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The Poems of Felicia Hemans

Mrs. Hemans

-- Caius Gracchus, 133 Monumental inscription, 356 Moorish bridal-song, 338 -- gathering-song, 540 More, Hannah, 107 note Morehead, Dr, 253, 292 notes Morgarten, song of the battle of, 253 Morning song, from Gesner, 52 “Mother! oh, sing me to rest,” 541 -- to my, 11 -- -- a sonnet, 2 -- hymn by the sick-bed of a, 487 Mother’s birthday, on my, 1 -- litany by the sick-bed of a child, 596 Mountain churchyard, Easter-day in a, 581 -- fires, the, 150 -- sanctuaries, 601 -- winds, to the, 514 Mourner for the Barmecides, the, 417 Mozart’s requiem, 435 Muffled drum, the, 552 Murray, Lord Charles, to the memory of, 490 Music, the voice of, 498 -- at a deathbed, 554 -- from shore, 561 -- of St Patrick’s, 557 -- of yesterday, 379 My own portrait, to, 487 Myrtle bough, the, 244 Naples, 536 National lyrics, 534 Nature, hope of future communion with, 623 -- remembrance of, 628 Nature’s farewell, 477 “Near thee, still near thee,” 538 New-born, to the, 502 Night, song of, 471 Night-blowing flowers, 551 Night-hymn at sea, 597 Night-scene in Genoa, 99 Nightingale, the, 532 Nightingale’s death-song, the, 481 No more, 488 “No searching eye,” 47 North American Review, the, 113, 293, 337, 528 Northern spring, the, 533 Norton, professor, 113, 186, 293, 336, 524, 633 Norwegian war-song, 567 “O thou breeze of spring,” 563 “O ye hours,” 520 “O ye voices gone,” 566 “O ye voices round,” 545 Ocean, the, 530 O’Connor’s child, 508 Ode on the defeat of Sebastian of Portugal, 254 “O’er the far blue mountains,” 563 “Oh! droop thou not,” 538 “Oh! skylark, for thy wing,” 544 “Oh! those alone,” 48 Old church in an English park, an, 603 Old Norway, 567 Olive tree, the, 602 Orange bough, the, 543 Orchard blossoms, 619 Orphan, to an, 486 Otho, the emperor, 85 Our daily paths, 370 -- Lady’s well, 365 Owen Glyndwr’s war-song, 149 Pæstan rose, the, 28 note Painter’s last work, the, 595 Pakenham, Sir E., to the memory of, 55 Palm-tree, the, 430 Palmer, the, 501 Paradise, a thought of, 606 Parting of summer, the, 366 -- ship, the, 473 -- song, a, 500 -- words, 459 Passing away, 489 Pastorini, sonnet from, 49 Patriarchal life, images of, 620 Patriotic effusions of the Italian poets, translations from, 137 Paul and Virginia, on reading, 620 Pauline, 434 Peasant girl of the Rhone, the, 401 Pegolotti, sonnet from, 138 Penitence, the song of, 609 Penitent anointing Christ’s feet, the, 599 Penitent’s offering, the, 496 -- return, the, 605 Petrarch, translations from, 51 Picture of the Madonna, to a, 517 Pilgrim fathers, landing of the, 429 Pilgrim’s song to the evening star, 560 Pindemonte, sonnet from, 53 Places of worship, 602 Platæa, the tombs of, 251 Poet’s dying hymn, a, 583 Poetry, the return to, 622 Portrait, to my own, 487 Prayer, a, “O God,” 1 -- “Father in heaven,” 621 -- at sea after victory, 589 -- for life, the, 509 -- in the wilderness, the, 586 -- of affection, 596 -- of the lonely student, 577 Prince Madoc’s farewell, 149 Prisoners’ evening service, the, 587 Procession, the, 515 Prologue to the Poor Gentleman, 21 --- Fiesco, 520 Properzia Rozzi, 392 Psalm cxlviii. paraphrase of, 533 Psalms, the poetry of the, 624 Psyche borne by zephyrs to the island of Pleasure, 382 Quarterly Review, the, 62, 105, 114 Quevedo, translation from, 50 Queen of Prussia’s tomb, the, 409 Rainbow, the, 529 Records of