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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.
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[Part I.]
 II. 
Part II.
  
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[section]
  
[epilogue]
  
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:
 1. 
BOOK THE FIRST.
 2. 
BOOK THE SECOND.
 3. 
BOOK THE THIRD.
 4. 
BOOK THE FOURTH.
 5. 
BOOK THE FIFTH.
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THE MISSIONARY.
  
INTRODUCTION.
 1. 
CANTO FIRST. One Day and Part of Night.
 2. 
CANTO SECOND. The Second Day
 3. 
CANTO THIRD.
 4. 
CANTO FOURTH.
 5. 
CANTO FIFTH.
 6. 
CANTO SIXTH.
 7. 
CANTO SEVENTH.
 8. 
CANTO EIGHTH.
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VOL. II.
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BANWELL HILL;
 1. 
PART FIRST.
 2. 
PART SECOND.
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PART THIRD.
  
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 4. 
PART FOURTH.
 5. 
PART FIFTH.
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THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON;
  
INTRODUCTORY CANTO.
 1. 
CANTO FIRST.
 2. 
CANTO SECOND.
 3. 
CANTO THIRD.
 4. 
CANTO FOURTH.
  
CONCLUSION.
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ST JOHN IN PATMOS.
 1. 
PART FIRST.
 2. 
PART SECOND.
 3. 
PART THIRD.
 4. 
PART FOURTH.
 5. 
PART FIFTH.
 6. 
PART SIXTH.
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THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.
 1. 
PART FIRST.
 2. 
PART SECOND.
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THE VILLAGER'S VERSE-BOOK.
  
PATH OF LIFE.
  
SUNRISE.
  
SUMMER'S EVENING.
  
SPRING—CUCKOO.
  
SHEEPFOLD.
  
HEN AND CHICKENS.
  
POOR MAN'S GRAVE.
  
SABBATH MORNING.
  
THE PRIMROSE.
  
THE HOUR-GLASS.
  
THE BIRD'S NEST.
  
THE MOWER.
  
SATURDAY NIGHT.
  
SUNDAY NIGHT.
  
THE APRIL SHOWER.
  
THE ROBIN REDBREAST.
  
THE BUTTERFLY AND THE BEE.
  
THE GLOW-WORM.
  
THE CONVICT.
  
THE BLIND GRANDFATHER.
  
THE OLD LABOURER.
  
THE SWAN.
  
THE VILLAGE BELLS.
  
THE CAGED BIRD.
  
THE DUTIFUL CHILD
  
LITTLE MARY'S LINNET.
  
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS DOG.
  
THE WITHERED LEAF.
  
THE GIPSY'S TENT.
  
MY FATHER'S GRAVE.
  
THE SWALLOW AND THE RED-BREAST.
  
THE BLIND MAN OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.
  
THE BLIND SOLDIER AND HIS DAUGHTER.
  
THE LITTLE SWEEP.
  
THE BLACKSMITH.
  
HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
  
THE CHILDREN'S HYMN FOR THEIR PATRONESS.
  
EASTER DAY.
  
CHRISTMAS HYMN.
  
SONG OF THE CID.
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POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.
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THE SANCTUARY:
 I. 
Scene I.
 II. 
Scene II.
 III. 
Scene III.
  
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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ARIA WITH CHORUS.
  
CHORUS.
  
ARIA.
  
CHORUS.
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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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ON HEARING “THE MESSIAH”

PERFORMED IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, SEPT. 18, 1835.

Oh, stay, harmonious and sweet sounds, that die
In the long vaultings of this ancient fane!
Stay, for I may not hear on earth again
Those pious airs—that glorious harmony;
Lifting the soul to brighter orbs on high,
Worlds without sin or sorrow!
Ah, the strain
Has died—ev'n the last sounds that lingeringly
Hung on the roof ere they expired!
And I,
Stand in the world of strife, amidst a throng,
A throng that recks not or of death, or sin!
Oh, jarring scenes! to cease, indeed, ere long;
The worm hears not the discord and the din;
But he whose heart thrills to this angel song,
Feels the pure joy of heaven on earth begin!
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