SHREWSBURY.

vii

SOUTHAMPTON WATER

SOUTH DOWNS.

SONNET TO THE SOUTH DOWNS

SPITHEAD.

ON THE LOSS OF THE "ROYAL GEORGE"

LINES WRITTEN AT SPITHEAD

STOURHEAD.

S. Daniel

183

Oxford Prize Poem, 1823

185

ON THE BUSTS OF MILTON, IN YOUTH AND AGE

MONODY WRITTEN NEAR STRATFORD-UPON-AVON T. Warton.

191

ENGLAND.

Oakley.

ON THE AGED OAK AT OAKLEY, SOMERSET.

I

WAS a young fair tree:

Each spring with quivering green My boughs were clad; and far Down the deep vale a light Shone from me on the eyes

a light

Of those who past,
That told of sunny days,
And blossoms, and blue sky;
For I was ever first

Of all the grove to hear
The soft voice under ground
Of the warm-working spring;
And ere my brethren stirred
Their sheathéd buds, the kine,
And the kine's keeper, came
Slow up the valley-path,
And laid them underneath