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William Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic In 1783 he won the chancellors prize for Latin verse In 1789 he published in a small quarto volume Fourteen Sonnets which were received with extraordinary favour not only by the general public but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth The Sonnets even in form were a revival a return to an older and purer poetic style and by their grace of expression melodious versification tender tone of feeling and vivid appreciation of the life and beauty of nature stood out in strong contrast to the elaborated commonplaces which at that time formed the bulk of English poetry

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A Cenotaph, - To The Memory Of Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac, Who Died At Cape St Nichola Mole, 1797.
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A Picturesque Cottage And Grounds Belonging To J. Lemon, Esq.
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After A Tempestuous Voyage. (At Tynemouth Priory)
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XI. Written at Ostend
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A Cenotaph,
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A Garden-Seat At Home
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A Rustic Seat Near The Sea
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Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo
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Absence
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Age
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Approach Of Summer
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Art And Nature
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Associations
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At Dover
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At Malvern
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At Oxford
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At Tynemouth Priory
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Avenue In Savernake Forest
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Bamborough Castle
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Battle Of Corruna
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Bereavement
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Cadland, Southampton River
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Coombe-Ellen
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Death Of Captain Cooke,
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Dirge OF Nelson
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Distant View Of England From The Sea
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Dover Cliffs
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Elegiac Stanzas
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Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol
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Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq.,
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Evening
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Fairy Sketch
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Greenwich Hospital
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Hope
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Hope, An Allegorical Sketch
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Hour-Glass And Bible
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Hymn To Woden
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I. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage.
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II. Written at Bamborough Castle.
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III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure...
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In Age
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In Age
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In Horto Rev. J. Still,
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In Memoriam
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In Youth
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Influence Of Time on Grief
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Inscription
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IV. To the River Wenbeck
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IV. To the River Wenbeck
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IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye...
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IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye...
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Lacock Nunnery
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Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day
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Monody On Henry Headley
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Monody On The Death Of Dr. Warton
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Monody, Written At Matlock
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Music
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Netley Abbey
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On a Beautiful Landscape
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On A Beautiful Spring,
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On A Landscape Bt Rubens
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On Accidentally Meeting A Lady Now No More
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On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman
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On Entering Switzerland
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On Hearing
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On Landing At Ostend
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On Leaving A Place Of Residence
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On Leaving A Village In Scotland
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On Leaving Winchester School
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On Mr. Howard's Account Of Lazarettos
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On Resigning A Scholarship Of Trinity College, Oxford
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On The Busts Of Milton, In Youth And Age, At Stourhead
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On The Death Of Rev. William Benwell, M.A.
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On the Funeral of Charles the First
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On William Sommers Of Bremhill
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Oxford Revisited
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Picture Of A Young Lady
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Picture Of An Old Man
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Pictures From Theocritus
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Pole-Vellum, Cornwall
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Retrospection
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Sketch From Bowden Hill After Sickness
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Sketches In The Exhibition
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Song Of The American Indian
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Sonnet I. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage.
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Sonnet II. Written at Bamborough Castle.
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Sonnet III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure...
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Sonnet V. To the River Tweed.
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Sonnet VI. Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend...
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Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787
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Sonnet: At Ostend, July 22nd 1787
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Sonnet: July 18th 1787
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Sonnet: Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day
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Sonnet: O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye
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Southampton Castle
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Southampton Water
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St. Michael's Mount
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Stanzas For Music
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Summer Evening At Home
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Sun-Dial, In The Churchyard Of Bremhill
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The Battle Of The Nile
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The Bells Of Ostend
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The Convent
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The Dying Slave
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The Grave Of Howard
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The Harp Of Hoel
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The Harp, And Despair, Of Cowper
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The Last Song Of Camoens
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The Missionary - Canto Eighth
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The Missionary - Canto Fifth
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The Missionary - Canto First
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The Missionary - Canto Fourth
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The Missionary - Canto Second
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The Missionary - Canto Seventh
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The Missionary - Canto Sixth
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The Missionary - Canto Third
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The Philanthropic Society
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The Rhine
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The Right Honourable Edmund Burke
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The River Cherwell
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The River Wainsbeck
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fifth
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The First
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fourth
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Second
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Third
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The Spirit Of Navigation
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The Sylph Of Summer
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The Tweed Visited
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The Visionary Boy
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The Winds
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Time and Grief
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To a Friend
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To Sir Walter Scott
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Translation Of A Latin Poem
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V. To the River Tweed.
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VI. Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend...
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VII. At a Village in Scotland....
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VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton.
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Wardour Castle
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Water-Party On The Beaulieu River, In The New Forest
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Winter Evening At Home
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Woodspring Abbey
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X. On Dover Cliffs.
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XII. Written at a Convent.
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XIII. O Time! Who Know'st a Lenient Hand to Lay...
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XIV. On a Distant View of England.
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