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PART I.-FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN, to the
CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.
How soon-alas! did Man, created pure
From false assumption rose, and fondly
hail'd
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252 The Council of Clermont.
252 Crusades
252 Richard I.
An Interdict
252 Papal Abuses
252 Scene in Venice
252 Papal Dominion
PART II.-TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.
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Saints
The Virgin
Apology
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256 Imaginative Regrets
256 Reflections
256 Translation of the Bible
256 The Point at issue
Edward VI.
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256
Edward signing the Warrant for the Exe-
257
cution of Joan of Kent
259
Revival of Popery
260
Latimer and Ridley.
Cranmer
General View of the Troubles of the Re-
formation
257 English Reformers in Exile
257 Elizabeth
258 Eminent Reformers
258 The Same.
261
258 Distractions
258 Gunpowder Plot
258 Illustration. The Jung-Frau' and the Fall
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of the Rhine near Schaffhausen
258 Troubles of Charles the First
258 Laud
259 Afflictions of England
PART III.-FROM THE Restoration TO THE PRESENT TIMES.
I saw the figure of a lovely Maid
Walton's Book of Lives
Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters
262
Forms of Prayer at Sea
265
Acquittal of the Bishops
262 Funeral Service
William the Third
263
Rural Ceremony
266
Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty
Sacheverel
Regrets
Mutability
Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold
Old Abbeys
design
Emigrant French Clergy.
ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA—
Congratulation.
I. The Pilgrim Fathers
New Churches.
II. Continued
Church to be Erected
267
III. Concluded.-American Episcopacy
Continued.
Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if
New Church-yard
deep
Cathedrals, &c.
Places of Worship
264 Inside of King's College Chapel, Cam
Pastoral Character
264 bridge
The Liturgy
264 The Same.
Baptism
264 Continued.
Sponsors
264 Ejaculation
268
Catechising
Confirmation
264 Conclusion
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YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS,
COMPOSED (TWO EXCEPTED) DURing a Tour in Scotland, and on the English Border, in
THE AUTUMN OF 1831.
The gallant Youth, who may have gained 269 | Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from
Abbotsford, for Naples.
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland
On the Sight of a Manse in the South of
Scotland
Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a
271
The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Man-
sion, and Family Burial-Place, near
Killin
"Rest and be Thankful!" At the
Head
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of Glencroe
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Highland Hut
270 The Highland Broach
271 The Brownie
273
Composed at Loch Lomond .
To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star.
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Bothwell Castle.
Passed unseen, on ac-
count of stormy weather
Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at
Hamilton Palace
To the River Derwent
POEMS, COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown 281 | On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-boat
Why should the Enthusiast, journeying
through this Isle
They called Thee MERRY ENGLAND in
old time;
To the River Greta, near Keswick ·
In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth
Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth
Castle
Nun's Well, Brigham
To a Friend. On the Banks of the Der-
SUMMER OF 1833..
286
On revisiting Dunolly Castle
281
The Dunolly Eagle.
Written in a Blank Leaf of Macpherson's
Ossian
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287
282
Iona. Upon Landing
The Black Stones of Iona
288
Hallsteads, Ullswater 290
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.
Expostulation and Reply.
The Somnambulist
289
To Cordelia M-
291
To the Spade of a Friend. (An Agricul. 296 The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields
Upon the same occasion
295
A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute
and Alfred, on the Sea-shore
301
295 A little onward lend thy guiding hand
295 Ode to Lycoris
301.
206 To the Same
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To, upon the Birth of her First-born
The Warning. A Sequel to the foregoing
If this great world of joy and pain
The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn
SONNETS DEDICATED
Composed after reading a Newspaper of
the Day.
TO LIBERTY AND ORDER.
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the
Pencil of F. Stone
308
The foregoing Subject resumed
305
So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive
Bird of Paradise in an Album
Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the
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312
Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark
book
To the Pennsylvanians
313
Insurrections, 1837
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late
Continued
Concluded
Young England-what is then become
Old
Feel for the wrongs to universal ken
Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle
(on the Road from the South)
Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law
The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die
Is Death, when evil against good has fought
Not to the object specially designed
Ye brood of conscience-Spectres! that
frequent
SONNETS UPON THE
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PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
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317
Before the world had past her time of youth 316
See the Condemned alone within his cell
Conclusion
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Epistle to Sir George Howland Beau-
mont, Bart. From the South-West Coast
of Cumberland. -1811
Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle thirty
Years after its Composition
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase
Liberty. Sequel to the above.) [Ad-
dressed to a Friend; the Gold and Silver
Fishes having been removed to a Pool
in the Pleasure-ground of Rydal Mount]
Poor Robin
The Gleaner. Suggested by a Picture.)
To a Redbreast-(in Sickness.)
Floating Island
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Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky) 323
To the Lady Fleming, on seeing the
Foundation preparing for the Erection
of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland .
323
INSCRIPTIONS.
In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of
Sir George Beaumont, Bart.. Leicester-
shire
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 Termina-
tion 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
In these fair vales hath many a Tree
The massy Ways, carried across these
heights.
Inscriptions supposed to be found in and
near a Hermit's Cell
I. Hopes what are they?-Beads
of morning
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II. Pause, Traveller!
whosoe'er
332
IV. Near the Spring of the Hermit
age
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333
cessant.
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 333
Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone,
the largest of a Heap lying near a de-
serted Quarry upon one of the Islands
at Rydal
thou be
V. Not seldom, clad in radiant vest 335
For the Spot where the Hermitage
stood on St Herbert's Island,
Derwent-water
On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
III. Hast thou seen with flash in
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352
Elegiac Verses, in memory of my Brother,
John Wordsworth, Commander of the
E.I. Company's Ship the Earl of Aber-
gavenny, in which he perished by Cala-
mitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6, 1805
Lines composed at Grasmere, during a
Walk one Evening, after a stormy Day,
the Author having just read in a News-
paper that the Dissolution of Mr Fox
was hourly expected
Invocation to the Earth. February, 1816.
Lines written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy
of the Author's Poem "The Excur-
sion," upon hearing of the Death of the
late Vicar of Kendal
Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H.
B., upon the Death of his Sister-in-law 353
Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Co-
leorton Hall, the Seat of the late Sir G.
H. Beaumont, Bart.
353
Perhaps some needful service of the
State
O Thou who movest onward with a
mind
348
There never breathed a man who,
when his life
Not without heavy grief of heart did
He
True is it that Ambrosio Salinero
Destined to war from very infancy
O flower of all that springs from gentle
blood,
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Address to the Scholars of the Village
School of
Inscription for a Monument in Crosth
waite Church, in the Vale of Keswick
ODE. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
Written after the Death of Charles Lamb
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of
James Hogg.
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Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont
To the Daisy