| JUVENILE POEMS. |
| Page |
| On my Mother’s Birthday. Written at the age of eight | 1 |
| A Prayer. Written at the age of nine | ib. |
| Address to the Deity. Written at the age of eleven | ib. |
| Shakspeare. Written at the age of eleven | 2 |
| To my Brother and Sister in the country. Written at the age of eleven | ib. |
| Sonnet to my Mother. Written at the age of twelve | ib. |
| Sonnet. Written at the age of thirteen | 3 |
| Rural Walks. Written at the age of thirteen | ib. |
| Sonnet. Written at the age of thirteen | ib. |
| England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism. Written at the age of fourteen | 4 |
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| THE DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS, &c. |
| The Silver Locks. Addressed to an Ancient Friend | 10 |
| To my Mother | 11 |
| To my Younger Brother. On his Return from Spain, after the fatal Retreat under Sir John Moore and the battle of Corunna | ib. |
| To my Eldest Brother, with the British army in Portugal | 12 |
| Lines written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith | ib. |
| The Ruin and its Flowers | 13 |
| Christmas Carol | 14 |
| The Domestic Affections | 15 |
| To Mr Edwards, the Harper of Conway | 19 |
| Epitaph on Mr W——, a celebrated Mineralogist | 20 |
| Epitaph on the Hammer of the aforesaid Mineralogist | ib. |
| Prologue to The Poor Gentleman. As intended to be performed by the Officers of the 34th Regiment at Clonmel | 21 |
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| THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY | 22 |
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| MODERN GREECE | 28 |
| Critical Annotations | 42 |
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TRANSLATIONS FROM CAMOENS
AND OTHER POETS. |
| Sonnet 70 | 43 |
| Sonnet 282 From Psalm 137 | ib. |
| Part of Eclogue 15 | 44 |
| Sonnet 271 | 44 |
| Sonnet 186 | ib. |
| Sonnet 108 | 44 |
| Sonnet 23 To a Lady who died at Sea | 45 |
| Sonnet 19 | ib. |
| “Que estranho caso de amor!” | ib. |
| Sonnet 58 | ib. |
| Sonnet 178 | ib. |
| Sonnet 80 | 46 |
| Sonnet 239 From Psalm 137 | ib. |
| Sonnet 128 | ib. |
| “Polomeu apartamento” | ib. |
| Sonnet 205 | 47 |
| Sonnet 133 | ib. |
| Sonnet 181 | ib. |
| Sonnet 278 | ib. |
| “Mi nueve y dulce querella” | ib. |
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| Metastasio.—“Dunque si sfoga in pianto” | ib. |
| — “Al furor d’avversa Sorte” | 48 |
| — “Quella onda che ruina” | ib. |
| —“Leggiadra rosa, le cui pure foglie” | ib. |
| —“Che speri, instabil Dea, di sassi e spine” | ib. |
| —“Parlagli d’un periglio” | ib. |
| —“Sprezza il furor del vento” | ib. |
| —“Sol può dir che sia contento” | ib. |
| —“Ah! frenate le piante imbelle!” | 49 |
| Vincenzo da Filicaja.—“Italia! Italia! O tu cui diè la sorte” | ib. |
| Pastorini.—“Genova mia! se con asciutto ciglio” | ib. |
| Lope de Vega.—“Estese el cortesano” | ib. |
| Francisco Manuel.—On ascending a Hill leading to a Convent | ib. |
| Della Casa.—Venice | 50 |
| Il Marchese Cornelio Bentivoglio.—“L’anima bella, che dal vero Eliso” | ib. |
| Quevedo.—Rome buried in her own Ruins | ib. |
| El conde Juan de Tarsis.—“Tu, que la dulce vida en tiernas anos” | ib. |
| Torquato Tasso.—“Negli anni acerbi tuoi, purpurea rosa” | ib. |
| Bernardo Tasso.—“Quest’ ombra che giammai non vide il sole” | 51 |
| Petrarch.—“Chi vuol veder quantunque può natura” | ib. |
| — “Se lamentar augelli, o verdi fronde” | ib. |
| Pietro Bembo.—“O Muerte! que sueles ser” | ib. |
| Francesco Lorenzini.—“O Zefiretto, che movendo vai” | ib. |
| Gesner.—Morning Song | 52 |
