A WHIRL-BLAST FROM BEHIND THE HILL.

Of modest kindness, that would hide
The firm protection she bestows;
Of manners, like its viewless fence,
Ensuring peace to innocence.

Thus spake the moral Muse-her wing
Abruptly spreading to depart,

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She left that farewell offering,
Memento for some docile heart;
That may respect the good old age
When Fancy was Truth's willing Page;
And Truth would skim the flowery glade, 55
Though entering but as Fancy's Shade.

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III.

A WHIRL-BLAST from behind the hill
Rushed o'er the wood with startling sound;
Then-all at once the air was still,

And showers of hailstones pattered round.
Where leafless oaks towered high above,
I sat within an undergrove

Of tallest hollies, tall and green;
A fairer bower was never seen.
From year to year the spacious floor
With withered leaves is covered o'er,
And all the year the bower is green.
But see! where'er the hailstones drop
The withered leaves all skip and hop;
There's not a breeze-no breath of air-
Yet here, and there, and every where
Along the floor, beneath the shade
By those embowering hollies made,
The leaves in myriads jump and spring,

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Song for the Wandering Jew

Stray Pleasures.

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the
Glow-worm

The Poet and the Caged Turtledove.

A Wren's Nest

Love lies Bleeding

Companion to the foregoing

Rural Illusions

The Kitten and Falling Leaves .

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora, on being

reminded that she was a Month old, that
Day, September 16

THE WAGGONER.-Canto I.

Canto II.

Canto III.

Canto IV.

POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION.

Sequel to the Foregoing, composed many Years

Star-gazers

Written in March, while resting on the Bridge

at the foot of Brother's Water

Lyre! though such power do in thy magic live.
Beggars

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Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the
Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd,

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to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors 140 Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798

It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown French Revolution, as it appeared to Enthusiasts at its commencement. Reprinted from

"The Friend"

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Laodamia

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To a Young Lady, who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country

Water-fowl.

View from the top of Black Comb

The Haunted Tree.

The Triad

The Wishing-gate

The Wishing-gate destroyed
The Primrose of the Rock.

Presentiments

Vernal Ode.

Devotional Incitements

The Cuckoo-Clock

To the Clouds

A Jewish Family

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Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise. 208

On the Power of Sound

PETER BELL.-A Tale.-Prologue

Part I.

Part II.

Part III.

Notes.

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POEMS.