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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
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