| German Song.—“Mädchen, lernet Amor kennen” | ib. |
| Chaulieu.—“Grotte, d’où sort ce clair ruisseau” | ib. |
| Garcilaso de Vega.—“Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera” | 52 |
| Lorenzo de Medici.—Violets | 53 |
| Pindemonte.—On the Hebe of Canova | ib. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| Lines written in a Hermitage on the Sea-shore | 54 |
| Dirge of a Child | ib. |
| Invocation | 55 |
| To the Memory of General Sir E—D P—K—M | ib. |
| To the Memory of Sir H—Y E—LL—S, who fell in the battle of Waterloo | 56 |
| Guerilla Song. Founded on the story related of the Spanish patriot Mina | ib. |
| The Aged Indian, | ib. |
| Evening amongst the Alps | 57 |
| Dirge of the Highland Chief in “Waverley” | ib. |
| The Crusaders’ War-Song | 58 |
| The Death of Clanronald | ib. |
| To the Eye | 59 |
| The Hero’s Death, | ib. |
| Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte | ib. |
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| WALLACE’S INVOCATION TO BRUCE. | 63 |
| Advertisement by the Author, &c. | ib. |
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| TALES AND HISTORIC SCENES. |
| The Abencerrage | 67 |
| The Widow of Crescentius | 85 |
| The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra | 93 |
| Alaric in Italy | 95 |
| The Wife of Asdrubal | 97 |
| Heliodorus in the Temple | 98 |
| Night-scene in Genoa. From Sismondi’s “Républiques Italiennes” | 99 |
| The Troubadour and Richard Cœur-de-Lion | 101 |
| The Death of Conradin | 103 |
| Critical Annotations | 105 |
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| THE SCEPTIC | 106 |
| Critical Annotations | 113 |
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| SUPERSTITION AND REVELATION | 114 |
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| ITALIAN LITERATURE. |
| The Basvigliana of Monti | 118 |
| The Alcestis of Alfieri | 121 |
| Il Conte di Carmagnola. A tragedy. By Alessandro Manzoni | 125 |
| Caius Gracchus. A tragedy. By Monti | 133 |
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| PATRIOTIC EFFUSIONS OF THE ITALIAN POETS. |
| Vincenzo da Filicaja | 138 |
| Carlo Maria Maggi | ib. |
| Alessandro Marchetti | ib. |
| Alessandro Pegolotti | ib. |
| Francesco Maria de Conti.—The Shore of Africa | ib. |
| —— |
| Jeu-d’Esprit on the word “Barb” | 139 |
| The Fever-Dream | ib. |
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| DARTMOOR | 141 |
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| WELSH MELODIES. |
| The Harp of Wales. Introductory stanzas | 145 |
| Druid Chorus on the Landing of the Romans | ib. |
| The Green Isles of Ocean | 146 |
| The Sea-Song of Gafran | ib. |
| The Hirlas Horn | ib. |
| The Hall of Cynddylan | 147 |
| The Lament of Llywarch Hen | ib. |
| Grufydd’s Feast | 148 |
| The Cambrian in America | ib. |
| Taliesin’s Prophecy | ib. |
| Owen Glyndwr’s War-Song | 149 |
| Prince Madoc’s Farewell | ib. |
| Caswallon’s Triumph | 150 |
| Howel’s Song | ib. |
| The Mountain Fires | ib. |
| Eryri Wen | 151 |
| Chant of the Bards before their Massacre by Edward I. | ib. |
| The Dying Bard’s Prophecy | 152 |
| The Fair Isle. For the melody called the “Welsh Ground” | ib. |
| The Rock of Cader Idris | ib. |
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| THE VESPERS OF PALERMO | 153 |
| Critical Annotations | 186 |
| —— |
| Stanzas to the Memory of George the Third | 187 |
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| TALES AND HISTORIC SCENES. |
| The Maremma | 191 |
| A Tale of the Secret Tribunal | 194 |
| The Caravan in the Deserts | 210 |
| Marius amongst the Ruins of Carthage | 212 |
