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William Lisle Bowles

September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Cenotaph, - To The Memory Of Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac, Who Died At Cape St Nichola Mole, 1797. Oh, hadst thou fall'n, brave youth! on that proud day 12610
2: A Garden-Seat At Home Oh, no; I would not leave thee, my sweet home, 1798 20649
3: A Picturesque Cottage And Grounds Belonging To J. Lemon, Esq. Stranger! mark this lovely scene, 1786 26577
4: A Rustic Seat Near The Sea To him, who, many a night upon the main, 18638
5: Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo I climb the highest cliff; I hear the sound 72653
6: Absence There is strange music in the stirring wind, 14623
7: Absence How shall I cheat the heavy hours, of thee 1791 18659
8: After A Tempestuous Voyage. (At Tynemouth Priory) As slow I climb the cliff's ascending side, 14712
9: Age Age, thou the loss of health and friends shalt mourn! 6651
10: Approach Of Summer How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill 14573
11: Associations As o'er these hills I take my silent rounds, 14581
12: At Dover, 1786 Thou, whose stern spirit loves the storm, 14551
13: At Malvern I shall behold far off thy towering crest, 14600
14: At Oxford, 1786 Bereave me not of Fancy's shadowy dreams, 14554
15: Avenue In Savernake Forest How soothing sound the gentle airs that move 34605
16: Bamborough Castle Ye holy Towers that shade the wave-worn steep, 14593
17: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Complete If, gazing from this eminence, I wake, 2036141
18: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Part Fifth The music of "Lang Syne!" Oh! long ago 224152
19: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Part First If, gazing from this eminence, I wake, 329166
20: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Part Fourth The shower is past - the heath-bell, at our feet, 247164
21: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Part Second A shower, even while we gaze, steals o'er the scene, 701163
22: Banwell Hill; A Lay Of The Severn Sea. Part Third Oh! shut the book, dear Mary, shut the book! 535162
23: Battle Of Corruna. (Death Of Captain Cooke) The tide of fate rolls on! heart-pierced and pale, 36575
24: Bereavement Whose was that gentle voice, that, whispering sweet, 1793 14584
25: Blind Fiddler - Wilkie (Exhibition, 1807.) With mirth unfeigned the cottage chimney rings, 12575
26: Cadland,[1] Southampton River. If ever sea-maid, from her coral cave, 48795
27: Chantrey's Sleeping Children. Look at those sleeping children; softly tread, 40136
28: Childe Harold's Last Pilgrimage. So ends Childe Harold his last pilgrimage! 54159
29: Christmas Hymn. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Hark! angel voices from the sky 12147
30: Coombe-Ellen.[1] Call the strange spirit that abides unseen 351592
31: Death Of Captain Cooke, - Of "The Bellerophon," Killed In The Same Battle When anxious Spain, along her rocky shore, 38627
32: Death Of Nelson - West. (Exhibition, 1807.) Turn to Britannia's triumphs on the main: 12578
33: Dirge Of Nelson Toll Nelson's knell! a soul more brave 16595
34: Dirge. Peace, oh! peace, be to the shade 28160
35: Distant View Of England From The Sea Yes! from mine eyes the tears unbidden start, 14592
36: Dover Cliffs On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood 14580
37: East Wind. (The Winds) Shouts, and the noise of war! 39643
38: Easter Day. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Who comes (my soul no longer doubt), 12166
39: Elegiac Stanzas - Written During Sickness At Bath. When I lie musing on my bed alone, 96593
40: Epitaph On Benjamin Tremlyn, An Old Soldier, Buried In Bremhill Churchyard At The Age Of 92. A poor old soldier shall not lie unknown, 16198
41: Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq. - In Alverstoke Church, Hants. Oh! they shall ne'er forget thee, they who knew 16632
42: Epitaph On John Harding, In The Churchyard Of Bremhill. Lay down thy pilgrim staff upon this heap, 14164
43: Epitaph On Robert Southey. Christian! for none who scorns that holy name 16149
44: Evening Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend, 14592
45: Fairy Sketch - Scene - Netley Abbey There was a morrice on the moonlight plain, 40663
46: From Idyl VII (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) He left us; we, the hour of parting come, 21580
47: From Idyl XXII. (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) When the famed Argo now secure had passed 64592
