The European War 1914-1915 Poems (London, 1915)

The one hundred and forty plus poems cover the period from the start of WW1 until May 1915, a surprisingly large number of poems for such a short period of time.  Not surprisingly, the volume is dedicated to:

The Soldiers and Sailors
Of
The Allied Forces
Who Are Fighting In The Greatest War
The World Has Ever Known
And To The Memory Of Those Who
Have Fallen

This was the last book of poems published by Hardwicke.  He continued to write poetry on the war, publishing many of them in newspapers, but never collected them into a published book.  Hardwicke was a prolific war poet, having written poems on wars and battles going back to the early 1880s.

As in his prose writings during the war, Hardwicke made it plain in his poetry that Germany was the aggressor and had to be fought to the bitter end.  His stream of poems throughout the war were intended the raise the morale and spirits of the nation.  Many of the poems deal with the heroic actions of individuals.  In ‘To a German Hero’, he even praises the bravery of a German submariner, a stance not likely to meet with approval by many of his British countrymen.  Similar sonnets deal with the bravery of both military personnel and civilians.  Two sonnets highlight the deeds of Darwan Ganga Singh and Khudadad Khan, two Indian subjects who were the recipients of the Victoria Cross.  As a non-combatant, of course, Hardwicke would have gleaned his source material from the many newspapers that he read. 

In ‘At Wordsworth’s Grave’, the last poem in the volume, Hardwicke could not resist a reference to his favourite poet, calling on his spirit to come to the nation’s aid:

Wordsworth! an Empire needs you at this hour,
  For now a second tyrant stands confest,
    A ruthless wide-world dominating foe;
  Oh! turn not, mighty spirit, to your rest,
    But bid us forth as happy warriors go
With freedom’s unimaginable power.

 

Contents

A Prayer for Peace (p. 17)

To Sir Edward Gray (p. 18)

To Great Britain (p. 19)

Night and Morning (p. 21)

To the Kaiser (p. 22)

A Battle Call (p. 23)

The New Evangelists (p. 26)

“Your Country Needs You—Come!” (p. 27)

The Child and the War (p. 29)

A Call to Arms (p. 30)

Sunshine and War (p. 31)

The Ministry of the Hills (p. 32)

A Trumpet Call (p. 33)

On Saint Oswald’s Day (p. 34)

Mountain Calm and Man’s Unrest (p. 36)

A Marching Song (p. 37)

The Lad Who Ran from Home (p. 39)

To the Gallant Gunners of Liege (p. 41)

In a Churchyard at Liege (p. 42)

To General Leman (p. 44)

To the Officer in Command at Aerschott (p. 45)

The Martyrdom of Father Dergent, Aerschott (p. 46)

Off to the War (p. 48)

Louvain (p. 50)

What’s in a Name? (p. 51)

A Cumberland War Song (p. 52)

The Day of Intercession (p. 54)

A Hymn in Time of War (p. 55)

A Vesper Hymn (p. 56)

A Reverie (p. 57)

To the Heroes of Mons (p. 58)

Help from the Stars (p. 60)

The Massacres in the Province of Namur (p. 61)

To the Heroes of the Northern Sea (p. 62)

In Praise of Submarine E4 (p. 63)

The List of Casualties (p. 65)

The Battle of the Bight (p. 66)

To the 9th Lancers (p. 69)

To Captain F. C. Grenfell 9th Lancers (p. 70)

God Save the King! (p. 71)

In Honour of Battery L (p. 72)

How George Wilson Won the Victoria Cross (p. 74)

Rheims Cathedral (p. 78)

Captain Mark Haggard (p. 79)

A Nameless Hero of the Lancashire Fusiliers (p. 80)

The Sorrow of the North Sea (p. 82)

The Bridge-Breakers (p. 83)

A Modern Horatius (p. 85)

In Honour of Lieutenant H. de P. Rennick (p. 87)

In Face of Death (p. 89)

Love the Conqueror (p. 91)

India’ Gift (p. 92)

Michaelmas Day (p. 93)

To Lord Roberts (p. 94)

The Gunners’ Farewell (p. 95)

A French Mother’s Message (p. 96)

A Prisoner at Dunnabeck (p. 97)

What the Sergeant Said (p. 98)

To Max, Burgomaster of Brussels (p. 100)

Belgium (p. 101)

An Incident of the Trenches (p. 102)

Crucified Belgium (p. 104)

Sister Julie (p. 105)

Antwerp (p. 106)

In Praise of Havildar Ganga Singh, V.C. (p. 107)

An Invitation and a Refusal (p. 109)

General Joffre (p. 111)

To the Men of H.M.S. “Hawke” (p. 112)

To Naik Darwan Sing Negi, V.C. (p. 113)

In Trafalgar Square (p. 115)

