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The Poems of Felicia Hemans

Mrs. Hemans

Coleridge’s epitaph, on reading, 623 “Come away,” 560 “ -- home,” 465 “ -- to me, dreams of heaven,” 564 “ -- -- gentle sleep,” 567 “Common sense,” the satire of, 66 Communings with thought, 607 Conqueror’s sleep, the, 365 Conradin, the death of, 103 Constantine, the last, 221 Contadina, the, 361 Conversation, memorial of a, 622 Conway, residence at, 19 Corinne at the Capitol, 469 Coronation of Inez de Castro, the, 448 Costanza, 407 Cottage girl, the, 604 Covent Garden, the Vespers of Palermo at, 186 Crescentius, the widow of, 85 Cross in the wilderness, the, 371 -- of the South, the, 294 Crusader’s return, the, 363 -- war-song, the, 58 Curfew-song of England, the, 553 Daily paths, our, 370 Dalecarlian mine, scene in a, 357 Dargle, on a scene in the, 623 Darkness of the crucifixion, the, 602 Dartmoor, 141 Datura Arborea, on the, 623 Daughter of Bernard Barton, to the, 485 Day of flowers, the, 592 Death and the warrior, 490 -- the welcome to, 509 -- of Clanronald, the, 58 -- of Conradin, the, 103 -- of the Princess Charlotte, on the, 59 Death-day of Körner, the, 425 Death-song of Alcestis, the, 502 De Chatillon, or the Crusaders, 300 Deity, address to the, 1 Delius, to, from Horace, 299 Della Casa, sonnet from, 50 Delos, song of, 535 Delphi, the storm of, 241 Delta, criticisms by, 315, 630 Departed, the, 430 -- spirit, to a, 449 Desert, the burial in the, 516 -- flower, the, 524 Deserted house, the, 463 Design and performance, 623 Despondency and aspiration, 624 Dial of flowers, the, 369 Dirge, “Calm on the bosom,” 357 -- “Weep for the early lost,” 298 -- “Where shall we make,” 549 -- at sea, 559 -- of a child, 54 -- of the Highland chief in Waverley, 57 Distant scene, to a, 619 -- ship, the, 434 -- sound of the sea, on the, 618 Diver, the, 481 Domestic affections, the, 15 Dover cliffs, 376 Dramatic scene between Bronwylfa and Rhyllon, 383 Dreamer, the, 380 Dreaming child, the, 458 Dreams of heaven, 518 -- the dead, 624 Druid chorus, &c., 145 Dying bard’s prophecy, the, 152 -- girl and flowers, 556 -- Improvisatore, the, 379 East, attraction of the, 620 Easter-day in a mountain-churchyard, 581 Echo song, 551 Eclectic review, 633 Eclogue from Camoens, 44 Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, 106, 107, 253, 292 -- -- Review, 43, 66, 106, 113 -- Review, 440 Edith, 396 Edwards, Mr, lines to, 19 Effigies, the, 428 Eldest brother, to my, 12 Elgin marbles, the, 41 Ellis, Sir Henry, to the memory of, 56 Elysium, 249 Emigrant’s child, burial of a, 579 Emigration, song of, 451 England, the name of, 567 -- and Spain, 4 England’s dead, 246 English boy, the, 609 -- martyrs, the, 568 -- soldiers’ song of memory, 358 “Enjoy the sweets,” 52 Epitaph, “Farewell, beloved,” 520 -- on Mr W., 20 -- on his hammer, 20 -- over two brothers, 356 Eryri Wen, 151 Evening among the Alps, 57 -- prayer at a girls’ school, 374 Evening song of the Tyrolese peasants, 494 -- -- -- weary, 592 -- star, to the, 560 Exile’s dirge, the, 457 Eye, to the, 59 Fair Helen of Kirkconnel, 561 -- Isle, the, 152 Fairies’ recall, the, 565 Fairy favours, 439 -- song, 562 Faith of love, the, 507 Fall of d’Assas, the, 537 Fallen lime-tree, the, 555 Family Bible, to a, 600 Far away, 558 -- o’er the sea, 546 Farewell to Abbotsford, 508 -- the dead, 353 -- Wales, 499 Fata Morgana, the, 38 Father reading the