48: From The Same (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) Where were ye, nymphs, when Daphnis drooped with love? 6544
49: From The Same (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) Pan, Pan, oh mighty hunter! whether now, 12599
50: From The Same Idyl (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) Mark, where the beetling precipice appears, 16632
51: Glastonbury Abbey And Wells Cathedral. Glory and boast of Avalon's fair vale, 36164
52: Greenwich Hospital Come to these peaceful seats, and think no more 16544
53: Hen And Chickens. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) See, sister, where the chickens trip, 12158
54: Hon. Miss Mercer. - Hopner (Sketches In The Exhibition, 1805) Oh! hide those tempting eyes, that faultless form, 10537
55: Hope As one who, long by wasting sickness worn, 14610
56: Hope, An Allegorical Sketch But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair, 303543
57: Hour-Glass And Bible Look, Christian, on thy Bible, and that glass 14582
58: Hymn For Music, After The Battle Of Waterloo. Perish! Almighty Justice cried, 22163
59: Hymn For The Anniversary Of The Death Of The Princess Charlotte. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Lo! where youth and beauty lie, 16186
60: Hymn To Woden God of the battle, hear our prayer! 56600
61: In Age And art thou he, now "fall'n on evil days," 14598
62: In Horto Rev. J. Still, - Apud Knoyle, Villam Amoenissimam. Stranger! a while beneath this aged tree 14589
63: In Memoriam How blessed with thee the path could I have trod 14567
64: In Youth Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace 14671
65: Influence Of Time On Grief O Time! who know'st a lenient hand to lay 14612
66: Inscribed To The Marchioness Of Lansdowne Go to assemblies of the rich and gay, 14144
67: Inscribed To The Rev. W. Howley.[1] The morning wakes in shadowy mantle gray, 1789 100589
68: Inscription Come, and where these runnels fall, 1808 20571
69: Inscriptions In The Gardens Of Bremhill Rectory. When in thy sight another's vast domain 22211
70: Keswick - Sir George Beaumont. (Exhibition, 1807.) How shall I praise thee, Beaumont, whose nice skill 8562
71: Lacock Nunnery. June 24, 1837 I stood upon the stone where ELA lay, 14591
72: Lady M----ve (Sketches In The Exhibition, 1805) How clear a strife of light and shade is spread! 6654
73: Lines Written On Fonthill Abbey. 14136
74: Little Mary's Linnet. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Dear Mary, if thy little bird 8126
75: Lockswell. Pure fount, that, welling from this wooded hill, 27134
76: Market-Day - Calcot. (Exhibition, 1807.) Through the wood's maze our eyes delighted stray, 6566
77: Monody On Henry Headley To every gentle Muse in vain allied, 44634
78: Monody On The Death Of Dr Warton Oh! I should ill thy generous cares requite 193703
79: Monody, Written At Matlock. Matlock! amid thy hoary-hanging views, 178561
80: Morley's Farewell To The Cottage Of Isaak Walton. England, a long farewell! a long farewell, 32144
81: Morning - Turner. (Exhibition, 1807.) Up! for the morning shines with welcome ray, 14561
82: Music O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain, 14618
83: Music O Music! if thou hast a charm 30658
84: My Father's Grave. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) My father's grave, I heard her say, 16196
85: Netley Abbey Fall'n pile! I ask not what has been thy fate; 14558
86: North Wind. (The Winds) From the vast and desert deeps, 12585
87: On A Beautiful Landscape Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee 14578
88: On A Beautiful Spring, - Forming A Cold Bath, At Coombe, Near Donhead, Belonging To My Brother, Chas. Bowles, Esq. Fountain, that sparklest through the shady place, 16557
89: On A Landscape By Rubens Nay, let us gaze, ev'n till the sense is full, 288590
90: On Accidentally Meeting A Lady Now No More When last we parted, thou wert young and fair 14550
91: On An Eclipse Of The Moon At Midnight. Up, up, into the vast extended space, 28176
92: On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman. Oh, Mary, when distress and anguish came, 1783 36628
93: On Entering Switzerland Languid, and sad, and slow, from day to day 14531
94: On First Hearing Caradori Sing. Spirit of beauty, and of heavenly song! 12187
95: On Hearing "The Messiah" (Performed In Gloucester Cathedral, Sept. 18, 1835.) Oh, stay, harmonious and sweet sounds, that die 16615
96: On Landing At Ostend The orient beam illumes the parting oar; 1787 14574
97: On Leaving A Place Of Residence If I could bid thee, pleasant shade, farewell 28630
98: On Leaving A Village In Scotland Clysdale! as thy romantic vales I leave, 14588
