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Author |
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne, 1793-1835 |
Title |
SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS, WITH OTHER POEMS. By Felicia Hemans. |
Imprint |
William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, Strand, London. 1830 |
Physical description |
iii, 259 p. ; 18 cm |
Citation |
Jackson,
Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 155. |
Call number |
WPRP 252 |
Notes |
Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Liston. |
Epigraph |
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!
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Online copies |
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Contents |
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 |
Miscellaneous Poems | |
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 the Night | 168 |
The Storm Painted 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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