INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

A barking sound the shepherd hears.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
A poet!-He hath put his heart to school
A point of life between my parents' dust
A rock there is whose homely front
-A simple child

A slumber did my spirit seal

A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain.
All praise the likeness by thy skill pourtrayed
Amid the smoke of cities did you pass

An age

hath been when earth was proud

An Orpheus! an Orpheus !-yes, faith may grow bold
And is this-Yarrow?-This the stream

Another

year!-another deadly blow

Art thou a Statesman, in the van

Art thou the bird whom man loves best

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears

Behold, within the leafy shade

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed

Blest is this isle-our native land

Bright flower, whose home is everywhere!
-Brook and road

By their floating mill

Calvert! it must not be unheard by them.
Clarkson! it was an obstinate hill to climb

Come ye-who, if (which Heaven avert !) the land
Content with calmer scenes around us spread .

Dear child of nature, let them rail! .
Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed
Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!
Departing summer hath assumed

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

England! the time is come when thou should'st wean
Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky!

Fair is the swan, whose majesty, prevailing
Fair star of evening, splendour of the west
Farewell, thou little nook of mountain-ground.

Five years have past; five summers, with the length
From low to high doth dissolution climb

From Stirling Castle we had seen

Go, faithful portrait! and where long hath knelt

-Hast thou then survived

Here pause: the poet claims at least this praise
High in the breathless hall the minstrel sate
High is our calling, friend!-Creative art
Hope rules a land for ever green

I am not one who much or oft delight
I have a boy of five years old

I heard a thousand blended notes
I saw an aged beggar in my walk

I saw far off the dark top of a pine

I shiver, spirit fierce and bold

thought of thee, my partner and my guide

I travelled among unknown men

I've watched you now a full half-hour

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile!

I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret
If from the public way you turn your steps

If nature, for a favourite child

If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven
Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood
In these fair vales hath many a tree.

In the sweet shire of Cardigan

In this still place, remote from men

In youth from rock to rock I went
Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
It is not to be thought of that the flood

It is the first mild day of March

Lance, shield, and sword relinquished-at his side
Lie here, without a record of thy worth
Life with yon lambs, like day, is just begun
Loud is the vale! the voice is up

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour
Most sweet is it with un-uplifted eyes
My heart leaps up when I behold

Nay, traveller! rest. This lonely yew-tree stands
Nor can I not believe but that hereby
Not in the lucid intervals of life.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room

O blithe new-comer! I have heard

O dearer far than light and life are dear

O friend! I know not which way I must look

O nightingale ! thou surely art.
O thou! whose fancies from afar are brought
Oft have I caught, upon a fitful breeze
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray

Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee
On his morning rounds the master
On man, on nature, and on human life

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side

Pleasures newly found are sweet

Return, content! for fondly I pursued

Rotha, my spiritual child! this head was grey.

Sacred religion, "mother of form and fear"
Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned
See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built cot
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
She had a tall man's height or more.
She was a phantom of delight

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