immature genius, on, 617 Records of the autumn of 1834, 622 -- of the spring of 1834, 617 -- of woman, 385 Recovery, 629 Regondi, Giulio, to, 520 Remembered picture, to a, 464 Requiem of genius, the, 482 Restoration of the works of art to Italy, 22 Return, the, 453 -- to poetry, the, 622 Retzsch’s angel of death, on, 628 Revellers, the, 364 Rhine song of the German soldiers, 534 Rhyllon, residence at, 384, note Richard Cœur-de-Lion, 101 -- -- at the bier of his father, 346 Rio Verde song, the, 539 Rivers, the, 529 Rizpah, the vigil of, 598 Rock beside the sea, the, 566 -- of Cader Idris, the, 152 Rod of Aaron, the, 495 Roman girl’s song, 433 Rome, Alaric at, 95, note -- buried in her own ruins, 50 Rose, a song of the, 550 -- a thought of the, 518 Ruin, the, 469 -- and its flowers, the, 13 Rural walks, 3 Ruth, 598 Sabbath sonnet, 629 Sacred harp, the, 600 Sadness and mirth, 480 St Cecilia, for a picture of, 505 St Patrick’s, music of, 557 Sannazaro, sonnet from, 296 Sappho, last song of, 549 Scene in a Dalecarlian mine, 357 Scenes and hymns of life, 568 Sceptic, the, 106 Schepler, Louise, two sonnets to, 603 Schiller’s Wallenstein, 426 Schmidt, the Wanderer from, 523 Schwerin, marshal, grave of, 555 Scio, the voice of, 243 Scott, Sir Walter, 508, 534 -- -- funeral-day of, 585 Sculptured children, the, 496 Sea, distant sound of the, 618 -- night-hymn at, 597 -- prayer at, 589 -- sound of the, 356 -- thought of the, 618 Sea-bird flying inland, the, 484 Sea-song of Gafran, the, 146 Sebastian of Portugal, 256 -- -- -- ode on the defeat of, 254 Second-sight, 483 Secret tribunal, a tale of the, 194 “Seek by the silvery Darro,” 540 Shade of Theseus, the, 349 Shadow of a flower, the, 491 Shakspeare, 2 Shepherd-poet of the Alps, the, 512 Shore of Africa, the, 138 Shunamite woman, reply of the, 598 Sicilian captive, the, 412 Sickness, thoughts during, 627 -- like night, 628 Siege of Valencia, the, 262 Silent multitude, the, 493 Silver locks, the, 10 Silvio Pellico, to, 622 -- -- released, 622 “Sing to me, gondolier,” 563 “Sister! since I met thee last,” 559 Sister’s dream, the, 507 Sisters, the, 548 -- of Bethany, the, 599 -- of Scio, the, 455 Sister-in-law, to the memory of a, 486 Sky, to the, 617 Skylark, the, 532 Skylark, on watching the flight of a, 618 Sleeper, the, 484 -- of Marathon, the, 295 Smith, Elizabeth, lines on, 12 Soldier’s deathbed, the, 461 -- song of memory, the, 358 Song for air by Hummel, 490 -- founded on an Arabian anecdote, 293 -- of Delos, 535 -- of emigration, 451 -- of hope, the, 546 -- of Mina’s soldiers, 541 -- of night, the, 471 -- of penitence, the, 609 -- of the battle of Morgarten, the, 253 -- of the rose, a, 550 -- of the Spanish wanderer, 361 -- of the Virgin, 599 Songs for summer hours, 541 -- of a guardian spirit, 538 -- of captivity, 545 -- of our fathers, the, 366 -- of Spain, 539 -- of the affections, 442 -- of the Cid, 238 Sonnet, “A child midst ancient,” 601 -- “A fearless journeyer,” 603 -- “A song for Israel’s God,” 598 -- “All the bright hues,” 600 -- “Amidst these scenes,” 50 -- “And come, ye faithful,” 597 -- “And ye are strong,” 619 -- “As the tired voyager,” 597 -- “Back, then, once more,” 629 -- “Beside the streams,” 46 -- “Blessings be round,” 603 -- “Calm scenes,” 620 -- “Come forth,” 621 -- “Crowning a flowery slope,” 603 -- “Doth thy heart stir,” 619 -- “Exempt from every grief,” 47 -- “Fair Tajo, there,” 44 -- “Far are the wings,” 621 -- “Far from the rustlings,” 617 -- “Father in heaven,” 621 -- “Flowers! when the Saviour,” 601 -- “For there a holy,” 603 -- “Happy were they,” 601 -- “He that was dead,” 602 -- “He who proclaims,” 47 -- “High in the glowing,” 43 -- “How flows thy being,” 622 -- “How many blessed,” 629 -- “How shall the harp,” 600 -- “I cry aloud,” 138 -- “I dwell among,” 598 -- “I love to hail,” 3 -- “I met that image,” 601 -- “If e’er again,” 623 -- “If thus thy fallen,” 49 -- “If to the sighing,” 51 -- “Italia, O Italia,” 49 -- “Italia, oh! no more,” 138 -- “Like those pale stars,” 599 -- “Lowliest of women,” 598 -- “Majestic plant,” 623 -- “My earliest memories,” 618 -- “Nobly thy song,” 624 -- “Not long thy voice,” 620 -- “O Cambrian river,” 618 -- “O gentle story,” 620 -- “O festal spring,” 617 -- “O nature! there,” 628 -- “O thought, O memory,” 627 -- “O vale and lake,” 619 -- “Oft have I sung,” 45 -- “Oft in still night-dreams,” 624 -- “Oh! bless’d beyond,” 599 -- “Oh! judge in thoughtful,” 617 -- “Oh! what a joy,” 621 -- “On Judah’s hills,” 602 -- “Once more the eternal,” 622 -- “One grief, one faith,” 599 -- “Pause not,” 49 -- “Pilgrim, whose steps,” 138 -- “Poor insect, rash as rare,” 523 -- “Saved from the perils,” 46 -- “She that cast down,” 138 -- “Should love, the tyrant,” 45 -- “Soft skies of Italy,” 57 -- “Soothed by the strain,” 523 -- “Spirit beloved,” 45 -- “Spirit, so oft,” 623 -- “Spirit, whose life sustaining,” 602 -- “Still are the cowslips,” 619 -- “Still that last look,” 620 -- “Sylph of the breeze,” 51 -- “The palm, the vine,” 602 -- “The plume-like swaying,” 598 -- “The sainted spirit,” 50 -- “Then was a task,” 600 -- “There are who climb,” 622 -- “There blooms a plant,” 46 -- “There was a mournfulness,” 599 -- “These marble domes,” 50 -- “They float before my soul,” 623 -- “This green recess,” 51 -- “This mountain-scene,” 44 -- “Those eyes whence love,” 44 -- “Thou art like night,” 628 -- “Thou hast thy record,” 599 -- “Thou in thy morn,” 50 -- “Thou that wouldst mark,” 51 -- “Thou by whose power,” 45 -- “Thou who hast bled,” 50 -- “’Tis sweet to think,” 3 -- “To thee, maternal guardian,” 2 -- “Trees, gracious trees,” 619 -- “’Twas a bright moment,” 623 -- “Under a palm-tree,” 600 -- “Upward and upward,” 618 -- “Waves of Mondego,” 47 -- “We come not, fair one,” 53 -- “Weeper, to thee,” 600 -- “Welcome, O pure,” 628 -- “Well might thine awful,” 628 -- “What household thoughts,” 600 -- “What secret current,” 620 -- “When from the mountain,” 138 -- “Where shall I find,” 47 -- “Whither, celestial maid,” 53 -- “Whither, oh! whither,” 628 -- “Who watches,” 598 -- “Wrapt in sad musings,” 43 -- “Ye too, the free,” 602 -- “Yes! all things tell us,” 622 -- “Yet as a sunburst,” 599 -- “Yet rolling far,” 618 Sonnets, devotional and memorial, 600 Sound of the sea, the, 356 -- -- -- the distant, 618 Southern cross, the, 332 note Spain, songs of, 539 Spanish chapel, the, 418 -- evening hymn, 540 -- wanderer, song of the, 361 Spartans’ march, the, 243 Spells of home, the, 433 Spirit, flight of the, 628 -- of the Cape, appearance of the, to Vasco de Gama, 297 Spirit’s mysteries, the, 429 -- return, a, 442 Spring of 1834, records of the, 617 -- the voice of, 247 Stanzas on the death of the Princess Charlotte, 59 -- to the memory of ----, 360 -- -- -- George III., 187 Star of the mine, the, 485 Stars, the, 530 Stewart, Dugald, 370 note