Author:William Lisle Bowles

William Lisle Bowles
(1762–1850)

William Lisle Bowles

Works

• Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, written during a Tour (1789)
• Verses to John Howard (1789)
• Coombe Ellen (1798)
• St. Michael's Mount (1798)
• The Battle of the Nile (1799)
• The Sorrows of Switzerland (1801)
• The Picture (1803)
• The Spirit of Discovery (1804)
• Bowden Hill (1806)
• The Missionary of the Andes (1815)
• The Grave of the last Saxon (1822)
• Ellen Gray (1823)
• Days Departed (1828)
• St. John in Patmos (1833)
• Scenes and Shadows of Days Departed (1837)
• The Village Verse-Book (1837)
• Short verses for little children (1837) (external scan)

• The Butterfly and the Bee
• Spring—Cuckoo

Poetry

• "The Dove sent from the Ark"
• "Time and Grief"
• "On seeing a Bust of R. B. Sheridan from a Cast taken after Death, at Deville’s, Strand" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)

Works about Bowles

• "Bowles, William Lisle," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Bowles, William Lisle," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Bowles, William Lisle," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Bowles, William Lisle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)