In Memoriam: Major M. P. Buckle, D.S.O. (p. 116)

To the 4th Battalion Border Regiment: A Farewell (p. 117)

To the 4th Battalion Border Regiment: On their sailing for Burmah, October 29th (p. 118)

Khudadad Khan, V.C. (p. 119)

All Saints’ Day (p. 121)

Field-Marshall Lord Roberts, V.C.: In Memoriam (p. 122)

Lord Roberts (p. 123)

St. Paul’s (p. 124)

Loss of H.M.S. “Bulwark” (p. 125)

A French Hero (p. 126)

To a German Hero (p. 128)

The King in France (p. 129)

A Gallant Rescue (p. 130)

To the Football Player (p. 132)

A Mother’s Last Farewell (p. 133)

At a Soldier’s Grave (p. 134)

To Lieutenant Holbrook and His Gallant Crew of Submarine B 11 (p. 135)

To a City Bereaved (p. 136)

Life Beyond Death (p. 137)

The Turk of West and East (p. 138)

The Chancellor’s Speech in the Reichstag (p. 139)

The Greater Love (p. 140)

The Landing of the Queen of the Belgians (p. 141)

The “Gneisenau” (p. 142)

The German Raid: Scarborough, December 16th (p. 143)

At Whitby Abbey (p. 144)

Mud in Flanders (p. 145)

The Christmas Bells (p. 146)

Christmas Cheer for the Trenches (p. 147)

War and Love (p. 148)

Captain A. Noel Loxley (p. 150)

In a Harvest Field (p. 152)

Tares and Wheat (p. 153)

A Contrast (p. 154)

The Soldier’s Prayer (p. 155)

The Blessing of War (p. 156)

The Grandeur of War (p. 157)

At the Wishing-Gate, Grasmere: New Year’s Day, 1915 (p. 158)

New Year: 1915 (p. 159)

The Day of Intercession (p. 160)

To Paul Sabatier (p. 161)

The Curse of War (p. 163)

The Nation’s Teachers (p. 164)

The “Lion’s” Chase (p. 165)

A Plea for Military Bands (p. 168)

The Return of Spring (p. 169)

To America (p. 171)

Love on the Battle-Field (p. 172)

Honour to the Dead (p. 174)

The Two Springs (p. 175)

Michael O’Leary and How He Won the Victoria Cross (p. 177)

The Blockade (p. 180)

To the Strikers (p. 181)

To the Men on Strike (p. 182)

A Lover’s Lament (p. 183)

A Brave Doctor (p. 184-5)

Springtime and War (p. 186)

Switzerland the Good Samaritan (p. 188)

In Memoriam: 2nd Lieutenant G. B. F. Monk, Royal Warwicks, Near La Bassée, December 18th (p. 189)

How Lieutenant Leach and Sergeant Hogan Won the Victoria Cross (p. 191)

Hope for the Dawn (p. 193)

After a Sermon in St. Margaret’s, Westminster (p. 194)

The King’s Appeal (p. 195)

Good Friday: 1915 (p. 196)

Easter Day: 1915 (p. 197)

Starlight (p. 198)

Helm Crag (p. 199)

To Prussia (p. 200)

In Memory: Of 2nd Lieutenant W. G. C. Gladstone, M.P., April 13th (p. 202)

Take Me Home (p. 204)

The Ever-Living Ones (p. 207)

Love’s Gift (p. 208)

Rupert Brooke (p. 211)

Rhodes-Moorhouse (p. 212)

The Bible of Peace: Dunnabeck (p. 215)

May Time: 1915 (p. 216)

The “Lusitania” (p. 218)

At Wordsworth’s Grave (p. 219)

 

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Sonnets in Switzerland and Italy (London, 1899)

The book is dedicated to John Ruskin on his eighty-first birthday.  In his Prefatory Note, Hardwicke writes:

These sonnets, which have been written in many holiday rambles in May and June, are published with the hope of inducing a few readers to take their pleasure abroad at the time when the gentian flowers.  I have ventured to dedicate the volume to him who taught me, amongst other things, that Nature has nothing fairer to offer to mind or eye than blossom-tide in Switzerland. 

Hardwicke first visited Switzerland in 1876, at least eighteen months before his marriage to Edith.  The Rawnsleys would make numerous visits to the continent, especially Switzerland and Italy, in the years after their marriage.  Sometimes these visits were purely for pleasure and holiday-making; at other times they were made to enable Hardwicke to regain his health after suffering a major illness, of which there were many.  That Switzerland, in particular, offered recuperative benefits, both mental and physical, is attested to in the poem, ‘Switzerland’: 

To you I come, worn out with petty care,
  Come, for the cuckoo called me; let blue floods
    And your white-blossoming valleys close me
      round
And give me leave with simple faith to share
  The solace of your mountain solitudes,
    And walk with Freedom on her native ground.