| A Tale of the Fourteenth Century. A Fragment | 213 |
| Belshazzar’s Feast | 219 |
| The Last Constantine | 221 |
| Annotations on the Last Constantine | 234 |
| The League of the Alps; or, the Meeting of the Field of Grütli | ib. |
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| SONGS OF THE CID. |
| The Cid’s Departure into Exile | 238 |
| The Cid’s Deathbed | ib. |
| The Cid’s Funeral Procession | 239 |
| The Cid’s Rising | 241 |
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| GREEK SONGS. |
| The Storm of Delphi | 241 |
| The Bowl of Liberty | 242 |
| The Voice of Scio | 243 |
| The Spartans’ March | ib. |
| The Urn and Sword | 244 |
| The Myrtle Bough | ib. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| On a Flower from the Field of Grütli | 244 |
| On a Leaf from the Tomb of Virgil | 245 |
| The Chieftain’s Son | ib. |
| A Fragment | ib. |
| England’s Dead | 246 |
| The Meeting of the Bards. Written for an Eisteddvod, or meeting of Welsh Bards, held in London, May 22, 1822 | 246 |
| The Voice of Spring | 247 |
| Elysium | 249 |
| The Funeral Genius. An Ancient Statue | 250 |
| The Tombs of Platæa | 251 |
| The View from Castri | ib. |
| The Festal Hour | 252 |
| Song of the Battle of Morgarten | 253 |
| Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal and his army in Africa. Translated from the Spanish of Herrera | 254 |
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| SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL | 256 |
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| THE SIEGE OF VALENCIA | 262 |
| Advertisement by the Author, | ib. |
| Critical Annotations | 292 |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| Song. Founded on an Arabian Anecdote | 293 |
| Alp-Horn Song. Translated from the German of Tieck | 294 |
| The Cross of the South | ib. |
| The Sleeper of Marathon | 295 |
| To Miss F. A. L. on her Birthday | ib. |
| Written on the First Leaf of the Album of the Same | ib. |
| To the Same, on the Death of her Mother | 296 |
| From the Spanish of Garcilaso de la Vega | ib. |
| From the Italian of Sannazaro | ib. |
| Appearance of the Spirit of the Cape to Vasco de Gama. Translated from Camoens | 297 |
| A Dirge | 298 |
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| TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE |
| To Venus | 298 |
| To his Attendant | ib. |
| To Delius | 299 |
| To the Fountain of Bandusia | ib. |
| To Faunus | ib. |
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| DE CHATILLON; OR, THE CRUSADERS | 300 |
| Critical Annotations | 315 |
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| THE FOREST SANCTUARY | 316 |
| Critical Annotations | 336 |
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| LAYS OF MANY LANDS. |
| Moorish Bridal-Song | 338 |
| The Bird’s Release | ib. |
| The Sword of the Tomb. A Northern Legend | 339 |
| Valkyriur Song | 340 |
| The Cavern of the Three Tells. A Swiss Tradition | 341 |
| Swiss Song. On the Anniversary of an Ancient Battle | 342 |
| The Messenger Bird | 343 |
| Answer to The Messenger Bird, by an American Quaker Lady | note, ib. |
| The Stranger in Louisiana | ib. |
| The Isle of Founts. An Indian Tradition | 344 |
| The Bended Bow | 345 |
| He never smiled again | 346 |
| Cœur-de-Lion at the Bier of his Father | ib. |
| The Vassal’s Lament for the Fallen Tree | 347 |
| The Wild Huntsman | 348 |
| Brandenburg Harvest-Song. From the German of La Motte Fouqué | 348 |
| The Shade of Theseus. An Ancient Greek Tradition | 349 |
| Ancient Greek Song of Exile | ib. |
| Greek Funeral Chant, or Myriologue | ib. |
| Greek Parting Song | 351 |
