DEDICATION.

KNOWING Well that these Poems, composed between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two, will shew me their faults with every succeeding year more plainly, I prevent them from ever becoming distasteful to me by associating with them the names of my school-fellows and most dear friends:

JOHN PHILIP GELL.

CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN.
JOHN NASSAU SIMPKINSON.
. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
THEODORE WALROND.

April, 1838.

XXI. The Highlander in Italy

XVII. Song

XVIII. To Three Little Girls at a Pianoforte

XIX. Inscription for a Spring-head..

xx. Song..

XXII. Motto for a Book of Sea-weeds

XXIII. The Haunted Cottage..

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SPRING SONNETS:

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IX. An old Man to his little Child

x. Inscription for an Arbour formed out of a large

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SONNETS PERSONAL AND OCCASIONAL-continued.

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XIV. To the Stars

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xx. Boyhood's Bliss

XXI. Venus Emergens

XXII. The Same continued.

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XXV. On a Violet floating in a Glass of Water

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XXVIII. Written on the 20th June, 1837

XXIX. The Same continued

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XXXIV. To the Poet Wordsworth

XXXV. To The Same

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XXXVI. The Portrait of the same Poet in the Combi-

nation Room of St. John's College, Cambridge 226

XLIX. On receiving good News of a Friend in India. 239