Notwithstanding the beauties and benefits of Switzerland and Italy, however, the Lake District never lost its lustre in Hardwicke’s eyes, and it is always the place he desires to return to.  The last poem in the volume, ‘Home from Lombardy’, illustrates this belief:

Better grey lakes, grey mountain, and grey skies,
  With song of water-brooks and sound of rain,
  Than that immeasurable Lombard plain—
For all its vines and corn and mulberries—
Sunburnt to silence: with what sweet surprise
  The mellow ouzel greets us once again!
  Clear and familiar from the spring grain,
With what a sense of home the corncrake cries

But not the cry of crake, nor throstle’s tune,
  Nor daisied fields, nor plumy laurel-bowers
    That gleam snow-white at evening’s long-lit
      close,
So made me sure of Cumberland and June,
  As Crosthwaite lanes full-breathed of elder-flowers,
    And hedges broidered over with wild rose.

 

Contents

Sonnet Dedicatory to John Ruskin (p. vi)

Sonnet Prefatory to John Ruskin: February 8th, 1899 (p. x)

Switzerland (p. 1)

Switzerland Once More (p. 2)

In a Pinewood: At the Gütsch, Lucerne (p. 3)

The Bell for Early Mass: From the Jesuit Church of St. Joseph, Lucerne (p. 4)

The Fountain in the Wine market, Lucerne (p. 5)

Dreams and Work: Hôtel des Balances, Lucerne (p. 6)

Lucerne Again (p. 7)

To the River Reuss, Lucerne (p. 8)

The Lion of Lucerne (p. 9)

At the Three Linden, Lucerne (p. 10)

Enclosure of the Three Linden. Lucerne (p. 11)

A Morning Prayer on the Market-Boat, Lucerne (p. 12)

At Kastanienbaum (p. 13)

The Watch-Tower, at Stanzstadt (p. 14)

Sunday Morning: From the Stanzerhorn (p.15)

Going to Church at Ob-Bürgen, Bürgenstock (p. 16)

Dayspring on Pilatus (p. 17)

The Rigi (p. 18)

From the Rigi-Kulm, at Sunrise (p. 19)

From the Staffel-Stock, Rigi (p. 20)

The Crocus Legions, on the Rigi (p. 21)

On a Seat Beneath the Dossenwand, Above Vitznau (p. 22)

The Wissefluh: On the Vitznau-Stock (p. 23)

Mountain Scholars: Up the Vitznau-Stock (p. 24)

At the Degenbalm, Morschach (p. 25)

Evening at Morschach (p. 26)

On the Axenstrasse (p. 27)

At Bürglen: To the Memory of William Tell (p. 28)

At Arth-Goldau (p. 29)

At the Monument of St. Benedict Above Einsiedeln (p. 30)

The Statue of Zwinglius, Zurich (p. 31)

Farewell to Lucerne (p. 32)

At Stanz (p. 33)

Arnold van Winkelried, at Stanz (p. 34)

To Engelberg (p. 35)

At the Sign of the ‘Angel’, Engelberg (p. 36)

The Monastery, Engelberg (p. 37)

Abbot’s Day, May 15, Engelberg (p. 38)

Gold-Boden (p. 39)

The Föhn-Wind, Engelberg (p. 40)

Beneath Titlis, Engelberg (p. 41)

At the Trub-See (p. 42)

Herrn Rütli, Engelberg (p. 43)

St. Florian: In the Monastery Church at Engelberg (p. 44)

Blessing the Pastures: On the Blachenalp, Engelberg (p. 45)

Over the St. Gothard (p. 46)

At Faido, on the St. Gothard (p. 47)

Locarno in Rain (p. 48)

At Santa Trinita, Above Locarno (p. 49)

Solitudo Continuata Dulcescit: An Inscription at the Gate of the Convent of the Madonna del Sasso, Locarno (p. 50)

At the Balcony of the Church of the Madonna del Sasso, Locarno (p. 51)

The Islands of Lago Maggiore (p. 52)

Isola-Bella (p. 53)

Isola-Bella (p. 54)

At Baveno, Hôtel Belle-Vue (p. 55)

The Fire-Fly, Baveno (p. 56)

Orange-Flowers at Baveno (p. 57)

Daylight on Lago Maggiore (p. 58)

At the Church Door, Baveno: The Soldier’s Oath (p. 59)

On Monte Motterone (p. 60)

Sunrise from Motterone (p. 61)

The Pheasant-Eye Narcissus, Up Monte Motterone (p. 62)

The Monte Sacro, At Varallo (p. 63)

The Music of the Dawn: Hôtel Splendide, Lugano (p. 64)

Evening from San Salvatore (p. 65)

The Nightingale of Lugano (p. 66)