| The Suliote Mother | 352 |
| The Farewell to the Dead | 353 |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| I go, Sweet Friends! | 354 |
| Angel Visits | ib. |
| Ivy Song. Written on receiving some Ivy-leaves gathered from the ruined Castle of Rheinfels, on the Rhine | ib. |
| To one of the Author’s children on his Birthday | 355 |
| On a Similar Occasion | ib. |
| Christ Stilling the Tempest | ib. |
| Epitaph over the Grave of Two Brothers | 356 |
| Monumental Inscription | ib. |
| The Sound of the Sea | ib. |
| The Child and Dove. Suggested by Chantrey’s statue of Lady Louisa Russell | 357 |
| A Dirge | ib. |
| Scene in a Dalecarlian Mine | ib. |
| English Soldier’s Song of Memory. To the air of “Am Rhein! Am Rhein!” | 358 |
| Haunted Ground | ib. |
| The Child of the Forests. Written after reading the Memoirs of John Hunter | 359 |
| Stanzas to the Memory of * * * | 360 |
| The Vaudois Valleys | ib. |
| Song of the Spanish Wanderer | 361 |
| The Contadina. Written for a Picture | ib. |
| Troubadour Song | ib. |
| The Treasures of the Deep | ib. |
| Bring Flowers | 362 |
| The Crusader’s Return | 363 |
| Thekla’s Song; or, the Voice of a Spirit. From the German of Schiller | 364 |
| The Revellers | ib. |
| The Conqueror’s Sleep | 365 |
| Our Lady’s Well | ib. |
| The Parting of Summer | 366 |
| The Songs of our Fathers | ib. |
| The World in the Open Air | 367 |
| Kindred Hearts | ib. |
| The Traveller at the Source of the Nile | 368 |
| Casabianca | 369 |
| The Dial of Flowers | ib. |
| Our Daily Paths | 370 |
| The Cross in the Wilderness | 371 |
| Last Rites | 372 |
| The Hebrew Mother | ib. |
| The Wreck | 373 |
| The Trumpet | 374 |
| Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School | ib. |
| The Hour of Death | 375 |
| The Lost Pleiad | ib. |
| The Cliffs of Dover | 376 |
| The Graves of Martyrs | ib. |
| The Hour of Prayer | 377 |
| The Voice of Home to the Prodigal | ib. |
| The Wakening | 378 |
| The Breeze from Shore | ib. |
| The Dying Improvisatore | 379 |
| Music of Yesterday | ib. |
| The Forsaken Hearth | 380 |
| The Dreamer | ib. |
| The Wings of the Dove | 381 |
| Psyche borne by Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure | 382 |
| The Boon of Memory | ib. |
| Dramatic scene between Bronwylfa and Rhyllon | 383 |
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| RECORDS OF WOMAN. |
| Arabella Stuart | 385 |
| The Bride of the Greek Isle | 388 |
| The Bride’s Farewell | 389 |
| The Switzer’s Wife | 391 |
| Properzia Rossi | 392 |
| Gertrude; or, Fidelity till Death | 394 |
| Imelda | ib. |
| Edith. A Tale of the Woods | 396 |
| The Indian City | 398 |
| The Peasant Girl of the Rhone | 401 |
| Indian Woman’s Death-Song | 402 |
| Joan of Arc in Rheims | 403 |
| Pauline | 404 |
| Juana | 405 |
| The American Forest Girl | 406 |
| Costanza | 407 |
| Madeline. A Domestic Tale | 408 |
| The Queen of Prussia’s Tomb | 409 |
| The Memorial Pillar | 410 |
| The Grave of a Poetess | 411 |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| The Homes of England | 412 |
| The Sicilian Captive | ib. |
| Ivan the Czar | 413 |
| Carolan’s Prophecy | 414 |
| The Lady of the Castle. From the “Portrait Gallery,” an unfinished poem | 416 |
| The Mourner for the Barmecides | 417 |
| The Spanish Chapel | 418 |
| The Kaiser’s Feast | 419 |
| Tasso and his Sister | 420 |
| Ulla; or, The Adjuration | 421 |
| To Wordsworth | 422 |
| A Monarch’s Death-bed | 423 |
| To the Memory of Heber | ib. |
| The Adopted Child | ib. |
| Invocation | 424 |
| Körner and his Sister | ib. |
| The Death-Day of Körner | 425 |
| An Hour of Romance | 427 |
