Poems

by Robert Southey

1799

The better, please; the worse, displease; I ask no more.
Spenser


Table of Contents

[The Vision of the Maid of Orléans]
[Book 1]
[Book 2]
[Book 3]
[The Rose]
[The Complaints of the Poor]
[Metrical Letter]
[Ballads]
[The Cross Roads]
[The Sailor who had served in the Slave Trade]
[Jaspar]
[Lord William]
[A Ballad shewing how an old woman rode double and who rode before her]
[The Surgeon’s Warning]
[The Victory]
[Henry the Hermit]
[English Eclogues]
[The Old Mansion House]
[The Grandmother’s Tale]
[The Funeral]
[The Sailor’s Mother]
[The Witch]
[The Ruined Cottage]

[The Vision of the Maid of Orléans]

Divinity hath oftentimes descended
Upon our slumbers, and the blessed troupes
Have, in the calme and quiet of the soule,
Conversed with us.

Shirley. The Grateful Servant

Sidenote: The following Vision was originally printed as the ninth book of Joan of Arc. It is now adapted to the improved edition of that Poem.