Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans

Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans (1836)
by Felicia Hemans
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POETICAL REMAINS


OF THE LATE


MRS HEMANS.



Vainly, too vainly 'gainst the power I strive,
Which, night and day, comes rushing through my soul!
Without that pouring forth of thought and song
My life is life no more!
Wilt thou forbid the silkworm to spin on,
When hourly with the laboured line he draws
Nearer to death?—In vain! the costly web
Must from his inmost being still be wrought,
Till he lies wrapt in his consummate shroud.
Oh! that a gracious God to us may give
The lot of that blest worm!—to spread free wings
And burst exultingly on brighter life,
In a new realm of sunshine!
Translated by F. H. From the Tasso of Goethe.




WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH;
AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.
MDCCCXXXVI.



Contents.




PAGE

Despondency and Aspiration

1

The Huguenot's Farewell

11

The English Boy

15

Antique Greek Lament

19

To a Picture of the Madonna

23

Records of the Spring of 1834

27

I. A Vernal Thought

28

II. To the Sky

29

III. On watching the Flight of a Sky-Lark

30

IV. On Records of Immature Genius

31

V. A Thought of the Sea

32

VI. Distant Sound of the Sea at Evening

33

VII. The River Clwyd in North Wales

34

VIII. Orchard Blossoms

35

IX. To a Distant Scene

36

X. Thoughts connected with Trees

37

XI. The Same

38

XII. A Remembrance of Grasmere

39

XIII. On reading Paul and Virginia in Childhood

40

XIV. A Thought at Sunset

41

XV. Images of Patriarchal Life

42

XVI. Attraction of the East

43

XVII. To an Aged Friend

44

XVIII. Foliage

45

XIX. A Prayer

46

XX. Prayer Continued

47

XXI. Memorial of a Conversation

48

Records of the Autumn of 1834

49

I. The Return to Poetry

49

II. On reading Coleridge's Epitaph written by Himself

50

III. Dreams of the Dead

51

IV. Hope of Future Communion with Nature

52

V. On the Datura Arborea

53

VI. On a Scene in the Dargle

54

VII. Design and Performance

55

VIII. The Poetry of the Psalms

56

IX. To Silvio Pellico on Reading his "Prigione,"

57

X. To the Same, Released

58

The Shepherd Poet of the Alps

59

Marguerite of France

71

The Free'd Bird

79

To the Mountain Winds

83

The Procession

86

To the Blue Anemone

90

The Broken Lute

94

The Burial in the Desert

101

The Maremma

105

Sebastian of Portugal

121

Translations from Horace

154

I. To Venus

154

II. To his Attendant

155

III. To Delius

157

IV. To the Fountain of Bandusia

160

V. To Faunus

163

VI. In Imitation of part of Ode III. Book II.

165

On the Hebe of Canova

166

From the Italian of Filicaya

167

Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal, and his Army in Africa

168

Fragments from the Iphigenia of Goethe

176

I. Joy of Pylades on hearing his Native Language

176

II. Exclamation of Iphigenia on seeing her Brother

177

III. Lot of Man and Woman compared by Iphigenia

178

IV. Longing of Orestes for repose

179

V. "Hark! in the trembling leaves,"

180

The Sculptured Children

181

The Voice of Music

186

The Chieftain's Son

189

Psyche borne by Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure

192

Passing Away

196

Belshazzar's Feast

199

The Wish

206

Song for Air by Hummel

209

A Fragment

210

To a Wandering Female Singer

212

Song of the Spanish Wanderer

214

No More

216

To my own Portrait

219

The Broken Chain

222

The Angler

225

Dreams of Heaven

228

The Funeral Genius, an Antique Statue

232

The Song of Penitence

236

A Tale of the Fourteenth Century

239

The Bard's Farewell

267

The Prayer for Life

271

The Welcome to Death

275

Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna, in 1829

278

The Wanderer

279

Welsh Melodies

281

I. Druid Chorus on the Landing of the Romans

283

II. The Sea-song of Gavran

285

III. The Hall of Cynddylan

287

IV. The Lament of Llywarch Hen

289

V. Grufydd's Feast

292

VI. The Cambrian in America

295

VII. The Monarchy of Britain

297

VIII. Taliesin's Prophecy

299

IX. Owen Glyndwr's War Song

302

X. Prince Madoc's Farewell

306

XI. Caswallon's Triumph

308

XII. Howel's Song

310

XIII. The Mountain-Fires

313

XV. Eryri Wen

316

XVI. Chant of the Bards before their Massacre by Edward I.

319

Sabbath Sonnet

321


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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