The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 1

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Author

Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850

Title

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry

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eBook-No.

18915

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18915

Release Date

July 26, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POETICAL WORKS — WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES,
2. 2.With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, — REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. — VOL. I.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — SONNETS AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1837.
6. 6.SONNETS, ETC.
7. 7.SONNETS, ETC. — AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, [6] — AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. — BAMBOROUGH CASTLE. [7] — THE RIVER WAINSBECK. [8] — THE TWEED VISITED. — ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND. — EVENING. — TO THE RIVER ITCHIN. [11] — ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, — AND RETIRING TO A COUNTRY CURACY. — DOVER CLIFFS. — ON LANDING AT OSTEND. — THE BELLS, OSTEND. [12] — THE RHINE. — INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF. — THE CONVENT. — THE RIVER CHERWELL. — ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND. — DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA. — HOPE. — TO A FRIEND. — ABSENCE. — BEREAVEMENT. — OXFORD REVISITED. — IN MEMORIAM. — ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A. [13] — AT MALVERN. — NETLEY ABBEY. — ASSOCIATIONS. — MUSIC. — APPROACH OF SUMMER. — AT OXFORD, 1786. — AT DOVER, 1786. — RETROSPECTION. — ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE. — WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS. — ON HEARING "THE MESSIAH" — PERFORMED IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, SEPT. 18, 1835. — WOODSPRING ABBEY, 1836. [14] — LACOCK NUNNERY. — JUNE 24, 1837. — ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE. — ART AND NATURE. — THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS. — PICTURE OF AN OLD MAN. — PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY. — HOUR-GLASS AND BIBLE. — MILTON. — ON THE BUSTS OF MILTON, IN YOUTH AND AGE, AT STOURHEAD. — IN YOUTH. — IN AGE. — TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. — ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828. — ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE HOTWELLS, BRISTOL, — JULY, 1789. — INSCRIBED TO THE REV. W. HOWLEY. [16] — MONODY ON HENRY HEADLEY. — ON MR HOWARD'S ACCOUNT OF LAZARETTOS. — THE GRAVE OF HOWARD. — SHAKSPEARE. — ABBA THULE'S LAMENT FOR HIS SON PRINCE LE BOO. — SOUTHAMPTON WATER. — THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. [34] — INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE OF LEEDS. — THE DYING SLAVE. — SONG OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. — MONODY, WRITTEN AT MATLOCK. — THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE. — ON LEAVING A PLACE OF RESIDENCE. — ELEGIAC STANZAS. — WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH. — ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL. — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782. — HOPE, AN ALLEGORICAL SKETCH. — THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. [49] — A GARDEN-SEAT AT HOME. — IN HORTO REV. J. STILL, — APUD KNOYLE, VILLAM AMŒNISSIMAM. — GREENWICH HOSPITAL. — A RUSTIC SEAT NEAR THE SEA. — WARDOUR CASTLE. — POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL. — A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ. — ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, — FORMING A COLD BATH, AT COOMBE, NEAR DONHEAD, BELONGING TO MY BROTHER, CHAS. BOWLES, ESQ. — A CENOTAPH, — TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ISAAC, WHO DIED AT CAPE ST NICHOLA MOLE, 1797. — TRANSLATION OF A LATIN POEM — BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER. — ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. — INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SOMERS. — ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. — WRITTEN DECEMBER 1783. — HYMN TO WODEN. — COOMBE-ELLEN. [66] — SUMMER EVENING AT HOME. — WINTER EVENING AT HOME. — THE SPIRIT OF NAVIGATION. [70] — WATER-PARTY ON BEAULIEU RIVER, IN THE NEW FOREST. — MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DR WARTON. — EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ., — IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS. — AGE. — ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS. — THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER. — STANZAS FOR MUSIC. — MUSIC. — ABSENCE. — OCTOBER 26, 1791. — FAIRY SKETCH. — SCENE—NETLEY ABBEY. — INSCRIPTION. — PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS. — FROM IDYL I. — SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805. — EXHIBITION, 1807. — BLIND FIDDLER.—WILKIE. — SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE. [96] — INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. — THE WINDS. — ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL. — THE VISIONARY BOY. — CADLAND, [103] SOUTHAMPTON RIVER. — THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS. [107] — THE SYLPH OF SUMMER. [114] — THE HARP OF HOEL. [132] — Part II. — AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST. — DIRGE OF NELSON. — DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOKE, — OF "THE BELLEROPHON," KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE. — BATTLE OF CORRUNA. — SKETCH FROM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS. — SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
8. 8.THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA: — A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL POEM.
9. 9.INTRODUCTION. [152]
10. 10.ANALYSIS. — BOOK THE FIRST. — BOOK THE SECOND — BOOK THE THIRD — BOOK THE FOURTH. — BOOK THE FIFTH.
11. 11.THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA. — BOOK THE FIRST. — BOOK THE SECOND. — BOOK THE THIRD. — BOOK THE FOURTH. — BOOK THE FIFTH.
12. 12.THE MISSIONARY.
13. 13.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. [192]
14. 14.THE MISSIONARY. — INTRODUCTION. — CANTO FIRST. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO SECOND. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO THIRD. — ARGUMENT.
15. 15.CANTO FOURTH. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO FIFTH. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO SIXTH. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO SEVENTH. — ARGUMENT. — CANTO EIGHTH. — ARGUMENT.
16. 16.END OF VOLUME I. — EDINBURGH: BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PRINTERS.

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