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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POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.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.

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ABSENCE.

OCTOBER 26, 1791.
How shall I cheat the heavy hours, of thee
Deprived, of thy kind looks and converse sweet,
Now that the waving grove the dark storms beat,
And wintry winds sad sounding o'er the lea,
Scatter the sallow leaf! I would believe,
Thou, at this hour, with tearful tenderness
Dost muse on absent images, and press
In thought my hand, and say: Oh do not grieve,
Friend of my heart! at wayward fortune's power;
One day we shall be happy, and each hour
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Of pain forget, cheered by the summer ray.
These thoughts beguile my sorrow for thy loss,
And, as the aged pines their dark heads toss,
Oft steal the sense of solitude away.
So am I sadly soothed, yet do I cast
A wishful glance upon the seasons past,
And think how different was the happy tide,
When thou, with looks of love, wert smiling by my side.
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