| A Voyager’s Dream of Land | ib. |
| The Effigies | 428 |
| The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England | 429 |
| The Spirit’s Mysteries | ib. |
| The Departed | 430 |
| The Palm-Tree | ib. |
| The Child’s Last Sleep. Suggested by a Monument of Chantrey’s | 431 |
| The Sunbeam | ib. |
| Breathings of Spring | 432 |
| The Illuminated City | ib. |
| The Spells of Home | 433 |
| Roman Girl’s Song | ib. |
| The Distant Ship | 434 |
| The Birds of Passage | ib. |
| The Graves of a Household | 435 |
| Mozart’s Requiem | ib. |
| The Image in Lava | 436 |
| Christmas Carol | 437 |
| A Father Reading the Bible | ib. |
| The Meeting of the Brothers | ib. |
| The Last Wish | 438 |
| Fairy Favours | 439 |
| Critical Annotations | 440 |
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| SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS. |
| A Spirit’s Return | 442 |
| The Lady of Provence | 446 |
| The Coronation of Inez de Castro | 448 |
| Italian Girl’s Hymn to the Virgin | 449 |
| To a Departed Spirit | ib. |
| The Chamois Hunter’s Love | 450 |
| The Indian with his Dead Child | ib. |
| Song of Emigration | 451 |
| The King of Arragon’s Lament for his Brother | 452 |
| The Return | 453 |
| The Vaudois Wife | ib. |
| The Guerilla Leader’s Vow | 454 |
| Thekla at her Lover’s Grave | 455 |
| The Sisters of Scio | ib. |
| Bernardo del Carpio | 456 |
| The Tomb of Madame Langhans | 457 |
| The Exile’s Dirge | ib. |
| The Dreaming Child | 458 |
| The Charmed Picture | ib. |
| Parting Words | 459 |
| The Message to the Dead | ib. |
| The Two Homes | 460 |
| The Soldier’s Death-bed | 461 |
| The Image in the Heart | ib. |
| The Land of Dreams | 462 |
| Woman on the Field of Battle | ib. |
| The Deserted House | 463 |
| The Stranger’s Heart | 464 |
| To a Remembered Picture | ib. |
| Come Home | 465 |
| The Fountain of Oblivion | ib. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| The Bridal-Day | 466 |
| The Ancestral Song | 467 |
| The Magic Glass | 468 |
| Corinne at the Capitol | 469 |
| The Ruin | ib. |
| The Minster | 470 |
| The Song of Night | 471 |
| The Storm-Painter in his Dungeon | ib. |
| The Two Voices | 472 |
| The Parting Ship | 473 |
| The Last Tree of the Forest | ib. |
| The Streams | 474 |
| The Voice of the Wind | 475 |
| The Vigil of Arms | 476 |
| The Heart of Bruce in Melrose Abbey | ib. |
| Nature’s Farewell | 477 |
| The Beings of the Mind | ib. |
| The Lyre’s Lament | 478 |
| Tasso’s Coronation | 479 |
| The Better Land | ib. |
| The Wounded Eagle | 480 |
| Sadness and Mirth | ib. |
| The Nightingale’s Death-Song | 481 |
| The Diver | ib. |
| The Requiem of Genius | 482 |
| Triumphant Music | 483 |
| Second-Sight | ib. |
| The Sea-Bird flying inland | 484 |
| The Sleeper | ib. |
| The Mirror in the Deserted Hall | ib. |
| To the Daughter of Bernard Barton, the Quaker Poet | 485 |
| The Star of the Mine | ib. |
| Washington’s Statue. Sent from England to America | ib. |
| A Thought of Home at Sea | 486 |
| To the Memory of a Sister-in-Law | ib. |
| To an Orphan | ib. |
| Hymn by the Sickbed of a Mother | 487 |
| Where is the Sea? Song of the Greek Islander in Exile | ib. |
| To my own Portrait | ib. |
| No More | 488 |
| Passing Away | 489 |
| The Angler | ib. |
| Death and the Warrior | 490 |
| Song. For an air by Hummel | ib. |
| To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray, son of the Duke of Atholl, who died in the cause and lamented by the people of Greece | ib. |
| The Broken Chain | 491 |
| The Shadow of a Flower | ib. |
| Lines to a Butterfly resting on a Skull | ib. |
| The Bell at Sea | 492 |
