LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

493.

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square.

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A Voyage round the World

Birds

Time: a Rhapsody

To a Friend, with a Copy of the foregoing Lucubration.

A lucid Interval

Worms and Flowers

The Recluse

The Retreat. Written on finding a copy of verses in a

small edifice so named, at Raithby, in Lincoln-

shire, the seat of R. C. Brackenbury, to whom the

author made a visit in the autumn of 1815, after a

severe illness

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Speed the Prow

The Sky-lark. (Addressed to a Friend.) On hearing

one singing at daybreak, during a sharp frost, on

the 17th of February, 1832, while the Author

was on travel, between Bath and Stroud

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Humility

Evening Time

Reminiscence

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166

A Recollection of Mary F., a young Lady unexpectedly

removed from a large Family Circle

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The Cholera Mount. Lines on the burying-place for

patients who died of cholera morbus; a pleasant

A Cry from South Africa:

On building a Chapel at

Cape Town for the Negro Slaves of the colony,

in 1828

To my Friend, George Bennet, Esq., of Sheffield, on

his intended Visit to Tahiti, and other Islands of

the South Sea, where Christianity had been re-

cently established

Stanzas in Memory of the Rev. James Harvey, of Wes-

ton Favell, Northamptonshire, who died on

Christmas Day, 1758, aged 43 years

One Warning more. Written for distribution on a

A Riddle. Addressed to E. R., 1820

On a Watch-pocket worked by A. L.

To Cynthia: a young Lady, unknown to the Author,

who, by letter, requested "a stanza,” or “a few

lines in his handwriting"

For J. S., a Preamble to her Album

To Margaret: a little Girl, who begged to have some

Verses from the Author, at Scarborough, in

1814

On the first Leaf of Miss J.'s Album.

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To Mary

Short-hand. Stanzas addressed

The blank Leaf.

to E. P.

The Gnat. Written with Pencil round an Insect of

that kind, which had been accidentally crushed,

and remained fixed on a blank page of a Lady's

Album

An Infant's Album. A. H. R. to her Friends and

Contributors, written to accompany her Portrait,

at the beginning of the Book

A wedding Wish.

To Mr. and Mrs. H.

Motto to "a Poet's Portfolio." (Fragment of a page of

oblivion)

The Valentine Wreath

The Widow.

Written at the request of a Lady, who

furnished several of the lines and the plan of the

whole

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SONGS ON THE ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLA-

VERY, IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, AUGUST

1. 1834.

No. I. The Rainbow

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[To Moore's Melody of

No. II. The Negro is free.

"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea"] 226

No. III. Slavery that was

227

No. IV.

Slavery that is not

229

No. V. The Negro's Vigil: On the eve of the first of

August, 1834

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VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE

RICHARD REYNOLDS, OF BRISTOL.