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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionPoems
- 1 Sonnet on Visiting Cromer for the First Time Since the Death of My Mother with Whom I used Frequently to Visit it
- 2 I've Gazed on the Handsome, Have Talked with the Wise
- 3 These Scenes Belov'd, Upon Whose Tranquil Shores
- 4 Written on Seeing a Bust of Minerva at Felbrig Hall, Thrown into a Corner amongst Rubbish
- 5a My Love to War is Going (Twiss Accompaniment)
- 5b My Love to War is Going (Biggs Accompaniment)
- 6 Here's a Health to Those Far Away!
- 7 Ode on the Present Times. 27th January 1795
- 8 Laura
- 9 Sonnet ('The young adventurer sails for India's shore')
- 10 Sun Set
- 11 Ode. Written on the Approach of a Storm
- 12 Sonnet. Written on the Sea-Shore
- 13 Spring. From Metastasio
- 14 La Partenza, From Metastasio
- 15 Consumption
- 16 Death
- 17 Somebody
- 18 Réponse
- 19 Song ('Think not while gayer swains invite')
- 20 An Evening Walk at Cromer, 1795
- 21 On Seeing Mrs. Siddons' Busts of Her Brothers and Herself
- 22 Crazy Sally!
- 23 How Still is Now the Hamlet!
- 24 How Nature Smiles When Dawning Day
- 25 Down, Down Thou Struggling Sigh
- 26 Let Not Sorrow Cloud Thy Brow
- 27 Stay Gentle Damsel, Stay Awhile
- 28 A Hunting Song
- 29 Dream of Soft Delight
- 30 Yes! Yes 'Tis Love to Pine in Sorrow
- 31 Sad was the Time When Vers'd in Art
- 32 On Spring
- 33 Away to the Battle! for Danger Draws Nigh
- 34 Stella! Thou False One
- 35 Laura, I for Bacchus
- 36 O Why are My Accents so Broken and Weak
- 37 Fill the Bowl, and Let's be Joyous
- 38 Mary! A Favorite Ballad
- 39 The Emigrant
- 40 Sweet Maid I've Heard Thy Frequent Sigh
- 41 When the Nymph I Love Smiling Sits Beside Me
- 42 A Beggar Girl's Song
- 43 The Suicide
- 44 Captain Morgan's March
- 45 Flaunting Two
- 46 The Rising of the Lark
- 47 Lullaby Song
- 48 Elegy to the Memory of the Late Duke of Bedford (Written on the Evening of his Interment)
- 49 The Morning Call of the Swiss Pastors
- 50 The Evening Call of the Swiss Pastors
- 51 O! May I Then Your Words Believe
- Close sectionPoems 1802
- 52 Sonnet to Winter
- 53 The Dying Daughter to Her Mother
- 54 Allen Brooke of Windermere
- 55 The Maid of Corinth to Her Lover
- 56 Song ('Bring the song, and join in chorus')
- 57 The Mourner
- 58 Another on the Same Subject
- 59 Elegiac Song, To the tune of 'Ar hyd y nos'
- 60 To the Glow-Worm
- 61 The Negro Boy's Tale
- 62 Lines Written at Norwich on the First News of Peace
- 63 Lines for the Album at Cossey, The Seat of Sir William Jerningham, Bart
- 64 Song . . . to Laura
- 65 Song of a Hindostàní Girl
- 66 Song ('Yes, Mary Anne, I freely grant')
- 67 Song ('A youth for Jane with ardour sighed')
- 68 A Mad-Song
- 69 Song ('I once rejoiced, sweet Evening Gale')
- 70 'The Voice of Him I Love'
- 71 The Complaint
- 72 Address of a Felon to His Child on the Morning of his Execution (Respectfully Inscribed to the Philanthropic Society)
- 73 The Virgin's First Love
- 74 Stanzas Written Under Æolus's Harp
- 75 Consumption
- 76 Epigram on Reading the Pleadings of Count Lally Tolendal for His Father the Late Count Lally
- 77 Lines Addressed to Mr. Biggs on His Having Set the Mad-Song, and My Love to War is Going
- 78 Fatherless Fanny, A Ballad
- 79 The Despairing Wanderer
- 80 The Orphan Boy's Tale
- 81 Symptoms of Love. To Henry
- 82 Song ('Fond dream of love by love repaid')
- 83 Song ('Go, youth beloved, in distant glades')
- 84 Sonnet ('How vain the task thy image to remove')
- 85 Song ('I know you false, I know you vain')
