tell how prisoners pine
In silent dungeons dark and drear;
Whilst on each face the embers shine,
And all is calm and peaceful here.

3

The English cot is free from cares;
But, see, the brand is wasted quite;
Come, little Mary, say your prayers;
Kiss, mother, kiss! good night, good night!
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