The index below will direct you to extracts from HDR's published writings.  These extracts have been selected from his many poems, journal articles, letters to newspapers, sermons, lectures and books, etc.  Each Index has been subdivided alphabetical to make searching easier.  Clicking on an entry in the index will take you directly to the extract. 

Adams, John Couch

John Couch Adams

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Objectionable Posters

Anemones

Alpine Anemone-Seed

Animal Cruelty

A Plea for the Birds

A wasted life is like a wreck that lies

Ad Misericordiam

Bitter Cry of Brer Rabbit

Death Aboard our Transports

Dying Charger

Eagle, at the Zoological Gardens, Clifton

Harassed Horses

My Feathered Lady

Pigeon Shooting at Ambleside

Plumage Bill

Stag Impaled

Starved to Death

St. Kentigern and St. Herbert

The End

War-Worn Horses’ Appeal

Wild Birds’ Protection Amendment Act

Animal Legislation (see Animal Cruelty)

April

April at the Lakes

April Showers

Arbuthnot, Alice Charlotte

On the Schilthorn

Armenia

An Appeal to England for Armenia

Arnside

Lily-Woods of Arnside

Art

Christ in the Realm of Art

In the Church of S. Maria Degli Angioli

In the Refectory, Milan

Assisi

With Paul Sabatier at Assisi

Autumn

A Quiet Autumn Day, from the Terrace at Muncaster

Ayres, Alice

Alice Ayres

Barras Head

Barras Headland and the Old Post-Office, Tintagel

Barrington Court

Muchelney and Barrington Court

Beautiful Carlisle Society

Beautiful Carlisle Society: Address by Canon Rawnsley

Bede Memorial

Bede Memorial

Beetles

In Butterfly-Land

Bell-Ringing

Crosthwaite Bells

Bewcastle Cross

Bewcastle Cross

Birds

A Plea for the Birds

A Service of Song in Duchess’ Park, on a May Morning

Ad Misericordiam

Black-Headed Gulls in Cumberland

Chaffinch’s Nest

Chorus of the Dawn

Eagle, at the Zoological Gardens, Clifton

Fieldfares

Great Spotted-Woodpecker at Allan Bank

In a Cumbrian Gullery

My Feathered Lady

Pigeon Shooting at Ambleside

Plumage Bill

To a Thrush, Heard on Clifton Down in a January Mist

Wild Birds’ Protection Amendment Act

Birthdays

To M. K. on Her Eighteenth Birthday, Saint Andrews

Boer War

A Brave Postmistress

An Estcourt Hero

Death Aboard our Transports

Dying Charger

In Honour of Abraham Esau

Starved to Death

To Winston Churchill

Bonfires

Bonfires – A Retrospect

Bonfires on Peace Night

Coronation Bonfire on Skiddaw

Jubilee Bonfires, Up Skiddaw

Tercentenary of Spanish Armada Bonfire

Booth, William

General Booth

Borrowdale

King’s How in Borrowdale

Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway

The Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway

Bridges

Ethic of Bridge-Building

Bristol

Bristol of To-Day

Brothers’ Parting Stone

Brothers’ Parting Stone

Brough Hill Fair

Brough Hill Fair

Buildings and Monuments

Barras Headland and the Old Post-Office, Tintagel

Bede Memorial

Bewcastle Cross

Brothers’ Parting Stone

Dedication of a Memorial in Halton Holgate Church to Former Rectors, Churchwardens, and Parish Clerks on April 24th, 1911

Gosforth Cross

Muchelney and Barrington Court

Nether Stowey

Pier at Saltburn

Rock of Names

Rock Ruins at Seascale

Saltburn Viaduct

Skegness House

Story of the Caedmon Cross

Unveiling of the Ruskin Memorial at Friar’s Crag

Buksh, Ram

Ram Buksh, the Leper

Butterflies

In Butterfly-Land

Caedmon Cross

Story of the Caedmon Cross

Cape, Joe

Joe Cape, the Clogger

Carlisle

Beautiful Carlisle Society: Address by Canon Rawnsley

The County War Memorial

Recreation Hut at Fusehill

Suggested Meatless Day for “Merrie Carlisle”

Suggested War Memorial Hall

The Tank

Carlyle, Thomas

Carlyle

Castrigg Fell

Stone Circle on Castrigg Fell

Chaffinches

Chaffinch’s Nest

Charitable Causes

A Family in Distress

Chatterton, Thomas

Sonnet on Chatterton

Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge

Christian Brotherhood

Calls of Christian Brotherhood

Greatness of Service

Christian Manliness

Christian Aspects of Manliness

Churches (see also Buildings and Monuments)

