APOLOGY FOR THE LITTLE NAVAL TEMPLE, ON STORRS' POINT,

WINANDERMERE,

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*THE FAIRIES, A DREAM-LIKE REMEMBRANCE OF A DREAM,

THE HERMITAGE,

*EDITH AND NORA, A PASTORAL POET'S DREAM,

*LINES WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND ON THE NORTHERN COAST

LINES WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF WINANDERMERE, ON RECOVERY

LINES WRITTEN AT A LITTLE WELL BY THE ROADSIDE, LANGDALE,

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*THE DESOLATE VILLAGE, SECOND DREAM-BESSY BELL AND MARY

GRAY,

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*THE DESOLATE VILLAGE, THIRD DREAM, THE DEPARTURE,

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LINES WRITTEN ON SEEING A PICTURE BY BERGHEM, OF AN ASS

IN A STORM-SHOWER,

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WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF WASTWATER, DURING A STORM,

405

WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF WASTWATER, DURING A CALM,

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SONNETS-Continued.

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I WANDERED LONELY,

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WRITTEN ON THE EVENING I HEARD OF THE DEATH OF MY FRIEND

WILLIAM DUNLOP,

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THE LAKE LAY HID,

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LINES SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. JAMES GRAHAME, AUTHOR

*A RECOMMENDATION OF THE STUDY OF THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT

GRECIAN AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, AND PAINTING,

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THE "Isle of Palms," and about one half of the miscellaneous poems, were first published in the spring of 1812. They were dedicated to Professors Jardine and Young of the University of Glasgow, under whom their author had studied. The "City of the Plague," and the greater part of the other miscellaneous poems, were first published in the spring of 1816. In the collected edition of 1825, inscribed to Wilson's "best and dearest friend, Alexander Blair," a good many new compositions (some of which had appeared in Blackwood's Magazine) were inserted. The four following pieces now appear for the first time in a collected form :-The prize poem, which obtained the "Newdigate" at Oxford, in 1806, the first year of its establishment, the composition being limited at that time to fifty lines; "Edderline's Dream," which was contributed in 1829 to an annual, edited by Mr Allan Cunningham, entitled the Anniversary; “An Evening in Furness Abbey," which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1829); and "Unimore," which was published in the same journal (August 1831.) These, and also the miscellaneous poems of edition 1825, are marked with an asterisk in the table of contents.