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Put oh for him, who, to you

I-Neagle Se Vault confind,

Has bid a long farewell to hreman kind; - Page 57. Published Fub. 1.1791, by C. Dilly, Cadell Davies, London,

and R. Creatwell, Bath!..

AND

OTHER POEMS,

• BY THE

REVEREND WM. LISLE BOWLES, A. M.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

Ninth Edition.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

HOPE,

AN ALLEGORICAL SKETCH ON RECOVERING SLOWLY FROM SICKNESS.

"Cantantes, licet usque, eminus via lædet, amus.”

'Still let us sooth our travel with a strain.'

VIRG.

WARTON.

PRINTED FOR

GADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND, AND J. MAWMAN, POULTRY,

LONDON; AND R. CRUTTWELL, BATH.

1805.

LIA
D

2-3 MAY 1960

RY

PREFACE.

A Ninth Edition of the following Poems

being called for by the publick, the author is induced to say a few words, particularly concerning those which, under the name of Sonnets, describe his personal feelings.

They can be considered in no other light, than as exhibiting occasional reflections which naturally arose in his mind, chiefly during various excursions, undertaken to relieve, at the time, depression of spirits. They were therefore, in general, suggested by the scenes before him

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