THE POETICAL WORKS OF
HENRY KIRKE WHITE.
WITH A MEMOIR
BY SIR HARRIS NICOLAS.
TO
PETER SMITH, ESQ.
THIS VOLUME
IS INSCRIBED
IN TESTIMONY OF ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP.
CONTENTS.
[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]