The Poems of Felicia Hemans

by Mrs. Hemans

CONTENTS

[JUVENILE POEMS.]
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[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
[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
[THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY]	22
[MODERN GREECE]	28
[Critical Annotations]	42
[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.
[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.
[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.
[WALLACE’S INVOCATION TO BRUCE.]	63
[Advertisement by the Author, &c.]	ib.
[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
[THE SCEPTIC]	106
[Critical Annotations]	113
[SUPERSTITION AND REVELATION]	114
[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
[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.
[DARTMOOR]	141
[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.
[THE VESPERS OF PALERMO]	153
[Critical Annotations]	186
——
[Stanzas to the Memory of George the Third]	187
[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.
[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
[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.
[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
[SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL]	256
[THE SIEGE OF VALENCIA]	262
[Advertisement by the Author,]	ib.
[Critical Annotations]	292
[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
[TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE]
[To Venus]	298
[To his Attendant]	ib.
[To Delius]	299
[To the Fountain of Bandusia]	ib.
[To Faunus]	ib.
[DE CHATILLON; OR, THE CRUSADERS]	300
[Critical Annotations]	315
[THE FOREST SANCTUARY]	316
[Critical Annotations]	336
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[SONGS OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT.]
[Near thee! still near thee!]	538
[Oh! Droop thou not]	ib.
[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.
[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

CHRONOLOGY
OF
MRS HEMANS’ LIFE AND WORKS

1793.

Felicia Dorothea Browne, born at Liverpool, Sept 25.

1800, (æt. 7.)

Removes with family from Liverpool to Gwrych, near Abergele, Denbighshire.—Shortly afterwards composes Lines on her Mother’s Birthday.

1804, (11.)

Spends winter in London.—Writes thence letter in rhyme to brother and sister in Wales.

1808, (15.)

Collection of poems printed in 4to.—England and Spain written.—Becomes acquainted with Captain Hemans.

1809, (16.)

Family remove to Bronwylfa in Flintshire.—Pursues her studies in French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.—Acquires the elements of German; and shows a taste for drawing and music.

1812, (19.)

Domestic Affections and other poems published.—Marries Captain Hemans.—Takes up residence at Daventry, Northamptonshire.

1813, (20.)

Son Arthur born.—Returns to Bronwylfa.

1816, (23.)

Publishes Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy; also Modern Greece.

1818, (25.)

Makes Translations from Camoens and others.—Publishes Stanzas on the Death of Princess Charlotte, (Blackwood’s Magazine, April.)

1819, (26.)

Tales and Historic Scenes published.—Gains prize for best poem on the Meeting of Wallace and Bruce.—Captain Hemans takes up residence in Italy.—Family consists of five sons.

1820, (27.)

Publishes poem of Sceptic.—Becomes acquainted with Bishop Heber and his brother Richard.—Corresponds with Mr Gifford.—Contributes papers on Foreign Literature to Edinburgh Magazine.—Publishes Stanzas to the Memory of George the Third.—Visits Wavertree Lodge, near Liverpool, (October.)

1821, (28.)

Poem of Dartmoor obtains prize offered by Royal Society of Literature.—Corresponds with Rev. Mr Milman, and Dr Croly.—Writes Vespers of Palermo.—Extends her German studies. Writes Welsh Melodies.

1822, (29.)

Siege of Valencia, and Songs of the Cid written;—also dramatic fragment of Don Sebastian.

1823, (30.)

Contributes to Thomas Campbell’s New Monthly Magazine.—Voice of Spring written, (March.)—Siege of Valencia published, along with Last Constantine and Belshazzar’s Feast.—Vespers of Palermo performed at Covent Garden, (Dec. 12.)

1824, (31.)

Composes De Chatillon, revised MS. of which unfortunately lost.—Writes Lays of Many Lands.—Removes with family from Bronwylfa to Rhyllon.

1825, (32.)

Treasures of the Deep, The Hebrew Mother, The Hour of Death, Graves of a Household, The Cross in the Wilderness, and many other of her best lyrics written.

1826, (33.)

The Forest Sanctuary published, together with Lays of Many Lands.—Commences correspondence with Professor Norton of Boston, U.S., who republishes her works there.

1827, (34.)

Mrs Hemans loses her mother (11th January.)—Writes Hymns for Childhood, which are first published in America.—Corresponds with Joanna Baillie, Anne Grant, Mary Mitford, Caroline Bowles, Mary Howitt, and M. J. Jewsbury.—Writes Körner to his Sister, Homes of England, An Hour of Romance, The Palm-Tree, and many other lyrics.—Health becomes impaired.

1828, (35.)

Publishes with Mr Blackwood Records of Woman, and collected Miscellanies, (May.)—Contributes regularly to Blackwood’s Magazine.—Visits Wavertree Lodge early in summer.—Removes to village of Wavertree with family in September.

1829, (36.)

Writes Lady of Provence, To a Wandering Female Singer, The Child’s First Grief, The Better Land, and Miscellanies.—Voyages to Scotland, (June,) and visits Mr Henry M’Kenzie, Rev. Mr Alison, Lord Jeffrey, Sir Walter Scott, Captain Hamilton, Captain Basil Hall, and other distinguished literati.—Returns to England, (Sept.)—A Spirit’s Return composed.

1830, (37.)

Songs of the Affections published.—Visits the Lakes and Mr Wordsworth.—Domiciles during part of summer at Dove’s Nest, near Ambleside.—Revisits Scotland, (Aug.)—Returns by Dublin and Holyhead to Wales.

1831, (38.)

State of health delicate.—Quits England for last time, (April,) and proceeds to Dublin.—Visits the Hermitage, near Kilkenny, and Woodstock.—Returns to Dublin, (Aug.)—Writes various lyrics.

1832, (39.)

Health continues greatly impaired.—Writes Miscellaneous Lyrics, Songs of Spain, and Songs of a Guardian Spirit.

1833, (40.)

Feels recruited during spring.—Writes Songs of Captivity, Songs for Summer Hours, and many of Scenes and Hymns of Life.—Composes Sonnets Devotional and Memorial.—Commences translation of Scenes and Passages from German Authors, (December.)

1834, (41.)

Hymns for Childhood published (March;) also National Lyrics and Songs for Music.—Paper on Tasso, published in New Monthly Magazine, (May.)—Writes Fragment of Paper on Iphigenia.—Records of Spring 1834 written, (April, May, June.)—Is seized with fever; during convalescence retires into county of Wicklow.—Returns to Dublin in autumn, and has attack of ague.—Composes Records of Autumn 1834.—Writes Despondency and Aspiration, (Oct. and Nov.)—The Huguenot’s Farewell and Antique Greek Lament, (Nov.)—Thoughts during Sickness written, (Nov. and Dec.)—Retires during convalescence to Redesdale, a country-seat of the Archbishop of Dublin.

1835, (42.)

Returns to Dublin, (March.)—Debility gradually increases.—Corresponds regarding Sir Robert Peel’s appointment of her son Henry.—Dictates Sabbath Sonnet, (April 26.)—Departs this life, (16th May.)—Remains interred in vault beneath St Anne’s Church, Dublin.

THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
MRS HEMANS

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