The Poems of Felicia Hemans

by Mrs. Hemans

[455] I am a man; whatever concerns other men, I think my concern.

[456] “De Republica,” lib. x. p. 598, seq.

[457] See examples, in the notes to Shakspeare.

INDEX

• Aaron’s Rod, [495]
• Abbotsford, farewell to, [508]
• Abencerrage, the, [67]
• Aber church, sonnet on, [603]
• Address to the Deity, [1]
• Adopted child, the, [423]
• Affection, prayer of, [596]
• Aged friend, to an, [620]
• Aged Indian, the, [56]
• “Ah cease!” from Metastasio, [49]
• Alaric in Italy, [95]
• Album at Rosanna, lines written for the, [510]
• — of Miss F. A. L., lines written in the, [295]
• Alcestis, death-song of, [502]
• — of Alfieri, the, [121]
• Alfieri, the Alcestis of, [121]
• Alhambra, the, [79] notes
• Alp-horn song, [294]
• Alpine horn, the, [545]
• Alps, league of the, [234]
• — the shepherd-poet of the, [512]
• American forest girl, the, [406]
• “Amidst the bitter tears,” from Camoens, [46]
• Ancestral song, the, [467]
• Ancient battle-song, [539]
• — Greek chant of victory, [536]
• — — song of exile, [349]
• And I too in Arcadia, [541]
• Anemone, the blue, to, [610]
• Angel visits, [354]
• Angel’s greeting, the, [499]
• Angler, the, [489]
• Annunciation, the, [598]
• Anthony and Cleopatra, last banquet of, [93]
• Antique Greek lament, [627]
• — sepulchre, the, [493]
• Arabella Stuart, [385]
• Arnold de Brescia, [86] note
• Ascending a hill leading to a convent, on, [49]
• Asdrubal, the wife of, [97]
• Assas, the fall of, [537]
• Attendant, to his, from Horace, [298]
• Autumn of 1834, records of the, [622]
• Baillie, Joanna, [187]
• Bandusia, to the fountain of, from Horace, [299]
• Barb, jeu-d’esprit on the word, [139]
• Bards, chant of the, [151]
• — meeting of the, [246]
• Barton, Bernard, to the daughter of, [485]
• Basvigliana of Monti, the, [118]
• Battle, the call to, [547]
• Battle of Maclodio, the, an ode, [128]
• Battlefield, the, [605]
• Bed of heath, the, [562]
• Beings of the mind, the, [477]
• Bell at sea, the, [492]
• Belshazzar’s feast, [219]
• Bembo, translation from, [51]
• Bended bow, the, [345]
• Bentivoglio, sonnet from, [50]
• Bernardo del Carpio, [456]
• Bethany, the sisters of, [599]
• Better land, the, [479]
• “Bird that art singing,” [540]
• — at sea, the, [556]
• Bird’s release, the, [338]
• Birds, the, [531]
• — of passage, [434]
• — of the air, the, [602]
• Blackwood’s Magazine, [42], [66]
• Blondel the Troubadour, [101]
• Blue Anemone, to the, [610]
• Books and flowers, [504]
• Boon of memory, the, [382]
• Bowl of liberty, the, [242]
• Brandenburg harvest-song, from La Motte Fouqué, [348]
• Breathings of spring, [432]
• Breeze from shore, the, [378]
• Bridal-day, the, [466]
• Bride of the Greek isle, the, [388]
• Brigand leader and his wife, the, [506]
• “Brightly hast thou fled,” [562]
• “Bring flowers,” [362]
• Broken chain, the, [491]
• — flower, the, [505]
• — lute, the, [515]
• Brother and sister in the country, to my, [2]
• Brother’s dirge, the, [545]
• Bruce at the source of the Nile, [368]
• Burial in the desert, the, [516]
• — of an emigrant’s child in the forest, the, [579]
• — of William the Conqueror, the, [537]
• Butler, William Archer, [293] note
• Butterfly resting on a skull, lines to a, [491]
• “By a mountain-stream at rest,” [566]
• Caius Gracchus of Monti, translations from the, [133]
• Call to battle, the, [547]
• Cambrian in America, the, [148]
• Camoens, translations from, [43]
• Camoens’ Lusiad, translation from, [297]
• Captivity, songs of, [545]
• Caravan in the desert, the, [210]
• Carolan’s prophecy, [414]
• Caroline, to, [524]
• Carpio, Bernardo del, [456]
• Carthage, Marius among the ruins of, [212]
• Casabianca, [369]
• Castri, the view from, [251]
• Caswallon’s triumph, [150]
• Cathedral hymn, [574]
• Cavern of the three Tells, the, [341]
• Chamois hunter’s love, the, [450]
• Chant of the bards before their massacre, [151]
• Charlotte, the princess, stanzas on the death of, [59]
• Charmed picture, the, [458]
• Chatillon, de, a tragedy, [300]
• Chaulieu, translation from, [52]
• Chieftain’s son, the, [245]
• Child and dove, the, [357]
• — dirge of a, [54]
• — of the forests, the, [359]
• — reading the Bible, the, [583]
• — to a, on his birthday, [355]
• Child’s first grief, the, [502]
• — last sleep, the, [431]
• — morning and evening hymns, [532]
• — return from the woodlands, the, [506]
• Children whom Jesus blessed, the, [601]
• Chorley, Mr, criticisms by, [292], [337], [445], [466], [517], [632]
• Christ, on a remembered picture of, [601]
• — bearing his cross, on a picture of, [607]
• — Infant, with flowers, picture of the, [601]
• — stilling the tempest, [355]
• Christian Examiner, the, [336]
• Christmas carol, [14], [437]
• Church, old, in an English park, [603]
• — in North Wales, a, [603]
• Cicero, death of, [89] note
• Cid, songs of the, [238]
• Cid’s deathbed, the, [238]
• — departure into exile, the, [238]
• — funeral procession, the, [239]
• — rising, the, [241]
• Clanronald, death of, [58]
• Cleopatra and Anthony, last banquet of, [93]
• Cliffs of Dover, the, [376]
• Clwyd river, the, [618]
• Cœur-de-Lion at the bier of his father, [346]
• Coleridge’s epitaph, on reading, [623]
• “Come away,” [560]
• “ — home,” [465]
• “ — to me, dreams of heaven,” [564]
• “ — — gentle sleep,” [567]
• “Common sense,” the satire of, [66]
• Communings with thought, [607]
• Conqueror’s sleep, the, [365]
• Conradin, the death of, [103]
• Constantine, the last, [221]
• Contadina, the, [361]
• Conversation, memorial of a, [622]
• Conway, residence at, [19]
• Corinne at the Capitol, [469]
• Coronation of Inez de Castro, the, [448]
• Costanza, [407]
• Cottage girl, the, [604]
• Covent Garden, the Vespers of Palermo at, [186]
• Crescentius, the widow of, [85]
• Cross in the wilderness, the, [371]
• — of the South, the, [294]
• Crusader’s return, the, [363]
• — war-song, the, [58]
• Curfew-song of England, the, [553]
• Daily paths, our, [370]
• Dalecarlian mine, scene in a, [357]
• Dargle, on a scene in the, [623]
• Darkness of the crucifixion, the, [602]
• Dartmoor, [141]
• Datura Arborea, on the, [623]
• Daughter of Bernard Barton, to the, [485]
• Day of flowers, the, [592]
• Death and the warrior, [490]
• — the welcome to, [509]
• — of Clanronald, the, [58]
• — of Conradin, the, [103]
• — of the Princess Charlotte, on the, [59]
• Death-day of Körner, the, [425]
• Death-song of Alcestis, the, [502]
• De Chatillon, or the Crusaders, [300]
• Deity, address to the, [1]
• Delius, to, from Horace, [299]
• Della Casa, sonnet from, [50]
• Delos, song of, [535]
• Delphi, the storm of, [241]
• Delta, criticisms by, [315], [630]
• Departed, the, [430]
• — spirit, to a, [449]
• Desert, the burial in the, [516]
• — flower, the, [524]
• Deserted house, the, [463]
• Design and performance, [623]
• Despondency and aspiration, [624]
• Dial of flowers, the, [369]
• Dirge, “Calm on the bosom,” [357]
• — “Weep for the early lost,” [298]
• — “Where shall we make,” [549]
• — at sea, [559]
• — of a child, [54]
• — of the Highland chief in Waverley, [57]
• Distant scene, to a, [619]
• — ship, the, [434]
• — sound of the sea, on the, [618]
• Diver, the, [481]
• Domestic affections, the, [15]
• Dover cliffs, [376]
• Dramatic scene between Bronwylfa and Rhyllon, [383]
• Dreamer, the, [380]
• Dreaming child, the, [458]
• Dreams of heaven, [518]
• — the dead, [624]
• Druid chorus, &c., [145]
• Dying bard’s prophecy, the, [152]
• — girl and flowers, [556]
• — Improvisatore, the, [379]
• East, attraction of the, [620]
• Easter-day in a mountain-churchyard, [581]
• Echo song, [551]
• Eclectic review, [633]
• Eclogue from Camoens, [44]
• Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, [106], [107], [253], [292]
• — — Review, [43], [66], [106], [113]
• — Review, [440]
• Edith, [396]
• Edwards, Mr, lines to, [19]
• Effigies, the, [428]
• Eldest brother, to my, [12]
• Elgin marbles, the, [41]
• Ellis, Sir Henry, to the memory of, [56]
• Elysium, [249]
• Emigrant’s child, burial of a, [579]
• Emigration, song of, [451]
• England, the name of, [567]
• — and Spain, [4]
• England’s dead, [246]
• English boy, the, [609]
• — martyrs, the, [568]
• — soldiers’ song of memory, [358]
• “Enjoy the sweets,” [52]