99: On Leaving Winchester School The spring shall visit thee again, 1782 16570
100: On Meeting Some Friends Of Youth At Cheltenham, For The First Time Since We Parted At Oxford. Here the companions of our careless prime, 20187
101: On Miss Fitzgerald And Lord Kerry Planting Two Cedars In The Churchyard Of Bremhill. Yes, Pamela, this infant tree 36151
102: On Mozart. Oh! still, as with a seraph's voice, prolong 16153
103: On Mr Howard's Account Of Lazarettos Mortal! who, armed with holy fortitude, 148733
104: On Resigning A Scholarship Of Trinity College, Oxford, And Retiring To A Country Curacy. Farewell! a long farewell! O Poverty, 14574
105: On Seeing A Bust Of R. B. Sheridan, From A Cast Taken After Death.[209] Alas, poor Sheridan! when first we met, 24172
106: On Seeing Plants In The Windows Of Seth Ward's College, Endowed For Widows Of Clergymen, At Salisbury. There is but one stage more in life's long way, 35158
107: On The Death Of Dr Burgess, The Late Bishop Of Salisbury. Sainted old man, for more than eighty years, 21190
108: On The Death Of The Rev. William Benwell, M.A. Thou camest with kind looks, when on the brink 14630
109: On The Death Of William Linley, Esq., The Composer Of The Music Of "The Duenna," Etc. Poor Linley! I shall miss thee sadly, now 15153
110: On The Funeral Of Charles The First, At Night, In St George's Chapel, Windsor. The castle clock had tolled midnight: 36173
111: On William Sommers Of Bremhill. When will the grave shelter thy few gray hairs, 26708
112: Oxford Revisited I never hear the sound of thy glad bells, 14547
113: Path Of Life. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) O Lord, in sickness and in health, 12184
114: Picture Of A Young Lady When I was sitting, sad, and all alone, 14557
115: Picture Of An Old Man Old man, I saw thee in thy garden chair 14611
116: Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I. Goat-herd, how sweet above the lucid spring 4571
117: Poor Man's Grave. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Old Andrews of the hut is dead, 12164
118: Restoration Of Malmesbury Abbey.[201] Monastic and time-consecrated fane! 36156
119: Retrospection I turn these leaves with thronging thoughts, and say, 14555
120: Return Of George III. To Windsor Castle. Not that thy name, illustrious dome! recalls 22186
121: Sabbath Morning. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) The Sabbath bells are knolling slow, 16177
122: Salisbury Cathedral. Here stood the city of the dead; look round - 13144
123: Saturday Night. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Come, let us, ere we go to bed, 12157
124: Scene In France - Loutherbourg. (Exhibition, 1807.) Artist, I own thy genius; but the touch 6634
125: Shakspeare O sovereign Master! who with lonely state 58610
126: Sheepfold. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) The sheep were in the fold at night, 14158
127: Sheepfold. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) The sheep were in the fold at night, 16155
128: Silchester, The Ancient Caleva.[199] The wild pear whispers, and the ivy crawls, 47153
129: Sketch From Bowden Hill After Sickness How cheering are thy prospects, airy hill, 102561
130: Sketches In The Exhibition, 1805. What various objects strike with various force, 26503
131: Song Of Indian Maids. (The Missionary.) Oh, shout for Lautaro, the young and the brave! 12603
132: Song Of The American Indian Stranger, stay, nor wish to climb 32589
133: Song Of The Battle Of Hastings. The Norman armament beneath thy rocks, St Valerie, 40156
134: Song Of The Cid.[194] The Cid is sitting, in martial state, 176175
135: Song To The God Of War. (The Missionary.) By thy habitation dread, 78543
136: Sonnet. Written In A Copy Of Falconer's "Shipwreck." What pale and bleeding youth, whilst the fell blast 14151
137: Southampton Castle.[1] - Inscribed To The Marquis Of Lansdowne. The moonlight is without; and I could lose 62655
138: Southampton Water Smooth went our boat upon the summer seas, 20775
139: Spring - Cuckoo. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) The bee is humming in the sun, 12164
140: St John In Patmos. War, and the noise of battle, and the hum 2210184
141: St Michael'S Mount - Inscribed To The Right Honourable Lord Somers. While summer airs scarce breathe along the tide, 335586
142: Stanzas For Music I trust the happy hour will come, 12613
143: Summer Evening At Home Come, lovely Evening! with thy smile of peace 22590
144: Summer's Evening. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) As homeward by the evening star 12190
145: Sun-Dial, In The Churchyard Of Bremhill So passes silent o'er the dead thy shade, 28558
