Elfin land: and other poems
ELFIN LAND: AND OTHER POEMS.
BY BENJAMIN WEST BALL.
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. MDCCCLI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by JAMES MUNROE & COMPANY, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Thurston, Torry & Emerson, Printers.
TO D. S. H., THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, AS A TESTIMONIAL OF AFFECTIONATE REGARD.
Ere thou wert seen, and ere I knew
Benjamin West Ball
POEMS.
TO D. S. H.
CONTENTS.
POEMS.
PROËM.
DISENCHANTMENT.
INSCRIPTION.
THE TEUTONIC MINSTREL’S TOMB.
INVOCATION.
IONIA.
THRENODY.
CONCETTO.
THE LAY OF THE CONDEMNED SPIRIT IN DANTE.
LOVE’S LABOR LOST.
THE PLAGUE IN SUMMER.
EUTHANASIA.
THE FORGOTTEN.
TO W. P. R.
THE SONG OF ENEAS’ MEN.
THE AUTHORESS OF THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO.
MONODY OF THE COUNTESS OF NETTLESTEDE.
CLOSE, CLOSE BY AIDENN’S HAPPY PORTALS
PAN AND LAÏS.
ATHENS.
ACHILLES’ SONG.
ANASTASIUS.
CYMINDIS.
THE CEMETERY IN SUMMER.
ALL HAIL, MY GENTLE HOUSEHOLD LAR
THE SINGING MASONS AT CROCUSBURG.
AGIMUR FATIS.
A HERMITAGE.
I SAW A SNAKE-GIRT EMBRYON
LUCIFER REDUX.
ANSALDO’S GARDEN.
THE DYING MOSLEM.
MDCCCXLVIII-IX.
THE AUTUMNAL RIDE.
TO ——.
SUGGESTED BY A HEAD OF ACHILLES IN SIR WILLIAM GELL’S POMPEII.
PSYCHE.
THE SERAPHS’ HOLIDAY.
MORNING.
AUTUMN.
O POWER OF MUSIC
DREAMS.
THE PENITENT.
OCEAN, THOU ART DISENCHANTED
TWILIGHT IN EGYPT.
ARIEL’S SONG.
WHERE ABID’ST THOU, PROPHET MIGHTY?
ON HER MONUMENTAL SCROLL
THE INDIAN SUMMER.
HYMN TO PHOSPHOR.
TO THE CRICKET.
BOOTH’S RICHARD.
L’ENVOI.
