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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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XIII. O Time! Who Know'st a Lenient Hand to Lay...
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X. On Dover Cliffs.
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XIV. On a Distant View of England.
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XI. Written at Ostend
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V. To the River Tweed.
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Monody On Henry Headley
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Approach Of Summer
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On Entering Switzerland
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A Garden-Seat At Home
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On Accidentally Meeting A Lady Now No More
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On Resigning A Scholarship Of Trinity College, Oxford
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On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman
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On Hearing
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Picture Of A Young Lady
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The Missionary - Canto First
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XII. Written at a Convent.
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In Youth
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Sonnet I. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage.
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VI. Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend...
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Avenue In Savernake Forest
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Hour-Glass And Bible
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The Philanthropic Society
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Sonnet III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure...
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IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye...
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The Right Honourable Edmund Burke
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II. Written at Bamborough Castle.
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In Age
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A Rustic Seat Near The Sea
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On William Sommers Of Bremhill
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Evening
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The Missionary - Canto Fourth
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Associations
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The First
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Elegiac Stanzas
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Lacock Nunnery
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The Grave Of Howard
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Battle Of Corruna
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Sun-Dial, In The Churchyard Of Bremhill
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Art And Nature
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Greenwich Hospital
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The Last Song Of Camoens
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Distant View Of England From The Sea
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Sonnet: At Ostend, July 22nd 1787
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The Missionary - Canto Third
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Pole-Vellum, Cornwall
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The Visionary Boy
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At Dover
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Third
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The Winds
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St. Michael's Mount
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Picture Of An Old Man
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Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol
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I. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage.
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On The Busts Of Milton, In Youth And Age, At Stourhead
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Sonnet: O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye
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Summer Evening At Home
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Southampton Castle
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Water-Party On The Beaulieu River, In The New Forest
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The Dying Slave
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The Missionary - Canto Second
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At Tynemouth Priory
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IX. O Poverty! though from thy haggard eye...
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The Sylph Of Summer
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The Spirit Of Navigation
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Hope
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Monody, Written At Matlock
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fifth
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Netley Abbey
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fourth
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At Oxford
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Cadland, Southampton River
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In Horto Rev. J. Still,
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Music
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On A Beautiful Spring,
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Stanzas For Music
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Hope, An Allegorical Sketch
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III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure...
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Retrospection
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In Memoriam
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Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq.,
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Song Of The American Indian
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Sonnet: July 18th 1787
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Dirge OF Nelson
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Fairy Sketch
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Sonnet V. To the River Tweed.
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Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day
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The Convent
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On a Beautiful Landscape
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On Mr. Howard's Account Of Lazarettos
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Sonnet II. Written at Bamborough Castle.
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Dover Cliffs
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Inscription
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On the Funeral of Charles the First
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Sonnet: Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day
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Winter Evening At Home
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Influence Of Time on Grief
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To Sir Walter Scott
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At Malvern
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On A Landscape Bt Rubens
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IV. To the River Wenbeck
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IV. To the River Wenbeck
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The Tweed Visited
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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Second
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VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton.
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On Leaving A Village In Scotland
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Woodspring Abbey
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Sonnet VI. Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend...
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The Missionary - Canto Seventh
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The Missionary - Canto Sixth
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Oxford Revisited
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Monody On The Death Of Dr. Warton
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The Harp, And Despair, Of Cowper
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The Missionary - Canto Fifth
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Time and Grief
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To a Friend
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Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo
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Sketches In The Exhibition
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Bereavement
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Sketch From Bowden Hill After Sickness
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The Harp Of Hoel
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Coombe-Ellen
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The River Wainsbeck
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VII. At a Village in Scotland....
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Death Of Captain Cooke,
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Pictures From Theocritus
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Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787
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The River Cherwell
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The Battle Of The Nile
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The Rhine
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On The Death Of Rev. William Benwell, M.A.
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Hymn To Woden
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The Missionary - Canto Eighth
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Translation Of A Latin Poem
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Absence
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The Bells Of Ostend
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Bamborough Castle
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On Leaving A Place Of Residence
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Southampton Water
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A Cenotaph,
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Age 26 ViewsRate it
Wardour Castle
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In Age
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On Leaving Winchester School
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On Landing At Ostend
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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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A Cenotaph, - To The Memory Of Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac, Who Died At Cape St Nichola Mole, 1797.
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