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Malvern Hills

with Minor Poems, and Essays. By Joseph Cottle. Fourth Edition
Cottle, Joseph (1770-1853)

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VOLUME THE FIRST.
  
S. T. COLERIDGE, TO JOSEPH COTTLE.
  
ROBERT SOUTHEY, TO JOSEPH COTTLE.
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MALVERN HILLS.
  
DARTMOOR.
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PRINCE LEÉ BOO.
  
WAR, A FRAGMENT.
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MARKOFF.
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THE HOME-SICK SHEPHERD.
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THE AFFECTIONATE HEART.
  
THE WINTER ROBIN.
  
WRITTEN, (1793) WITH A PENCIL, ON THE WALL OF THE ROOM IN BRISTOL NEWGATE, where SAVAGE died.
  
EMMA.
  
THE WELCOME SUMMONS.
  
ELLEN AND EDWARD.
  
DESTINY.
  
SORDID AGE AND ARTLESS YOUTH.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN AN ARBOUR AT TOCKINGTON.
  
LINES ON RE-VISITING THE SAME ARBOUR.
  
THE MISANTHROPE.
  
EPITAPH
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SEVERN,
  
SEVERN,
  
TO CHARITY.
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ELEANOR DE MONTFORD's LAMENT.
  
ELEANOR DE MONTFORD's PRISON SONG.
  
THE SONG OF THE PATRIOT,
  
SONG OF THE OCEAN.
  
THE SONG OF THE CAMBRIAN PROPHETESS.
  
THE WELCOME.
  
THE WARNING.
  
THE DISTRACTED MINSTREL.
  
CARADOC's SONG OVER THE SLAUGHTERED BARDS.
  
THE WARRIOR's GRAVE ON SNOWDON.
  
THE CAMBRIAN WAR SONG.
  
THE SONG OF THE UNION.
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AN EXPOSTULATORY EPISTLE TO LORD BYRON.
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VOLUME THE SECOND.
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THE MISER's WILL.
  
Mr. BODY's REMONSTRANCE WITH HIS DISSOLUTE MASTER, Mr. MIND.
  
THE SPIRIT.
  
THE SPIDER's WEB.
  
STRAW PICKERS.
  
NED AND WILL.
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POEMS BY THE LATE AMOS COTTLE.
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SONNET I. TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
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SONNET II. TO MY BROTHER.
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SONNET III. INSCRIPTION FOR A CELL IN ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS, NEAR BRISTOL.
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SONNET IV. TO POVERTY.
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SONNET V. LEIGH WOODS.
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VI. ON THE MILTON GALLERY.
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VII. ON THE VALE OF OLDLAND, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
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VIII. ON MY VENERABLE GRANDFATHER.
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JOHN THE BAPTIST.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MISSIONARIES.
  
“AND THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE WAS GREAT.”
  
TIME IS SHORT.
  
BENEFICENCE
  
THE CHRISTIAN.
  
CHRISTMAS HYMN.
  
GOOD FRIDAY.
  
THE CAPTIVE ISRAELITE.
  
PERSECUTION.
  
FUNERAL DIRGE.
  
THE HERMIT's EVENING SONG.
  
HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING.
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ELEGY
  
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.
  
ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE VENERABLE AND EXCELLENT DR. RYLAND OF BRISTOL.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED NIECE,
  
MONODY ON JOHN HENDERSON, A. B.

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THE AFFECTIONATE HEART.

LET the great man, his treasures possessing,
Pomp and splendour for ever attend;
I prize not the shadowy blessing,
I ask—the affectionate friend.
Though foibles may sometimes o'ertake him,—
His footstep from wisdom depart;
Yet my spirit shall never forsake him,
If he own the affectionate heart.
Affection! thou soother of care,
Without thee unfriended we rove;
Thou canst make e'en the desert look fair,
And thy voice is the voice of the dove.
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Mid the anguish that preys on the breast,
And the storms of mortality's state;
What shall lull the afflicted to rest,
But the joys that on sympathy wait?
What is fame, bidding envy defiance,
The idol and bane of mankind;
What is wit, what is learning, or science,
To the heart that is steadfast and kind?
Even genius may weary the sight,
By too fierce, and too constant a blaze;
But affection, mild planet of night!
Grows lovelier the longer we gaze.
It shall thrive, when the flattering forms
Which encircle creation decay;
It shall live mid the wide-wasting storms
That bear all, undistinguish'd, away.
When Time, at the end of his race,
Shall expire with expiring mankind;
It shall stand on its permanent base!
It shall last till the wreck of the mind!
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