Bible, a, 437 Fathers’ songs, our, 366 Faunus, to, from Horace, 299 Fawsley park, sonnet on a church in, 603 Festal hour, the, 252 Fever-dream, the, 139 Fidelity till death, 394 Fiesco, prologue to the tragedy of, 520 Filicaja, sonnets from, 49, 138 Flight of the spirit, the, 628 Flower, the shadow of a, 491 -- from the field of Grütli, on a, 244 -- of the desert, the, 524 Flowers, 628 -- and music in a room of sickness, 572 -- day of, 592 -- dial of, 369 Foliage, 621 Forest sanctuary, the, 316 Forsaken hearth, the, 380 “Fortune, why thus,” from Metastasio, 48 Fourteenth century, a tale of the, 213 Fountain of Bandusia, to the, 299 -- Marah, the, 496 -- Oblivion, the, 465 Fouqué, Brandenburg harvest-song, from, 348 Fragment, “Rest on your battle-fields,” 245 Freed bird, the, 521 Friend, to an aged, 620 Funeral-day of Sir Walter Scott, the, 585 -- genius, the, 250 -- hymn, 581 Future, a thought of the, 498 Gafran’s sea-song, 146 Garcilaso de la Vega, “Divine Eliza,” from, 296 Gargano, mount, 90 Genius singing to love, 554 Genoa, night-scene in, 99 George III., stanzas to the memory of, 187 German literature, 426 -- soldiers’ Rhine song, 534 -- song, 52 Gertrude, 394 Gesner, morning song from, 52 Gifford, Mr, 106 Giulio Regondi, to, 520 Goethe, Mignon’s song from, 547 Goethe’s Iphigenia, scenes from, 616 -- Tasso, -- -- 611 Good-night, 564 Granada, conquest of, 76, 77, notes Grasmere, a remembrance of, 619 Grave of a poetess, the, 411 Graves of a household, the, 435 -- martyrs, 376 Greece, modern, 28 Greek chant of victory, 536 -- funeral chant, 349 Greek lament, 627 -- parting song, 351 -- song of exile, 349 -- songs, 241 Green isles of ocean, the, 146 Grufydd’s feast, 148 Grütli, on a flower from, 244 Guadalete, battle of, 77 note Guardian spirit, songs of a, 538 Guerilla leader’s vow, the, 454 -- song, 56 Hall of Cynddylan, the, 147 Happy hour, a, 621 Harp of Wales, the, 145 Haunted ground, 358 -- house, the, 511 “He never smiled again,” 346 “He shall not dread,” 48 “He walk’d with God,” 495 Heart of Bruce in Melrose Abbey, the, 476 Hebe of Canova, on the, 53 Heber, bishop, 118, note -- to the memory of, 423 Hebrew mother, the, 372 Helen of Kirkconnel, 561 Heliodorus in the temple, 98 Hermitage on the sea-shore, lines written in a, 54 Hero’s death, the, 59 Herrera, ode from, 254 Highland chief in Waverley, dirge of the, 57 Hirlas horn, the, 146 Hogg, James, 63 note Holy Family, repose of a, 600 Home of love, the, 503 Homes of England, the, 412 Hope, the song of, 546 Horace, translations from, 298 Hour of death, the, 375 -- prayer, 377 -- romance, an, 427 “How can that love,” 565 “How strange a fate,” 45 Howel’s song, 150 Huguenot’s farewell, the, 626 Humboldt on the Southern cross, 332 note Hymn by the sick-bed of a mother, 486 -- of the traveller’s household on his return, 594 -- of the Vaudois mountaineers, 588 Hymns for childhood, 528 “I dream of all things free,” 546 “I go, sweet friends,” 354 “I would we had not met again,” 565 “If thou hast crush’d a flower,” 562 “If thus thy fallen grandeur,” 49 “If to the sighing breeze,” 51 Il Conte di Carmagnola, the, 125 Illuminated city, the, 432 Image in lava, the, 436 -- in the heart, the, 461 Imelda, 394 Impromptu to Miss F. A. L., 499 “In tears the heart,” 47 Indian, the aged, 56 -- with his dead child, the, 450 -- city, the, 398 -- woman’s death-song, 402 Indian’s revenge, 590 Inez de Castro, coronation of, 448 Infant