CONTENTS

[1806]

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To the Spade of a Friend[2]
Character of the Happy Warrior[7]
The Horn of Egremont Castle[12]
A Complaint[17]
Stray Pleasures[18]
Power of Music[20]
Star-gazers[22]
"Yes, it was the mountain Echo"[25]
"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room"[27]
Personal Talk[30]
Admonition[34]
"'Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con'"[35]
"How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks"[36]
"Those words were uttered as in pensive mood"[37]
"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky"[38]
"The world is too much with us; late and soon"[39]
"With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"[40]
"Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?"[41]
To Sleep[42]
To Sleep[43]
To Sleep[43]
To the Memory of Raisley Calvert[44]
"Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne"[46]
Lines composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Evening,after a stormy day, the Author having just readin a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox washourly expected[47]
November, 1806[49]
Address to a Child[50]
"Brook! whose society the Poet seeks"[52]
"There is a little unpretending Rill"[53]


[1807]

To Lady Beaumont[57]
A Prophecy. February, 1807[59]
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland[60]
To Thomas Clarkson, on the final passing of the Bill forthe Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807[62]
The Mother's Return[63]
Gipsies[65]
"O Nightingale! thou surely art"[67]
"Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near"[68]
Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake. 1807[73]
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir GeorgeBeaumont, Bart., Leicestershire[74]
In a Garden of the same[76]
Written at the request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.,and in his name, for an Urn, placed by him at thetermination of a newly-planted Avenue in the same Grounds[78]
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton[80]
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle[82]


[1808]

The White Doe of Rylstone[100]
The Force of Prayer[204]
Composed while the Author was engaged in writing aTract, occasioned by the Convention of Cintra. 1808[210]
Composed at the same time and on the same occasion[211]


[1809]

Tyrolese Sonnets—
Hoffer[213]
"Advance—come forth from thy Tyrolean ground"[214]
Feelings of the Tyrolese[215]
"Alas! what boots the long laborious quest"[216]
On the final Submission of the Tyrolese[217]
"The martial courage of a day is vain"[217]
"And is it among rude untutored Dales"[222]
"O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain"[223]
"Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye"[224]
"Say, what is Honour?—'Tis the finest sense"[225]
"Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight"[226]
"Call not the royal Swede unfortunate"[227]
"Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid"[228]
"Is there a power that can sustain and cheer"[228]
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera—
"Weep not, belovèd Friends! nor let the air"[230]
"Perhaps some needful service of the State"[230]
"O Thou who movest onward with a mind"[231]
"There never breathed a man who, when his life"[232]
"True is it that Ambrosio Salinero"[233]
"Destined to war from very infancy"[234]
"O flower of all that springs from gentle blood"[235]
"Not without heavy grief of heart did He"[236]
"Pause, courteous Spirit!—Balbi supplicates"[237]


[1810]

"Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen"[240]
"In due observance of an ancient rite"[241]
Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals, 1810[242]
On a celebrated Event in Ancient History[242]
Upon the same Event[244]
The Oak of Guernica[245]
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard, 1810[246]
"Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind"[247]
"O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied"[247]
The French and the Spanish Guerillas[248]
Maternal Grief[248]


[1811]

Characteristics of a Child three years old[252]
Spanish Guerillas, 1811[253]
"The power of Armies is a visible thing"[254]
"Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise"[255]
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart.[256]
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty years after itscomposition[267]
Upon the sight of a Beautiful Picture[271]
To the Poet, John Dyer[273]


[1812]

Song for the Spinning Wheel[275]
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in theVale of Grasmere, 1812[276]
Water-fowl[277]


[1813]

View from the Top of Black Comb[279]
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the side of theMountain of Black Comb[281]
November, 1813[282]