At Skelton Old Church

Crusader’s Tomb

In Thun Churchyard

Old Skegness Church

Dedication of a Memorial in Halton Holgate Church

Churchill, Winston

To Winston Churchill

Cinemas

Cinematographs and the Child

Cleopatra

Portrait of Cleopatra

Co-Education (see Education)

Coleridge, Hartley

Nab Cottage: A Memory of Hartley Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Nether Stowey

Rock of Names

Consecration Crosses

Consecration Crosses, St. Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite

Conservation (see also Footpaths; see also National Trust)

Beautiful Carlisle Society: Address by Canon Rawnsley

Keswick and District Footpath Preservation Association

Nature’s Gospel

Proposed Permanent Lake District Defence Society

Ruskin Centenary

War Memorials

Conservation – Protests

A Traffic Board for the Provinces

Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway

Desecration of Nature.

The Desecration of Nature – Leaflet to Schools

Desecration of Nature (Thurstaston)

Ethic of Bridge-Building

Lake District: Protection of the Scafell Region

Memorial Stone at Grisedale Tarn

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part I

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part II

Safeguarding of the Lake Country

Snowden

The Tank

Wolmer Pond

Crimean War

In a Battery

Crocuses

Crocus Legions

Spring Crocuses

Crosthwaite (see Keswick)

Cumberland

Cumberland Character

Daffodils

Duddon Daffodils

Dane’s Dyke

Dane’s Dyke, Flamborough Head

Dancing

Lake Country Dancing

Merry little maidens

Davy, Mary

A Cornish Saint

December

December at the Lakes

Deer

Stag Impaled

Derwentwater

A Winter Day on Derwentwater

Dialect Poems (Lake District)

Comin’ Yham Fra T’ Front

Old Mary’s Secret

Oor Jack he cam’ fra ower t’ sea

Oor Lad Wha Nobbut Cooms I’ Dreams

Peace at Last

Rhyme of the Keswick Old Folks’ Dinner

Secret of Old Age

‘T’Auld Fwoks’ Kursmas “Do”

T’ Keswick Auld Fwokes’ Do, 1905

T’Ald Fwoks’ Cursmas,1904

T’Auld Fwoks’ Cursmas “Do” 1903

Dialect Poems (Lincolnshire)

A Farm-Yard Soliloquy

A Libel

A Sad Letter

Dinas Oleu

Dinas Oleu

Disraeli, Benjamin

At Hughenden

Dogs

Hound Trails of the North

Sheep-Dog Trials at Troutbeck

Story of Gough and His Dog

We meet at Morn, my Dog and I

Duddon

Duddon Daffodils

Eagles

Eagle, at the Zoological Gardens

Earthquakes

Earthquake

Easter

Easter at the Lakes: Colours and Flowers of Spring

Education (See also Nature Study; see also Keswick School of Industrial Arts)

Canon Rawnsley on Recreation

Co-Education or a Dual School of the Higher Grade for Keswick

The Importance of Education

Keswick School: Foundation of a Scholarship: Generous Offer by Canon and Mrs Rawnsley

War and Education

War Memorials

What Shall We Do With Our Scholars?

Windermere Grammar School Speech-Day. Address by Rev. Canon Rawnsley

Egypt

A Day at the Meydoum Pyramid

A Monkish Swimmer

A Queen’s Gazelle

At Keneh

Bird-Scaring

The Dancing Dervishes

El Fât’ha

Evening by the Nile

First Call to Prayer

Lady Nefert

Night Watchers

Portrait of Cleopatra

Shadûf-Man

Water-Carriers (Hope)

Water-Carriers (Joy)

Water-Carriers (Sorrow)

Eiffel Tower

Memories of the Great Paris Exhibition

Engelberg

To Engelberg

Walks at Engelberg

Entente Cordiale

A Plea for the United States of Europe

Environmental Pollution

A Traveller’s Tale

Cry of the Poor Consumptive

Forester’s Tomb, Saint Bees

Sunlight or Smoke?

Esau, Abraham

In Honour of Abraham Esau

Eskmeals

Eskmeals

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First, about the “murderous millinery.” [It is not only the barbarous cruelty involved that torments one] it is the unkindness to far generations, and the loss to posterity, that moves one.   The Ardea gracilis, the little white Florida heron that supplies the egret plume, is going the way of the Impeyan pheasant, and the glossy-winged African starling.  This murderous millinery is destroying them or it has already destroyed several varieties of our brightest-plumaged birds from off the face of the earth. (p. 5)

Now these birds are so many winged miracles of beauty to tell us of the glory of our God. They were sent into the world, each of them with a message from the Most High. (p. 5)….