In the Church of S. Maria Degli Angioli, Lugano (p. 67)

Light at Eventide, Lugano (p. 68)

Lanzo D’Intelvi (p. 69)

A Storm, On Monte Generoso (p. 70)

The Lost Half-Hour: Lugano, Midnight, May 31, 1894 (p. 71)

At the Chapel of the Annunciation: Sacro Monte, Varese (p. 72)

Evening at Sacro Monte, Varese (p. 73)

On the Roof of the Duomo, Milan, at Anthem Time (p. 74)

In Milan Cathedral (p. 75)

In the Refectory, Milan (p. 76)

At Como Cathedral, Pliny’s Statue (p. 77)

Morning at Soglio (p. 78)

The Witness of the Flowers: At Pian Luthero, Soglio (p. 79)

Over the Splugen: The Navvy’s Cross (p. 80)

My Friend and I, The Splügen Pass (p. 81)

Kurhaus, Brünig (p. 82)

The Falls of the Reichenbach (p. 83)

From Meiringen to Rosenlaui (p. 84)

Between Rosenlaui and the Schwarzwald (p. 85)

At Interlaken (p. 86)

The Jungfrau: From the Hoheweg, Interlaken (p. 87)

At Breitlauenen, Schynige Platte (p. 88)

On the Geisshorn, Schynige Platte (p.89)

The Chamois of Lauterbrunnen (p. 90)

The Guide’s Farewell: To Ulrich Lauener at Lauterbrunnen (p. 91)

The Wirtschaft on the Old Footpath to Mürren (p. 92)

On the Kurhaus Terrace, Mürren (p. 93)

On the Schilthorn, June 21, 1896: The Anniversary of the Death by Lightning of Mrs. Arbuthnot (p. 94)

In the Blumenthal, Mürren (p. 95)

Alpine Anemones: In the Blumenthal at Mürren (p. 96)

Spring Crocuses: In the Blumenthal, Mürren (p. 97)

The Schwarze Mönch, from Mürren (p. 98)

The Wengen Thrush (p. 99)

The Rainbow Fields of Wengen (p. 100)

‘Linkst Hand,’ on Sulegg (p. 101)

At the Mettlen Alp, Wengen (p. 102)

The Young Herdsman’s Death, Wengen (p. 103)

A Memory of the Männlichen: Margaret (p. 104)

The Jungfrau Unveiled: From Wengen Alp (p. 105)

The Alpine Rose, Little Scheidegg (p. 106)

The Warbler’s Song, Grindelwald (p. 107)

At the Upper Glacier, Grindelwald (p. 108)

A Return to St. Beatenberg (p. 109)

Hôtel de La Poste, 1890, St. Beatenberg (p. 110)

The Vision of Kings, St. Beatenberg (p. 111)

Afterglow on the Abendberg (p. 112)

A Glimpse of the Jungfrau, St. Beatenberg (p. 113)

In Butterfly-Land, St. Beatenberg (p. 114)

In Cricket-Land: From St. Beatenberg to Interlaken (p. 115)

The Gentianella (Gentiana Verna), St. Beatenberg (p. 116)

After a Storm at Kanzeli, St. Beatenberg (p. 117)

A Sermon in the Church at St. Beatenberg (p. 118)

At Kanzeli: Above St. Beatenberg (p. 119)

The Birenfluh, St. Beatenberg (p. 120)

At Amisbuhl, St. Beatenberg (p. 121)

Cowbells on the Rischeren Alp: Amisbuhl, Beatenberg (p. 122)

Down the Lake to Thun (p. 123)

At the Church Gate, Oberhofen (p. 124)

In the Baumgarten: At Thun (p. 125)

The Tombstone of Heinrich von Strattlingen, The Bard: In the Bächihölzi, Thun (p. 126)

On the Inscription Over the Doorway of the Old Schloss at the Baumgarten, Thun (p. 127)

At the Minnesinger’s Seat Above Chartreuse, Thun (p. 128)

In Thun Churchyard at Service-Time (p. 129)

At the Castle, Thun (p. 130)

On Finding a Swift in the Castle Prison at Thun (p. 131)

At the Rabenfluh, Thun (p. 132)

At the Schwabis, Thun (p. 133)

The Golden Star of Thun (p. 134)

The Stockhorn: Deo Creatori (p. 135)

The Judgment Picture at Adelboden (p. 136)

The Village Dance at Adelboden: A Sad Face (p. 137)

The Bear Hotel, Kandersteg (p. 138)

In Gastern-Thal, Kandersteg (p. 139)

On the Gemmi Road Above Gastern-Thal (p. 140)

Wayfarers on the Gemmi: In the Alp-Spital-Matte (p. 141)

Blanc-See and Daubensee, Gemmi (p. 142)

At the Sign of the Wildstrubel, on the Gemmi (p. 143)

