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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 20-21.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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Other works by William Lisle Bowles

• ABBA THULE'S LAMENT FOR HIS SON PRINCE LE BOO. ()
• ABSENCE. ()
• ABSENCE. OCTOBER 26, 1791. ()
• AGE. ()
• APPROACH OF SUMMER. ()
• ART AND NATURE. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS. ()
• ASSOCIATIONS. ()
• AT DOVER, 1786. ()
• AT OXFORD, 1786. ()
• AT TYNEMOUTH PRIORY, AFTER A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE. ()
• AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST. ()
• BAMBOROUGH CASTLE. ()
• BATTLE OF CORRUNA. ()
• THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. ()
• THE BELLS, OSTEND. ()
• BEREAVEMENT. ()
• CADLAND, SOUTHAMPTON RIVER. ()
• A CENOTAPH, TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ISAAC, WHO DIED AT CAPE ST NICHOLA MOLE, 1797. ()
• THE CONVENT. ()
• COOMBE-ELLEN. ()
• DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOKE, OF “THE BELLEROPHON,” KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE. ()
• DIRGE OF NELSON. ()
• DISTANT VIEW OF ENGLAND FROM THE SEA. ()
• DOVER CLIFFS. ()
• THE DYING SLAVE. ()
• ELEGIAC STANZAS. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS AT BATH. ()
• ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE HOTWELLS, BRISTOL, JULY, 1789. ()
• EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ., IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS. ()
• EVENING. ()
• EXHIBITION, 1807. ()
• FAIRY SKETCH. SCENE — NETLEY ABBEY. ()
• A GARDEN-SEAT AT HOME. ()
• THE GRAVE OF HOWARD. ()
• GREENWICH HOSPITAL. ()
• THE HARP OF HOEL. ()
• THE HARP, AND DESPAIR, OF COWPER. ()
• HOPE, AN ALLEGORICAL SKETCH. ()
• HOPE. ()
• HOUR-GLASS AND BIBLE. ()
• HYMN TO WODEN. ()
• IN HORTO REV. J. STILL, APUD KNOYLE, VILLAM AMŒNISSIMAM. ()
• IN MEMORIAM. ()
• INFLUENCE OF TIME ON GRIEF. ()
• INSCRIPTION. ()
• LACOCK NUNNERY. JUNE 24, 1837. ()
• THE LAST SONG OF CAMOENS. ()
• MILTON. ON THE BUSTS OF MILTON, IN YOUTH AND AGE, AT STOURHEAD. ()
• THE MISSIONARY. ()
• MONODY ON HENRY HEADLEY. ()
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DR WARTON. ()
• MONODY, WRITTEN AT MATLOCK. ()
• MUSIC. ()
• MUSIC. ()
• NETLEY ABBEY. ()
• ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE. ()
• ON A BEAUTIFUL SPRING, FORMING A COLD BATH, AT COOMBE, NEAR DONHEAD, BELONGING TO MY BROTHER, CHAS. BOWLES, ESQ. ()
• ON A LANDSCAPE BY RUBENS. ()
• ON ACCIDENTALLY MEETING A LADY NOW NO MORE. WRITTEN MANY YEARS AFTER THE FOREGOING SONNETS. ()
• ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1783. ()
• ON ENTERING SWITZERLAND. ()
• ON HEARING “THE MESSIAH” PERFORMED IN GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, SEPT. 18, 1835. ()
• ON LANDING AT OSTEND. ()
• ON LEAVING A PLACE OF RESIDENCE. ()
• ON LEAVING A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND. ()
• ON LEAVING WINCHESTER SCHOOL. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782. ()
• ON MR HOWARD'S ACCOUNT OF LAZARETTOS. ()
• ON RESIGNING A SCHOLARSHIP OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND RETIRING TO A COUNTRY CURACY. ()
• ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, M.A. ()
• ON WILLIAM SOMMERS OF BREMHILL. ()
• OXFORD REVISITED. ()
• THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE OF LEEDS. ()
• PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY. ()
• PICTURE OF AN OLD MAN. ()
• PICTURES FROM THEOCRITUS. ()
• POLE-VELLUM, CORNWALL. A PICTURESQUE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS BELONGING TO J. LEMON, ESQ. ()
• RETROSPECTION. ()
• THE RHINE. ()
• THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE. ()
• THE RIVER CHERWELL. ()
• THE RIVER WAINSBECK. ()
• A RUSTIC SEAT NEAR THE SEA. ()
• SHAKSPEARE. ()
• SKETCH FROM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS. ()
• SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805. ()
• SONG OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. ()
• SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE. INSCRIBED TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. ()
• SOUTHAMPTON WATER. ()
• THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA: A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL POEM. ()
• THE SPIRIT OF NAVIGATION. ()
• ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SOMERS. ()
• STANZAS FOR MUSIC. ()
• SUMMER EVENING AT HOME. ()
• SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL. ()
• THE SYLPH OF SUMMER. ()
• TO A FRIEND. ()
• TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828. ()
• TO THE RIVER ITCHIN. ()
• [TRANSLATION] OF A LATIN POEM BY THE REV. NEWTON OGLE, DEAN OF MANCHESTER. ()
• THE TWEED VISITED. ()
• THE VISIONARY BOY. ()
• WARDOUR CASTLE. ()
• WATER-PARTY ON BEAULIEU RIVER, IN THE NEW FOREST. ()
• THE WINDS. ()
• WINTER EVENING AT HOME. ()
• WOODSPRING ABBEY, 1836. ()