- 86 Lines Respectfully Inscribed to the Society for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts
- 87 To Twilight
- 88 Epistle to a Friend on New-Year's Day . . . . 1802
- 89 On Reading since the Duke of Bedford's Death Mr. Burke's Letter Reflecting on His Grace
- 90 Lines Written by Mrs. Opie
- 91 Ah! Me! With that False One
- 92 Poor Owen! A Ballad
- 93 Come to Battle: Arm'd in Your Country's Cause
- 94 The Song of the Old Man of the Wood
- 95 Hunting the Hare
- 96 The Camp of the Palace: Of Noble Race was Shenkin. A Dialogue Duet
- 97 A Leap over the Stone
- 98 Away My Herd to the Oaken Grove
- 99 The Ebb of the Tide
- 100 The March of the Men of Harlech: The Soldier's Return
- 101 On Being Asked if She had Written Verses on the Absence of Sir James Mackintosh in India
- 102 The Child of Sorrow's Tale
- 103 To Dr Manning on His Birthday 11th of Dec: 1805
- 104 Inscription for the Tomb of a Mother, and Five of her Children
- 105 Why Bid My Trembling Lips Explain
- 106 O Welcome Bonny Month of May. A Ballad
- 107 Mad Song
- 108 A Noble Lady
- 109 Lost is My Quiet For Ever
- 110 Accept these Sheets With Roses Grac'd
- 111 Epilogue. [To The Curfew]
- Close sectionThe Warrior's Return 1808
- 112 The Warrior's Return
- 113 Julia, or The Convent of St. Claire: A Tale Founded on Fact
- 114 The Mad Wanderer, A Ballad
- 115 Lines Written in 1799
- 116 Song ('I am wearing away like the snow in the sun')
- 117 To Lorenzo
- 118 Ode to Borrowdale in Cumberland
- 119 The Lucayan's Song
- 120 Song ('Was it for this I dearly loved thee?')
- 121 Ballad, founded on Fact
- 122 Song ('Yes, thou art changed since first we met')
- 123 Stanzas to Cynthio
- 124 The Origin of the Sail
- 125 Sonnet on the Approach of Autumn
- 126 To Laura ('Cease, Laura, cease, suspect no more')
- 127 Love Elegy, to Laura
- 128 Love Elegy, to Henry
- 129 To Henry ('Think not, while fairer nymphs invite')
- 130 To Henry ('How I hail this morn's appearing!')
- 131 Lines on the Opening of a Spring Campaign
- 132 Lines on the Place de la Concorde at Paris, Originally called the Place de Louis Seize,–– next the Place de la Revolution, where the perpetual guillotine stood
- 133 The Moon and the Comet; A Fable
- 134 To Lothario
- 135 To Henry ('Suppress that cruel doubt, dear youth!')
- 136 To Anna
- 137 Remembrance
- 138a Secret Love, [I] ('Not one kind look . . . one friendly word!')
- 138b Secret Love, [II] ('To me how dear this twilight hour')
- 138c Secret Love, [III] ('Oft hast thou marked my chilling eye')
- 138d Secret Love, [IV] ('One little moment, short as blest')
- 139 To a Maniac
- 140 Lines on Hearing, Three or Four Years Ago, that Constantinople was Swallowed up by an Earthquake, A Report, though false, at that time generally believed
- 141 Song ('While many a fond and blooming maid')
- 142 To Henry ('Thy fatal form, where'er I go')
- 143 Song ('Ask not, whence springs my ceaseless sadness')
- 144 Song ('Yes . . . . though we've loved so long, so well')
- 145a Songs, [I] ('How fondly I gaze on the fast falling-leaves')
- 145b Songs, [II] ('Where dost thou bide, blessed soul of my love!')
- 145c Songs, [III] ('Low hung the dark clouds on Plinlimmon's tall peak')
- 145d Songs, [IV] ('You ask why these mountains delight me no more')
- 146 Hark! Hark! Hark! The Foe is Near
- 147 Alas! Alas! I Can't Forget
- 148 Yes! Mem'ry Still Recalls the Hour
- 149 Go, Cease that Studied Grace
- 150 No––Do Not Think I'll Waste My Bloom
- 151 When the Glare of Day is Past
- 152 Love and Pity. From Love and Lovers Flying
- 153 Tell Me What Your Bosom Troubles?