| The Subterranean Stream | ib. |
| The Silent Multitude | 493 |
| The Antique Sepulchre | ib. |
| Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants | 494 |
| The Memory of the Dead | ib. |
| He walked with God | 495 |
| The Rod of Aaron | ib. |
| The Voice of God | ib. |
| The Fountain of Marah | 496 |
| The Penitent’s Offering | ib. |
| The Sculptured Children | ib. |
| Woman and Fame | 497 |
| A Thought of the Future | 498 |
| The Voice of Music | ib. |
| The Angel’s Greeting | 499 |
| A Farewell to Wales | ib. |
| Impromptu Lines addressed to Miss F. A. L. on receiving from her some Flowers when confined by illness | ib. |
| A Parting Song | 500 |
| We return no more | ib. |
| To a Wandering Female Singer | 501 |
| Lights and Shades | ib. |
| The Palmer | ib. |
| The Child’s First Grief | 502 |
| To the New-Born | ib. |
| The Death-Song of Alcestis | ib. |
| The Home of Love | 503 |
| Books and Flowers | 504 |
| For a Picture of St Cecilia attended by Angels | 505 |
| The Brigand Leader and his Wife. Suggested by a picture of Eastlake’s | 506 |
| The Child’s Return from the Woodlands | 506 |
| The Faith of Love | 507 |
| The Sister’s Dream, | ib. |
| A Farewell to Abbotsford | 508 |
| O’Connor’s Child | ib. |
| The Prayer for Life | 509 |
| The Welcome to Death | ib. |
| The Victor | 510 |
| Lines written for the Album at Rosanna | ib. |
| The Voice of the Waves. Written near the scene of a recent Shipwreck | 511 |
| The Haunted House | ib. |
| The Shepherd-Poet of the Alps | 512 |
| To the Mountain-Winds | 514 |
| The Procession | 515 |
| The Broken Lute | ib. |
| The Burial in the Desert | 516 |
| To a Picture of the Madonna | 517 |
| A Thought of the Rose | 518 |
| Dreams of Heaven | ib. |
| The Wish | 519 |
| Written after visiting a Tomb near Woodstock, in the county of Kilkenny | ib. |
| Epitaph | 520 |
| Prologue to the Tragedy of Fiesco | ib. |
| To Giulio Regondi, the Boy Guitarist | ib. |
| O ye Hours! | ib. |
| The Freed Bird | 521 |
| Marguerite of France | ib. |
| The Wanderer | 523 |
| The Last Words of the Last Wasp of Scotland | ib. |
| To Caroline | 524 |
| The Flower of the Desert | ib. |
| Critical Annotations | ib. |
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| HYMNS FOR CHILDHOOD. |
| Introductory Verses | 528 |
| The Rainbow | 529 |
| The Sun | ib. |
| The Rivers | ib. |
| The Stars | 530 |
| The Ocean | ib. |
| The Thunder-storm | 531 |
| The Birds | ib. |
| The Skylark. Child’s Morning Hymn | 532 |
| The Nightingale. Child’s Evening Hymn | ib. |
| The Northern Spring | 533 |
| Paraphrase of Psalm 148 | ib. |
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| NATIONAL LYRICS, AND SONGS FOR MUSIC. |
| |
| NATIONAL LYRICS. |
| The Themes of Song | 534 |
| Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory. To the air of “Am Rhein! Am Rhein!” | ib. |
| A Song of Delos | 535 |
| Ancient Greek Chant of Victory | 536 |
| Naples. A Song of the Syren | ib. |
| The Fall of D’Assas. A Ballad of France | 537 |
| The Burial of William the Conqueror | ib. |
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| SONGS OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT. |
| Near thee! still near thee! | 538 |
| Oh! Droop thou not | ib. |
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| SONGS OF SPAIN. |
| Ancient Battle-Song | 539 |
| The Zegri Maid | ib. |
| The Rio Verde Song | ib. |
| Seek by the Silvery Darro | 540 |
| Spanish Evening Hymn | ib. |
| Bird that art Singing on Ebro’s Side! | ib. |
| Moorish Gathering-Song | ib. |
| The Song of Mina’s Soldiers | 541 |
| Mother! Oh, sing me to rest | ib. |
