SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS,
WITH
OTHER POEMS.
BY FELICIA HEMANS.
They tell but dreams—a lonely spirit's dreams:—
Yet ever through their fleeting imagery
Wanders a vein of melancholy love.
An aimless thought of home:—as in the song
Of the caged skylark ye may deem there dwells
A passionate memory of blue skies and flowers.
And living streams—far off!
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND
T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.
MDCCCXXX.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,
PAUL'S WORK, CANONGATE.
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR ROBERT LISTON,
AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF
GRATEFUL RESPECT,
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
CONTENTS.
|
PAGE
|
| A Spirit's Return, |
3
|
| The Lady of Provence, |
18
|
| The Coronation of Inez De Castro, |
30
|
| Italian Girl's Hymn to the Virgin, |
36
|
| To a Departed Spirit, |
40
|
| The Chamois Hunter's Love, |
43
|
| The Indian with his Dead Child, |
48
|
| Song of Emigration, |
52
|
| The King of Arragon's Lament for his Brother, |
56
|
| The Return, |
62
|
| The Vaudois' Wife, |
65
|
| The Guerilla Leader's Vow, |
71
|
| Thekla at her Lover's Grave, |
75
|
| The Sisters of Scio, |
78
|
| Bernardo Del Carpio, |
81
|
| The Tomb of Madame Langhans, |
89
|
| The Exile's Dirge, |
92
|
| The Dreaming Child, |
96
|
| The Charmed Picture, |
99
|
| Parting Words, |
102
|
| The Message to the Dead, |
105
|
| The Two Homes, |
109
|
| The Soldier's Deathbed, |
112
|
| The Image in the Heart, |
115
|
| The Land of Dreams, |
119
|
| Woman on the Field of Battle, |
123
|
| The Deserted House, |
127
|
| The Stranger's Heart, |
131
|
| Come Home, |
133
|
| The Fountain of Oblivion, |
135
|
| The Bridal Day, |
141
|
| The Ancestral Song, |
147
|
| The Magic Glass, |
152
|
| Corinne at the Capitol, |
156
|
| The Ruin, |
160
|
| The Minster, |
165
|
| The Song of Night, |
168
|
| The Storm Painter in his Dungeon, |
172
|
| Death and the Warrior, |
176
|
| The Two Voices, |
179
|
| The Parting Ship, |
183
|
| The Last Tree of the Forest, |
187
|
| The Streams, |
191
|
| The Voice of the Wind, |
196
|
| The Vigil of Arms, |
201
|
| The Heart of Bruce in Melrose Abbey, |
205
|
| Nature's Farewell, |
208
|
| The Beings of the Mind, |
212
|
| The Lyre's Lament, |
217
|
| Tasso's Coronation, |
221
|
| The Better Land, |
225
|
| The Wounded Eagle, |
227
|
| Sadness and Mirth, |
230
|
| The Nightingale's Death Song, |
234
|
| The Diver, |
238
|
| The Requiem of Genius, |
242
|
| Triumphant Music, |
246
|
| Second Sight, |
249
|
| The Sea-Bird Flying Inland, |
252
|
| The Sleeper, |
254
|
| The Mirror in the Deserted Hall, |
257
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