Records of Woman: with Other Poems

by Felicia Hemans

RECORDS OF WOMAN:

WITH OTHER POEMS.

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EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JOHN JOHNSTONE.

RECORDS OF WOMAN:

 

WITH OTHER POEMS.

 

BY

FELICIA HEMANS.

 

⁠———Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast.
⁠Wordsworth.

Das ist das Loos des Schönen auf der Erde!
⁠Schiller.

 

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXVIII.

TO

 

MRS. JOANNA BAILLIE,

THIS VOLUME,

 

AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF
GRATEFUL RESPECT AND ADMIRATION,

 

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.
Arabella Stuart,⁠	3
The Bride of the Greek Isle,	21
The Switzer's Wife,	35
Properzia Rossi,	45
Gertrude, or Fidelity till death,	55
Imelda,	61
Edith, a Tale of the Woods,	69
The Indian City,	83
The Peasant Girl of the Rhone,	97
Indian Woman's Death Song,	104
Joan of Arc, in Rheims,	109
Pauline,	116
Juana,	123
The American Forest Girl,	131
Coztanza,	136
Madeline, a Domestic Tale,	144
The Queen of Prussia's Tomb,	150
The Memorial Pillar,	155
The Grave of a Poetess,	160
Notes to Records of Woman,	165
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
The Homes of England,	169
The Sicilian Captive,	172
Ivan the Czar,	180
Carolan's Prophecy,	187
The Lady of the Castle,	194
The Mourner for the Barmecides,	200
The Spanish Chapel,	208
The Captive Knight,	213
The Kaiser's Feast,	215
Tasso and his Sister,	221
Ulla, or the Adjuration,	226
To Wordsworth,	232
A Monarch's Death-bed,	234
To the Memory of Heber,	237
The Adopted Child,	239
Invocation,	242
Körner and his Sister,	245
An Hour of Romance,	250
A Voyager's Dream of Land,	253
The Effigies,	257
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England,	261
The Spirit's Mysteries,	264
The Departed,	267
The Palm-tree,	271
The Child's Last Sleep,	275
The Sunbeam,	277
Breathings of Spring,	280
The Illuminated City,	283
The Spells of Home,	286
Roman Girl's Song,	288
The Distant Ship,	293
The Birds of Passage,	296
The Graves of a Household,	299
Mozart's Requiem,	302
The Image in Lava,	307
The Last Wish,	311
Fairy Favours,	315
A Parting Song,	318