"How rich that forehead's calm expanse!" 123 To ---- 124 A Flower Garden, at Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire 125 To the Lady E. B. and the Hon. Miss P. 128 To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales, 1824 129 Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales 131 Elegiac Stanzas 132 Cenotaph 135 1825 The Pillar of Trajan 137 The Contrast: The Parrot and the Wren 141 To a Skylark 143 1826 "Ere with cold beads of midnight dew" 145 Ode composed on May Morning 146 To May 148 "Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky)" 152 "The massy Ways, carried across these heights" 154 Farewell Lines 155 1827 On seeing a Needlecase in the Form of a Harp 157 Miscellaneous Sonnets-- Dedication 159 To ---- 159 "Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat" 160 "Why, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings" 161 To S. H. 162 Decay of Piety 163 "Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned" 163 "Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild" 164 Retirement 165 "There is a pleasure in poetic pains" 166 Recollection of the Portrait of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge 166 "When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle" 167 "While Anna's peers and early playmates tread" 168 To the Cuckoo 169 The Infant M---- M---- 170 To Rotha Q---- 171 To ----, in her Seventieth Year 172 "In my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud" 173 "Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes" 174