• Epitaph, “Farewell, beloved,” [520]
• — on Mr W., [20]
• — on his hammer, [20]
• — over two brothers, [356]
• Eryri Wen, [151]
• Evening among the Alps, [57]
• — prayer at a girls’ school, [374]
• Evening song of the Tyrolese peasants, [494]
• — — — weary, [592]
• — star, to the, [560]
• Exile’s dirge, the, [457]
• Eye, to the, [59]
• Fair Helen of Kirkconnel, [561]
• — Isle, the, [152]
• Fairies’ recall, the, [565]
• Fairy favours, [439]
• — song, [562]
• Faith of love, the, [507]
• Fall of d’Assas, the, [537]
• Fallen lime-tree, the, [555]
• Family Bible, to a, [600]
• Far away, [558]
• — o’er the sea, [546]
• Farewell to Abbotsford, [508]
• — the dead, [353]
• — Wales, [499]
• Fata Morgana, the, [38]
• Father reading the Bible, a, [437]
• Fathers’ songs, our, [366]
• Faunus, to, from Horace, [299]
• Fawsley park, sonnet on a church in, [603]
• Festal hour, the, [252]
• Fever-dream, the, [139]
• Fidelity till death, [394]
• Fiesco, prologue to the tragedy of, [520]
• Filicaja, sonnets from, [49], [138]
• Flight of the spirit, the, [628]
• Flower, the shadow of a, [491]
• — from the field of Grütli, on a, [244]
• — of the desert, the, [524]
• Flowers, [628]
• — and music in a room of sickness, [572]
• — day of, [592]
• — dial of, [369]
• Foliage, [621]
• Forest sanctuary, the, [316]
• Forsaken hearth, the, [380]
• “Fortune, why thus,” from Metastasio, [48]
• Fourteenth century, a tale of the, [213]
• Fountain of Bandusia, to the, [299]
• — Marah, the, [496]
• — Oblivion, the, [465]
• Fouqué, Brandenburg harvest-song, from, [348]
• Fragment, “Rest on your battle-fields,” [245]
• Freed bird, the, [521]
• Friend, to an aged, [620]
• Funeral-day of Sir Walter Scott, the, [585]
• — genius, the, [250]
• — hymn, [581]
• Future, a thought of the, [498]
• Gafran’s sea-song, [146]
• Garcilaso de la Vega, “Divine Eliza,” from, [296]
• Gargano, mount, [90]
• Genius singing to love, [554]
• Genoa, night-scene in, [99]
• George III., stanzas to the memory of, [187]
• German literature, [426]
• — soldiers’ Rhine song, [534]
• — song, [52]
• Gertrude, [394]
• Gesner, morning song from, [52]
• Gifford, Mr, [106]
• Giulio Regondi, to, [520]
• Goethe, Mignon’s song from, [547]
• Goethe’s Iphigenia, scenes from, [616]
• — Tasso, — — 611
• Good-night, [564]
• Granada, conquest of, [76], [77], notes
• Grasmere, a remembrance of, [619]
• Grave of a poetess, the, [411]
• Graves of a household, the, [435]
• — martyrs, [376]
• Greece, modern, [28]
• Greek chant of victory, [536]
• — funeral chant, [349]
• Greek lament, [627]
• — parting song, [351]
• — song of exile, [349]
• — songs, [241]
• Green isles of ocean, the, [146]
• Grufydd’s feast, [148]
• Grütli, on a flower from, [244]
• Guadalete, battle of, [77] note
• Guardian spirit, songs of a, [538]
• Guerilla leader’s vow, the, [454]
• — song, [56]
• Hall of Cynddylan, the, [147]
• Happy hour, a, [621]
• Harp of Wales, the, [145]
• Haunted ground, [358]
• — house, the, [511]
• “He never smiled again,” [346]
• “He shall not dread,” [48]
• “He walk’d with God,” [495]
• Heart of Bruce in Melrose Abbey, the, [476]
• Hebe of Canova, on the, [53]
• Heber, bishop, [118], note
• — to the memory of, [423]
• Hebrew mother, the, [372]
• Helen of Kirkconnel, [561]
• Heliodorus in the temple, [98]
• Hermitage on the sea-shore, lines written in a, [54]
• Hero’s death, the, [59]
• Herrera, ode from, [254]
• Highland chief in Waverley, dirge of the, [57]
• Hirlas horn, the, [146]
• Hogg, James, [63] note
• Holy Family, repose of a, [600]
• Home of love, the, [503]
• Homes of England, the, [412]
• Hope, the song of, [546]
• Horace, translations from, [298]
• Hour of death, the, [375]
• — prayer, [377]
• — romance, an, [427]
• “How can that love,” [565]
• “How strange a fate,” [45]
• Howel’s song, [150]
• Huguenot’s farewell, the, [626]
• Humboldt on the Southern cross, [332] note
• Hymn by the sick-bed of a mother, [486]
• — of the traveller’s household on his return, [594]
• — of the Vaudois mountaineers, [588]
• Hymns for childhood, [528]
• “I dream of all things free,” [546]
• “I go, sweet friends,” [354]
• “I would we had not met again,” [565]
• “If thou hast crush’d a flower,” [562]
• “If thus thy fallen grandeur,” [49]
• “If to the sighing breeze,” [51]
• Il Conte di Carmagnola, the, [125]
• Illuminated city, the, [432]
• Image in lava, the, [436]
• — in the heart, the, [461]
• Imelda, [394]
• Impromptu to Miss F. A. L., [499]
• “In tears the heart,” [47]
• Indian, the aged, [56]
• — with his dead child, the, [450]
• — city, the, [398]
• — woman’s death-song, [402]
• Indian’s revenge, [590]
• Inez de Castro, coronation of, [448]
• Infant Christ with flowers, picture of the, [601]
• Intellectual powers, [627]
• Invocation, “And come ye faithful,” [597]
• — “Answer me,” [424]
• — “As the tired voyager,” [597]
• — “Hush’d is the world,” [55]
• — “Oh, art thou still,” [546]
• Iphigenia of Goethe, scenes from the, [616]
• “Is there some spirit,” [566]
• Isle of founts, the, [344]
• “Italia, O Italia,” [49]
• Italian girl’s hymn to the virgin, [449]
• — literature, translations, &c. from, [118]
• — poets, patriotic effusions from, [137]
• Italy, Alaric in, [95]
• — restoration of the works of art to, [22]
• Ivan the Czar, [413]
• Ivy song, [354]
• — 557
• Jeffrey, Lord, [337], [440]
• Jeu-d’esprit on the word “barb,” [139]
• Jewsbury, Miss, [53], [422]
• Joan of Arc in Rheims, [403]
• Juan de Tarsis, sonnet from, [50]
• Juana, [405]
• Juvenile poems, [1]
• Kaiser’s feast, the, [419]
• Kamsin, the, [69] note
• Keene, a, [558]
• Kindred hearts, [367]
• King of Arragon’s lament for his brother, the, [452]
• Körner and his sister, [424]
• — the death-day of, [425]
• Lady of Provence, the, [446]
• — of the castle, the, [416]
• Lament of an Irish mother, the, [558]
• — of Llywarch Hen, the, [147]
• Land of dreams, the, [462]
• Landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England, the, [429]
• Landon, Miss, [631]
• Langhans, Madame, tomb of, [457]
• Last banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra, the, [93]
• — Constantine, the, [221]
• — rites, [372]
• — song of Sappho, [549]
• — tree of the forest, [473]
• — wish, [438]
• — words of the last wasp, [523]
• Lawrence, Mrs, [505] note
• Lays of many lands, [338]
• Leaf from Virgil’s tomb, on a, [245]
• League of the Alps, the, [234]
• “Leave me not yet,” [543]
• “Let her depart,” [564]
• “Let the vain courtier,” [49]
• “Let us depart,” [606]
• Life, the prayer for, [509]
• Lights and shades, [501]
• Lilies of the field, the, [601]
• Lines on Elizabeth Smith, [12]
• Literary Magnet, the, [248], [373] notes
• Lonely bird, the, [559]
• “Look on me thus no more,” [563]
• “Look on me with thy cloudless eyes,” [561]
• Lope de Vega, translations from, [49]
• Lorenzini, sonnet from, [51]
• Lorenzo de Medici, translation from, [53]
• Lost Pleiad, the, [375]
• Love, the faith of, [507]
• — the home of, [503]
• Lyre and flower, the, [559]
• Lyre’s lament, the, [478]
• Lyrics and songs for music, [534]
• Maclodio, the battle of, [128]
• Madeline, [408]
• Madoc’s farewell, [149]
• Madonna, to a picture of the, [517]
• Maggi, sonnet from, [138]
• Magic glass, the, [468]
• Manuel, translation from, [49]
• Manzoni, Il Conte di Carmagnola from, [125]
• Marchetti, sonnet from, [138]
• Maremma, the, [191]
• Marguerite of France, [521]
• Maria di Conti, sonnet from, [138]
• Marius among the ruins of Carthage, [212]
• Martyrs, the English, [568]
• Mary at the feet of Christ, [599]
• — the memorial of, [599]
• Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre, [600]
• — — bearing tidings of the resurrection, [600]
• Medici, Lorenzo de, sonnet from, [53]
• Meeting of the bards, the, [246]
• — of the brothers, [437]
• — of the ships, [560]
• Memorial of Mary, the, [599]
• — pillar, the, [410]
• Memory of a sister-in-law, to the, [486]
• — of Sir H. Ellis, to the, [56]
• — of Lord Charles Murray, to the, [490]
• — of Sir E. Pakenham, to the, [55]
• — of the dead, [494]
• Message to the dead, the, [459]
• Messenger bird, the, [343]
• — — answer to, [343] note
• Metastasio, translations from, [47]
• Mignon’s song, [547]
• Mina’s soldiers, song of, [541]
• Minster, the, [470]