The Daubenhorn Cliffs, Over the Gemmi (p. 144)

Going to Zermatt (p. 145)

The Matterhorn (p. 146)

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows: At the Schwarz-See, Zermatt (p. 147)

Hôtel du Parc et des Belles Fleurs: Lac de Chan, Montana (p. 148)

Going to Nettleship’s Grave: From Argentière to Chamounix, by Night (p. 149)

To R. L. Nettleship: In Chamounix Churchyard (p. 150)

Violas on the Col de Balme (p. 151)

Moonlight at Pension Reitzel, Leysin (p. 152)

A Fear for Leysin: The Building of a Casino (p. 153)

Up La Rionda, Leysin (p. 154)

Twilight at La Prafondaz. Leysin (p. 155)

Home Thoughts at Sunset: From Prafondaz, Leysin (p.  156)

Alpine Anemone-Seed, Leysin (p. 157)

The Morning Play at Villars (p. 158)

On Chamossaire (p. 159)

In the Dungeon at Chillon (p. 160)

At Weissenstein, Soleure (p. 161)

Switzerland, Farewell! (p. 162)

Home from Lombardy (p. 163)

 

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Sonnets Round the Coast (London, 1887)

Contents

Dedicatory: To My Mother

Dedicatory: To the Dear Memory of My Father

 

The Isle of Wight and South Coast

Sea Liberty (p. 3)

Ocean, the Captive (p. 4)

The Isle of Wight (p. 5)

To Alfred Lord Tennyson (p. 6)

Farringford, Isle of Wight (p. 7)

On Hearing Lord Tennyson Read His ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (p. 8)

After the Epilogue. To the Charge of the Light Brigade (p. 9)

At the Needles, Isle of Wight (p. 10)

By the Barrow on Afton Down, Freshwater, Isle of Wight (p. 11)

On Leaving Farringford (p. 12)

The Lighthouse at the Needles (p. 13)

Portland (p. 14)

The Miguel D’Aquenda: Weymouth (p. 15)

Plymouth Harbour—Sunday (p. 16)

Old Eddystone Lighthouse, Plymouth Hoe (p. 17)

Sir Francs Drake, Hoe (p. 18)

 

Cornish Coast

Deep-Sea Calm (p. 21)

Cornwall (p. 22)

Falmouth (p. 23)

Kynance Cove (p. 24)

The Cottage at Kynance Cove (p. 25)

The Blow-Hole, Kynance Caves (p. 26)

The Gull Rock (p. 27)

St. Rumon’s Well, at Grade (p. 28)

At the Lizard (p. 29)

A Memory of the Lizard (p. 30)

Farewell at Lizard Point (p. 31)

Pigeon Hugo (p. 32)

Mullyon Island (Enys Bronnen) (p. 33)

Flora Day at Helston (Furry Day), May 8 (p. 34)

Mount St. Michael, Penzance (p. 35)

Spring Dreams amongst the Cornish Miners (p. 36)

St. Madron’s Well (p. 37)

Lanyon Cromlech (p. 38)

The Men-Scryfa (The Written Stone) (p. 39)

A Legend of King Arthur. (At Sennen) (p. 40)

At the Land’s End (p. 41)

Foam-Fringe at Gurnard’s Head (p. 42)

New Quay (p. 43)

The Cairns, Trevalga Head (p. 44)

The Nunnery of Lanherne, Mawgan (p. 45)

A Cornish Saint, Mawgan. In Memoriam Mary Davy, Obiit May 18, 1884 (p. 46)

 

Bristol Channel

Moon-Thirst (p. 49)

*Bristol (p. 50)

*The Drawbridge, Bristol (p. 51)

*Spire of Saint Mary Redcliffe (p. 52)

*To a Thrush Heard on Clifton Down (p. 53)

*On the Downs, Near Bristol (p. 54)

*Tennyson at Clevedon (p. 55)

*Old Clevedon Churchyard (p. 56)

*Henbury Plain (p. 57)

*Tintern Abbey (p. 58)

*At Tintern Abbey (p. 59)

*The Drakestone Edge (p. 60)

(* Published in A Book of Bristol Sonnets, 1877)

 

Welsh Coast

The Seasonless Ocean (p. 63)

At Barmouth (p. 64)

The Abermaw (p. 65)

Low Tide in the Estuary, Barmouth (p. 66)

Barmouth Shore. A Walk to Llanaber (p. 67)

A Retrospect from Mawddach Crag (p. 68)

Barmouth Bridge (p. 69)

Cottages of St. George, Barmouth (p. 70)

The Torrent Walk, Dolgelly (p. 71)

Harlech (p. 72)

Bronwyn the Fair. Harlech (p. 73)

The Buried City of Cardigan Bay (p. 74)

 