- 154 O! How Blest My Soul's Dear Treasure
- 155 How Months Unfelt Have Vanish'd
- 156 The Dawn of Day
- 157 To Mr & Mrs Roberts, with Some Dried Apples
- 158 In My Cot, Tho' Small's My Store
- 159 Towyn Castle
- 160 The Red Piper's Melody
- 161 Stranger, If E'er You Honour'd Sidney's Fame
- 162 The Soft Blooms of Summer are Fair to the Eye
- 163 Then Be It So, and Let Us Part
- 164 Irregular Sonnet on a Neglected but Blooming Garden
- 165 Tributary Lines
- 166 Go, Child of Charity, Pursue Thy Course
- 167 Why Sons of Britain Rush Ye Forth
- 168 Think not Kind Bard! I Can the Fault Repent
- 169 Prologue (to Labyrinth Farm)
- 170 To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday––5th of June 1815
- 171 The Pilgrim of Love
- 172 On the Daughter of Colonel Hamilton
- 173 To Mrs Lemaistre at Paris on her Birthday––the 5th of June 1816
- 174 As Yet Thy Griefs have been but Summer Showers
- 175 The Vale of Clwyd
- 176 To Joseph John Gurney On his Inviting Me to See His Spring Flowers which were Suddenly Hidden by a Great Fall of Snow
- 177 To Mrs. Lemaistre with an Almanack, On Her Birthday––5th of June 1817
- 178 Who Gave the Sun His Light? A Hymn to the Creator
- 179 Song ('To love thee was the easiest task')
- 180 Song ('Yes, we must part, since fate has so decreed it')
- 181 Nay, Bid Me Not Forswear that Bowl
- 182 Joy to My Love, This Cruel War is Ended
- 183 Song ('They told me I was born to love')
- 184 Lines to the Memory of Sophia Bland Jun Who was Interred in the Burying Ground in Norwich Belonging to Friends in the December of 1818
- 185 To Mrs. Lemaistre at Malvern, on Her Birthday––5th of June––1818
- 186 Prayer for the Wanderers
- 187 Worship
- 188 Henry, A Song
- 189 To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birth-day 5th of June––1820 with an Ivory Box Containing a Remedy for the Headach––
- 190 To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday––5th of June––1820––
- 191 To Mr. Curtis––Aurist to the Regent
- 192 Beauties & Goddesses, As I Can Prove
- 193 Song ('When you bid me love another')
- 194 He Gave Me Gems, He Gave Me Gold
- 195 Song ('How bright this summer's sun appear'd!')
- 196 Song ('If now before this splendid throng')
- 197 Song ('O that I could recall the day')
- 198 Fairest, Sweetest, Dearest, A Song
- 199 Duet ('Say, why art thou pensive, beloved of my heart')
- 200 The Lovely Lily of the Vale
- 201 Dear Cousins, I am Full of Flusters
- 202 Priscilla's Grave
- 203 I Must Confess My Little Loves
- 204 Stanzas of Sorrow
- 205 Song ('And could that smile of love deceive')
- 206 Song ('Oh! not on me those glances bend')
- 207 To With Cowper's Poems
- 208 To Mrs Lemaistre on Her Birthday––5th of June 1822
- 209 Lines from a Gentleman in India to His Wife in England
- 210 Song ('Wherever thou goest, though far from me straying')
- 211 Song ('Why ask me the cause of my sorrow')
- 212 Song ('And are those hours for ever gone')
- 213 A Song ('Yes––thou art gone! I feel it now!')