• Miriam’s song, [598]
• Mirror in the deserted hall, the, [484]
• Miss F. A. L., to, on her birthday, [295]
• — — on her mother’s death, [296]
• Modern Greece, [28]
• Moir, D. M., [315], [630]
• Monarch’s death, a, [423]
• Montgomery, James, [362]
• Monthly Review, the, [3]
• Monti’s Basvigliana, translations from, [118]
• — Caius Gracchus, [133]
• Monumental inscription, [356]
• Moorish bridal-song, [338]
• — gathering-song, [540]
• More, Hannah, [107] note
• Morehead, Dr, [253], [292] notes
• Morgarten, song of the battle of, [253]
• Morning song, from Gesner, [52]
• “Mother! oh, sing me to rest,” [541]
• — to my, [11]
• — — a sonnet, [2]
• — hymn by the sick-bed of a, [487]
• Mother’s birthday, on my, [1]
• — litany by the sick-bed of a child, [596]
• Mountain churchyard, Easter-day in a, [581]
• — fires, the, [150]
• — sanctuaries, [601]
• — winds, to the, [514]
• Mourner for the Barmecides, the, [417]
• Mozart’s requiem, [435]
• Muffled drum, the, [552]
• Murray, Lord Charles, to the memory of, [490]
• Music, the voice of, [498]
• — at a deathbed, [554]
• — from shore, [561]
• — of St Patrick’s, [557]
• — of yesterday, [379]
• My own portrait, to, [487]
• Myrtle bough, the, [244]
• Naples, [536]
• National lyrics, [534]
• Nature, hope of future communion with, [623]
• — remembrance of, [628]
• Nature’s farewell, [477]
• “Near thee, still near thee,” [538]
• New-born, to the, [502]
• Night, song of, [471]
• Night-blowing flowers, [551]
• Night-hymn at sea, [597]
• Night-scene in Genoa, [99]
• Nightingale, the, [532]
• Nightingale’s death-song, the, [481]
• No more, [488]
• “No searching eye,” [47]
• North American Review, the, [113], [293], [337], [528]
• Northern spring, the, [533]
• Norton, professor, [113], [186], [293], [336], [524], [633]
• Norwegian war-song, [567]
• “O thou breeze of spring,” [563]
• “O ye hours,” [520]
• “O ye voices gone,” [566]
• “O ye voices round,” [545]
• Ocean, the, [530]
• O’Connor’s child, [508]
• Ode on the defeat of Sebastian of Portugal, [254]
• “O’er the far blue mountains,” [563]
• “Oh! droop thou not,” [538]
• “Oh! skylark, for thy wing,” [544]
• “Oh! those alone,” [48]
• Old church in an English park, an, [603]
• Old Norway, [567]
• Olive tree, the, [602]
• Orange bough, the, [543]
• Orchard blossoms, [619]
• Orphan, to an, [486]
• Otho, the emperor, [85]
• Our daily paths, [370]
• — Lady’s well, [365]
• Owen Glyndwr’s war-song, [149]
• Pæstan rose, the, [28] note
• Painter’s last work, the, [595]
• Pakenham, Sir E., to the memory of, [55]
• Palm-tree, the, [430]
• Palmer, the, [501]
• Paradise, a thought of, [606]
• Parting of summer, the, [366]
• — ship, the, [473]
• — song, a, [500]
• — words, [459]
• Passing away, [489]
• Pastorini, sonnet from, [49]
• Patriarchal life, images of, [620]
• Patriotic effusions of the Italian poets, translations from, [137]
• Paul and Virginia, on reading, [620]
• Pauline, [434]
• Peasant girl of the Rhone, the, [401]
• Pegolotti, sonnet from, [138]
• Penitence, the song of, [609]
• Penitent anointing Christ’s feet, the, [599]
• Penitent’s offering, the, [496]
• — return, the, [605]
• Petrarch, translations from, [51]
• Picture of the Madonna, to a, [517]
• Pilgrim fathers, landing of the, [429]
• Pilgrim’s song to the evening star, [560]
• Pindemonte, sonnet from, [53]
• Places of worship, [602]
• Platæa, the tombs of, [251]
• Poet’s dying hymn, a, [583]
• Poetry, the return to, [622]
• Portrait, to my own, [487]
• Prayer, a, “O God,” [1]
• — “Father in heaven,” [621]
• — at sea after victory, [589]
• — for life, the, [509]
• — in the wilderness, the, [586]
• — of affection, [596]
• — of the lonely student, [577]
• Prince Madoc’s farewell, [149]
• Prisoners’ evening service, the, [587]
• Procession, the, [515]
• Prologue to the Poor Gentleman, [21]
• —- Fiesco, [520]
• Properzia Rozzi, [392]
• Psalm cxlviii. paraphrase of, [533]
• Psalms, the poetry of the, [624]
• Psyche borne by zephyrs to the island of Pleasure, [382]
• Quarterly Review, the, [62], [105], [114]
• Quevedo, translation from, [50]
• Queen of Prussia’s tomb, the, [409]
• Rainbow, the, [529]
• Records of immature genius, on, [617]
• Records of the autumn of 1834, [622]
• — of the spring of 1834, [617]
• — of woman, [385]
• Recovery, [629]
• Regondi, Giulio, to, [520]
• Remembered picture, to a, [464]
• Requiem of genius, the, [482]
• Restoration of the works of art to Italy, [22]
• Return, the, [453]
• — to poetry, the, [622]
• Retzsch’s angel of death, on, [628]
• Revellers, the, [364]
• Rhine song of the German soldiers, [534]
• Rhyllon, residence at, [384], note
• Richard Cœur-de-Lion, [101]
• — — at the bier of his father, [346]
• Rio Verde song, the, [539]
• Rivers, the, [529]
• Rizpah, the vigil of, [598]
• Rock beside the sea, the, [566]
• — of Cader Idris, the, [152]
• Rod of Aaron, the, [495]
• Roman girl’s song, [433]
• Rome, Alaric at, [95], note
• — buried in her own ruins, [50]
• Rose, a song of the, [550]
• — a thought of the, [518]
• Ruin, the, [469]
• — and its flowers, the, [13]
• Rural walks, [3]
• Ruth, [598]
• Sabbath sonnet, [629]
• Sacred harp, the, [600]
• Sadness and mirth, [480]
• St Cecilia, for a picture of, [505]
• St Patrick’s, music of, [557]
• Sannazaro, sonnet from, [296]
• Sappho, last song of, [549]
• Scene in a Dalecarlian mine, [357]
• Scenes and hymns of life, [568]
• Sceptic, the, [106]
• Schepler, Louise, two sonnets to, [603]
• Schiller’s Wallenstein, [426]
• Schmidt, the Wanderer from, [523]
• Schwerin, marshal, grave of, [555]
• Scio, the voice of, [243]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [508], [534]
• — — funeral-day of, [585]
• Sculptured children, the, [496]
• Sea, distant sound of the, [618]
• — night-hymn at, [597]
• — prayer at, [589]
• — sound of the, [356]
• — thought of the, [618]
• Sea-bird flying inland, the, [484]
• Sea-song of Gafran, the, [146]
• Sebastian of Portugal, [256]
• — — — ode on the defeat of, [254]
• Second-sight, [483]
• Secret tribunal, a tale of the, [194]
• “Seek by the silvery Darro,” [540]
• Shade of Theseus, the, [349]
• Shadow of a flower, the, [491]
• Shakspeare, [2]
• Shepherd-poet of the Alps, the, [512]
• Shore of Africa, the, [138]
• Shunamite woman, reply of the, [598]
• Sicilian captive, the, [412]
• Sickness, thoughts during, [627]
• — like night, [628]
• Siege of Valencia, the, [262]
• Silent multitude, the, [493]
• Silver locks, the, [10]
• Silvio Pellico, to, [622]
• — — released, [622]
• “Sing to me, gondolier,” [563]
• “Sister! since I met thee last,” [559]
• Sister’s dream, the, [507]
• Sisters, the, [548]
• — of Bethany, the, [599]
• — of Scio, the, [455]
• Sister-in-law, to the memory of a, [486]
• Sky, to the, [617]
• Skylark, the, [532]
• Skylark, on watching the flight of a, [618]
• Sleeper, the, [484]
• — of Marathon, the, [295]
• Smith, Elizabeth, lines on, [12]
• Soldier’s deathbed, the, [461]
• — song of memory, the, [358]
• Song for air by Hummel, [490]
• — founded on an Arabian anecdote, [293]
• — of Delos, [535]
• — of emigration, [451]
• — of hope, the, [546]
• — of Mina’s soldiers, [541]
• — of night, the, [471]
• — of penitence, the, [609]
• — of the battle of Morgarten, the, [253]
• — of the rose, a, [550]
• — of the Spanish wanderer, [361]
• — of the Virgin, [599]
• Songs for summer hours, [541]
• — of a guardian spirit, [538]
• — of captivity, [545]
• — of our fathers, the, [366]
• — of Spain, [539]
• — of the affections, [442]
• — of the Cid, [238]
• Sonnet, “A child midst ancient,” [601]
• — “A fearless journeyer,” [603]
• — “A song for Israel’s God,” [598]
• — “All the bright hues,” [600]
• — “Amidst these scenes,” [50]
• — “And come, ye faithful,” [597]
• — “And ye are strong,” [619]
• — “As the tired voyager,” [597]
• — “Back, then, once more,” [629]
• — “Beside the streams,” [46]
• — “Blessings be round,” [603]
• — “Calm scenes,” [620]
• — “Come forth,” [621]
• — “Crowning a flowery slope,” [603]
• — “Doth thy heart stir,” [619]
• — “Exempt from every grief,” [47]
• — “Fair Tajo, there,” [44]
• — “Far are the wings,” [621]
• — “Far from the rustlings,” [617]
• — “Father in heaven,” [621]
• — “Flowers! when the Saviour,” [601]
• — “For there a holy,” [603]
• — “Happy were they,” [601]
