POEMS
AND
TRANSLATIONS.
TRANSLATIONS
FROM
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
WITH A FEW ORIGINAL POEMS.
BY
RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD
LONDON:
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.
1869.
CONTENTS.
TRANSLATIONS.
From Charles Baudelaire.
A Carcass 11
Lesbos 16
From Don Juan Manuel.
Couplets 21
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
To the Muse 31
Song, "Let the Violet Die" 33
The Willow-Tree 35
Stanzas Written at Babicoube Bat ... 36
May Memories 38
The Bounty of Nature 39 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS— continued.
PAGE.
Nature's Forgiveness 4°
Home from Sea 4^
Memory 4*
"Sleep, Sister, in Thy Grassy Grave" ... 44
Spring 4^
Hope 47
To a Philanthropist 49
Hyacinths and Primroses S^
SONNETS.
"Father! I Know Thy Spirit Watches Over" . 55
To W. T. Waite, with a Juvenile Poem . . 5^
In Memory of E. M. T 57
Written in Devon 5^
Books and Nature 59
To W. C. C 60
Steam 61
Furze Blossom 62
Simplicity of Life 63
A Sailor's Wedding Party 64
To , WITH a Translation of the Odes of
Horace 65
SONNETS— continued.
PAGE,
May, 1860 66
February, 1866 67
To THE Rev. S. B. Burrell 68
ESSEX PASTORALS.
The Ass in Lion's Skin ; or, The Essex Cato 73
Churchwarden Cato 76
The Philosophical Doctor . . . 80
My Pastor and Friend . . 83
Tap of Whitechapel 86
"Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum."
TRANSLATIONS
FROM
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE,
&c.