The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas

by Henry Kirke White

• [To the River Trent]
• [Sonnet—"Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild,"]
• [Sonnet supposed to have been addressed by a Female Lunatic to a Lady]
• [Sonnet supposed to be written by the unhappy Poet Dermody in a Storm]
• [The Winter Traveller]
• [Sonnet—"Ye whose aspirings court the muse of lays,"]
• [Recantatory, in Reply to the foregoing elegant Admonition]
• [On hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp]
• [Sonnet—"What art thou, Mighty One! and where thy seat?"]
• [To Capel Lofft, Esq.]
• [To the Moon]
• [Written at the Grave of a Friend]
• [To Misfortune]
• [Sonnet—"As thus oppress'd with many a heavy care,"]
• [To April]
• [Sonnet—"Ye unseen spirits, whose wild melodies,"]
• [To a Taper]
• [To my Mother]
• [Sonnet—"Yes, 't will be over soon. This sickly dream"]
• [To Consumption]
• [Sonnet—"Thy judgments, Lord, are just;"]
• [Sonnet—"When I sit musing on the chequer'd part"]
• [Sonnet—"Sweet to the gay of heart is Summer's smile"]
• [Sonnet—"Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts"]

[BALLADS, SONGS, AND HYMNS.]

• [Gondoline]
• [A Ballad—"Be hush'd, be hush'd, ye bitter winds,"]
• [The Lullaby of a Female Convict to her Child, the Night previous to Execution]
• [The Savoyard's Return]
• [A Pastoral Song]
• [Melody—"Yes, once more that dying strain"]
• [Additional Stanza to a Song by Waller]
• [The Wandering Boy]
• [Canzonet—"Maiden! wrap thy mantle round thee'"]
• [Song—"Softly, softly blow, ye breezes,"]
• [The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the Night]
• [The Wonderful Juggler]
• [Hymn—"Awake, sweet harp of Judah, wake"]
• [A Hymn for Family Worship]
• [The Star of Bethlehem]
• [Hymn—"O Lord, my God, in mercy turn"]

[TRIBUTARY VERSES.]

• [Eulogy on Henry Kirke White, by Lord Byron]
• [Sonnet on Henry Kirke White, by Capel Lofft]
• [Sonnet occasioned by the Second of H. K. White, by the same]
• [Written in the Homer of Mr. H. K. White, by the same]
• [To the Memory of H. K. White, by the Rev. W. B. Collyer, A.M.]
• [Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by Arthur Owen, Esq.]
• [Sonnet, on seeing another written to H. K. White, by the same]
• [Reflections on Reading the Life of the late H. K. White, by William Holloway]
• [On the Death of Henry Kirke White, by T. Park]
• [Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White, by the Rev. J. Plumptre]
• [To Henry Kirke White, by H. Welker]
• [Verses occasioned by the Death of H. K. White, by Josiah Conder]
• [On Reading H. K. White's Poem on Solitude, by the same]
• [Ode on the late Henry Kirke White, by Juvenis]
• [Sonnet in Memory of Henry Kirke White, by J. G.]
• [Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White]
• [Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by G. L. C.]
• [To the Memory of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady]
• [Stanzas supposed to have been written at the Grave of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady]

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MEMOIR OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE.

BY SIR HARRIS NICOLAS.

Thine, Henry, is a deathless name on earth,
Thine amaranthine wreaths, new pluck'd in Heaven!
By what aspiring child of mortal birth
Could more be ask'd, to whom might more be given
TOWNSEND.