DEDICATION.

ACCEPT, dear Friend, this little wreath of flowers,
If flowers they be, plucked in a southern clime;
And though they be not in their vernal prime,
Yet, like crushed roses, they retain the powers
Of living fragrance. As soft summer showers
Refresh the green earth, are renewed in rhyme—
What else had faded with the touch of Time-
The cloud and sunshine of Life's pleasant hours,
Which all must feel:-Whether in elbow chair
We sit, and ruminate on things gone by,
And in the future airy structures rear;
Or, "restless as the swallow in the sky,"
We wander o'er the world ;-the Good and Fair
Are robed in clouds of sorrow till we die.

CONTENTS.

No.

1. THE River Yonne

SONNETS.

2. A ruined Castle at La Rochepot

3. On first Sight of the Alps from Macon

4. Written at Lyons, after a Walk on Sunday Evening

5. England, with all thy faults, thou art a Shrine . 6. The Marriage of the Rhone with the Saone .

7. The Rhone

8. The Savoy Mountains

9. Avignon, from the Roche Don

10. Petrarch and Laura

11. Farewell to the Rhone

12. Rocks near Avignon

13. The Mediterranean

14. Marseilles

15. On discovering some Green Fields near a new

Residence in the Valley of Marseilles

16. The Serpent's Skin

18

78

17. Written in France, during the Appearance of the

Comet in 1828

21. The Oak Tree

22. The Pine Grove

24. La Tourrette

25. Temple of Diana

18. A Night Scene in the South of France

19. The same

20. Ascend this wooded hill, and cast thine eye

23. Ask why such solitudes delight the soul