Now may I ask your attention to the urgent matter of mercy in our cattle markets.  You know how difficult it is to drive the timid country cattle to the trucking or to the mart.  I daresay you also know that the cattle driver’s whip or goad rains merciless blows between the horns and on the flanks of these dumb-driven sacred beasts.  It is not an unknown matter that a beast’s eye is sometimes actually torn from its socket in the process…. [The solution, which has been adopted in many countries in Europe is] to train the calves to the use of the halter, and so get all grown cattle to follow a hand that leads, rather than fly from a stick that drives. (pp. 5-6)

Next, I am extremely anxious that we in Britain should lay to heart one of the lessons of this terrible war in South Africa.  Our losses in horse flesh have been enormous. More than 100,000 horses, I am assured, have perished.  One of the contributory causes was that vicious habit and cruel fashion of docking the horses’ tails.  It is mercifully forbidden in the army, and so the army horses proper could defend themselves from what is the chief scourge of an African campaign, the plague of flies….  Owing to the foolish fashion of horse docking, thousands of horses had to go to the war without their natural protection, and the agonies that were added to them for want of it may be imagined….  The custom is as useless as it is cruel, and, as this war has helped to prove, it is a dead loss to the nation. (p. 6)

This brings me to my concluding appeal for mercy to our dumb friends.  More than 100,000 horses have died for Great Britain and the Empire during this past year.  We shall have monuments to our brave soldiers who come not home again.  How shall we build to those brave horses….  We will build their monument and the monument of our debt to them by an appeal to the Geneva Convention.  It ought to be possible in future war to have, by some general agreement between the powers, a regular army corps of men to accompany an army on the march and battlefield, whose sole duty should be to care for the wounded and the dying horses and baggage animals, and see that the happy dispatch of a bullet behind the ear is accorded to those who fall.  The matter, I am told, is a complicated one. (pp. 6-7)

(Nature Notes, 1901, January, vol. XII, no. 133, pp. 4-7)

 

 

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The index below will direct you to extracts from HDR's published writings.  These extracts have been selected from his many poems, journal articles, letters to newspapers, sermons, lectures and books, etc.  Each Index has been subdivided alphabetical to make searching easier.  Clicking on an entry in the index will take you directly to the extract. 

Subject Index (K-O)

Kendal

Kendal and a North Country Eisteddfod

Kennard, Constance

Sister Constance

Keswick (See also Derwentwater)

A North Country Flood

The Consecration Crosses, St. Kentigern’s Church

Crosthwaite Bells

Keswick and the Neighbourhood

Morning and Evening at Crosthwaite

Past and Present in the Keswick Vale

Stone Circle on Castrigg Fell

Keswick High School

Co-Education or a Dual School of the Higher Grade for Keswick

Keswick School: Foundation of a Scholarship: Generous Offer by Canon and Mrs Rawnsley

Keswick Old Folks’ Christmas Do

Keswick Old Folks’ Dinner

Old Folks’ Christmas Do, 1901

Rhyme of the Keswick Old Folks’ Dinner

‘T’Auld Fwoks’ Kursmas “Do”

T’ Keswick Auld Fwokes’ Do, 1905

T’Ald Fwoks’ Cursmas, December, 1904

T’Auld Fwoks’ Cursmas “Do”, 1903

Keswick School of Industrial Arts

Our Industrial Art Experiment at Keswick

Ruskin and the Home Art Industries in the Lake District

St. Kentigern’s Spinners Song

Kymin Hill

Kymin Hill

Kynance Cove

Cottage at Kynance Cove

La Verna

Pilgrimage to La Verna

Lady Nefert

Lady Nefert

Lake District

A Return to the Lakes

April at the Lakes

April Showers

Arctic Splendours at the English Lakes

Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway

Coach Drive at the Lakes. Part I. From Windermere to Rydal Water

Coach Drive at the Lakes. Part II. From Rydal to Thirlmere

Coach Drive at the Lakes. Part III. From Thirlmere to Keswick

Cottage Window at Sunset

Cumberland Character

December at the Lakes

Easter at the Lakes: Colours and Flowers of Spring

February at the Lakes

Gateways of the Lake District

Home from Lombardy

January at the Lakes

July at the Lakes

July at the Lakes (Poem)