• — “He that was dead,” [602]
• — “He who proclaims,” [47]
• — “High in the glowing,” [43]
• — “How flows thy being,” [622]
• — “How many blessed,” [629]
• — “How shall the harp,” [600]
• — “I cry aloud,” [138]
• — “I dwell among,” [598]
• — “I love to hail,” [3]
• — “I met that image,” [601]
• — “If e’er again,” [623]
• — “If thus thy fallen,” [49]
• — “If to the sighing,” [51]
• — “Italia, O Italia,” [49]
• — “Italia, oh! no more,” [138]
• — “Like those pale stars,” [599]
• — “Lowliest of women,” [598]
• — “Majestic plant,” [623]
• — “My earliest memories,” [618]
• — “Nobly thy song,” [624]
• — “Not long thy voice,” [620]
• — “O Cambrian river,” [618]
• — “O gentle story,” [620]
• — “O festal spring,” [617]
• — “O nature! there,” [628]
• — “O thought, O memory,” [627]
• — “O vale and lake,” [619]
• — “Oft have I sung,” [45]
• — “Oft in still night-dreams,” [624]
• — “Oh! bless’d beyond,” [599]
• — “Oh! judge in thoughtful,” [617]
• — “Oh! what a joy,” [621]
• — “On Judah’s hills,” [602]
• — “Once more the eternal,” [622]
• — “One grief, one faith,” [599]
• — “Pause not,” [49]
• — “Pilgrim, whose steps,” [138]
• — “Poor insect, rash as rare,” [523]
• — “Saved from the perils,” [46]
• — “She that cast down,” [138]
• — “Should love, the tyrant,” [45]
• — “Soft skies of Italy,” [57]
• — “Soothed by the strain,” [523]
• — “Spirit beloved,” [45]
• — “Spirit, so oft,” [623]
• — “Spirit, whose life sustaining,” [602]
• — “Still are the cowslips,” [619]
• — “Still that last look,” [620]
• — “Sylph of the breeze,” [51]
• — “The palm, the vine,” [602]
• — “The plume-like swaying,” [598]
• — “The sainted spirit,” [50]
• — “Then was a task,” [600]
• — “There are who climb,” [622]
• — “There blooms a plant,” [46]
• — “There was a mournfulness,” [599]
• — “These marble domes,” [50]
• — “They float before my soul,” [623]
• — “This green recess,” [51]
• — “This mountain-scene,” [44]
• — “Those eyes whence love,” [44]
• — “Thou art like night,” [628]
• — “Thou hast thy record,” [599]
• — “Thou in thy morn,” [50]
• — “Thou that wouldst mark,” [51]
• — “Thou by whose power,” [45]
• — “Thou who hast bled,” [50]
• — “’Tis sweet to think,” [3]
• — “To thee, maternal guardian,” [2]
• — “Trees, gracious trees,” [619]
• — “’Twas a bright moment,” [623]
• — “Under a palm-tree,” [600]
• — “Upward and upward,” [618]
• — “Waves of Mondego,” [47]
• — “We come not, fair one,” [53]
• — “Weeper, to thee,” [600]
• — “Welcome, O pure,” [628]
• — “Well might thine awful,” [628]
• — “What household thoughts,” [600]
• — “What secret current,” [620]
• — “When from the mountain,” [138]
• — “Where shall I find,” [47]
• — “Whither, celestial maid,” [53]
• — “Whither, oh! whither,” [628]
• — “Who watches,” [598]
• — “Wrapt in sad musings,” [43]
• — “Ye too, the free,” [602]
• — “Yes! all things tell us,” [622]
• — “Yet as a sunburst,” [599]
• — “Yet rolling far,” [618]
• Sonnets, devotional and memorial, [600]
• Sound of the sea, the, [356]
• — — — the distant, [618]
• Southern cross, the, [332] note
• Spain, songs of, [539]
• Spanish chapel, the, [418]
• — evening hymn, [540]
• — wanderer, song of the, [361]
• Spartans’ march, the, [243]
• Spells of home, the, [433]
• Spirit, flight of the, [628]
• — of the Cape, appearance of the, to Vasco de Gama, [297]
• Spirit’s mysteries, the, [429]
• — return, a, [442]
• Spring of 1834, records of the, [617]
• — the voice of, [247]
• Stanzas on the death of the Princess Charlotte, [59]
• — to the memory of ——, [360]
• — — — George III., [187]
• Star of the mine, the, [485]
• Stars, the, [530]
• Stewart, Dugald, [370] note
• Storm of Delphi, the, [241]
• Storm-painter in his dungeon, the, [471]
• Stranger in Louisiana, the, [343]
• Stranger’s heart, the, [464]
• Stream set free, the, [543]
• Streams, the, [474]
• Student’s prayer, the, [577]
• Subterranean stream, the, [492]
• Suliote mother, the, [352]
• Summer hours, songs for, [541]
• Summer’s call, the, [543]
• — parting, the, [366]
• Sun, the, [529]
• Sunbeam, the, [431]
• Sunset, a thought at, [620]
• Superstition and revelation, [114]
• Swan and the skylark, the, [552]
• “Sweet rose,” [48]
• Swiss song, [342]
• Switzer’s wife, the, [391]
• Sword of the tomb, the, [339]
• “Sylph of the breeze,” [51]
• Tale of the secret tribunal, a, [194]
• — of the fourteenth century, a, [213]
• Tales and historic scenes, [67], [190]
• Taliesin’s prophecy, [148]
• Tarak, the Moorish conqueror, [77] notes
• Tasso, Bernardo, sonnet from, [50]
• — Torquato, sonnet from, [50]
• — and his sister, [420]
• — Goethe’s, scenes from, [611]
• Tasso’s coronation, [479]—Release *421
• Tempe, vale of, [31] note
• Terrot, Rev. Mr, [66] note
• “The sainted spirit,” [50]
• “The torrent-wave,” [48]
• Thekla at her lover’s grave, [455]
• Thekla’s song, [364]
• Themes of song, the, [534]
• “There are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles,” [541]
• “These marble domes,” [50]
• Theseus, the shade of, [349]
• “This green recess,” [51]
• “Thou grot, whence flows,” [52]
• “Thou, in thy morn,” [50]
• “Thou that wouldst mark,” [51]
• “Thou, the stern monarch,” [51]
• “Thou who hast bled,” [50]
• Thought from an Italian poet, [489]
• — of home at sea, [486]
• — of Paradise, a, [606]
• — of the future, a, [498]
• — of the rose, a, [518]
• — of the sea, a, [618]
• Thunder-storm, the, [531]
• Tomb, written after visiting a, [519]
• — of Madame Langhans, the, [457]
• Tombs of Platæa, the, [251]
• Translations from Camoens, [43]
• — from Horace, [298]
• — from the Italian, [118], [137]
• — from the Tasso, &c. of Goethe, [611]
• Traveller at the source of the Nile, the, [368]
• Traveller’s evening song, the, [579]
• — household, hymn of, on his return, [594]
• Treasures of the deep, the, [361]
• Trees, thoughts connected with, [619]
• Triumphant music, [483]
• Troubadour song, “The warrior cross’d,” [361]
• — — “They rear’d no trophy,” [609]
• — and Richard Cœur-de-Lion, the, [101]
• Trumpet, the, [374]
• Two homes, the, [460]
• — monuments, the, [604]
• — voices, the, [472]
• Tyrolese peasants, evening song of the, [494]
• Ulla, [421]
• “Unbending midst the wintry skies,” [48]
• Urn and sword, the, [244]
• Valencia, the siege of, [262]
• Valkyriur song, [340]
• Vasco de Gama, appearance of the spirit of the Cape to, [297]
• Vassal’s lament for the fallen tree, the, [347]
• Vaudois mountaineers, hymn of the, [588]
• — valleys, the, [360]
• — wife, the, [453]
• Vega, Garcilaso de, translations from, [52], [296]
• — Lope de, sonnet from, [49]
• Venus, to, from Horace, [298]
• Vernal thought, a, [617]
• Vespers of Palermo, the, [153]
• Victor, the, [510]
• Victory, prayer at sea after, [589]
• View from Castri, the, [251]
• Vigil of arms, the, [476]
• — of Rizpah, the, [598]
• Violets, [53]
• Virgil’s tomb, on a leaf from, [245]
• Virgin, Italian girl’s hymn to the, [449]
• Virgin’s song, the, [599]
• Visiting a tomb, written after, [519]
• Voice of a spirit, the, [364]
• — of God, the, [495]
• — of home to the prodigal, the, [377]
• — of music, the, [498]
• — of Scio, the, [243]
• — of spring, the, [247]
• — of the waves, the, [511]
• — of the wind, [475]
• Voyager’s dream of land, a, [427]
• Wakening, the, [378]
• Wales, farewell to, [499]
• Wallace’s invocation to Bruce, [63]
• Wanderer, the, [523]
• — and the night-flowers, [551]
• Wandering female singer, to a, [501]
• — wind, the, [542]
• Washington’s statue, [485]
• Wasp, sonnet to, and reply, [523]
• Water-lilies, [565]
• Water-lily, the, [608]
• Watts, A. A., [248] note
• Waves, voice of the, [511]
• “We return no more,” [500]
• Weary, evening song of the, [592]
• Welcome to death, the, [509]
• Welsh melodies, [145]
• West, W. E., [488]
• “What woke the buried sound,” [563]
• “Where is the sea,” [487]
• Widow of Crescentius, the, [85]
• Widow’s son, raising of the, [602]
• Wife of Asdrubal, the, [97]
• Wild Huntsman, the, [348]
• Wilderness, prayer in the, [586]
• William the Conqueror, burial of, [375]
• Willow song, the, [542]
• Wilson, Professor, [456]
• Wind, voice of the, [475]
• Wings of the dove, the, [381]
• Wish, the, [519]
• Woman and fame, [497]
• — on the field of battle, [462]
• Women of Jerusalem at the Cross, the 599
• Wood walk and hymn, [576]
