THE POEMS
OF
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
[S E L E C T E D.]
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE
By FREDERICK COOPER.
LONDON:
Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row,
AND NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
1886.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Introductory Notice | [7] | |
| Legends and Tales— | ||
| The Red Fisherman | [31] | |
| The Legend of The Drachenfels | [39] | |
| The Legend of The Teufel-haus | [47] | |
| The Legend of The Haunted Tree | [56] | |
| The Bridal of Belmont | [68] | |
| Chivalry at a Discount | [83] | |
| The Conjurer | [86] | |
| Cousins | [87] | |
| Bagatelles | [89] | |
| There’s Nothing New Beneath the Sun | [92] | |
| Peace be Thine | [93] | |
| The Confession of Don Carlos | [94] | |
| Marriage | [97] | |
| The Bachelor | [99] | |
| How to Rhyme for Love | [108] | |
| Surly Hall | [111] | |
| My First Folly | [130] | |
| Songs from The Troubadour | [131] | |
| The Separation | [138] | |
| An Invitation | [141] | |
| A Discourse delivered by a College Tutor | [142] | |
| Good Night | [145] | |
| Hobbledehoys | [147] | |
| A Classical Walk | [149] | |
| Stanzas | [150] | |
| Because | [151] | |
| Song to a Serenader in February | [153] | |
| The Childe’s Destiny | [154] | |
| The Modern Nectar | [156] | |
| An Epitaph on the late King of the Sandwich Islands | [158] | |
| The Chaunt of the Brazen Head | [162] | |
| My Own Funeral (from Beranger) | [165] | |
| L’Inconnue | [167] | |
| Song—from Lidean’s Love | [168] | |
| Josephine | [169] | |
| Song for the Fourteenth of February | [171] | |
| Palinodia | [174] | |
| Time’s Song | [176] | |
| Stanzas | [177] | |
| Good Night to the Season | [178] | |
| Song—Yes or No | [181] | |
| Utopia | [183] | |
| Marriage Chimes | [186] | |
| Remember Me | [189] | |
| The Fancy Ball | [190] | |
| A Letter of Advice | [194] | |
| Every-Day Characters— | ||
| I. | The Vicar | [198] |
| II. | Quince | [201] |
| III. | The Belle of The Ball-room | [205] |
| IV. | My Partner | [208] |
| V. | Portrait of a Lady | [212] |
| April Fools | [215] | |
| School and Schoolfellows | [219] | |
| Arrivals at a Watering-Place | [222] | |
| Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine | [225] | |
| Letters from Teignmouth—I. Our Ball | [228] | |
| Do. do.II. Private Theatricals | [231] | |
| Song—“Tell Him I Love Him Yet” | [234] | |
| Confessions | [235] | |
| Song—Lord Roland | [238] | |
| Childhood and His Visitors | [239] | |
| Love at a Rout | [241] | |
| Beauty and Her Visitors | [243] | |
| The Forsaken | [245] | |
| Second Love | [246] | |
| Hope and Love | [248] | |
| Stanzas | [250] | |
| Cassandra | [251] | |
| Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor | [254] | |
| The Covenanter’s Lament for Bothwell Bridge | [257] | |
| Written under a Picture of King’s College Chapel | [259] | |
| Anticipation | [260] | |
| Mars Disarmed by Love | [261] | |
| Waterloo | [263] | |
| The New Order of Things | [266] | |
| Song—Where is Miss Myrtle? | [268] | |
| The Confession | [269] | |
| Stanzas written in Lady Myrtle’s “Boccaccio” | [270] | |
| How Poetry is best paid for | [273] | |
| Old Wine | [278] | |
| The Talented Man | [280] | |
| Plus de Politique | [282] | |
| Tales out of School | [283] | |
| To the Speaker Asleep | [285] | |
| Hymn to the Virgin | [286] | |
| The Newly-Wedded | [288] | |
| Sketch of a Young Lady—five months old | [289] | |
| To Helen | [291] | |
| To Helen | [291] | |
| To Helen | [292] | |
| God Save the Queen | [293] | |
| Charades— | ||
| I. | Good Night | [293] |
| II. | Rainbow | [294] |
| III. | Knighthood | [295] |
| IV. | Death Watch | [296] |
| V. | Bowstring | [297] |
| VI. | Moonlight | [299] |
| VII. | Peacock | [299] |