The Poems of Felicia Hemans
To a Picture of the Madonna 517
A Thought of the Rose 518
Dreams of Heaven _ib._
The Wish 519
Written after visiting a Tomb near Woodstock, in the
county of Kilkenny _ib._
Epitaph 520
Prologue to the Tragedy of Fiesco _ib._
To Giulio Regondi, the Boy Guitarist _ib._
O ye Hours! _ib._
The Freed Bird 521
Marguerite of France _ib._
The Wanderer 523
The Last Words of the Last Wasp of Scotland _ib._
To Caroline 524
The Flower of the Desert _ib._
Critical Annotations _ib._
HYMNS FOR CHILDHOOD.
Introductory Verses 528
The Rainbow 529
The Sun _ib._
The Rivers _ib._
The Stars 530
The Ocean _ib._
The Thunder-storm 531
The Birds _ib._
The Skylark. Child’s Morning Hymn 532
The Nightingale. Child’s Evening Hymn _ib._
The Northern Spring 533
Paraphrase of Psalm 148 _ib._
NATIONAL LYRICS, AND SONGS FOR MUSIC.
NATIONAL LYRICS.
The Themes of Song 534
Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory. To the air of
“Am Rhein! Am Rhein!” _ib._
A Song of Delos 535
Ancient Greek Chant of Victory 536
Naples. A Song of the Syren _ib._
The Fall of D’Assas. A Ballad of France 537
The Burial of William the Conqueror _ib._
SONGS OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT.
Near thee! still near thee! 538
Oh! Droop thou not _ib._
SONGS OF SPAIN.
Ancient Battle-Song 539
The Zegri Maid _ib._
The Rio Verde Song _ib._
Seek by the Silvery Darro 540
Spanish Evening Hymn _ib._
Bird that art Singing on Ebro’s Side! _ib._
Moorish Gathering-Song _ib._
The Song of Mina’s Soldiers 541
Mother! Oh, sing me to rest _ib._
There are Sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles _ib._
SONGS FOR SUMMER HOURS.
And I too in Arcadia 541
The Wandering Wind 542
Ye are not miss’d, fair Flowers! _ib._
The Willow Song _ib._
Leave me not yet 543
The Orange Bough _ib._
The Stream set Free _ib._
The Summer’s Call _ib._
Oh! Skylark, for thy Wing! 544
SONGS OF CAPTIVITY.
Introduction 545
The Brother’s Dirge _ib._
The Alpine Horn _ib._
O ye Voices! _ib._
I Dream of all things Free 546
Far o’er the Sea _ib._
The Invocation _ib._
The Song of Hope _ib._
MISCELLANEOUS LYRICS.
The Call to Battle 547
Mignon’s Song. Translated from Goethe _ib._
The Sisters. A Ballad 548
The Last Song of Sappho 549
Dirge _ib._
A Song of the Rose 550
Night-Blowing Flowers 551
The Wanderer and the Night-Flowers _ib._
Echo-Song _ib._
The Muffled Drum 552
The Swan and the Skylark _ib._
The Curfew-Song of England 553
Genius Singing to Love 554
Music at a Deathbed _ib._
Marshal Schwerin’s Grave 555
The Fallen Lime-Tree _ib._
The Bird at Sea 556
The Dying Girl and Flowers _ib._
The Ivy-Song 557
The Music of St Patrick’s _ib._
Keene; or, Lament of an Irish Mother over her Son Far Away 558
The Lyre and Flower 559
Sister! since I met thee last _ib._
The Lonely Bird _ib._
Dirge at Sea _ib._
Pilgrim’s Song to the Evening Star 560
The Meeting of the Ships _ib._
Come Away _ib._
Fair Helen of Kirkconnel 561
Music from Shore _ib._
Look on me with thy cloudless eyes 561
If thou hast crush’d a flower 562
Brightly hast thou fled _ib._
The Bed of Heath _ib._
Fairy Song _ib._
What Woke the Buried Sound 563
Sing to me, Gondolier! _ib._
Look on me thus no more _ib._
O’er the far blue Mountains _ib._
O thou Breeze of Spring! _ib._
Come to me, Dreams of Heaven! 564
Good-Night _ib._
Let her Depart _ib._
How can that Love so deep, so lone 565
Water-Lilies. A Fairy Song _ib._
The Broken Flower _ib._
I would we had not met again _ib._
Fairies’ Recall _ib._
The Rock beside the Sea 566
O ye Voices gone! _ib._
By a Mountain-Stream at rest _ib._
Is there some Spirit sighing _ib._
The Name of England 567
Old Norway. A Mountain War-song _ib._
Come to me, Gentle Sleep! _ib._
SCENES AND HYMNS OF LIFE.
Preface 568
The English Martyrs. A scene of the days of Queen Mary _ib._
Flowers and Music in a Room of Sickness 572
Cathedral Hymn 574
Wood Walk and Hymn 576
Prayer of the Lonely Student 577
The Traveller’s Evening Song 579
Burial of an Emigrant’s Child in the Forests _ib._
Easter-Day in a Mountain Churchyard 581
The Child Reading the Bible 583
A Poet’s Dying Hymn _ib._
The Funeral-Day of Sir Walter Scott 585
The Prayer in the Wilderness 586
Prisoners’ Evening Service. A Scene of the French Revolution 587
Hymn of the Vaudois Mountaineers in times of Persecution 588
Prayer at Sea after Victory 589
The Indian’s Revenge. Scene in the life of a Moravian Missionary 590
Evening Song of the Weary 592
The Day of Flowers _ib._
Hymn of the Traveller’s Household on his Return--in
the Olden Time 594
The Painter’s Last Work 595
A Prayer of Affection 596
Mother’s Litany by the Sick-bed of a Child _ib._
Night-Hymn at Sea. The words written for a melody by Felton 597
SONNETS.
FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE.
Invocation _ib._
Invocation continued _ib._
The Song of Miriam 598
Ruth 598
The Vigil of Rizpah _ib._
The Reply of the Shunamite Woman _ib._
The Annunciation _ib._
The Song of the Virgin 599
The Penitent anointing Christ’s Feet _ib._
Mary at the Feet of Christ _ib._
The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus _ib._
The Memorial of Mary 599
The Women of Jerusalem at the Cross _ib._
Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre 600