Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems

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Poems composed during a tour in Scotland, and on the English border, in the autumn of 1831.

Yarrow Revisited

Sonnets

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 Storm

The Trosachs

The Pibroch's Note, discountenanced or mute

Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive

Eagles, composed at Dunollie Castle in the Bay of Oban

In the Sound of Mull

At Tyndrum

The Earl of Breadalbane's ruined Mansion, and Family Burial-place, near Killin

Rest and be Thankful, at the Head of Glencroe

Highland Hut

The Brownie

To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star. Composed at Loch Lomond

Bothwell Castle

Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton Palace

The Avon, a Feeder of the Annan

Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest

Hart's-horn Tree, near Penrith

Countess's Pillar

Roman Antiquities. (From the Roman Station at Old Penrith)

Apology for the foregoing Poems

The Highland Broach

Notes

The Egyptian Maid; or, The Romance of the Water Lily

Ode, composed on May Morning

To May

Inscription

Elegiac Musings in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, the Seat of the late Sir George Beaumont, Bart.

Epitaph

Inscription intended for a Stone in the Grounds of Rydal Mount

Written in an Album

Incident at Bruges

A Jewish Family (In a small Valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)

Devotional Incitements

The Armenian Lady's Love

The Primrose of the Rock

Presentiments

The Poet and the caged Turtledove

Sonnets

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough

Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Herefordshire

St. Catherine of Ledbury

The Russian Fugitive

Sonnets

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant

Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein

To the Author's Portrait

Gold and Silver Fishes, in a Vase

Liberty (Sequel to the above)

Evening Voluntaries

Calm is the fragrant Air, and loth to lose

Not in the lucid Intervals of Life

By the Side of Rydal Mere

Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge

The Leaves that rustled on this Oak-crowned Hill

The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire

By the Sea-side

The Sun has long been set

Throned in the Sun's descending Car

The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn

A Wren's Nest

Sonnets, 1833, composed during a Tour

Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown

Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle

They called Thee merry England, in old Time

To the River Greta, near Keswick

To the River Derwent

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 Derwent)

Mary Queen of Scots (landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington)

In the Channel, between the coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man

At Sea off the Isle of Man

Desire we past Illusions to recall?

On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man

By the Seashore, Isle of Man

Isle of Man

The Retired Marine Officer, Isle of Man

By a Retired Mariner (a Friend of the Author)

At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be written by a Friend of the Author)

Tynwald Hill

Despond who will--I heard a Voice exclaim

In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. (July 17, 1833)

On the Frith of Clyde. (In a Steamboat)

On revisiting Dunolly Castle

The Dunolly Eagle

Cave of Staffa

Cave of Staffa

Cave of Staffa

Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of the Cave

On to Iona! What can she afford

Iona. (Upon Landing)

The Black Stones of Iona

Homeward we turn. Isle of Columba's Cell

Greenock

"There!" said a Stripling, pointing with meet Pride

Fancy and Tradition

The River Eden, Cumberland

Monument of Mrs. Howard (by Nollekins) in Wetheral Church, near Corby, on the Banks of the Eden

Tranquillity! the sovereign aim wert thou

Nunnery

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways

Lowther! in thy majestic Pile are seen

To the Earl of Lonsdale

To Cordelia M----, Hallsteads, Ullswater

Conclusion

Notes

Lines written in the Album of the Countess of --------. Nov. 5, 1834

The Somnambulist

To ------, on the birth of her first-born Child, March 1833

The Warning, a Sequel to the foregoing. March, 1833

If this great World of Joy and Pain

Sonnet, composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day

Loving and Liking: irregular Verses addressed to a Child

St. Bees, suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees' Head

Note

Sonnets

Deplorable his lot who tills the ground

The Vaudois

Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs

The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage)

To ------

Rural Illusions

This Lawn, a carpet all alive

Thought on the Seasons

Humanity

Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone

The foregoing Subject resumed

On the Power of Sound

Postscript


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