LONDON:
ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE,
FARRINGDON STEEET;
NEW YORK: 56, WALKER STREET.
1860.

PREFATORY NOTE.

In this collection of the Author's Poems will be found some not before printed, and some entirely re-written from the more imperfect productions of earlier years. Few, if any, that have previously appeared, have escaped revision and alteration.


CONTENTS.

[THE NEW TIMON]Page 1
[CONSTANCE; OR, THE PORTRAIT]88
[MILTON]119
[EVA]140
[THE FAIRY BRIDE]149
[THE BEACON]159
[THE LAY OF THE MINSTREL'S HEART]163
[NARRATIVE LYRICS; OR, THE PARCÆ.] IN SIX LEAVES FROM THE SIBYL'S BOOK.
[I.—NAPOLEON AT ISOLA BELLA]166
[II.—MAZARIN]169
[III.—ANDRÉ CHÉNIER]173
[IV.—MARY STUART AND HER MOURNER]176
[V.—THE LAST DAYS OF ELIZABETH]179
[VI.—CROMWELL'S DREAM]186
[KING ARTHUR.]—BOOKS I. TO XII.193
[CORN-FLOWERS.—BOOK I.]
[THE FIRST VIOLETS]467
[THE IMAGE ON THE TIDE]468
[IS IT ALL VANITY?]469
[THE TRUE JOY-GIVER]472
[BELIEF; THE UNKNOWN LANGUAGE]473
[THE PILGRIM OF THE DESERT]475
[THE KING AND THE WRAITH]477
[LOVE AND DEATH]478
[THE POET TO THE DEAD]479
[MIND AND SOUL]486
[THE GUARDIAN ANGEL]488
[THE LOVE OF MATURER YEARS]489
[THE EVERLASTING GRAVE-DIGGER]491
[THE DISPUTE OF THE POETS]492
[GANYMEDE]500
[MEMNON]501
[THE ANGEL AND THE CHILD]502
[TO A WITHERED TREE IN JUNE]502
[ON THE REPERUSAL OF LETTERS WRITTEN IN YOUTH]504
[THE DESIRE OF FAME]505
[THE LOYALTY OF LOVE]507
[A LAMENT]508
[LOST AND AVENGED]508
[THE TREASURES BY THE WAYSIDE]510
[ADDRESS TO THE SOUL IN DESPONDENCY]512
[CORN-FLOWERS.—BOOK. II.]
[THE SABBATH]513
[THE HOLLOW OAK]514
[LOVE AND FAME]515
[LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT]516
[LOVE'S SUDDEN GROWTH]517
[THE LOVE-LETTER]518
[THE LANGUAGE OF THE EYES]518
[DOUBT]519
[THE ASSURANCE]519
[MEMORIES, THE FOOD OF LOVE]520
[ABSENT, YET PRESENT]521
[LOVERS' QUARRELS]522
[THE LAST SEPARATION]524
[THE POPE AND THE BEGGAR]525
[THE BEAUTIFUL DESCENDS NOT]526
[THE LONG LIFE AND THE FULL LIFE]527
[THE MIND AND THE HEART]528
[THE LAST CRUSADER]529
[FOREBODINGS]531
[ORAMA; OR, FATE AND FREEWILL]532
[EARLIER POEMS.]
[THE SOULS OF BOOKS]536
[LA ROCHEFOUCAULD AND CONDORCET]539
[JEALOUSY AND ART]540
[THE MASTER TO THE SCHOLAR]540
[THE TRUE CRITIC]541
[TALENT AND GENIUS]541
[EURIPIDES]542
[THE BONES OF RAPHAEL]543
[THE ATHENIAN AND THE SPARTAN]546
[THE PHILANTHROPIST AND THE MISANTHROPE]548
[THE IDEAL WORLD]551
[EPIGRAPH]561

THE NEW TIMON.

I.