| There are Sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles | ib. |
| |
| SONGS FOR SUMMER HOURS. |
| And I too in Arcadia | 541 |
| The Wandering Wind | 542 |
| Ye are not miss’d, fair Flowers! | ib. |
| The Willow Song | ib. |
| Leave me not yet | 543 |
| The Orange Bough | ib. |
| The Stream set Free | ib. |
| The Summer’s Call | ib. |
| Oh! Skylark, for thy Wing! | 544 |
| |
| SONGS OF CAPTIVITY. |
| Introduction | 545 |
| The Brother’s Dirge | ib. |
| The Alpine Horn | ib. |
| O ye Voices! | ib. |
| I Dream of all things Free | 546 |
| Far o’er the Sea | ib. |
| The Invocation | ib. |
| The Song of Hope | ib. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS LYRICS. |
| The Call to Battle | 547 |
| Mignon’s Song. Translated from Goethe | ib. |
| The Sisters. A Ballad | 548 |
| The Last Song of Sappho | 549 |
| Dirge | ib. |
| A Song of the Rose | 550 |
| Night-Blowing Flowers | 551 |
| The Wanderer and the Night-Flowers | ib. |
| Echo-Song | ib. |
| The Muffled Drum | 552 |
| The Swan and the Skylark | ib. |
| The Curfew-Song of England | 553 |
| Genius Singing to Love | 554 |
| Music at a Deathbed | ib. |
| Marshal Schwerin’s Grave | 555 |
| The Fallen Lime-Tree | ib. |
| The Bird at Sea | 556 |
| The Dying Girl and Flowers | ib. |
| The Ivy-Song | 557 |
| The Music of St Patrick’s | ib. |
| Keene; or, Lament of an Irish Mother over her Son Far Away | 558 |
| The Lyre and Flower | 559 |
| Sister! since I met thee last | ib. |
| The Lonely Bird | ib. |
| Dirge at Sea | ib. |
| Pilgrim’s Song to the Evening Star | 560 |
| The Meeting of the Ships | ib. |
| Come Away | ib. |
| Fair Helen of Kirkconnel | 561 |
| Music from Shore | ib. |
| Look on me with thy cloudless eyes | 561 |
| If thou hast crush’d a flower | 562 |
| Brightly hast thou fled | ib. |
| The Bed of Heath | ib. |
| Fairy Song | ib. |
| What Woke the Buried Sound | 563 |
| Sing to me, Gondolier! | ib. |
| Look on me thus no more | ib. |
| O’er the far blue Mountains | ib. |
| O thou Breeze of Spring! | ib. |
| Come to me, Dreams of Heaven! | 564 |
| Good-Night | ib. |
| Let her Depart | ib. |
| How can that Love so deep, so lone | 565 |
| Water-Lilies. A Fairy Song | ib. |
| The Broken Flower | ib. |
| I would we had not met again | ib. |
| Fairies’ Recall | ib. |
| The Rock beside the Sea | 566 |
| O ye Voices gone! | ib. |
| By a Mountain-Stream at rest | ib. |
| Is there some Spirit sighing | ib. |
| The Name of England | 567 |
| Old Norway. A Mountain War-song | ib. |
| Come to me, Gentle Sleep! | ib. |
| |
| SCENES AND HYMNS OF LIFE. |
| Preface | 568 |
| The English Martyrs. A scene of the days of Queen Mary | ib. |
| Flowers and Music in a Room of Sickness | 572 |
| Cathedral Hymn | 574 |
| Wood Walk and Hymn | 576 |
| Prayer of the Lonely Student | 577 |
| The Traveller’s Evening Song | 579 |
| Burial of an Emigrant’s Child in the Forests | ib. |
| Easter-Day in a Mountain Churchyard | 581 |
| The Child Reading the Bible | 583 |
| A Poet’s Dying Hymn | ib. |
| The Funeral-Day of Sir Walter Scott | 585 |
| The Prayer in the Wilderness | 586 |
| Prisoners’ Evening Service. A Scene of the French Revolution | 587 |
| Hymn of the Vaudois Mountaineers in times of Persecution | 588 |
| Prayer at Sea after Victory | 589 |
| The Indian’s Revenge. Scene in the life of a Moravian Missionary | 590 |
| Evening Song of the Weary | 592 |
| The Day of Flowers | ib. |
| Hymn of the Traveller’s Household on his Return—in the Olden Time | 594 |
| The Painter’s Last Work | 595 |
| A Prayer of Affection | 596 |
| Mother’s Litany by the Sick-bed of a Child | ib. |
| Night-Hymn at Sea. The words written for a melody by Felton | 597 |
