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Italy and Other Poems

By William Sotheby

Sotheby, William (1757-1833)

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1.

CANTO THE FIRST.

2.

CANTO THE SECOND.

3.

CANTO THE THIRD.

THE EMISSARIO OF ALBANO.

ON AN ORANGE TREE AT ROME.

THE GROTTO OF EGERIA.

ON THE RUINED PALACE OF RIENZI.

ON A PEASANT OF THE ABRUZZI MOUNTAINS.

THE PONTINE MARSHES.

THE LAKE OF COMO.

THE LAKE OF NEMI.

THE BORROMEAN ISLANDS.

FAREWELL TO ITALY.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

WRITTEN IN VIRGIL'S TOMB.

THE CONVENT OF THE GREAT ST. BERNARD.

EPITAPH ON A DOG,

TO THE CARDINAL MINISTER CONSALVI.

ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF FRANCIS HORNER, ESQ. AT PISA.

A FANCY SKETCH.

ON CROSSING THE ANGLESEA STRAIT TO BANGOR, AT MIDNIGHT.

TO JOANNA BAILLIE.

THE LAY OF THE BELL.

JOB, CHAP. XXVIII.

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EXTRACTS FROM A MANUSCRIPT POEM ON THE ELEMENTS.

FIRE. LIGHT—THE SUN.

THE AIR—THE EARTH—THE OCEAN.

CONTINUATION AND CONCLUSION OF THE AIR—THE EARTH, AND OCEAN.

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FRIENDSHIP— DEDICATED TO ------.

FAREWELL TO BEVIS MOUNT.

ON SEEING IN A DREAM THE VISION OF MY MOTHER.

WRITTEN IN A SOLITARY INN BETWEEN MUNICH AND AUGSBURGH,

ON A LONE DISTRICT BETWEEN MUNICH AND AUGSBURGH.

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The following Poems, and more particularly the last, entitled “Retrospect,” comprise the chief events which have diversified a life of retirement, and of literary leisure.

His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani
Officio—

Lower Grosvenor Street, May 17, 1825.