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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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XVI. SPRING DREAMS AMONGST THE CORNISH MINERS.

Land of the horns of plenty! though thy seas
No longer feel the strong Phœnician oar,
Nor Carthaginians push their boats ashore
To claim a sister Cassiterides;
Though those man-moles who marred thy pleasant leas
Cease, and the streams run purer than before;
Though less the hammers ring, the chimneys roar,
And the grim shales grow heathery by degrees;
Still when the beech in hollow woods is bold,
And April scatters violets thro' the land,
When once again the cuckoo's tale is told,
And primrose breath on every breeze is fanned,
Thy gay gorse vision haunts the mining band,
They dream wild dreams of Californian gold.
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