A Tragic Poem.
Tanto acrior apud majores, sicut virtutibus gloria, ita flagitiis pœnitentia, fuit. Sed hæc aliaque, ex veteri memorià petita, quotiens res locusque exempla recti, aut solatia mali, poscet, haud absurdè memorabimus.
Taciti Hist. lib. 3. c. 51.
TO
GROSVENOR CHARLES BEDFORD,
THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED,
IN LASTING MEMORIAL OF A LONG AND UNINTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP,
BY HIS OLD SCHOOLFELLOW,
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| Preface | [ix] | |
| Original Preface | [xxi] | |
| Roderick, the last of the Goths: | ||
| I. | Roderick and Romano | [1] |
| II. | Roderick in Solitude | [12] |
| III. | Adosinda | [21] |
| IV. | The Monastery of St. Felix | [35] |
| V. | Roderick and Siverian | [46] |
| VI. | Roderick in Times past | [59] |
| VII. | Roderick and Pelayo | [67] |
| VIII. | Alphonso | [74] |
| IX. | Florinda | [82] |
| X. | Roderick and Florinda | [87] |
| XI. | Count Pedro’s Castle | [101] |
| XII. | The Vow | [108] |
| XIII. | Count Eudon | [116] |
| XIV. | The Rescue | [125] |
| XV. | Roderick at Cangas | [131] |
| XVI. | Covadonga | [141] |
| XVII. | Roderick and Siverian | [152] |
| XVIII. | The Acclamation | [161] |
| XIX. | Roderick and Rusilla | [173] |
| XX. | The Moorish Camp | [178] |
| XXI. | The Fountain in the Forest | [188] |
| XXII. | The Moorish Council | [204] |
| XXIII. | The Vale of Covadonga | [212] |
| XXIV. | Roderick and Count Julian | [222] |
| XXV. | Roderick in Battle | [232] |
| Notes | [251] | |