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EXHIBITION, 1807.
BLIND FIDDLER. — WILKIE.
1 With mirth unfeigned the cottage chimney rings,
2 Though only vocal with four fiddle-strings:
3 And see, the poor blind fiddler draws his bow,
4 And lifts intent his time-denoting toe;
5 While yonder maid, as blythe as birds in June,
6 You almost hear her whistle to the tune!
7 Hard by, a lad, in imitative guise,
8 Fixed, fiddle-like, the broken bellows plies;
9 Before the hearth, with looks of honest joy,
10 The father chirrups to the chattering boy,
11 And snaps his lifted thumbs with mimic glee,
12 To the glad urchin on his mother's knee!
MORNING. — TURNER.
13 Up! for the morning shines with welcome ray,
14 And to the sunny seabeach let us stray.
15 What orient hues proclaim the master's hand!
16 How light the wave upon the half-wet sand!
17 How beautiful the sun, as still we gaze,
18 Streams all diffusive through the opening haze!
19 Artist — when to the thunder's pealing sound,
20 Fire mixed with hailstones ran upon the ground,
21 When partial darkness the dread prospect hid,
22 And sole aspired the aged pyramid[Page 163] —
23 Sublimity thy genius seemed to guide
24 O'er Egypt's champaign, desolate and wide;
25 But here delightful beauty reigns alone,
26 And decks the morning scene with graces all her own.
KESWICK. — SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT.
27 How shall I praise thee, Beaumont, whose nice skill
28 Can mould the soft and shadowy scene at will;
29 Chastise to harmony each gaudy ray,
30 Simple, yet grand, the mountain scene display;
31 The lake where sober evening seems to sleep,
32 Hills far retiring into umbrage deep;
33 Blend all with classic, pure, poetic taste,
34 And strike the more with forms and colours chaste!
MARKET-DAY. — CALCOT.
35 Through the wood's maze our eyes delighted stray,
36 To mark the rustics on the market-day.
37 Beneath the branches winds the long white road;
38 Here peeps the rustic cottager's abode;
39 There in the morning sun, the children play,
40 Or the crone creeps along the dusty way.
SCENE IN FRANCE. — LOUTHERBOURG.
41 Artist, I own thy genius; but the touch
42 May be too restless, and the glare too much:
43 And sure none ever saw a landscape shine,
44 Basking in beams of such a sun as thine,
45 But felt a fervid dew upon his phiz,
46 And panting cried, O Lord, how hot it is!
DEATH OF NELSON. — WEST.
47 Turn to Britannia's triumphs on the main:
48 See Nelson, pale and fainting, 'mid the slain,[Page 164]
49 Whilst Victory sighs, stern in the garb of war,
50 And points through clouds the rocks of Trafalgar!
51 Here cease the strain; but while thy hulls shall ride,
52 Britain, dark shadowing the tumultuous tide,
53 May other Nelsons, on the sanguine main,
54 Guide, like a god, the battle's hurricane;
55 And when the funeral's transient pomp is past,
56 High hung the banner, hushed the battle's blast,
57 May the brave character to ages shine,
58 And Genius consecrate the immortal shrine!
Source edition
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. 162-164. (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 MALVERN. ()
- 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. ()
- 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. ()