| |
| SONNETS. |
| |
| FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE. |
| Invocation | ib. |
| Invocation continued | ib. |
| The Song of Miriam | 598 |
| Ruth | 598 |
| The Vigil of Rizpah | ib. |
| The Reply of the Shunamite Woman | ib. |
| The Annunciation | ib. |
| The Song of the Virgin | 599 |
| The Penitent anointing Christ’s Feet | ib. |
| Mary at the Feet of Christ | ib. |
| The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus | ib. |
| The Memorial of Mary | 599 |
| The Women of Jerusalem at the Cross | ib. |
| Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre | 600 |
| Mary Magdalene bearing Tidings of the Resurrection | ib. |
| |
| SONNETS, DEVOTIONAL AND MEMORIAL. |
| The Sacred Harp | 600 |
| To a Family Bible | ib. |
| Repose of a Holy Family. From an old Italian Picture | ib. |
| Picture of the Infant Christ with Flowers | 601 |
| On a Remembered Picture of Christ—an Ecce Homo by Leonardo da Vinci | ib. |
| The Children whom Jesus Blessed | ib. |
| Mountain Sanctuaries | ib. |
| The Lilies of the Field | ib. |
| The Birds of the Air | 602 |
| The Raising of the Widow’s Son | ib. |
| The Olive Tree | ib. |
| The Darkness of the Crucifixion | ib. |
| Places of Worship | ib. |
| Old Church in an English Park | 603 |
| A Church in North Wales | ib. |
| Louise Schepler | ib. |
| To the Same | ib. |
| |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
| The Two Monuments | 604 |
| The Cottage Girl | ib. |
| The Battle-Field | 605 |
| A Penitent’s Return | ib. |
| A Thought of Paradise | 606 |
| Let us Depart | ib. |
| On a Picture of Christ Bearing the Cross—painted by Velasquez | 607 |
| Communings with Thought | ib. |
| The Water-Lily | 608 |
| The Song of Penitence. Unfinished | 609 |
| Troubadour Song | ib. |
| The English Boy | ib. |
| To the Blue Anemone | 610 |
| |
| SCENES AND PASSAGES FROM GOETHE. |
| Scenes from “Tasso” | 611 |
| Scenes from “Iphigenia.” A Fragment | 616 |
| |
| RECORDS OF THE SPRING OF 1834. |
| A Vernal Thought | 617 |
| To the Sky | ib. |
| On Records of Immature Genius | ib. |
| On Watching the Flight of a Skylark | 618 |
| A Thought of the Sea | ib. |
| Distant Sound of the Sea at Evening | ib. |
| The River Clwyd in North Wales | ib. |
| Orchard-Blossoms | 619 |
| To a Distant Scene | ib. |
| A Remembrance of Grasmere | ib. |
| Thoughts connected with Trees | ib. |
| The Same | ib. |
| On Reading Paul and Virginia in Childhood | 620 |
| A Thought at Sunset | ib. |
| Images of Patriarchal Life | ib. |
| Attraction of the East | ib. |
| To an Aged Friend | 620 |
| A Happy Hour | 621 |
| Foliage | ib. |
| A Prayer | ib. |
| Prayer continued | ib. |
| Memorial of a Conversation | 622 |
| |
| RECORDS OF THE AUTUMN OF 1834. |
| The Return to Poetry | 622 |
| To Silvio Pellico, on Reading his “Prigione” | ib. |
| To the Same released | ib. |
| On a Scene in the Dargle | 623 |
| On the Datura Arborea | ib. |
| On Reading Coleridge’s Epitaph | ib. |
| Design and Performance | ib. |
| Hope of Future Communion with Nature | ib. |
| Dreams of the Dead | 624 |
| The Poetry of the Psalms | ib. |
| Despondency and Aspiration | ib. |
| The Huguenot’s Farewell | 626 |
| Antique Greek Lament | 627 |
| |
| THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS. |
| Intellectual Powers | 627 |
| Sickness like Night | ib. |
| On Retzsch’s Design of the Angel of Death | ib. |
| Remembrance of Nature | ib. |
| Flight of the Spirit | ib. |
| Flowers | ib. |
| Recovery | 629 |
| Sabbath Sonnet. Composed by Mrs Hemans a few days before her death | ib. |
| —— |
| Appendix | 630 |
| Index | 642 |
| Index to first lines | 647 |