• Wordsworth, William, [568] note
• — — to, [422]
• Works of art, restoration of the, [22]
• World in the open air, the, [367]
• “Wouldst thou to love,” [48]
• Wounded eagle, the, [480]
• Wreck, the, [373]
• “Ye are not miss’d, fair flowers,” [542]
• Younger brother, to my, [11]
• Zegri maid, the, [539]

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

• A blessing on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears, [502]
• A child beside a hamlet’s fount at play, [604]
• A child midst ancient mountains I have stood, [601]
• A deep-toned lyre hung murmuring, [478]
• A dim and mighty minster of old time, [574]
• A fearless journeyer o’er the mountain-snow, [603]
• A glorious voice hath ceased, [585]
• A lyre its plaintive sweetness pour’d, [559]
• A mighty and a mingled throng, [493]
• A monarch on his deathbed lay, [423]
• A mournful gift is mine, my friends, [483]
• A requiem, and for whom, [435]
• A song for Israel’s God! Spear, crest, and helm, [598]
• A song for the death-day of the brave, [425]
• A song was heard of old, a low sweet song, [535]
• A sound comes on the rising breeze, [561]
• A sound of music from amidst the hills, [415]
• A sound of woe in Salem! mournful cries, [98]
• A sounding step was heard by night, [476]
• A trumpet’s note is in the sky, in the glorious Roman sky, [479]
• A voice from Scio’s isle, [243]
• A voice from times departed yet floats thy hills among, [148]
• A voice of woe, a murmur of lament, [255]
• A wail was heard around the bed, the deathbed of the young, [350]
• A youth rode forth from his childhood’s home, [477]
• A youth went forth to exile, from a home, [351]
• Again, oh send that anthem-peal again, [557]
• Ah cease! these fruitless tears restrain, [49]
• All night the booming minute-gun, [373]
• AU the bright hues from Eastern garlands glowing, [601]
• Alone through gloomy forest-shades, [537]
• Along the star-lit Seine went music swelling, [404]
• Amidst the bitter tears that fall, [46]
• Amidst the peopled and the regal isle, [141]
• Amidst the thrilling leaves, thy voice, [495]
• Amidst those scenes, O pilgrim I seek’st thou Rome, [50]
• And come, ye faithful! round Messiah seen, [597]
• And is there glory from the heaven departed, [375]
• And is there sadness in thy dreams, my boy, [458]
• And shrink ye from the way, [430]
• And there they sleep, the men who stood, [251]
• And was thy home, pale wither’d thing, [245]
• And ye are strong to shelter: all meek things, [619]
• Another warning sound! The funeral bell, [187]
• Answer me, burning stars of night, [424]
• Answer, ye chiming waves, [511]
• Apropos of your illness, pray give, if you please, [139]
• Are ye for ever to your skies departed, [354]
• Arise! old Norway sends the word, [567]
• Art thou come from the far-off land at last, [501]
• As the tired voyager on stormy seas, [597]
• Ask’st thou my home? my pathway wouldst thou know, [364]
• Ave! now let prayer and music, [540]
• Away! though still thy sword is red, [293]
• Ay, warrior, arm! and wear thy plume, [490]
• Back then, once more to breast the waves of life, [629]
• Banners hung drooping from on high, [604]
• Bear them not from grassy dells, [556]
• Before the fiery sun, [242]
• Beings of brighter worlds, that rise at times, [114]
• Beside the streams of Babylon, in tears, [46]
• Bird of the greenwood, [556]
• Bird, that art singing on Ebro’s side, [540]
• Birds, joyous birds of the wandering wing, [434]
• Blessing and love be round thee still, fair boy, [520]
• Blessings be round it still, that gleaming fane, [603]
• Blessings, O Father! shower, [596]
• Brave spirit! mourn’d with fond regret, [55]
• Bride! upon thy marriage-day, [466]
• Brightly, brightly hast thou fled, [562]
• Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board, [362]
• Bring music! stir the brooding air, [554]
• Broods there some spirit here, [577]
• By a mountain-stream at rest, [566]
• By the blue waters, the restless ocean-waters, [627]
• By the dark stillness brooding in the sky, [607]
• By the dread and viewless powers, [145]
• By the mighty minster’s bell, [372]
• By the soft green light in the woody glade, [433]
• Call back your odours, lovely flowers, [551]
• Call it not loneliness to dwell, [210]
• Calm on the bosom of thy God, [357]
• Calm scenes of patriarch life! how long a power, [620]
• Chains on the cities, gloom in the air, [540]
• Chieftains, lead on! our hearts beat high, [58]
• Child! amidst the flowers at play, [377]
• Children of night, unfolding meekly, slowly, [551]
• Clad in all their brightest green, [1]
• Come away, elves! while the dew is sweet, [565]
• Come away! the child, where flowers are springing, [560]
• Come away! the sunny hours, [543]
• Come forth, and let us through our hearts receive, [621]
• Come from the woods with the citron flowers, [388]
• Come home! there is a sorrowing breath, [465]
• Come, let me make a sunny realm around thee, [504]
• Come near, ere yet the dust, [353]
• Come to me, dreams of heaven, [564]
• Come to me, gentle sleep, [567]
• Come to me, when my soul, [519]
• Come to me with your triumphs and your woes, [477]
• Come to the land of peace, [499]
• Come to the sunset tree, [494]
• Come to the woods, my boy, [592]
• Come, while in freshness and dew it lies, [367]
• Creature of air and light, [491]
• Crowning a flowery slope, it stood alone, [603]
• Dark chieftain of the heath and height, [506]
• Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on, [558]
• Darkly thou glidest onward, [492]
• Daughter of the Italian heaven, [469]
• Day is past, [564]
• Deep, fiery clouds o’ercast the sky, [531]
• Divine Eliza! since the sapphire sky, [296]
• Doth thy heart stir within thee at the sight, [619]
• Down a broad river of the Western wilds, [402]
• Dreamer! and wouldst thou know, [498]
• Dream’st thou of heaven? What dreams are thine, [518]
• Droop not, my brothers! I hear a glad strain, [546]
• Eagle! this is not thy sphere, [480]
• Earth! guard what here we lay in holy trust, [356]
• Enjoy the sweets of life’s luxuriant May, [52]
• Exempt from every grief, ’twas mine to live, [47]
• Fair gratitude in strain sublime, [14]
• Fair images of sleep, [497]
• Fair Tajo, thou whose calmly-flowing tide, [44]
• Fair vision! thou’rt from sunny skies, [517]
• Fair wert thou in the dreams, [249]
• Fallen was the house of Giafar; and its name, [417]
• Far are the wings of intellect astray, [621]
• Far away! my home is far away, [558]
• Far from the rustlings of the poplar bough, [617]
• Far through the Delphian shades, [241]
• Farewell, beloved and mourn’d! we miss awhile, [520]
• Father! guide me; day declines, [579]
• Father in heaven, from whom the simplest flower, [621]
• Father of heaven and earth, [592]
• Father! that in the olive shade, [487]
• Faunus! who lov’st the flying nymphs to chase, [299]
• Fear was within the tossing bark, [355]
• Fearfully and mournfully, [382]
• Fill high the blue hirlas that shines like the wave, [146]
• Firm be thy soul, serene in power, [299]
• Fling forth the proud banner of Leon again, [539]
• Flow on! rejoice, make music, [543]
• Flow, Rio Verde, [539]
• Flower of starry clearness bright, [610]
• Flowers! when the Saviour’s calm benignant eye, [601]
• For the strength of the hills we bless thee, [588]
• For thou, a holy shepherdess and kind, [603]
• Forget them not, though now their name, [494]
• Fortune! why thus, where’er my footsteps tread, [48]
• Fount of the woods! thou art hid no more, [365]
• From a ruin thou art singing, [559]
• From the bright stars, or from the viewless air, [449]
• From the deep chambers of a mine, [485]
• From the glowing southern regions, [150]
• Gentle and lovely form, [462]
• Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth, [463]
• Go forth! for she is gone, [338]
• Go in thy glory o’er the ancient sea, [473]
• Go to the forest glade, [438]
• Go! trace th’ unnumber’d streams o’er earth, [529]
• Green spot of holy ground, [606]
• Green wave the oak for ever o’er thy rest, [424]
• Hail! morning sun, thus early bright, [52]
• Happy soon we’ll meet again, [2]
• Happy thou art, the child of one, [485]
• Happy were they, the mothers, in whose sight, [601]
• Hark! from the dim church-tower, [553]