146: Sunday Night. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Let us unfold God's holy book, 12151
147: Sunrise. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) When from my humble bed I rise, 12161
148: Supposed Address To Bishop Ken.[208] Though his words might well deceive me, 20175
149: The Air Oh, cast every care to the wind, 41596
150: The April Shower. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) When rain-drops, glistening from the thatch, 12177
151: The Ark: A Poem For Music. High on Imaus' solitary van, 59172
152: The Battle Of The Nile.[1] Shout! for the Lord hath triumphed gloriously! 197575
153: The Bells, Ostend. How sweet the tuneful bells' responsive peal! 1787 14596
154: The Bird's Nest. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) In yonder brake there is a nest; 12177
155: The Blacksmith. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) How cheerful in the winter's night, 12196
156: The Blind Grandfather. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Though grandfather has long been blind, 16147
157: The Blind Man Of Salisbury Cathedral. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) There is a poor blind man, who, every day, 20167
158: The Blind Soldier And His Daughter. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Old soldier! old soldier! the beams of the day, 32176
159: The Bridge Between Clifton And Leigh Woods Frown ever opposite, the angel cried, 1836 14592
160: The Butterfly And The Bee. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Methought I heard a butterfly 12165
161: The Caged Bird. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Oh, who would keep a little bird confined, 7181
162: The Children's Hymn For Their Patroness. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) On God, whose eyes are over all, 20173
163: The Convent If chance some pensive stranger, hither led, 14562
164: The Convict. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Luke Andrews is transported! Never more 18154
165: The Dutiful Child (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Brother and sister are a-Maying gone; 18172
166: The Dying Slave Faint-gazing on the burning orb of day, 68677
167: The Egyptian Tomb. Pomp of Egypt's elder day, 56181
168: The Gipsy's Tent. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) When now cold winter's snows are fled, 16149
169: The Glow-Worm. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Oh, what is this which shines so bright, 12163
170: The Grave Of Bishop Ken. On yonder heap of earth forlorn, 24140
171: The Grave Of Howard Spirit of Death! whose outstretched pennons dread 148583
172: The Grave Of The Last Saxon; Or, The Legend Of The Curfew. Know ye the land where the bright orange glows! 2146173
173: The Greenwich Pensioners. When evening listened to the dipping oar, 52164
174: The Harp Of Hoel. Part II. High on the hill, with moss o'ergrown, 214591
175: The Harp Of Hoel.[1] It was a high and holy sight, 166571
176: The Harp, And Despair, Of Cowper Sweet bard, whose tones great Milton might approve, 28601
177: The Hour-Glass. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) As by my mother's side I stand, 8140
178: The Last Song Of Camoens.[1] The morning shone on Tagus' rocky side, 68619
179: The Lay Of Talbot, The Troubadour. A Legend Of Lacock Abbey. At Rouen Richard kept his state, 184158
180: The Legend Of St Cecilia And The Angel. Twas when, O meekest eve! thy shadows dim 20179
181: The Little Sweep. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) They sing of the poor sailor-boy, who wanders o'er the deep, 24183
182: The Missionary. Canto Eighth The morn returns, and, reddening, seems to shed 342546
183: The Missionary. Canto Fifth. Tis dawn: the distant Andes' rocky spires, 165537
184: The Missionary. Canto First. Beneath a๋rial cliffs, and glittering snows, 329542
185: The Missionary. Canto Fourth Far in the centre of the deepest wood, 292560
186: The Missionary. Canto Second. The night was still and clear, when, o'er the snows, 271580
187: The Missionary. Canto Seventh The watchman on the tower his bugle blew, 269573
188: The Missionary. Canto Sixth The second moon had now begun to wane, 206509
189: The Missionary. Canto Third Come, for the sun yet hangs above the bay, 407530
190: The Missionary. Introduction When o'er the Atlantic wild, rocked by the blast, 30533
191: The Missionary. Preface To The Second Edition.[1] It is not necessary to relate the causes which induced me to publish this poem without a name. 551
192: The Mower. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Hark to the mower's whistling blade! 8176