Lancashire and Cumberland Coasts

East and West (p. 77)

The Tower on the Road, Ulverston (p. 78)

A Launch from the Furness Docks (p. 79)

Black Coombe (p. 80)

*Eskmeals (p. 81)

*At King Henry’s Chapel, Muncaster (p. 82)

A Quiet Autumn Day, from the Terrace at Muncaster (p. 83)

At Muncaster, after the Gale of December 11, 1883 (p. 84)

The Death of Olaf the Dane—Sunset Beyond the Isle of Man (p. 85)

Home from the East. Among the Drigg Sand-Hills (p. 86)

The Light-Ship, Seen from Seascale (p. 87)

The Druid Stone near Millbeck, Seascale (p. 88)

Brave Sailing (p. 89)

At Seascale (p. 90)

The Preacher’s Seaside Lesson (p. 91)

*The Old Wreck at Seascale (p. 92)

The Irish Land League, October 17, 1881 (p. 93)

Rock Ruins at Seascale (p. 94)

The Gosforth Cross (p. 95)

Seascale Memories (p. 96)

The Peace of Understanding (p. 97)

Archbishop Grindal, Founder of Saint Bees Grammar School, 1587 (p. 98)

Tomb of Thomas de Cottingham, Obiit 1300. Saint Bees (p. 99)

Beowulf’s Stone, Saint Bees. Mammon Worship Rebuked (p. 100)

The Snow Miracle, a Legend of Saint Bees (p. 101)

The Forester’s Tomb, Saint Bees (p. 102)

Saint Bees (p. 103)

Sea-Cote, Saint Bees (p. 104)

Sea-Gulls at Saint Bees (p. 105)

The Lark on Tomline Head (p. 106)

A Doubtful May. Tomline head, Saint Bees (p. 197)

Music of Two Worlds, Saint Bees Head (p. 108)

The Imperishable Gospel. A Legend of the Solway (p. 109)

The Gladness of the Sea p. 110)

(* Published in Sonnets at the English Lakes, 1881)

 

North-East Coast

On Shining Sands (p. 113)

George Wishart, Martyred at Saint Andrews, March 1, 1545 (p. 114)

In Memoriam Principal Shairp, September 1885 (p. 115)

On Reading, after His Death, Principal Shairp’s Last Public Lecture on Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd (p. 116)

In Memoriam Principal Tulloch, February 1886 (p. 117)

On the Links, Saint Andrews (p. 118)

To M. K. on Her Eighteenth Birthday, Saint Andrews (p. 119)

Farewell to Saint Andrews (p. 120)

Bamborough Castle (p. 121)

Grace Darling (p. 122)

At Alnmouth (p. 123)

Warkworth Castle Hill (p. 124)

 

Yorkshire Coast – Saltburn

A Child’s Face on the Shore (p. 127)

Cleveland (p. 128)

A Nameless Grave at Marske (p. 129)

The Huntcliff (p. 130)

Beneath Huntcliff (p. 131)

The Pier at Saltburn-By-The-Sea (p. 132)

The Gardens, Saltburn-By-The-Sea (p. 133)

The Gardens Illuminated, Saltburn-By-The-Sea (p.134)

The Gardens by Moonlight (p. 135)

The Saltburn Viaduct (p. 136)

At Marske Mill (p. 137)

Skelton, the Birthplace of Robert Bruce’s Ancestors. A Dream of Robert the Bruce (p. 138)

The Bells of Skelton New Church Tower (p. 139)

At Skelton Old Church (p. 140)

At Guisborough Abbey (p. 141)

Roseberry Topping (p. 142)

From Warsett Brow (p. 143)

The Enchanted Castle between Saltburn and Whitby (p. 144)

 

Yorkshire Coast – Runswick Bay

The Warrior’s Cradle-Song (p. 147)

Captain Cook: Boyhood at Staithes (p. 148)

At Staithes (p. 149)

Staithes Beck (p. 150)

Hinderwell (p. 151)

At Runswick (p. 152)

The Fisher Houses at Runswick Bay (p. 153)

A Retrospect. Off to the Fishing-Ground, Runswick (p. 154)

Kettleness and Hob Hole (p. 155)

The Giant of Mulgrave Dale (p. 156)

Patriotism in Mulgrave Woods (p. 157)

To and From Mulgrave Castle (p. 158)

The Mulgrave Stream (p. 159)

 

Yorkshire Coast – Whitby

The Sorrow of the Sea (p. 163)

Whitby (p. 164)

Saint Hilda (p. 165)

By the Esk at Whitby (p. 166)

A Contrast: Whitby (p. 167)

A Memory of Caedmon, Whitby (p. 168)

Sunrise at Whitby (p. 169)

A Sunset at Whitby (p. 170)

Whitby Abbey (p. 171)

