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BANWELL HILL: A Lay of the Severn Sea:—
Preface 3
Part First 9
Part Second 20
Part Third 42
Part Fourth 61
Part Fifth 69

THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON; or, The Legend of the Curfew:—
Introduction 79
Introductory Canto 81
Canto First 87
Canto Second 102
Canto Third 111
Canto Fourth 111
Conclusion 137
Illustrations from Speed 139

ST JOHN IN PATMOS:—
Part First 145
Part Second 157
Part Third 176
Part Fourth 184
Part Fifth 199
Part Sixth 207
Apocalyptic Horses 218

THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND:—
Part First 223
Part Second 232

THE VILLAGER'S VERSE-BOOK:—
Path of Life 241
Sunrise 241
Summer's Evening 242
Spring—Cuckoo 243
Sheepfold 243
Hen and Chickens 244
Poor Man's Grave 244
Sabbath Morning 245
The Primrose 246
The Hour-Glass 246
The Bird's Nest 247
The Mower 247
Saturday Night 248
Sunday Night 248
The April Shower 249
The Robin Redbreast 249
The Butterfly and the Bee 250
The Glow-worm 250
The Convict 251
The Blind Grandfather 252
The Old Labourer 252
The Swan 253
The Village Bells 253
The Caged Bird 254
The Dutiful Child Reading the Story of Joseph to a Sick Father 254
Little Mary's Linnet 255
The Shepherd and his Dog 255
The Withered Leaf 256
The Gipsy's Tent 257
My Father's Grave 258
The Swallow and the Redbreast: an Apologue 258
The Blind Man of Salisbury Cathedral 259
The Blind Soldier and his Daughter 260
The Little Sweep 261
The Blacksmith 263
Hymn for the Anniversary of the Death of the Princess Charlotte 264
The Children's Hymn for their Patroness 264
Easter Day 265
Christmas Hymn 266
SONG OF THE CID 267

POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, &c.

The Sanctuary: a Dramatic Sketch 276
Childe Harold's Last Pilgrimage 284
The Egyptian Tomb 286
Chantrey's Sleeping Children 288
On Miss Fitzgerald and Lord Kerry Planting two Cedars in the Churchyard
of Bremhill 289
The Greenwich Pensioners 290
Glastonbury Abbey and Wells Cathedral. Written after viewing the ruins of the
one, and hearing the Church Service in the other 292
Silchester, the Ancient Caleva 294
Restoration of Malmesbury Abbey 296
On the Funeral of Charles the First, at Night, in St George's Chapel,
Windsor 297
On Seeing Plants in the Windows of Seth Ward's College, endowed for
Widows of Clergymen, at Salisbury 298
Morley's Farewell to the Cottage of Isaak Walton 300
The Grave of Bishop Ken 301
The Legend of St Cecilia and the Angel 302
Supposed Address to Bishop Ken 303
On an Eclipse of the Moon at Midnight 304
To Lady Valletort, on hearing her sing "Gloria in Excelsis," with
three other young Ladies, at Lacock Abbey, October 1831 305
On Seeing a Bust of R. B. Sheridan, from a Cast taken after death 305
Return of George III. to Windsor Castle 306
On Meeting some Friends of Youth at Cheltenham, for the first time since we
parted at Oxford 307
The Lay of Talbot the Troubadour: a Legend of Lacock Abbey 308
The Ark: a Poem for Music Written after the Consecration of the New
Church at Kingswood 317
On the Death of Dr Burgess, the late Bishop of Salisbury 320
Lines written on Fonthill Abbey 321
Epitaph on Benjamin Tremlyn, an Old Soldier, buried in Bremhill
Churchyard, at the age of ninety-two 322
Epitaph on Robert Southey 322
Sonnet, written in a copy of Falconer's Shipwreck 323
On first Hearing Caradori Sing 324
Salisbury Cathedral 324
Lockswell 325
On Mozart 326
Epitaph on John Harding, in the Churchyard of Bremhill 326
On the Death of William Linley, Esq. 327
Inscribed to the Marchioness of Lansdowne 328
Hymn for Music, after the Battle of Waterloo 328
Inscriptions in the Gardens of Bremhill Rectory:—
On a Tree commanding a view of the whole extent of Bowood 330
On a Rural Seat 330
On the Front of a Hermitage, near a Dial 330
Quieti et Musis 331

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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