The tragedy at the end of the volume, is founded upon an incident well known in the history of Venice, which has formed the material for various works of fiction. Niccolini has written a classic play upon the subject, of which the author of this piece has availed herself in part of the first scene of the first act, and in a few occasional passages of scene first of the fifth act. The conduct of the plot, and the leading incidents, differ materially from those of Niccolini.
The author takes this opportunity to render her grateful acknowledgments to the distinguished lady, Miss Phillips, who sustained the part of the heroine; and to whose talents and exertions the play was indebted for its success in representation.
INDEX.
| The Sepulchres, | PAGE [13] |
| Lake Ontario, | [22] |
| The Prince and the Palm Tree, | [24] |
| Hacon, | [26] |
| The Forest Temple, | [29] |
| Oh! her glance is the brightest that ever has shone, | [31] |
| To a Waterfall, | [32] |
| The Sea Kings, | [34] |
| The waves that on the sparkling sand, | [36] |
| Is this a Day of Death? | [37] |
| Paraphrase of the one hundred and thirty-seventh Psalm, | [38] |
| The cloud where sunbeams soft repose, | [40] |
| Like southern birds, | [41] |
| The Loss of the Anio, | [42] |
| The Guardian Genius, | [47] |
| Stanzas, | [49] |
| Song—the closing year, | [51] |
| Scene from Alfieri’s Tragedy of Saul, | [53] |
| The Vanity of the Vulgar Great, | [59] |
| Sonnet—Rome in ruins, | [61] |
| Fables, | [62] |
| O’er the far mountain peak on high, | [65] |
| Incantation of Hervor, | [66] |
| Death, | [69] |
| Enthusiasm, | [71] |
| The Dying Poet, | [74] |
| I would I were the light winged bird, | [80] |
| Midnight Thoughts, | [82] |
| Song of the Jewish Exiles, | [84] |
| The Druids’ Hymn, | [86] |
| The Blind Harper, | [88] |
| The Mermaid’s Song, | [90] |
| Susquehanna, | [91] |
| Romance, | [94] |
| The Death of St. Louis, | [96] |
| Complaint of Harald, | [100] |
| Echo, | [102] |
| Epigram, | [ib.] |
| The Pictured Rocks, | [103] |
| Sunset, | [107] |
| To the Lance-fly, | [108] |
| The Division of the Earth, | [109] |
| In yonder lake of silver sheen, | [111] |
| The Swallows, | [112] |
| Nature, | [114] |
| Lines, | [116] |
| Fragment from “Ildegonda,” | [117] |
| A Life spent in Pursuit of Glory, | [119] |
| The Wish, | [120] |
| The Northern Hunter’s Song, | [121] |
| From Ippolito Pindemonte—The Poet’s Last Dwelling, | [123] |
| From mountains at the dawn of day, | [125] |
| The Witches’ Revel, | [126] |
| Song, | [128] |
| Sodus Bay, | [130] |
| Notes, | [133] |
| Teresa Contarini—a tragedy, | [137] |
POEMS.
THE SEPULCHRES.[1]
FROM THE ITALIAN OF UGO FOSCOLO.
Beneath the cypress shade, or sculptured urn
By fond tears watered, is the sleep of death