Whitby Abbey. A Memory of the Synod 664, with its Settlement of the Easter Controversy (p. 172)

After the Herrings, Whitby (p. 173)

Herrings Fine! (p. 174)

In the Upper Harbour, Whitby (p. 175)

The Bell Buoy at the Harbour Mouth, Whitby (p. 176)

On the Harbour Pier, Whitby (p. 177)

Lights on Whitby Church Stairs (p. 178)

Saint Hilda’s Lights (p. 179)

Sunset Lights on the Windows of Saint Mary’s Church, Whitby (p. 180)

The Six O’clock Bell, Whitby (p. 181)

The Jet Worker (p. 182)

The Whitby Bells (p. 183)

Service in the Old Parish Church, Whitby (p. 184)

Drowned by the Upsetting of the Life-Boat, October 6, 1841. A Hero’s Grave in Whitby Churchyard (p. 185)

Farewell to Whitby (p. 186)

The Penny Edge (p. 187)

The Beggar’s Bridge, Glaisdale (p. 188)

On a Moorland Railway (p. 189)

Pickering Moor, from Near Saltersgate, in Heather-Time (p. 190)

Lilla Cross (p. 191)

Goathland (p. 192)

In Glaisdale Wood (p. 193)

 

Yorkshire Coast – Scarborough

Robin Hood’s Town (p. 197)

To Robin Hood’s Bay (p. 198)

Bay Town (p. 199)

Scarborough Castle (p. 200)

At the Parish Church, Scarborough (p. 201)

Oliver’s Mount (p. 202)

The Wanderer’s Tomb on the Filey Heights (p. 203)

The Dane’s Dyke, Flamborough Head (p. 204)

Flamborough (p. 205)

Sea Sympathy (p. 206)

 

Lincolnshire

Children on the Shore (p. 209)

Sea Coal (p. 210)

Skegness House (p. 211)

The Lincolnshire Marsh (p. 212)

Old Skegness Church (p. 213)

New Skegness (p. 214)

William of Wainfleet (p. 215)

Boston Church Tower (p. 216)

The East Fen (p. 217)

At Mablethorpe: An Episode in the Publication of the “Poems by Two Brothers.” (p. 218)

To Sir John Franklin. (By His Statue in the Spilsby Market-Place, at Night) (p. 219)

Sonnet Valedictory (p. 220)

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Sonnets at the English Lakes (London, 1881)

Published three years after Hardwicke took up residence in the Lake District at Wray on the western side of Windermere; this volume is the first of the numerous books that he published on the Lake District.  The book is dedicated to Charles Tennyson Turner.

The book did not gain the attention of many reviewers.  One of the few reviews noted that the sonnets ‘are modest and graceful echoes of the large utterance of Wordsworth.  Higher praise than this they do not ask for, but it is well deserved’. In ‘Nature’s Gospel’, Hardwicke espouses his conservation views, a number of years before he became widely acknowledged as the ‘Defender of the Lakes’.  The poem is worth quoting in full:

 When, weary of the stifling city’s hum,
  I seek the quiet of the hills and dales,
I do rejoice to know the man that ails
In heart, or hope, or head, may hither come,
And here may learn how Nature, seeming dumb,
Can soothe where life’s tumultuous current fails—
Here find the still communion that avails
To fire imagination almost numb.
For not alone the Wanderer may read
An ‘elder Bible’s’ unexhausted page,
Or, scarce escaped from out the wars of creed,
May find a Gospel ‘uncorrupt of age,’
But here he feels his spirit’s greater need—
Wide Liberty, Man’s ancient heritage.   

 In his ‘Valedictory’ sonnet, Hardwicke addresses the Lake District itself and sends the book and its poems out to the wider world with the hope that its beauty will shine through to those who read it:

Thy face it was, dear land of lakes and rills,
Chameleon waters, ever-changing sky,
Of bright tarn lustres burning in the hills,
And mountains hung with streamlet jewelry,
That bid me hope thy kindly light would shine,
And flash the life to these poor gems of mine.

 

Contents

Introductory (p. xv)

In Memoriam: Charles Tennyson Turner (p. 1)

The Anniversary of Charles Tennyson Turner’s Death, 25th April (p. 2)

Nature’s Gospel (p. 3)

Windermere—Autumn (p. 4)

The Sycamore Tree, Ambleside (p. 5)

Wray Castle (p. 6)

The Haunted Hall at Calgarth (p. 7)

Cloud-Rest on Fairfield (p. 8)

Wordsworth’s Seat, Rydal (p. 9)

From Fox How (p. 10)

Loughrigg Tarn (p. 11)

Water-Lilies in Pullwyke Bay (p. 12)

Il Bel and High Street (p. 13)

The Larch (p. 14)

First Frost (p. 15)

Grasmere (p. 16)

