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Sonnets Round the Coast

by H. D. Rawnsley
Rawnsley, H. D. (1851-1920)
  
[dedication]

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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.
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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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II. CORNWALL.

World of the yellow gorse, and purple lea,
With fruitful ocean sounding in the caves,
Rich-veined of earth, whose ever-rolling waves
Of harvest ripen on from sea to sea;
Thy wells have power, there, saints have bent the knee,
Awe guards thy cromlechs, haunts thy moorland graves,
And at the crossway, with the sign that saves,
Hangs Balder-Christ upon his granite tree.
Still on thy greens the fairies dance their round,
The brownies haunt the hearth and clot the cream,
Tregeagle cries, the wish-hounds chase and chime;
Thy cairns with clash of phantom-arms resound,
And nights of vision melt to days of dream
Filled with romance of old Arthurian time.
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