About this book
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa
chusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.
CONTENTS.
VOL. y.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From
the Southwest Coast of Cumberland. — 1811 .
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Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle Thirty Years after
its Composition
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Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase .
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Liberty. (Sequel to the Preceding.) [Addressed to a
Friend; the Gold and Silver Fishes having been re-
moved to a Pool in the Pleasure-Ground of Rydal
Mount.]
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Poor Robin
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The Gleaner. • (Suggested by a Picture)
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To a Redbrease in Siokrėss)"
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I know an aged
Mari constrained to dweil
Sonnet. (To an Oflogerfarian
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Floating Island
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How beautiful the Queen of Night, or high
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Once I could hail (howe'er áerörle the sky)
To the Lady Flerhing; un sering the Foundation preparing
for the Erection of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland .
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On the same Occasion
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The Horn of Egremont Castle
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Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A true Story
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Prelude, prefixed to the Volume entitled “Poems chiefly
of Early and Late Years ”
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iv
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To a Child. Written in her Album
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale.
Nov. 5, 1834
Grace Darling
The Russian Fugitive. — Part I.
Part II.
Part III.
Part IV.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
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In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beau-
mont, Bart., Leicestershire
In a Garden of the Same
Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.,
and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by him at the
Termination of a newly planted Avenue, in the same
Grounds
For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton
Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the
House (an Out-house), on the Island at Grasmere
Written with a Slate Pencil on a Stone, on the Side of the
Mountain of Black Comb
Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a
Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the
Islands at "Rydal
In these fair vạies hath måný a Tree The massy Ways, carried acrossetiese kşights Inscriptions supposed to be found in an irar a Hermit’s
I. — Hopes, what sire they; Beads of morning II. — Inscribed open Rock
III. — Hast thou seen, with flash incessant .
IV.- Near the Spring of the Hermitage
V.- Not seldom, clad in radiant vest
For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Her-
bert's Island, Derwent-Water.
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
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Cell.
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SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER, MODERNIZED.
The Prioress' Tale
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
Troilus and Cresida
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POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE.
The Old Cumberland Beggar.
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
The Small Celandine
The Two Thieves; or, The Last Stage of Avarice
Animal Tranquillity and Decay .
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EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES.
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera.
Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air. 136
Perhaps some needful service of the State 136
O thou who movest onward with a mind
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There never breathed a man who, when his life 138
True is it that Ambrosio Salinero.
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Destined to war from very infancy
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O flower of all that springs from gentle blood 141
Not without heavy grief of heart did he
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Pause, courteous Spirit! - Balbi supplicates 143
By a blest Husband guided, Mary came
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Six months to six years added he remained .
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Cenotaph.
Epitaph in the Chapel-Yard of Langdale, Westmoreland 146
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of 147
Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle,
in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont 150
To the Daisy
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Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John Words-
worth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, the
Earl of Abergavenny, in which he perished by a Ca-
lamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6, 1805 .
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