- 214 To Mrs. L , on Her Birthday, June 5, 1818
- 215 You Wretches Three
- 216 Lines to Laura
- 217 Song ('There's not a look of those dear eyes')
- 218 To Rosaline.––From the French
- 219 Song ('Thou art the giddiest youth alive')
- 220 Address to Love
- 221 Lines to the Memory of a Lately Deceased Friend
- 222 The Convert's Prayer
- 223 Thoughts in a Place of Worship
- 224 Reflections during Silent Worship
- 225 Consolation for the Distressed
- 226 Lo! Morning Breaks: Methinks till Now
- 227 Address to October
- 228 To L[ewis] M[aclean]
- 229 Address to Summer
- 230 To Madeline
- 231 Crown the Passing Hour with Joy
- Close section232 Epistles by Mary, Queen of Scots
- EPISTLES
- No. I. Holyrood House, 1561
- No. II From MARY to the CARDINAL OF LORRAIN, and her other surviving Uncles. Dated March, 1565
- From MARY to DARNLEY, after their Marriage, on giving him the Rank and Title of King MARY TO HER LOVE
- Lines to DAVID RIZZIO.—July 1566
- MARY to RIZZIO.—February 1566
- No. III Epistle from MARY to her surviving UNCLES.—April 3, 1566
- THOUGHTS ON WOMAN'S LOVE.—A FRAGMENT Holyrood-House, April, 1566
- No. IV Epistle from. MARY to her UNCLES.—April, 1566
- An ILLUSTRATION OF LIGHT AND HEAVY SORROW
- No. V Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES.—June, 1566
- Address from MARY to her CHILD.—August, 1566
- No. VI Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES.—December, 1566
- Lines from MARY to DARNLEY.—January, 1567
- No. VII Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES.— Dated Kirk in the Field, Feb. 1567
- No. VIII Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES,— February 1567
- No. IX Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES.—February, 1567
- No. X Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES.— 1567
- No. XI Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES, June.—1561
- No. XII Epistle from MARY to her UNCLES, June—.1567
- 233 Song ('I had a hope which now is o'er')
- 234 To Thomas John Alderson on His Birthday––28th of Nov: 1823
- 235 To My Father on the 7th of April 1823
- 236 To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday––with a Three-Sided Seal on which is Engraved T'Amo
- 237 Come back! One gift from foreign shore
- 238 Hymn to God, the Eternal and Unchangeable
- 239 Song ('Go––thou canst wound my peace no more')
- 240 Song 'Joy in Woe'
- 241 To Elizabeth Lemaistre on Her Birthday 5th of June 1824
- 242 To Robert Southey on His Leaving Norwich
- 243 Lines Sent with Some Buds &C for the Coffin of <T:o: Lind> a Sweet Boy of 12 Years Old
- 244 To Thomas John Alderson
- 245 The Interments
- 246 By Words or by Smiles
- 247 To the Flower Called, Forget Me Not
- 248 Sonnet ('The world invites thee--go, Lorenzo, go')
- 249 To Elizabeth Lemaistre on Her Birthday 6th Mo 5th 1825
- 250 Resignation, A Hymn
- 251 Hymn. After a Walk in the Spring
- 252 Reproof and Comfort for Mourners
- 253 Death the Gate of Life
- 254 The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar
- 255 An Address to the Garden Roll. A Mock Heroic
- 256 Epitaph on William Hayley
- 257 On the Death of Edmund Janson 9th Mo 1826
- 258 Could This Be Dying? Where the Struggling Breath?
- 259 Lines on the Death of Elizabeth Opie, My Husband's Sister, Whom I Never Saw After I Parted From Her Soon After His Death In The Year 1807––
- 260 At Length, then, the Tenderest of Mothers is Gone!
- 261 How Darkly Life Now Spreads Before Me!
- 262 To Eliza A[lderson], 1822
- 263 Life is a Pilgrimage
- 264 On Hearing of the Death of Priscilla Hannah Gurney
- 265 Lines, Written on the Sea Shore
- 266 Change of Heart
- 267 Epitaph in S Churchyard
- 268 She, Who within this Humble Grave is Laid
- 269 The Two Soldiers
- 270 He Bade Me Remember Him
- 271 À David, Après Avoir Entendu Prononcé à L'Institut L'Éloge De Houdon––
- 272 To a Prism Sent from London to My Friend David
- 273 Epitaph on ––
- 274 Hymn ('There's not a leaf within the bower')
- 275 Now, Eliza, & Tommy Dears
- 276 On Seeing the Tricolor Again
- 277 The Portraits
- 278 Aux Polonais Qui Partent
- 279 To the Memory of Albert De St F[irmin]
- 280 Oh Bright was the Pageant When England's King
- 281 The True Friend
- 282 God is Nigh
- 283 A Vision
- 284 And didst thou long for angels' drink?
- 285 On These Fearful Times
- 286 Again, Eliza, Let Me Hail that Day
- 287 The Prodigal Returned
- 288 Thoughts on the Sea-Shore
- 289 To Dr. Chalmers
- 290 I Wish Thee a Merry Xmas!
