THE ISLE OF PALMS,
AND
OTHER POEMS.
BY
JOHN WILSON.
Where lies the land to which yon Ship must go?
Festively she puts forth in trim array,
And vigorous, at a lark at break of day,——
——Is she for summer suns, or polar snow?
EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON;
JOHN BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH;
AND JOHN SMITH AND SON, GLASGOW.

1812.
TO

GEORGE JARDINE, Esq.

PROFESSOR OF LOGIC,

AND TO

JOHN YOUNG, Esq.

PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE,

IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW,

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.
[Pg vii]
CONTENTS.
ISLE OF PALMS.

Page.

Canto I. 1

Canto II. 41

Canto III. 75

Canto IV. 139

Angler's Tent                                                          181


MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Hermitage                                                              223

Lines on Reading the Memoirs of Miss Smith                             234

Hymn to Spring                                                         246

Melrose Abbey                                                          257

Extract from the "Hearth"                                              264

The French Exile                                                       269

The Three Seasons of Love                                              277

To a Sleeping Child                                                    280

My Cottage                                                             290

[Pg viii]Lines written on the Banks of Windermere, after Recovery from a dangerous Illness   304

Apology for the little Naval Temple on Storrs' Point, Windermere       312

Picture of a Blind Man                                                 317

Troutbeck Chapel                                                                       
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