• Hark! from the right bursts forth a trumpet’s sound, [128]
• Harp of the mountain-land! sound forth again, [145]
• Hast thou been in the woods with the honey-bee, [506]
• Hast thou come with the heart of thy childhood back, [453]
• Haste with your torches, baste! make firelight round, [357]
• Hath the summer’s breath on the south wind borne, [484]
• Have ye left the greenwood lone, [562]
• He passed from earth, [609]
• He sat in silence on the ground, [414]
• He shall not dread misfortune’s angry mien, [48]
• He that in venturous barks hath been, [530]
• He that was dead rose up and spoke! He spoke, [602]
• He walk’d with God in holy joy, [495]
• He who proclaims that love is light and vain, [47]
• Heard ye the Gothic trumpet’s blast, [95]
• Heart! that didst press forward still, [476]
• Her hands were clasp’d, her dark brows raised, [394]
• Her home is far, oh! far away, [564]
• Here in the dust, its strange adventures o’er, [21]
• High in the glowing heavens, with cloudless beams, [43]
• Hold me upon thy faithful heart, [561]
• Home of the gifted, fare thee well, [508]
• How can that eye, with inspiration beaming, [505]
• How can that love, so deep, so lone, [565]
• How flows thy being now? like some glad hymn, [622]
• How is it that before mine eyes, [487]
• How many a day, in various hues array’d, [12]
• How many blessed groups this hour are bending, [629]
• How many hopes were borne upon thy bier, [457]
• How many thousands are wakening now, [378]
• How much of memory dwells amidst thy bloom, [518]
• How shall the harp of poesy regain, [600]
• How strange a fate in love is mine, [45]
• Hush! lightly tread! still tranquilly she sleeps, [572]
• Hush!’tis a holy hour. The quiet room, [374]
• Hush’d is the world in night and sleep, [55]
• I am free! I have burst through my galling chain, [491]
• I call thee bless’d, though now the voice be fled, [461]
• I come down from the hills alone, [523]
• I come, I come! ye have call’d me long, [247]
• I come to thee, O earth, [471]
• I cry aloud, and ye shall hear my call, [138]
• I dream of all things free, [546]
• I go, I go! and must mine image fade, [382]
• I go, sweet friends! yet think of me, [354]
• I go, sweet sister! yet my heart would linger with thee fain, [548]
• I hate the Persian’s costly pride, [298]
• I hear thee speak of the better land, [479]
• I heard a song upon the wandering wind, [554]
• I lay on that rock where the storms have their dwelling, [152]
• I lay upon the solemn plain, [295]
• I look’d on the field where the battle was spread, [605]
• I love to hear the mild and balmy hour, [3]
• I love to rove o’er history’s page, [2]
• I made a mountain-brook my guide, [418]
• I met that image on a mirthful day, [601]
• I saw him at his sport erewhile, [583]
• I stood upon the threshold-stone, [626]
• I stood beside thy lonely grave, [411]
• I stood where the lip of song lay low, [519]
• I would we had not met again, [565]
• If e’er again my spirit be allow’d, [623]
• If e’er from human bliss or woe, [11]
• If, in thy glorious home above, [44]
• If it be sad to speak of treasures gone, [423]
• If thus thy fallen grandeur I behold, [49]
• If thou hast crush’d a flower, [562]
• If to the sighing breeze of summer hours, [51]
• In Genoa, when the sunset gave, [99]
• In sunset’s light o’er Afric thrown, [368]
• In tears, the heart oppress’d with grief, [47]
• In the deep hour of dreams, [449]
• In the deep wilderness unseen she pray’d, [586]
• In the full tide of melody and mirth, [360]
• In the proud old fanes of England, [545]
• In the shadow of the Pyramid, [516]
• In the silence and grandeur of midnight I tread, [294]
• In the silence of the midnight, [450]
• In thy cavern-hall, [551]
• Io! they come, they come, [536]
• Is not thy heart far off amidst the woods, [359]
• Is there some spirit sighing, [566]
• It is the Rhine! our mountain-vineyards laving, [534]
• It is thy pity makes me weep, [563]
• It is written on the rose, [489]
• It stands where Northern willows weep, [409]
• It was an hour of fear and grief, [238]
• It was the time when children bound to meet, [391]
• It waved not through an Eastern sky, [430]
• Italia! O Italia! thou so graced, [49]
• Italia! oh! no more Italia now, [138]
• Joy is upon the lonely seas, [378]
• Joy! the lost one is restored, [594]
• Know ye not when our dead, [349]
• Know’st thou the land where bloom the citron bowers, [547]
• Land of departed fame, whose classic plains, [22]
• Leave me not yet, though rosy skies afar, [543]
• Leave me, oh! leave me! unto all below, [459]
• Leaves have their time to fall, [375]
• Let the vain courtier waste his days, [49]
• Let the yellow mead shine for the sons of the brave, [148]
• Life’s parting beams were in his eye, [59]
• Light the hills, till heaven is glowing, [150]
• Like thee to die, thou Sun! my boyhood’s dream, [461]
• Like those pale stars of tempest hours, whose gleam, [599]
• Listen, fair maid! my song shall tell, [52]
• Lonely and still are now thy marble halls, [67]
• Look from the ancient mountains down, [609]
• Look on me with thy cloudless eyes, [561]
• Look on the white Alps round, [342]
• Lowliest of women and most glorified, [598]
• Lowly and solemn be, [585]
• Lowly upon his bier, [537]
• Majestic plant! such fairy dreams as lie, [623]
• Mark’d ye the mingling of the city’s throng, [59]
• Midnight! and silence deep, [471]
• Midst the long reeds that o’er a Grecian stream, [552]
• Midst Tivoli’s luxuriant glades, [85]
• Mighty ones, Love and Death, [510]
• Minstrel, whose gifted hand can bring, [19]
• Morn once again! morn in the lone dim cell, [568]
• Mother and child, whose blending tears, [410]
• Mother! oh sing me to rest, [541]
• Mountain-winds! oh whither do ye call me, [514]
• Mournfully, sing mournfully, [481]
• My battle-vow! no minster walls, [454]
• My child, my child, thou leav’st me! I shall hear, [408]
• My earliest memories to thy shores are bound, [618]
• My father’s house once more! 605
• My soul was mantled with dark shadows, born, [624]
• Near thee! still near thee! o’er thy pathway gliding, [538]
• Night, holy night! the time, [577]
• Night hung on Salem’s towers, [606]
• Night sinks on the wave, [597]
• Night veil’d the mountain of the vine, [194]
• No bitter tears for thee be shed, [54]
• No cloud obscures the summer sky, [530]
• No cloud to dim the splendours of the day, [103]
• No dower of storied song is thine, [469]
• No more! a harp-string’s deep and breaking tone, [488]
• No searching eye can pierce the veil, [47]
• No tears for thee! though light be from us gone, [482]
• Nobly thy song, O minstrel! rush’d to meet, [624]
• Not for the myrtle and not for the vine, [361]
• Not long thy voice among us may be heard, [620]
• O Cambrian river, with slow music gliding, [618]
• O dim forsaken mirror, [484]
• O ever joyous band, [493]
• O festal spring, midst thy victorious glow, [617]
• O gentle story of the Indian isle, [620]
• O God, my Father and my Friend, [1]
• O joy of the peasant, O stately lime, [555]
• O lonely voices of the sky, [437]
• O Nature, thou didst rear me for thine own, [628]
• O soft star of the west, [560]
• O Son of Man, [574]
• O spirit-land, thou land of dreams, [462]
• O sunshine and fair earth, [509]
• O thou breeze of spring, [563]
• O thou whose pure exalted mind, [12]
• O Thought! O Memory! gems for ever heaping, [627]
• O vale and Lake! within your mountain-urn, [619]
• O wanderer! would thy heart forget, [54]
• O ye hours, ye sunny hours, [520]
• O ye voices gone, [566]
• O ye voices round my own hearth singing, [545]
• O’er the far blue mountains, [563]
• Oft have I sung and mourn’d the bitter woes, [45]
• Oft in still night-dreams a departed face, [624]
• Oh! art thou still on earth, my love, [546]
• Oh! ask not, hope thou not too much, [367]
• Oh! beautiful thou art, [608]
• Oh! bless’d beyond all daughters of the earth, [599]
• Oh! blest art thou whose steps may rove, [528]
• Oh! bring me one sweet orange bough, [543]
• Oh! call my brother back to me, [502]
• Oh! droop thou not, mine early gentle love, [538]
• Oh! enter not yon shadowy cave, [341]
• Oh! for thy wings, thou dove, [381]
• Oh! forget not the hour when through forest and vale, [56]
