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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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I.

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AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.

THE RIVER WAINSBECK.

THE TWEED VISITED.

ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND.

TO THE RIVER ITCHIN.

ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD,

ON LANDING AT OSTEND.

THE BELLS, OSTEND.

INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF.

THE RIVER CHERWELL.

ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND.

DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA.

OXFORD REVISITED.

ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A.

APPROACH OF SUMMER.

AT OXFORD, 1786.

AT DOVER, 1786.

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.

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.

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.

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,

TRANSATION OF A LATIN POEM BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER.

ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT.

ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

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.,

ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS.

THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS.

SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805.

EXHIBITION, 1807.

SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.

ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL.

THE VISIONARY BOY.

CADLAND, SOUTHAMPTON RIVER.

THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS.

THE SYLPH OF SUMMER.

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.

THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA:

THE MISSIONARY.

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EPITAPH ON ROBERT SOUTHEY.

Christian! for none who scorns that holy name
Can gaze with honest eyes on Southey's fame;
Christian! bow down thy head in humble fear,
And think what God-given powers lie silenced here:
Wit, judgment, memory, patience unsubdued,
Conception vast, and pious fortitude.

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Learning possessed no steeps, and truth no shore,
Beyond his step to tread, his wing to soar;
His was the historian's pen, the poet's lyre,
The churchman's ardour, and the patriot's fire;
While fireside charities, Heaven's gentlest dower,
Lent genius all their warmth and all their power.
O Church and State of England! thine was he
In living fame, thine be his memory!
Thou saw'st him live, in faith expire,
Go, bid thy sons to follow, and admire!