Christ with flowers, picture of the, 601 Intellectual powers, 627 Invocation, “And come ye faithful,” 597 -- “Answer me,” 424 -- “As the tired voyager,” 597 -- “Hush’d is the world,” 55 -- “Oh, art thou still,” 546 Iphigenia of Goethe, scenes from the, 616 “Is there some spirit,” 566 Isle of founts, the, 344 “Italia, O Italia,” 49 Italian girl’s hymn to the virgin, 449 -- literature, translations, &c. from, 118 -- poets, patriotic effusions from, 137 Italy, Alaric in, 95 -- restoration of the works of art to, 22 Ivan the Czar, 413 Ivy song, 354 -- 557 Jeffrey, Lord, 337, 440 Jeu-d’esprit on the word “barb,” 139 Jewsbury, Miss, 53, 422 Joan of Arc in Rheims, 403 Juan de Tarsis, sonnet from, 50 Juana, 405 Juvenile poems, 1 Kaiser’s feast, the, 419 Kamsin, the, 69 note Keene, a, 558 Kindred hearts, 367 King of Arragon’s lament for his brother, the, 452 Körner and his sister, 424 -- the death-day of, 425 Lady of Provence, the, 446 -- of the castle, the, 416 Lament of an Irish mother, the, 558 -- of Llywarch Hen, the, 147 Land of dreams, the, 462 Landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England, the, 429 Landon, Miss, 631 Langhans, Madame, tomb of, 457 Last banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra, the, 93 -- Constantine, the, 221 -- rites, 372 -- song of Sappho, 549 -- tree of the forest, 473 -- wish, 438 -- words of the last wasp, 523 Lawrence, Mrs, 505 note Lays of many lands, 338 Leaf from Virgil’s tomb, on a, 245 League of the Alps, the, 234 “Leave me not yet,” 543 “Let her depart,” 564 “Let the vain courtier,” 49 “Let us depart,” 606 Life, the prayer for, 509 Lights and shades, 501 Lilies of the field, the, 601 Lines on Elizabeth Smith, 12 Literary Magnet, the, 248, 373 notes Lonely bird, the, 559 “Look on me thus no more,” 563 “Look on me with thy cloudless eyes,” 561 Lope de Vega, translations from, 49 Lorenzini, sonnet from, 51 Lorenzo de Medici, translation from, 53 Lost Pleiad, the, 375 Love, the faith of, 507 -- the home of, 503 Lyre and flower, the, 559 Lyre’s lament, the, 478 Lyrics and songs for music, 534 Maclodio, the battle of, 128 Madeline, 408 Madoc’s farewell, 149 Madonna, to a picture of the, 517 Maggi, sonnet from, 138 Magic glass, the, 468 Manuel, translation from, 49 Manzoni, Il Conte di Carmagnola from, 125 Marchetti, sonnet from, 138 Maremma, the, 191 Marguerite of France, 521 Maria di Conti, sonnet from, 138 Marius among the ruins of Carthage, 212 Martyrs, the English, 568 Mary at the feet of Christ, 599 -- the memorial of, 599 Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre, 600 -- -- bearing tidings of the resurrection, 600 Medici, Lorenzo de, sonnet from, 53 Meeting of the bards, the, 246 -- of the brothers, 437 -- of the ships, 560 Memorial of Mary, the, 599 -- pillar, the, 410 Memory of a sister-in-law, to the, 486 -- of Sir H. Ellis, to the, 56 -- of Lord Charles Murray, to the, 490 -- of Sir E. Pakenham, to the, 55 -- of the dead, 494 Message to the dead, the, 459 Messenger bird, the, 343 -- -- answer to, 343 note Metastasio, translations from, 47 Mignon’s song, 547 Mina’s soldiers, song of, 541 Minster, the, 470 Miriam’s song, 598 Mirror in the deserted hall, the, 484 Miss F. A. L., to, on her birthday, 295 -- -- on her mother’s death, 296 Modern Greece, 28 Moir, D. M., 315, 630 Monarch’s death, a, 423 Montgomery, James, 362 Monthly Review, the, 3 Monti’s Basvigliana, translations from, 118