June at the Lakes

June Twilight at Eversley

Lake Country Dancing

Lake District: Protection of the Scafell Region

March at the Lakes

May at the Lakes

Merry May-Time at the Lakes

Nature’s Gospel

November at the Lakes

November Glory at the Lakes

October at the Lakes

Proposed Permanent Lake District Defence Society

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part I

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part II

Safeguarding of the Lake Country

September at the Lakes

Windermere: The Government Protection of the Lake Country

Lake District Defence Society

Proposed Permanent Lake District Defence Society

Lake Maggiore

Daylight on Lago Maggiore

Islands of Lago Maggiore

Lanherne

Nunnery of Lanherne, Mawgan

Lauener, Ulrich

Guide’s Farewell

League of Nations

The League of Nations

Leigh Woods

Early Morn and Eventide, in Leigh Woods

Leigh Woods

Lighthouse

TLight-Ship, Seen from Seascale

Lilies

Lily-Woods of Arnside

Witness of the Flowers

Lincolnshire

The East Fen

Linton, Eliza Lynn

Eliza Lynn Linton

Literature

Pernicious Literature

Litter and Vandalism

Brothers’ Parting Stone

Desecration of Nature.

Desecration of Nature – Leaflet to Schools

Desecration of Nature (Thurstaston)

Memorial Stone at Grisedale Tarn

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part II

Lodore

Lodore after Storm

Lucerne

At Kastanienbaum

Lucerne Again

The Revival of the Decorative Arts at Lucerne

March

March at the Lakes

Mardale

Mardale Shepherds’ Meeting

Maritime Disaster

Loss of the Captain

Martineau, Harriet

Harriet Martineau

May

May at the Lakes

Merry May-Time at the Lakes

May Day

May Day by Greta Side

Merry little maidens, Oh!

To the May Queen of Keswick

Meydoum Pyramid

A Day at the Meydoum Pyramid

Minchinhampton Common

Minchinhampton Common

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Centenary of Mozart

Muchelney Priest’s House

Muchelney Priest's House, and Barrington Court

Muncaster

A Quiet Autumn Day, from the Terrace at Muncaster

Music Festivals

Kendal and a North Country Eisteddfod

Nab Cottage

Nab Cottage: A Memory of Hartley Coleridge

Nannau

Haunted Oak of Nannau

Narcissuses

Pheasant-Eye Narcissus

National Trust

Gowbarrow Fell and Aira Force

National Trust: Its Work and Needs

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

National Trust – Properties

Barras Headland and the Old Post-Office, Tintagel

Cheddar Gorge

Dinas Oleu

Gowbarrow Fell and Aira Force

Holnicote Estate

King’s How in Borrowdale

Kymin Hill

Leigh Woods

Minchinhampton Common

Muchelney Priest's House, and Barrington Court

Nether Stowey

Queen Adelaide’s Hill

Stone Circle on Castrigg Fell

Unveiling of the Ruskin Memorial at Friar’s Crag

Winsford Hill

Nature Study (see also Education)

Canon Rawnsley on Recreation

Desecration of Nature – Leaflet to Schools

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part I

Reverence for Natural Beauty: Part II

What Shall We Do With Our Scholars?

Nether Stowey

Nether Stowey

Nettleship, Richard Lewis

To R. L. Nettleship

Newquay

New Quay

Norse (see Vikings)

November

November at the Lakes

November Glory at the Lakes

Oakley, John

Late Dean of Manchester

Oberammergau

Oberammergau in 1900

October

October at the Lakes

Old Age

Old Mary’s Secret

Secret of Old Age

Orvieto

Corpus Christi Day at Orvieto

Otters

Out Ottering

Owen, Richard

Sir Richard Owen

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A wasted life is like a wreck that lies
Half sunk in sands of fearful solitude
As ’twere the ribs of some huge shore-washed whale
That once plunged master of the mighty storm
But driven by that strange ocean river came
From realms Hyperborean and from seas
Rough with their steel blue mounds of hillocked ice
And sickening in these southern latitudes
And summer simmering seas forgot its strength
And helpless drove upon these sandy shoals
And lashing anger felt the cruel tide
Forsake its slimy sand-bespotted bulk,
And all the tortures of the high noon sun,
So gaping died the prey of pigmy men,
Who, soon as death had dimmed the giants’ eyes,
Clomb hand in hand the mountain of warm flesh,
And with mock bravery, piercing thro’ the depths
Of fatness, struck the mammoth’s purple heart,
And laughed to see the red tide flush the sand,
Or, doubting if the brute might still relax
The stiffening sinews of the death-wide jaws,
Bade their rough dames and wondering children walk
Into the mighty bone-fenced mouth, and take
Clusters of clinging tangle and sea shells
To deck their house shelves as memorials.

                                                                                                July 1872

(Unpublished poem. RR/1/7 – Catherine Rawnsley’s Commonplace Book)

 

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