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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
The fixed Stars
The Lily. To a young Lady, E. P..
The Gentianella
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A Recollection of Mary F., a young Lady unexpectedly
removed from a large Family Circle
The Cholera Mount. Lines on the burying-place for
patients who died of cholera morbus; a pleasant
eminence in Sheffield Park
The Tombs of the Fathers
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
race-course, 1824
The Veil.
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'
To Margaret: a little Girl, who begged to have some
Verses from the Author, at Scarborough, in
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To Mary
Short-hand. Stanzas addressed to E. P.
The blank Leaf
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
In Memory of E. B., formerly E. R.
In Memory of E. G.
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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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No. II. The Negro is free. [To Moore's Melody of
"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea"] 226
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.
SACRED AND SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS.
The Sand and the Rock. Part I. Destruction.
Part II. Transition
Garden Thoughts. On occasion of a Christian assembly
in the grounds of a gentleman at York, for the
purpose of promoting Missions among the
To Mr. and Mrs. T. of York, with the foregoing
Stanzas
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sick chamber
"The Prisoner of the Lord." A Sabbath Hymn for a
The Lot of the Righteous
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A Benediction for a Baby
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A Message from the Moon: a Thought at Exeter,
during the great Eclipse of the Sun, May 15.