The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas

by Henry Kirke White

CONTENTS.

[Memoir of Henry Kirke White]

[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.]

• [Clifton Grove]
• [Time]
• [Childhood; Part I]
• [ Part II]
• [The Christiad]
• [Lines written on a Survey of the Heavens]
• [Lines supposed to be spoken by a Lover at the Grave of his Mistress]
• [My Study]
• [Description of a Summer's Eve]
• [Lines—"Go to the raging sea, and say, 'Be still!'"]
• [Written in the Prospect of Death]
• [Verses—"When pride and envy, and the scorn"]
• [Fragment—"Oh! thou most fatal of Pandora's train"]
• [ "Loud rage the winds without.—The wintry cloud"]
• [To a Friend in Distress]
• [Christmas Day]
• [Nelsoni Mors]
• [Epigram on Robert Bloomfield]
• [Elegy occasioned by the Death of Mr. Gill, who was drowned in the River Trent, while bathing]
• [Inscription for a Monument to the Memory of Cowper]
• ["I'm pleased, and yet I'm sad"]
• [Solitude]
• ["If far from me the Fates remove"]
• ["Fanny! upon thy breast I may not lie!"]
• [Fragments—"Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:"]
• [ "The pious man"]
• [ "Lo! on the eastern summit, clad in gray"]
• [ "There was a little bird upon that pile;"]
• [ "O pale art thou, my lamp, and faint"]
• [ "O give me music—for my soul doth faint"]
• [ "And must thou go, and must we part"]
• [ "Ah! who can say, however fair his view,"]
• [ "Hush'd is the lyre—the hand that swept"]
• [ "When high romance o'er every wood and stream"]
• [ "Once more, and yet once more,"]
• [Fragment of an Eccentric Drama]
• [To a Friend]
• [Lines on reading the Poems of Warton]
• [Fragment—"The western gale,"]
• [Commencement of a Poem on Despair]
• [The Eve of Death]
• [Thanatos]
• [Athanatos]
• [Music]
• [On being confined to School one pleasant Morning in Spring]
• [To Contemplation]
• [My own Character]
• [Lines written in Wilford Churchyard]
• [Verses—"Thou base repiner at another's joy,"]
• [Lines—"Yes, my stray steps have wander'd, wander'd far"]
• [The Prostitute]

[ODES.]

• [To my Lyre]
• [To an early Primrose]
• [Ode addressed to H. Fuseli, Esq. R. A.]
• [To the Earl of Carlisle, K. G.]
• [To Contemplation]
• [To the Genius of Romance]
• [To Midnight]
• [To Thought]
• [Genius]
• [Fragment of an Ode to the Moon]
• [To the Muse]
• [To Love]
• [On Whit-Monday]
• [To the Wind, at Midnight]
• [To the Harvest Moon]
• [To the Herb Rosemary]
• [To the Morning]
• [On Disappointment]
• [On the Death of Dermody the Poet]

[SONNETS.]

• [To the River Trent]
• [Sonnet—"Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild,"]
• [Sonnet supposed to have been addressed by a Female Lunatic to a Lady]
• [Sonnet supposed to be written by the unhappy Poet Dermody in a Storm]
• [The Winter Traveller]
• [Sonnet—"Ye whose aspirings court the muse of lays,"]
• [Recantatory, in Reply to the foregoing elegant Admonition]
• [On hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp]
• [Sonnet—"What art thou, Mighty One! and where thy seat?"]
• [To Capel Lofft, Esq.]
• [To the Moon]
• [Written at the Grave of a Friend]
• [To Misfortune]
• [Sonnet—"As thus oppress'd with many a heavy care,"]
• [To April]
• [Sonnet—"Ye unseen spirits, whose wild melodies,"]
• [To a Taper]
• [To my Mother]
• [Sonnet—"Yes, 't will be over soon. This sickly dream"]
• [To Consumption]
• [Sonnet—"Thy judgments, Lord, are just;"]
• [Sonnet—"When I sit musing on the chequer'd part"]
• [Sonnet—"Sweet to the gay of heart is Summer's smile"]
• [Sonnet—"Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts"]

[BALLADS, SONGS, AND HYMNS.]

• [Gondoline]
• [A Ballad—"Be hush'd, be hush'd, ye bitter winds,"]
• [The Lullaby of a Female Convict to her Child, the Night previous to Execution]
• [The Savoyard's Return]
• [A Pastoral Song]
• [Melody—"Yes, once more that dying strain"]
• [Additional Stanza to a Song by Waller]
• [The Wandering Boy]
• [Canzonet—"Maiden! wrap thy mantle round thee'"]
• [Song—"Softly, softly blow, ye breezes,"]
• [The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the Night]
• [The Wonderful Juggler]
• [Hymn—"Awake, sweet harp of Judah, wake"]
• [A Hymn for Family Worship]
• [The Star of Bethlehem]
• [Hymn—"O Lord, my God, in mercy turn"]

[TRIBUTARY VERSES.]

• [Eulogy on Henry Kirke White, by Lord Byron]
• [Sonnet on Henry Kirke White, by Capel Lofft]
• [Sonnet occasioned by the Second of H. K. White, by the same]
• [Written in the Homer of Mr. H. K. White, by the same]
• [To the Memory of H. K. White, by the Rev. W. B. Collyer, A.M.]
• [Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by Arthur Owen, Esq.]
• [Sonnet, on seeing another written to H. K. White, by the same]
• [Reflections on Reading the Life of the late H. K. White, by William Holloway]
• [On the Death of Henry Kirke White, by T. Park]
• [Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White, by the Rev. J. Plumptre]
• [To Henry Kirke White, by H. Welker]
• [Verses occasioned by the Death of H. K. White, by Josiah Conder]
• [On Reading H. K. White's Poem on Solitude, by the same]
• [Ode on the late Henry Kirke White, by Juvenis]
• [Sonnet in Memory of Henry Kirke White, by J. G.]
• [Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White]
• [Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by G. L. C.]
• [To the Memory of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady]
• [Stanzas supposed to have been written at the Grave of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady]

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