MDCCCXCIX PUBLISHED BY J.M.DENT. AND CO: ALDINE HOUSE LONDON.E.C.

CONTENTS

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SONNETS OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH' (1838)

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS

DEDICATION

I

POLITICAL SONNETS

SERIES I.-DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPEND-

ENCE AND LIBERTY—

SERIES I.-MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTI-

NENT, 1820

124

SERIES II.-Memorials of a ToUR IN ITALY, 1837 136

V

SERIES III.-COMPOSED MOSTLY DURING A TOUR IN

SCOTLAND AND ON THE ENGLISH BORDER IN

1831

SERIES IV.-COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A

TOUR TO STAFfa and Iona in 1833.

THE RIVER DUDDON

A SERIES OF SONNETS

PAGE

148

160

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS

PART I.-FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRIST-

IANITY INTO BRITAIN TO THE CONSUMMA-

TION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION

183

201

PART II.-TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE

REIGN OF CHARLES I.

221