• Oh! how could fancy crown with thee, [354], [557]
• Oh! if thou wilt not give thine heart, [490]
• Oh! judge in thoughtful tenderness of those, [617]
• Oh! leave thine own loved isle, [298]
• Oh! lightly, lightly tread, [484]
• Oh! lightly tread through these deep chestnut bowers, [510]
• Oh! many a voice is thine, thou wind! full many a voice, [475]
• Oh! may I ever pass my happy hours, [3]
• Oh! ne’er be Clanronald the valiant forgot, [58]
• Oh! pure and blessed soul, [296]
• Oh! skylark, for thy wing, [544]
• Oh! tell me not the woods are fair, [566]
• Oh! those alone whose severed hearts, [48]
• Oh! wear it on thy heart, my love, [565]
• Oh! what a joy to feel that, in my heart, [621]
• Oh! when wilt thou return, [377]
• Oh! who hath trod thy consecrated clime, [28]
• Oh! worthy fragrant gifts of flowers and wine, [299]
• On Judah’s hills a weight of darkness hung, [602]
• Once more the eternal melodies from far, [622]
• One draught, kind fairy! from that fountain deep, [465]
• One dream of passion and of beauty more, [392]
• One grief, one faith, O sisters of the dead, [599]
• One hour for distant homes to weep, [545]
• Pause not with lingering feet, O pilgrim! here, [49]
• Peace to thy dreams! thou art slumbering now, [380]
• Pilgrim! oh say, hath thy cheek been fann’d, [361]
• Pilgrim! whose steps these desert sands explore, [138]
• Poor insect, rash as rare! thy sovereign, sure, [523]
• Praise ye the Lord! on every height, [533]
• Press on, my steed! I hear the swell, [150]
• Propitious winds our daring bark impelled, [297]
• Raise ye the sword! let the death-stroke be given, [151]
• Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave, [245]
• Rest, pilgrim, rest! Thou’rt from the Syrian land, [363]
• Return my thoughts! come home, [607]
• Return, return, my bird, [521]
• Ring, joyous chords! ring out again, [364]
• Rise like an altar-fire, [575]
• Rocks of my country! let the cloud, [376]
• Rome! Rome! thou art no more, [433]
• Rose! what dost thou here, [550]
• Royal in splendour went down the day, [398]
• Saved from the perils of the stormy wave, [46]
• Saviour! that of woman born, [596]
• Saw ye the blazing star, [149]
• Say not ’tis fruitless—nature’s holy tear, [296]
• Seek by the silvery Darro, [540]
• See’st thou my home? ’Tis where yon woods are waving, [460]
• See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall, [511]
• She came forth in her bridal robes array’d, [502]
• She dwelt in proud Venetian halls, [515]
• She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fell, [407]
• She sat, where on each wind that sigh’d, [420]
• She sleeps, but not the free and sunny sleep, [507]
• She stood upon the loftiest peak, [352]
• She that cast down the empires of the world, [138]
• Should love, the tyrant of my suffering heart, [45]
• Silent and mournful sat an Indian chief, [371]
• Sing, sing in memory of the brave departed, [358]
• Sing them upon the sunny hills, [366]
• Sing to me, Gondolier, [563]
• Singing of the free blue sky, [512]
• Sister! since I met thee last, [559]
• Sister, sweet sister! let me weep awhile, [455]
• Sleep midst thy banners furl’d, [365]
• Sleep, O beloved companion of my woes, [119]
• Sleep!—we give thee to the wave, [559]
• Soft falls the mild reviving shower, [529]
• Soft skies of Italy! how richly drest, [57]
• Soldier, awake! the night is past, [562]
• Son of the mighty and the free, [57]
• Son of the ocean isle, [246]
• Son of the stranger! wouldst thou take, [344]
• Sons of the fair isle! forget not the time, [152]
• Sooth’d by the strain, the wasp thus made reply, [523]
• Sound on! thou dark, unslumbering sea, [549]
• Speak low!—the place is holy to the breath, [470]
• Spirit beloved! whose wing so soon hath flown, [45]
• Spirit! so oft in radiant freedom soaring, [623]
• Spirit! whose life-sustaining presence fills, [602]
• Still are the cowslips from thy bosom springing, [619]
• Still green along our sunny shore, [244]
• Still is the Syren warbling on thy shore, [536]
• Still that last look is solemn! though thy rays, [620]
• Stop, passenger! a wondrous tale to list, [20]
• Surely ’tis all a dream, a fever-dream, [579]
• Sweet rose! whose tender foliage to expand, [48]
• Sweets of the wild, that breathe and bloom, [13]
• Sylph of the breeze, whose dewy pinions light, [51]
• That was a joyous day in Rheims of old, [403]
• The Alpine horn, the Alpine horn, [545]
• The bark that held a prince went down, [346]
• The blue, deep, glorious heavens! I lift mine eye, [583]
• The boy stood on the burning deck, [369]
• The breaking waves dash’d high, [429]
• The bright hours return, the blue sky is ringing, [147]
• The champions had come from their fields of war, [412]
• The chord, the harp’s full chord is hush’d, [379]
• The citron groves their fruits and flowers were strewing, [338]
• The corn in golden light, [348]
• The dead! the glorious dead! and shall they rise, [468]
• The fever’s hue hath left thy cheek, beloved, [595]
• The fires grew pale on Rome’s deserted shrines, [221]
• The gloomiest day hath gleams of light, [501]
• The hall of Cynddylan is gloomy to-night, [147]
• The hall of harps is lone to-night, [152]
• The hearth, the hearth is desolate, the fire is quench’d, [380]
• The hills all glow’d with a festive light, [432]
• The hollow dash of waves, the ceaseless roar, [427]
• The infant muse, Jehovah! would aspire, [1]
• The Kaiser feasted in his hall, [419]
• The kings of old have shrine and tomb, [376]
• The moonbeam quivering o’er the wave, [213]
• The Moor had beleaguer’d Valencia’s walls, [239]
• The morn rose bright on scenes renown’d, [63]
• The Moslem spears were gleaming, [521]
• The muffled drum was heard, [552]
• The night-wind shook the tapestry round an ancient, [405]
• The palm, the vine, the cedar, each hath power, [602]
• The plume-like swaying of the auburn corn, [598]
• The power that dwelleth in sweet sounds to waken, [429]
• The rose was in rich bloom on Sharon’s plain, [372]
• The sainted spirit which from bliss on high, [50]
• The sea bird’s wing o’er ocean’s breast, [434]
• The sea-king woke from the troubled sleep, [340]
• The skylark, when the dews of morn, [532]
• The sleep of storms is dark upon the skies, [508]
• The sound of thy streams in my spirit I hear, [499]
• The spirit of my land, [379]
• The stately homes of England, [412]
• The stranger’s heart! oh! wound it not, [464]
• The summer leaves were sighing, [539]
• The sun comes forth: each mountain height, [529]
• The sun sets brightly: but a ruddier glow, [97]
• The torrent-wave, that breaks with force, [48]
• The troubadour o’er many a plain, [101]
• The trumpet of the battle, [567]
• The trumpet’s voice hath roused the land, [374]
• The vesper-bell from church and tower, [547]
• The voices of my home! I hear them still, [316]
• The voices of two forest boys, [437]
• The war-note of the Saracen, [446]
• The warrior bow’d his crested head, and tamed his heart, [456]
• The warrior cross’d the ocean’s foam, [361]
• The wind, the wandering wind, [542]
• The wine-month shone in its golden prime, [253]
• The woods! oh, solemn are the boundless woods, [396]
• Theirs was no dream, O monarch hill, [151]
• Then was a task of glory all thine own, [600]
• There are bright scenes beneath Italian skies, [191]
• There are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles, [541]
• There are the aspens with their silvery hair, [576]
• There are who climb the mountain’s heathery side, [622]
• There blooms a plant, whose gaze from hour to hour, [46]
• There have been bright and glorious pageants here, [251]
• There is a wakening on the mighty hills, [581]
• There was a mournfulness in angel eyes, [599]
• There was heard a song on the chiming sea, [451]
• There was heard the sound of a coming foe, [345]
• There was music on the midnight, [448]
• There went a dirge through the forest’s gloom, [457]
• There went a warrior’s funeral through the night, [401]
• There were faint sounds of weeping; fear and gloom, [467]
• There were sights and sounds of revelry, [452]
• There were thick leaves above me and around, [427]
• There were trampling sounds of many feet, [515]
• There’s beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes, [370]
