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Sonnets Round the Coast

by H. D. Rawnsley
Rawnsley, H. D. (1851-1920)
  
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BOOK I. SONNETS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND SOUTH COAST.
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BOOK II. SONNETS OF THE CORNISH COASTS.
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BOOK III. SONNETS OF THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.
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BOOK IV. SONNETS OF THE WELSH COAST.
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BOOK V. SONNETS OF THE LANCASHIRE AND CUMBERLAND COASTS.
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I. EAST AND WEST.
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II. THE TOWER ON THE HOAD, ULVERSTON.
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III. A LAUNCH FROM THE FURNESS DOCKS.
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IV. BLACK COMBE.
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V. ESKMEALS.
 VI. 
VI. AT KING HENRY'S CHAPEL, MUNCASTER.
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VII. A QUIET AUTUMN DAY,
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VIII. AT MUNCASTER,
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IX. THE DEATH OF OLAF THE DANE—
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X. HOME FROM THE EAST.
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XI. THE LIGHT-SHIP, SEEN FROM SEASCALE.
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XII. THE DRUID STONE NEAR MILLBECK, SEASCALE.
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XIII. BRAVE SAILING.
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XIV. AT SEASCALE.
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XV. THE PREACHER'S SEASIDE LESSON.
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XVI. THE OLD WRECK AT SEASCALE.
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XVII. THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE.
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XVIII. ROCK RUINS AT SEASCALE.
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XIX. THE GOSFORTH CROSS.
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XX. SEASCALE MEMORIES.
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XXI. THE PEACE OF UNDERSTANDING.
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XXII. ARCHBISHOP GRINDAL,
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XXIII. TOMB OF THOMAS DE COTTINGHAM,
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XXIV. BEOWULF'S STONE, SAINT BEES.
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XXV. THE SNOW MIRACLE,
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XXVI. THE FORESTER'S. TOMB, SAINT BEES.
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XXVII. SAINT BEES.
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XXVIII. SEA-COTE, SAINT BEES.
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XXIX. SEA-GULLS AT SAINT BEES.
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XXX. THE LARK ON TOMLINE HEAD.
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XXXI. A DOUBTFUL MAY.
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XII. MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS, SAINT BEES HEAD.
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XXXIII. THE IMPERISHABLE GOSPEL.
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XXXIV. THE GLADNESS OF THE SEA.
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BOOK VI. SONNETS OF THE NORTH-EAST COAST.
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BOOK VII.
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BOOK VIII. SONNETS OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE COAST.

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XXX. THE LARK ON TOMLINE HEAD.

To sit and listen where two voices meet,
One the continual patter of the stream,
And one old ocean's murmurings, that seem,
Pause after pause, one utterance to repeat
As if for exhortation,—that were sweet,
While round the emerald beetles shoot and gleam,
Brown martlets cry, and lazy cattle dream,
And the curved beach is winking in the heat.
But, tireless minstrel, neither voice prevails
When thou dost sing—the giant, laid to sleep
Far up the valley, heard thy tender pleas
And wondering looked to heaven, while she the gales
Drove hither, in thy joy, forgot the deep
And all its perils—Abbess of Saint Bees.
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