CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Biographical Sketch of John Roby | [1] |
| Music. | |
| Air from a Modern Concerto | [121] |
| Shew Pity, Lord | [122] |
| Lyrics. | |
| Lines Written on the Departure of Friends from England | [127] |
| Preface to a Lady's Album | [129] |
| To —— | [132] |
| Stanzas | [133] |
| Stanzas for Music | [134] |
| The Fairies' Song | [136] |
| Stanzas for Music | [137] |
| Stanzas for Music | [138] |
| Stanzas for Music | [139] |
| Stanzas | [140] |
| Song | [141] |
| The Friend | [143] |
| Lines to a Lady whom the Author had never seen | [145] |
| The Birch | [147] |
| Astrology | [148] |
| The first Revelation | [149] |
| An Evening Hymn | [151] |
| The Duke of Mantua: A Tragedy | [153] |
| Legends. | |
| Mother Red Cap; or, the Rosicrucians | [247] |
| The Death Painter; or, Skeleton's Bride | [305] |
| The Crystal Goblet, a Tale of the Emperor Severus | [339] |
| Appendix | [375] |
WEEP NO MORE, WOFUL SHEPHERDS, WEEP NO MORE,
FOR LYCIDAS YOUR SORROW IS NOT DEAD,
SUNK THOUGH HE BE BENEATH THE WATERY FLOOR;
SO SINKS THE DAY-STAR IN THE OCEAN BED,
AND YET ANON REPAIRS HIS DROOPING HEAD,
AND TRICKS HIS BEAMS, AND WITH NEW-SPANGLED ORE
FLAMES IN THE FOREHEAD OF THE MORNING SKY;
SO LYCIDAS SUNK LOW, BUT MOUNTED HIGH,
THROUGH THE DEAR MIGHT OF HIM THAT WALK'D THE WAVES,
WHERE OTHER GROVES, AND OTHER STREAMS ALONG,
WITH NECTAR PURE HIS OOZY LOCKS HE LAVES,
AND HEARS THE UNEXPRESSIVE NUPTIAL SONG,
IN THE BLEST KINGDOMS MEEK OF JOY AND LOVE.
THERE ENTERTAIN HIM ALL THE SAINTS ABOVE,
IN SOLEMN TROOPS AND SWEET SOCIETIES,
THAT SING, AND SINGING IN THEIR GLORY MOVE,
AND WIPE THE TEARS FOR EVER FROM HIS EYES.
MILTON.