193: The Old Labourer. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Are you not tired, you poor old man! 16176
194: The Philanthropic Society.[1] Inscribed To The Duke Of Leeds. When Want, with wasted mien and haggard eye, 196533
195: The Primrose. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Tis the first primrose! see how meek, 12180
196: The Rhine Twas morn, and beauteous on the mountain's brow 14572
197: The Right Honourable Edmund Burke Why mourns the ingenuous Moralist, whose mind 168590
198: The River Cherwell Cherwell! how pleased along thy willowed edge 14557
199: The River Wainsbeck While slowly wanders thy sequestered stream, 14562
200: The Robin Redbreast. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Poor Robin sits and sings alone 16170
201: The Sanctuary: A Dramatic Sketch. The minster-clock tolls midnight; I have watched 230203
202: The Shepherd And His Dog. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) My dog and I are both grown old; 20154
203: The Sorrows Of Switzerland. Why art thou come, man of despair and blood! 528142
204: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Analysis. The book opens with the resting of the Ark on the mountains 28606
205: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: A Descriptive And Historical Poem. - Introduction.[1] I need not perhaps inform the reader, 9561
206: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Book The Fifth. Such are thy views, DISCOVERY! The great world 333590
207: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Book The First. Awake a louder and a loftier strain! 452612
208: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Book The Fourth. Stand on the gleaming Pharos, and aloud 592569
209: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Book The Second Oh for a view, as from that cloudless height 409540
210: The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea: Book The Third. My heart has sighed in secret, when I thought 272534
211: The Spirit Of Navigation.[1] Stern Father of the storm! who dost abide 200541
212: The Swallow And The Red-Breast. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) An Apologue. The swallows, at the close of day, 32302
213: The Swan. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Look at the swan! how still he goes! 12191
214: The Sylph Of Summer.[1] God said, Let there be light, and there was light! 541570
215: The Tweed Visited O Tweed! a stranger, that with wandering feet 14543
216: The Village Bells. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Who does not love the village bells, 16152
217: The Visionary Boy Oh! lend that lute, sweet Archimage, to me! 333555
218: The Winds When dark November bade the leaves adieu, 92564
219: The Winds When dark November bade the leaves adieu, 14550
220: The Withered Leaf. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.) Oh! mark the withered leaves that fall 12157
221: Thyrsis More sweet thy pipe's enchanting melody 15482
222: To A Friend Go, then, and join the murmuring city's throng! 1792 14475
223: To Lady Valletort, On Hearing Her Sing "Gloria In Excelsis," With Three Other Young Ladies, At Lacock Abbey, October 1831. Fair inmate of these ivied walls, beneath 18149
224: To Sir Walter Scott. - Since last I saw that countenance so mild, 14461
225: To The River Itchin Itchin! when I behold thy banks again, 14521
226: Translation{D} Of A Latin Poem - By The Rev. Newton Ogle, Dean Of Manchester. Oh thou, that prattling on thy pebbled way 27522
227: Wardour Castle If rich designs of sumptuous art may please, 20602
228: Water-Party On Beaulieu River, In The New Forest I thought 'twas a toy of the fancy, a dream 35533
229: Winter Evening At Home Fair Moon, that at the chilly day's decline 16490
230: Winter. (The Winds) Spirit of unwearied wing, 24578
231: Woodspring Abbey, 1836 These walls were built by men who did a deed 14455
232: Written After The Consecration Of The New Church At Kingswood. When first the fane, that, white, on Kingswood-Pen, 87142




About:
William Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic. In 1783 he won the chancellors prize for Latin verse. In 1789 he published, in a small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth. The Sonnets even in form were a revival, a return to an older and purer poetic style, and by their grace of expression, melodious versification, tender tone of feeling and vivid appreciation of the life and beauty of nature, stood out in strong contrast to the elaborated commonplaces which at that time formed the bulk of English poetry.


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