Memoir and poetical remains of Henry Kirke White; also Melancholy hours

Front matter

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Contents

INTRODUCTION— BY REV. JOHN TODD - - 11

Lines, by Professor Smyth of Cambridge, on a monument erected by Frances Boot, Esq., an American Gentleman, in All Saints' Church, Cambridge, to the memory of Henry Kirke White ... 56 ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE— BY ROBERT SOUTHEY ... 57

POEMS INSERTED IN THE LIFE.

Part II 241

The dance of the Consumptives. An eccentric Drama 250 To a friend. Written at a very early age - - 256

Lines, on reading the Poems of Warton ... 258

To the Muse 259

To Love 261

The Wandering Boy .262

Fragment. The Western Gale - - - .263

Ode, written on Whit-Monday - . - - -266 Canzonet. " Maiden wrap thy mantle round thee" - 2G7 Commencement of a Poem on Despair - - -268

To the Wind at midnight 270

Sonnet. To December ...... 272

The fair Maid of Clifton 273

Song. The Robin Red-breast 277

Winter Song 278

Song. " Sweet Jessy ! I would fain caress" . - 279

Oh, that I were the fragrant flower that kisses 279

Fragment. On Rural Solitude . . . .280

■ ■ " In hollow music sighing through the

glade" 281

" Thou mongrel who dost show thy teeth,

and yelp" - .282

Ode to the Morning Star . . - - - - 283

The Hermit of the Pacific 284

Elegy occasioned by the death of Mr, Gill - . 288 Extemporaneous Verses .-..-- 289

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To Poesy . 291

Fragment. " I have a wish, and near my heart" - 293

" Once more his beagles wake the slumbering morn" .-.---- 294

■ . " Drear winter ! who dost knock" - - 294

. " Behold the Shepherd boy, who homeward

tends" 296

"Where yonder woods in gloomy pomp

"To a friend" 300

. " With slow step, along the desert sand" - 300

. " Oh had the soul's deep silence power to

. ■ "The harp is still! Weak though the

■ " Or should the day be overcast" - - 302

■ "Mild Vesper! favorite of the Paphian

Queen" 302

" In every clime from Lapland to Japan" 303

. Ode to Liberty 303

"Who is it leads the planets on their

dance" 305

«' How beautiful upon the element" - 307

" Ghosts of the dead in grim array" - 308

Ode on the death of the Duke D'Enghien - - 309

Versification of the XXIL Psalm .... 310

The eve of Death 312

Thanatos - - 313

Music -- 318

On being confined to school one pleasant morning in

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Ode to the Harvest Moon 322

Song-, " Soflly, softly blow, ye breezes" - - . 324

The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the night - - 328 Sonnet. " Sweet to the gay of heart is summer's

smile" 328

My own Character ..-..-- 329

Ode on Disappointment ...--. 331 Lines written in Wilford Church yard on recovery

from sickness - . - - - - - - 334

FRAGMENTS.

"Saw'st thou that light?" - - - - 355

" The pious man" .... 355

" Lo on the eastern summit, clad in gray" - 356

• "There was a little bird upon that pile" - 356

" O pale art thou my lamp, and faint" - 357

" O give me music — for my soul doth faint" 357

" Ah ! who can say, however fair his view" 358

• " And must thou go and must we part" - 359

. " When I sit musing on the checker'd past" 359

• " When high romance o'er every wood and

■ " Hushed is the lyre — the hand that swept" 360

" Once more and yet once more" - - 361

MELANCHOLY HOURS.

No III 395

No IV. 403

CONTENTS. IX

No VI 417

No VII .423

No IX 436

NoX 447

No XII 455

TRIBUTARY VERSES.

Lines by Lord Byron inserted in "Introduction" . 24

To the memory of H. Kirke White. By a lady . 465

Stanzas written at the grave of H. Kirke White . 468

Ode on the late H. Kirke White - - - - 469 Verses occasioned by the death of H. Kirke White by

Josiah Conder ....... 470

Sonnet by Arthur Owen ...... 473

Sonnet in memory of H. Kirke White ... 474 Reflections on reading the Life of H. Kirke White by

William Holloway - 474

On reading the Poem on Solitude — Josiah Conder . 476 To the memory of H. Kirke White by Rev. W. B.

Collyer, A. M 477

Verses written in the Homer of Mr. H. Kirke White 479

On the Death of H. Kirke White by T. Park . . 480