Composed.

1835.

1835.

Written after the Death of Charles Lamb,
To a good Man of most dear memory.

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James
Hogg.

When first, descending from the moorlands.

First Published.

1836

1836

1835.

June 23.

Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of a Bird of
Paradise in an Album.

1836

[The following sonnets appear in the volume "Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems" (1835), and must therefore belong to that or to a previous year.]

1835.

I. Desponding Father! mark this altered bough,

II. Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishop

stone, Herefordshire.

While poring Antiquarians search the ground.

III. St. Catherine of Ledbury.

When human touch (as monkish books attest).

IV. Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant.

V. Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein.

VI. To

1835

Composed.

1837.

1837.

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837,

I. To Henry Crabb Robinson.

Companion! by whose buoyant Spirit cheered.

II. Musings near Aquapendente. April,
1837.

Ye Apennines! with all your fertile vales.

III. The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome.

I saw far off the dark top of a Pine.

IV. At Rome.

Is this, ye Gods, the Capitolian Hill?

v. At Rome.-Regrets.-In allusion to
Niebuhr and other modern Histo-
rians.

Those old credulities, to nature dear.

VI. Continued.

Complacent Fictions were they, yet the same.

VII. Plea for the Historian.

Forbear to deem the Chronicler unwise.

VIII. At Rome.

They-who have seen the noble Roman's scorn.

IX. Near Rome, in sight of St. Peter's.

Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn.

x. At Albano.

Days passed-and Monte Calvo would not clear.

XI. Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove.

XII. From the Alban Hills, looking towards
Rome.

Forgive, illustrious Country! these deep sighs.

XIII. Near the Lake of Thrasymene.

When here with Carthage Rome to conflict came.

First Published.

1842

Composed.

1837.

[Memorials of a Tour in Italy-continued.]

XIV. Near the same Lake.

For action born, existing to be tried.

XV. The Cuckoo at Laverna.

1837.

May 25,

List-'twas the Cuckoo.-O with what delight.

XVI. At the Convent of Camaldoli.

Grieve for the Man who hither came bereft.

XVII. Continued.

The world forsaken, all its busy cares.

XVIII. At the Eremite or Upper Convent of
Camaldoli.

What aim had they, the Pair of Monks, in size.

XIX. At Vallombrosa.

"Vallombrosa-I longed in thy shadiest wood.

XX. At Florence.

Under the shadow of a stately Pile.

XXI. Before the Picture of the Baptist, by
Raphael, in the Gallery at Florence.

The Baptist might have been ordained to cry.

XXII. At Florence.-From Michael Angelo.

Rapt above earth by power of one fair face.

XXIII. At Florence.-From M. Angelo.

Eternal Lord! eased of a cumbrous load.

XXIV. Among the Ruins of a Convent in the
Apennines.

Ye Trees! whose slender roots entwine.

xxv. In Lombardy.

See, where his difficult way that Old Man wins.

XXVI. After leaving Italy.

Fair Land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few.

XXVII. Continued.

As indignation mastered grief, my tongue.

First Published.

1842

Composed.

1837.

First Published.

1837.

[Memorials of a Tour in Italy-continued.]
At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late
Insurrections, 1837.

I. Ah, why deceive ourselves! by no mere fit,
II. Hard task! exclaim the undisciplined, to lean,

1842

1842

1842

1838.

To the Planet Venus. Upon its approxi-
mation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth,
January, 1838.

1838

1838.

A Poet to his Grandchild. (Sequel to the

1838

1839.

Composed.

1839.

Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death.
In Series. [First published in the "Quarterly
Review."]

I. Suggested by the View of Lancaster
Castle (on the Road from the South).

This Spot-at once unfolding sight so fair.

II. Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law.

III. The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die.

IV. Is Death, when evil against good has fought.
V. Not to the object specially designed.

VI. Ye brood of conscience-Spectres! that frequent.
VII. Before the world had past her time of youth.
VIII. Fit retribution, by the moral code.

IX. Though to give timely warning and deter.

X. Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine.
XI. Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide.
XII. See the Condemned alone within his cell.
XIII. Conclusion.

Yes, though He well may tremble at the sound.

XIV. Apology.

The formal World relaxes her cold chain.

1840.

1840.

Jan. 1.

Sonnet on a Portrait of I. F., painted by

Margaret Gillies.

We gaze-nor grieve to think that we must die.

1840.

Feb. 1.

1840.

March.

1840.

Aug. 31.

First Published.

1841

1850

On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon

the Field of Waterloo, by Haydon.

By Art's bold privilege Warrior and War-horse stand.

1842