A bow of promise ’mid the shower;

Though from me fortune fall away,

By Hope itself disowned, forsaken,

Whilst thou art spared by pale decay,

I rest in peace, secure, unshaken.

CONTENTS.

Proem[9]
Disenchantment[12]
Elfin Land. Part I.[17]
Part II.[28]
Inscription[37]
The Teutonic Minstrel’s Tomb[38]
Invocation[40]
Ionia[41]
Threnody[46]
Concetto[49]
The Lay of the Condemned Spirit in Dante[50]
Love’s Labor Lost[51]
The Plague in Summer[55]
Euthanasia[57]
The Forgotten[58]
To W. P. R.[60]
The Song of Eneas’ Men[62]
The Authoress of the Mysteries of Udolpho[64]
Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede[65]
Close, close by Aidenn[69]
Pan and Laïs[71]
Athens[76]
Achilles’ Song[77]
Anastasius[78]
Cymindis[82]
The Cemetery in Summer[85]
All hail, my gentle, etc.[88]
The Singing Masons at Crocusburg[90]
Agimur Fatis[92]
A Hermitage[94]
I saw a snake-girt, etc.[95]
Lucifer Redux[97]
Ansaldo’s Garden[100]
The Dying Moslem[102]
Mdcccxlviii-ix[104]
The Autumnal Ride[110]
To ——[113]
Suggested by a Head of Achilles, in Sir Wm. Gell’s Pompeii[115]
Psyche[117]
The Seraph’s Holiday[118]
Morning[121]
Autumn[123]
O Power of Music[125]
Dreams[127]
The Penitent[129]
Ocean, thou art disenchanted[131]
Twilight in Egypt[133]
Ariel’s Song[135]
Where abid’st thou, Prophet mighty[137]
On her Monumental Scroll[139]
The Indian Summer[141]
Hymn to Phosphor[143]
To the Cricket[145]
Booth’s Richard[147]
L’Envoi[149]

POEMS.