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CONTENTS
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803–
I. Departure from the Vale of Grasmere
II. At the Grave of Burns, 1803
III. Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the Banks of
Nith, near the Poet's Residence
IV. To the Sons of Burns, after visiting the Grave of their
V. Ellen Irwin: or, the Braes of Kirtle
VI. To a Highland Girl .
VII. Glen Almain; or, the Narrow Glen .
VIII. Stepping Westward
IX. The Solitary Reaper
X. Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe
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XV. The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband
XVI. Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!
XVII. The Blind Highland Boy
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814-
I. The Brownie's Cell.
II. Composed at Cora Linn
III. Effusion
IV. Yarrow Visited
POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
AND LIBERTY
PART I.
I. Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802
III. Composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres,
AND LIBERTY-continued
VI. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic.
VII. The King of Sweden
VIII. To Toussaint L'Ouverture
IX. September 1, 1802
X. Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of
XI. September, 1802. Near Dover
XII. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
XIII. Written in London. September, 1802.
XIV. London, 1802
XV. Great men have been among us; hands that penned
XVI. It is not to be thought of that the Flood
XVII. When I have borne in memory what has tamed
XIX. There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear.
XXI. England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean
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XXIII. To the Men of Kent. October, 1803
XXIV. What if our numbers barely could defy
XXV. Lines on the expected Invasion, 1803
XXVI. Anticipation. October, 1803
XXVII. November, 1806
XXVIII. Ode
PART II.
I. On a celebrated Event in Ancient History .
II. Upon the same Event
III. To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for
the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
IV. A Prophecy. February, 1807 .
March, 1807
V. Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake, 1807
VI. Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes
VII. Composed while the Author was engaged in writing a Tract
occasioned by the Convention of Cintra, 1808.
VIII. Composed at the same Time and on the same Occasion
XII. Alas! what boots the long laborious quest.
XIII. And is it among rude untutored Dales
XIV. O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain .
XV. On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese
XVI. Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
XVII. Say, what is Honour?-'Tis the finest sense
XVIII. The martial courage of a day is vain.
XIX. Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
XX. Call not the royal Swede unfortunate.
XXI. Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid
XXII. Is there a power that can sustain and cheer
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XXIII. 1810 .
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XXIV. In due observance of an ancient rite
XXV. Feelings of a noble Biscayan at one of those Funerals
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XXVI. The Oak of Guernica.
XXVII. Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard. 1810
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XXVIII. Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind
XXIX. O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied
XXX. The French and the Spanish Guerillas
XXXI. Spanish Guerillas.
XXXII. 1811
XXXIII. 1811
XXXVI. By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze
XL. Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of
the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien
XLIV. Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820-
continued
VII. Aix-la-Chapelle.
VIII. In the Cathedral at Cologne
IX. In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine
X. Hymn for the Boatmen, as they approach the Rapids
under the Castle of Heidelberg
XI. The Source of the Danube.
XII. On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen
XIII. The fall of the Aar-Handec
XIV. Memorial, near the outlet of the Lake of Thun
XV. Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons .
XVIII. Engelberg, the Hill of Angels
XIX. Our Lady of the Snow
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XX. Effusion in presence of the painted Tower of Tell, at
XXII. On hearing the 'Ranz des Vaches' on the top of the
Pass of St. Gothard
XXIV. The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of
Lugano .
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XXV. The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd
XXVI. The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refec-
tory of the Convent of Maria della Grazia-Milan
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XXXI. Echo, upon the Gemmi
Vale of Chamouny .
XXXIII. Elegiac Stanzas.
XXVIII. The Three Cottage Girls
XXIX. The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal
Edifice in Milan, now lying by the way-side in the
Simplon Pass .
XXX. Stanzas, composed in the Simplon Pass
XXXII. Processions, suggested on a Sabbath morning in the
XXXIV. Sky-prospect-From the Plain of France
XXXV. On being stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne
XXXVI. After landing-The Valley of Dover. November, 1820
XXXVII. At Dover
XXXVIII. Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the preceding sheets
from the Press
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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837-
To Henry Crabb Robinson
I. Musings near Aquapendente
II. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome
III. At Rome
IV. At Rome-Regrets-In allusion to Niebuhr and other
X. Near Anio's stream I spied a gentle Dove
XI. From the Alban Hills, looking towards Rome
XII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene
XIII. Near the same Lake
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XIV. The Cuckoo at Laverna
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XVII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of Camaldoli
XVIII. At Vallombrosa
XX. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by Raphael, in the
XXIII. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines.
XXIV. In Lombardy
XXVII. Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838
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XXVIII. The Pillar of Trajan
THE EGYPTIAN MAID; OR, THE ROMANCE OF THE
WATER LILY
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THE RIVER DUDDON--
To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth
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1. Not envying Latian shades-if yet they throw
II. Child of the clouds! remote from every taint
III. How shall I paint thee?-Be this naked stone
IV. Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take
V. Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played
VI. Flowers
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VII. 'Change me, some God, into that breathing rose !'
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