- Close sectionLays for The Dead 1834
- 291 Dirge on the Death of My Relation, Captain Charles William Thompson, of the 1st Guards, Who Was Killed near Bidart, in the Winter of 1814
- 292 Lines Addressed to a Departed Friend
- 293 To the Spirit of ––
- 294 Lines on the Death of Two Brothers, the Only Sons of Friends Very Dear to Me
- 295 On the Anniversary of the Birth-day of My Near Relation, Ollyett Woodhouse, Advocate General of Bombay, Which Recurred Soon after I Had Heard of His Death, 1822
- 296 Stanzas on the Death of the Same
- 297 On the Anniversary of a Funeral, 1832
- 298 In Memory of My Mother
- 299 On the Funeral of ––
- 300 In Memory of a Dear Young Friend, Who Died, Almost Suddenly, Two Months Before Him Whose Suffering Age He So Often Soothed by His Attentions
- 301 Lines, Supposed to Be Addressed by a Brazilian to the Messenger Bird, Who Comes, as the Brazilian Believes, from the Land of Spirits
- 302 The Shipwreck
- 303 A Lament
- 304 On the Sudden Death of a Beautiful Child
- 305 Lines on the Death of an Aged Friend (Inscribed to her grandson)
- 306 On the Death of the Lady ––, Only Daughter of the Late Marquis ––, and Widow of Colonel ––
- 307 On the Death of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta
- 308 On the Death of a Bride
- 309 Epitaph on an Amiable Individual in Humble Life
- Close section310 Lines, Written in an Album after the Death of its Owner, and under the Verses with Which I Had Begun it a Few Years Ago
- 311 On the Christmas Day of 1830, Commemorative of the Sudden Death on That Day of a Most Dear and Venerated Friend
- 312 To ––, on the Death of Her Mother, of Whom, in Her Last Days, a Friend Remarked, 'It Is a Fine Sunset!'
- 313 Address to a Dying Friend
- 314 Epitaph on a Mother and Daughter, Relations of Mine, Who Died at Penzance, Within a Short Time of Each Other
- 315a Tributary Lines. Part the First
- 315b Tributary Lines. Part the Second
- 316 On the Death of a Near Relation
- 317 On the Same
- 318 On the Death of a Child
- 319 On Seeing the Statue of My Late Uncle, Dr. Alderson, of Hull
- 320 The Parents' Chaunt of Thanksgiving on the Death of One of Two Only Children, with Whom They Had Just Returned from Their Deceased Mother's House in the North of England, to Their Home in the West
- 321 In Memory of ––
- 322 Remembrance
- 323 To a Departed Friend
- Close section324 On the Portraits of Deceased Relatives and Friends, Which Hang Around Me
- 325 On a Luminous Sea, after Some Very Destructive Gales
- 326 The Last Letter
- 327 On Cuvier
- 328 In Memory of the Viscount G[alwa]y, Whom I Saw for the Last Time When He Was Going with His Family to Court
- 329 On a Dear Friend, Lately Deceased
- Close section330 Sketches of Saint Michael's Mount, Gratefully Inscribed to the Lord De Dunstanville and Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart
- 331 The Princess Victoria
- 332 To Anna Gurney. A Description of My Last Recent Visit to North Repps Cottage
- 333 Lines on Lady Harrt Gurney & her Daughter Harriet––to DG
- 334 The Envied One
- 335 Cantata
- 336 Remember Me
- 337 To Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. On His Birthday 1st April 1841
- 338 Lines To The Memory Of John Cubitt, Rector Of Overstrand, And For 40 Years Curate Of Sidestrand
- 339 The Death of Abijah, The Son of Jeroboam.–– I Kings XIV
- 340 To Elizabeth Lemaistre on her Birthday
- 341 To Elizabeth Lemaistre (Alas! Not Birthday Verses, as Usual but Heartfelt Apologies for not Having Written Any! The First Omission during 35 Years!)
- 342 To America ('Welcome beyond the utmost power')
- 343 To America ('Fair is thy land America, & free'!)
- 344 To America ('Famed is the day when thy brave Sons')
- 345 Oh ye! who come this show to view
- 346 Hymn ('I might have followed thee, dear Lord')
- 347 On a Late Affecting Event at Woodrising
- 348 Nature & Art Might Both Alike Contend
- Close section End Matter