Stock Ghyll Barred (p. 17)

Dunmail Raise (p. 18)

Song and Life, Rydal (p. 19)

Winter Sunrise on the Fells (p. 20)

The Mourner and the Brathay (p. 21)

The Willow-Warbler (p. 22)

The Geologist’s Funeral. In Memoriam J. Clifton Ward, Buried at Keswick, April 20th, 1880 (p. 23)

Blelham Tarn (p. 24)

The Grasmere Sports (p. 25)

The Thrush in Spring (p. 26)

The Lake Mirror: In Autumn (p. 27)

The Crier of Claife (p. 28)

At Wray Cottage (p. 29)

Kendal Castle: Or the Power of Tradition (p. 30)

The Lion and the Lamb: Or Helm Crag after a Storm (p. 31)

The Harvest Thanksgiving (p. 32)

Early Snow (p. 33)

The Langdale Pikes (p. 34)

On Seeing a Telegraph Wire and Pillar-Post below Wordsworth’s House (p. 35)

The Squirrel (p. 36)

Latterbarrow (p. 37)

Nab Cottage: A Memory of Hartley Coleridge (p. 38)

Stock Ghyll (p. 39)

A Return to the Lakes (p. 40)

The Tarn in Autumn (p. 41)

Low-Wood at Evening (p. 42)

Dovenest (p. 43)

East Wind in Spring (p. 44)

Death the Befriender (p. 45)

Sunset and the Westmorland Emigrant (p. 46)

The Lake Steamer in Autumn (p. 47)

Grasmere Revisited (p. 48)

Brathay Churchyard (p. 49)

The Sabbath Bell (p. 50)

A Tree Planted by William Wordsworth at Wray Castle (p. 51)

Pigeon Shooting at Ambleside (p. 52)

Upper Falls, Rydal (p. 53)

Nature’s Evensong (p. 54)

The Wagtail (p. 55)

The Miser’s Funeral (p. 56)

Talk, not Work (p. 57)

Char Fishers (p. 58)

Clear Weather in March (p. 59)

The Winter Steamboat (p. 60)

The Boulder on Latterbarrow (p. 61)

Wordsworth’s Tomb (p. 62)

Moonrise Mistaken for the Northern Lights (p. 63)

Lent-Lilies (p. 64)

The Dying Straggler (p. 65)

Nature’s Music Dishonoured (p. 66)

The Twin Spruces at Rydal (p. 67)

Resurrection, Or Lake Mists on a Winter Morn (p. 68)

The Children Gone (p. 69)

Rain After Drought (p. 70)

Early Death (p. 71)

The Churchyard (p. 72)

The Great Tit (p. 73)

War Notes in Rydal Vale (p. 74)

Up Nab Scar, from Rydal Mount (p. 75)

The White Cross at Windermere (p. 76)

A Belfry Season on Christmas Morn (p. 77)

Holiday Makers on Good Friday (p. 78)

Easter Eve (p. 79)

The Sycamore at High Close (p. 80)

The Snowdrops by Esthwaite Lake (p. 81)

Hawkshead Church (p. 82)

An April Snowstorm (p. 83)

Yellow Poppies at Wray Castle (p. 84)

The Grave of “Old Rose.” (p. 85)

The Red-Start (p. 86)

In Memoriam F.A.R. (p. 87)

Croft (p. 88)

The Crusader’s Tomb, Furness Abbey (p. 89)

Stock Ghyll after a Thaw (p. 90)

Hawkshead from Furness Fells (p. 91)

Moon-Rise over Wansfell (p. 92)

Spring Days (p. 93)

The Laurels at Storrs (p. 94)

The River Message (p. 95)

The Sybil’s Grotto: Or Rhododendrons at Croft (p. 96)

Wild Flowers on Loughrigg (p. 97)

Songs in Silence (p. 98)

Yewdale Crags (p. 99)

At Yewdale Farm (p. 100)

Poplars at the Friends’ Meeting House, Colthouse (p. 101)

Bowfell (p. 102)

The Cave at White Moss (p. 103)

Stone Arthur (p. 104)

Helvellyn (p. 105)

The Leven, and Rhododendrons at Lake Side (p. 106)

July at the Lakes (p. 107)

August at the Lakes (p. 108)

The Northern Nightingale (p. 109)

The Tower of Song (p. 110)

Furness Abbey (p. 111)

At King Henry’s Chapel, Muncaster (p. 112)

The Runic Cross in Gosforth Churchyard (p. 113)

Eskmeals (p. 114)

The Old Wreck at Seascale (p. 115)

The Tower on the Hoad, Ulverston (p. 116)

The Cottage Window at Sunset (p. 117)

The Valley of the Lune (p. 118)

Home (p. 119)

Brathay Music (p. 120)

Valedictory (p. 121)

 

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