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 Cantantes, licet usque, eminus via Iædet, amus.” Still let us sooth our travel with a strain.” VIRG. WARTON. PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND, AND J. MAWMAN, POULTRY, 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 and wherever such scenes appeared to harmonize with his disposition at the moment, the sentiments were involuntarily prompted. Numberless poetical trifles of the same kind have occurred to him, when perhaps, in his solitary rambles, he has been “ chewing the food of r sweet.and bitter fancy;" but they have been forgotten, as he left the places which gave rise to them, and the greatest part of those originally committed to the press were written down, for committed to the the first time, from memory. This is nothing to the public; but it may serve in some measure to obviate the common remark on melancholy poetry, that it has been very often gravely composed, when possibly the |