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CONTENTS.
CONTENTS.
Memoir of Henry Kirke White
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
- Clifton Grove
- Time
- Childhood; Part I
- Part II
- The Christiad
- Lines written on a Survey of the Heavens
- Lines supposed to be spoken by a Lover at the Grave of his Mistress
- My Study
- Description of a Summer's Eve
- Lines—"Go to the raging sea, and say, 'Be still!'"
- Written in the Prospect of Death
- Verses—"When pride and envy, and the scorn"
- Fragment—"Oh! thou most fatal of Pandora's train"
- "Loud rage the winds without.—The wintry cloud"
- To a Friend in Distress
- Christmas Day
- Nelsoni Mors
- Epigram on Robert Bloomfield
- Elegy occasioned by the Death of Mr. Gill, who was drowned in the River Trent, while bathing
- Inscription for a Monument to the Memory of Cowper
- "I'm pleased, and yet I'm sad"
- Solitude
- "If far from me the Fates remove"
- "Fanny! upon thy breast I may not lie!"
- Fragments—"Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:"
- "The pious man"
- "Lo! on the eastern summit, clad in gray"
- "There was a little bird upon that pile;"
- "O pale art thou, my lamp, and faint"
- "O give me music—for my soul doth faint"
- "And must thou go, and must we part"
- "Ah! who can say, however fair his view,"
- "Hush'd is the lyre—the hand that swept"
- "When high romance o'er every wood and stream"
- "Once more, and yet once more,"
- Fragment of an Eccentric Drama
- To a Friend
- Lines on reading the Poems of Warton
- Fragment—"The western gale,"
- Commencement of a Poem on Despair
- The Eve of Death
- Thanatos
- Athanatos
- Music
- On being confined to School one pleasant Morning in Spring
- To Contemplation
- My own Character
- Lines written in Wilford Churchyard
- Verses—"Thou base repiner at another's joy,"
- Lines—"Yes, my stray steps have wander'd, wander'd far"
- The Prostitute
ODES.
- To my Lyre
- To an early Primrose
- Ode addressed to H. Fuseli, Esq. R. A.
- To the Earl of Carlisle, K. G.
- To Contemplation
- To the Genius of Romance
- To Midnight
- To Thought
- Genius
- Fragment of an Ode to the Moon
- To the Muse
- To Love
- On Whit-Monday
- To the Wind, at Midnight
- To the Harvest Moon
- To the Herb Rosemary
- To the Morning
- On Disappointment
- On the Death of Dermody the Poet
SONNETS.
- To the River Trent
- Sonnet—"Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild,"
- Sonnet supposed to have been addressed by a Female Lunatic to a Lady
- Sonnet supposed to be written by the unhappy Poet Dermody in a Storm
- The Winter Traveller
- Sonnet—"Ye whose aspirings court the muse of lays,"
- Recantatory, in Reply to the foregoing elegant Admonition
- On hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp
- Sonnet—"What art thou, Mighty One! and where thy seat?"
- To Capel Lofft, Esq.
- To the Moon
- Written at the Grave of a Friend
- To Misfortune
- Sonnet—"As thus oppress'd with many a heavy care,"
- To April
- Sonnet—"Ye unseen spirits, whose wild melodies,"
- To a Taper
- To my Mother
- Sonnet—"Yes, 't will be over soon. This sickly dream"
- To Consumption
- Sonnet—"Thy judgments, Lord, are just;"
- Sonnet—"When I sit musing on the chequer'd part"
- Sonnet—"Sweet to the gay of heart is Summer's smile"
- Sonnet—"Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts"
BALLADS, SONGS, AND HYMNS.
- Gondoline
- A Ballad—"Be hush'd, be hush'd, ye bitter winds,"
- The Lullaby of a Female Convict to her Child, the Night previous to Execution
- The Savoyard's Return
- A Pastoral Song
- Melody—"Yes, once more that dying strain"
- Additional Stanza to a Song by Waller
- The Wandering Boy
- Canzonet—"Maiden! wrap thy mantle round thee'"
- Song—"Softly, softly blow, ye breezes,"
- The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the Night
- The Wonderful Juggler
- Hymn—"Awake, sweet harp of Judah, wake"
- A Hymn for Family Worship
- The Star of Bethlehem
- Hymn—"O Lord, my God, in mercy turn"
TRIBUTARY VERSES.
- Eulogy on Henry Kirke White, by Lord Byron
- Sonnet on Henry Kirke White, by Capel Lofft
- Sonnet occasioned by the Second of H. K. White, by the same
- Written in the Homer of Mr. H. K. White, by the same
- To the Memory of H. K. White, by the Rev. W. B. Collyer, A.M.
- Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by Arthur Owen, Esq.
- Sonnet, on seeing another written to H. K. White, by the same
- Reflections on Reading the Life of the late H. K. White, by William Holloway
- On the Death of Henry Kirke White, by T. Park
- Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White, by the Rev. J. Plumptre
- To Henry Kirke White, by H. Welker
- Verses occasioned by the Death of H. K. White, by Josiah Conder
- On Reading H. K. White's Poem on Solitude, by the same
- Ode on the late Henry Kirke White, by Juvenis
- Sonnet in Memory of Henry Kirke White, by J. G.
- Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White
- Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by G. L. C.
- To the Memory of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady
- Stanzas supposed to have been written at the Grave of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady