The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Rector of Bremhill, Vol. 1: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory NotesA NM Edition of the following Poems having been called for by the public, the author is induced to say a few words, particularly concerning those which, under the name of Sonnets, describe his personal feelings.They can be considered in no other light than as exhibiting occasional reflections which naturally arose in his mind, chiefly during various excur sions, undertaken to relieve, at the time, depression of spirits. T...
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- THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
- MEMOIR AND CRITICISM ON THE WORKS OF THE REV. W. L. BOWLES.
- CONTENTS
- BANWELL HILL;
- A LAY OF THE SEVERN SEA.
- PREFACE.[1]
- BANWELL CAVE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ARGUMENT.
- BANWELL HILL. PART FIRST.
- INTRODUCTION—GENERAL VIEW—CAVE—ASCENT—VIEW—STEEP HOLMS—FLAT HOLMS—SEA.
- PART SECOND.
- REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS STATE OF PARISHES, PAST AND PRESENT.
- PART THIRD.
- THE MAIDEN'S CURSE.
- PART FOURTH.
- WALK ABROAD—VIEWS AROUND, FROM THE SEVERN TO BRISTOL—WRINGTON—"AULD ROBIN GRAY."
- PART FIFTH.
- LANG SYNE—VISION OF THE DELUGE—CONCLUSION
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE CURFEW.
- INTRODUCTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON.
- INTRODUCTORY CANTO.
- CANTO FIRST.
- CANTO SECOND.
- CANTO THIRD.
- CANTO FOURTH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ST JOHN IN PATMOS.
- ST JOHN IN PATMOS.
- PART FIRST.
- PART SECOND.
- PART THIRD.
- PART FOURTH.
- PART FIFTH.
- PART SIXTH.
- APOCALYPTIC HORSES.
- WHITE HORSE, RED HORSE, BLACK HORSE, PALE HORSE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.
- THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.[188]
- PART FIRST.
- PART SECOND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE VILLAGER'S VERSE-BOOK.
- PREFACE.
- 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
- READING THE STORY OF JOSEPH TO A SICK FATHER.
- 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.
- AN APOLOGUE.
- THE BLIND MAN OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.
- THE BLIND SOLDIER AND HIS DAUGHTER.
- THE LITTLE SWEEP.
- WRITTEN FOR JAMES MONTGOMERY'S CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S ALBUM.
- THE BLACKSMITH.
- HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
- THE CHILDREN'S HYMN FOR THEIR PATRONESS.
- EASTER DAY.
- CHRISTMAS HYMN.
- FOOTNOTES:
- SONG OF THE CID.[194]
- FOOTNOTES:
- POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.
- POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.
- THE SANCTUARY:
- A DRAMATIC SKETCH.
- Scene I. Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV., in the palace of Westminster, watching her youngest son, Richard, sleeping.
- Scene II. The Sanctuary at Westminster.
- Scene III. The Cardinal of York[196]—Queen—Richard.
- 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.
- WRITTEN AFTER VIEWING THE RUINS OF THE ONE, AND HEARING THE CHURCH SERVICE IN THE OTHER.
- SILCHESTER, THE ANCIENT CALEVA.[199]
- RESTORATION OF MALMESBURY ABBEY.[201]
- ON THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES THE FIRST,
- AT NIGHT, IN ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR.
- ON SEEING PLANTS IN THE WINDOWS OF SETH WARD'S COLLEGE,
- ENDOWED FOR WIDOWS OF CLERGYMEN, AT SALISBURY.
- MORLEY'S FAREWELL TO THE COTTAGE OF ISAAK WALTON.
- TO KENNA.
- THE GRAVE OF BISHOP KEN.
- THE LEGEND OF ST CECILIA AND THE ANGEL.
- SUPPOSED ADDRESS TO BISHOP KEN.[208]
- ON AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON AT MIDNIGHT.
- TO LADY VALLETORT,
- ON HEARING HER SING "GLORIA IN EXCELSIS," WITH THREE OTHER YOUNG LADIES, AT LACOCK ABBEY, OCTOBER 1831.
- ON SEEING A BUST OF R. B. SHERIDAN,
- FROM A CAST TAKEN AFTER DEATH.[209]
- RETURN OF GEORGE III. TO WINDSOR CASTLE.
- ON MEETING SOME FRIENDS OF YOUTH AT CHELTENHAM,
- FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE PARTED AT OXFORD.
- THE LAY OF TALBOT, THE TROUBADOUR.[210]
- A LEGEND OF LACOCK ABBEY. PART FIRST.
- PART SECOND.
- THE ARK: A POEM FOR MUSIC.
- WRITTEN AFTER THE CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CHURCH AT KINGSWOOD.
- ON THE DEATH OF DR BURGESS,
- THE LATE BISHOP OF SALISBURY.
- LINES WRITTEN ON FONTHILL ABBEY.
- EPITAPH ON BENJAMIN TREMLYN,
- AN OLD SOLDIER, BURIED IN BREMHILL CHURCHYARD AT THE AGE OF 92.
- 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,
- IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
- ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM LINLEY, ESQ.,
- THE COMPOSER OF THE MUSIC OF "THE DUENNA," ETC.
- INSCRIBED TO THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE
- HYMN FOR MUSIC,
- AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
- 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.
- FOOTNOTES:
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