• These marble domes, by wealth and genius graced, [50]
• They float before my soul, the fair designs, [623]
• They grew in beauty, side by side, [435]
• They haunt me still, these calm, pure, holy eyes, [464]
• They have wander’d in their glee, [541]
• They rear’d no trophy o’er his grave, [609]
• They sought for treasures in the tomb, [244]
• Thine eyes are charm’d, thine earnest eyes, [458]
• Thine is a strain to read among the hills, [422]
• This green recess, where through the bowery gloom, [51]
• This mountain scene with sylvan grandeur crown’d, [44]
• Those eyes whence love diffused her purest light, [44]
• Thou art a thing on our dreams to rise, [357]
• Thou art bearing hence thy roses, [366]
• Thou art come from the spirit’s land, thou bird, [343]
• Thou art gone, thou art slumbering low, [421]
• Thou art like night, O sickness! deeply stilling, [628]
• Thou art no lingerer in monarchs’ hall, [431]
• Thou art passing hence, my brother, [459]
• Thou art sounding on, thou mighty sea, [356]
• Thou art welcome, O thou warning voice, [509]
• Thou didst fall on the field with thy silver hair, [555]
• Thou grot, whence flows this limpid spring, [52]
• Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame, [497]
• Thou hast been rear’d too tenderly, [486]
• Thou hast been where the rocks of coral grow, [481]
• Thou hast loved and thou hast suffered, [501]
• Thou hast thy record in the monarch’s hall, [599]
• Thou hast watch’d beside the bed of death, [507]
• Thou in thy morn wert like a glowing rose, [50]
• Thou mov’st in visions, Love! around thy way, [503]
• Thou see’st her pictured with her sinning hair, [416]
• Thou shouldst be look’d on when the starlight falls, [250]
• Thou shouldst have slept beneath the stately pines, [490]
• Thou sleepest, but when wilt thou wake, fair child, [431]
• Thou that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy, [356]
• Thou that hast loved so long and well, [489]
• Thou that with pallid cheek, [496]
• Thou that wouldst mark in form of human birth, [51]
• Thou the stern monarch of dismay, [51]
• Thou thing of years departed, [436]
• Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I gave, [45]
• Thou wak’st from rosy sleep to play, [355]
• Thou who hast fled from life’s enchanted bowers, [50]
• Though dark are the prospects and heavy the hours, [11]
• Though youth may boast the curls that flow, [10]
• Throne of expression, whence the spirit’s ray, [59]
• Through evening’s bright repose, [589]
• Thy foes had girt thee with their dread array, [93]
• Thy heart is in the upper world, where fleet the chamois, [450]
• Thy rest was deep at the slumberer’s hour, [348]
• Thy voice is in mine ear, beloved, [453]
• Thy voice prevails! Dear friend, my gentle friend, [442]
• Thy voice was in my soul, it call’d me on, [455]
• ’Tis lone on the waters, [486]
• ’Tis sweet to think the spirits of the blest, [3]
• To thee, maternal guardian of my youth, [2]
• To-night, kind friends, at your tribunal here, [21]
• Too long apart, a bright but sever’d band, [520]
• Too long have tyranny and power combined, [4]
• Torches were blazing clear, [346]
• Trees, gracious trees, how rich a gift ye are, [619]
• Tribes of the air, whose favour’d race, [531]
• ’Twas a bright moment of my life, when first, [623]
• ’Twas a dream of olden days, [491]
• ’Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, [369]
• ’Twas but a dream! I saw the stag leap free, [385]
• ’Twas early day, and sunlight stream’d, [437]
• ’Twas morn upon the Grecian hills, [243]
• ’Twas night in Babylon; yet many a beam, [219]
• Twas night upon the Alps, The Senn’s wild horn, [234]
• ’Twas noon, and Afric’s dazzling sun on high, [212]
• ’Twas the deep mid-watch of the silent night, [241]
• Two barks met on the deep mid-sea, [560]
• Two solemn voices in a funeral strain, [472]
• Unbending midst the watery skies, [48]
• Under a palm-tree, by the green old Nile, [600]
• Upward, and upward still! in pearly light, [618]
• Voice of the gifted elder time, [339]
• Warrior! whose image on thy tomb, [428]
• Warriors! my noon of life is past, [56]
• Was it the sigh of the southern gale, [495]
• Was that the light from some lone swift canoe, [590]
• Watch ye well! the moon is shrouded, [146]
• Waves of Mondego, brilliant and serene, [47]
• We come not, fair one! to thy hand of snow, [53]
• We have the myrtle’s breath around us here, [394]
• We heard thy name, O Mina, [541]
• We miss thy voice, while early flowers are blooming, [486]
• We return, we return, we return no more, [500]
• We saw thee, O stranger! and wept, [343]
• We see no more in thy pure skies, [588]
• Weep thou no more! O monarch! dry thy tears, [121]
• Weeper! to thee how bright a morn was given, [600]
• Weep’st thou for him whose doom was seal’d, [56]
• Welcome, O pure and lovely forms! again, [628]
• Well might thine awful image thus arise, [628]
• What are the lessons given, [252]
• What dost thou here, brave Swiss, [294]
• What first should consecrate as thine, [295]
• What hidest thou in thy treasure-caves and cells, [361]
• What household thoughts around thee as their shrine, [600]
• What secret current of man’s nature turns, [620]
• What wak’st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods, [432]
• What was your doom, my father? In thine arms, [587]
• What wish can friendship form for thee, [295]
• What woke the buried sound that lay, [563]
• When from the mountain’s brow the gathering shade, [138]
• When the last blush of eve is dying, [148]
• When the soft breath of spring goes forth, [533]
• When the tide’s billowy swell, [492]
• When the young eagle with exulting eye, [106]
• When thy bounding step I hear, [524]
• When twilight’s gray and pensive hour, [532]
• When will ye think of me, my friends, [500]
• Whence are those tranquil joys in mercy given, [15]
• Whence art thou, flower? From holy ground, [244]
• Whence is the might of thy master-spell, [498]
• Where are the vintage-songs, [546]
• Where are they, those green fairy islands, reposing, [146]
• Where is the sea? I languish here, [487]
• Where is the summer with her golden sun, [349]
• Where is the tree the prophet threw, [496]
• Where met our bards of old? The glorious throng, [246]
• Where shall I find some desert scene so rude, [47]
• Where shall I find in all this fleeting earth, [489]
• Where shall the minstrel find a theme, [534]
• Where shall we make her grave, [549]
• Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying, [355]
• Where the long reeds quiver, [581]
• Wherefore and whither bear’st thou up my spirit, [483]
• While the blue is richest, [565]
• Whisper, thou tree, thou lonely tree, [473]
• Whither, celestial maid, so fast away, [53]
• Whither, oh whither, wilt thou wing thy way, [628]
• Who watches on the mountains with the dead, [598]
• Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast, [524]
• Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day, [149]
• Why wouldst thou leave me, O gentle child, [423]
• Wildly and mournfully the Indian drum, [406]
• Willow! in thy breezy moan, [542]
• With sixty knights in his gallant train, [238]
• With what young life and vigour in its breath, [256]
• Wouldst thou to love of danger speak, [48]
• Wouldst thou wear the gift of immortal bloom, [439]
• Wrapt in sad musings, by Euphrates’ stream, [43]
• Ye are not miss’d, fair flowers, that late were spreading, [542]
• Ye have been holy, O founts and floods, [474]
• Ye met at the stately feasts of old, [480]
• Ye tell me not of birds and bees, [499]
• Ye too, the free and fearless birds of air, [602]
• Yes! all things tell us of a birthright lost, [622]
• Yes! I came from the spirit’s land, [343]
• Yes! I have seen the ancient oak, [347]
• Yes! it is haunted, this quiet scene, [358]
• Yes! it is ours: the field is won, [245]
• Yes! rear thy guardian hero’s form, [485]
• Yes! thou hast met the sun’s last smile, [360]
• Yet as a sun-burst flushing mountain-snow, [599]
• Yet, rolling far up some green mountain-dale, [618]
• You ugliest of fabrics! you horrible eyesore, [382]

THE END.

A SELECTION
FROM
Catalogue of Popular and Standard Books

PUBLISHED BY
WILLIAM P. NIMMO, EDINBURGH.