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  • To Cruel Ocean
    Where are the hapless shipmen?--disappeared,
      Gone down, where witness none, save Night, hath been,
    8 lines
  • The Degenerate Gallants
    [HERNANI, Act I., March, 1830.]
    24 lines
  • The Father’s Curse
    [LE ROI S'AMUSE, Act I.]
    68 lines
  • An Old-Time Lay
    Where your brood seven lie,
        Float in calm heavenly,
    22 lines
  • Nero’s Incendiary Song
    Aweary unto death, my friends, a mood by wise abhorred,
    Come to the novel feast I spread, thrice-consul, Nero, lord,
    69 lines
  • The Son In Old Age
    Thy noble face, Regina, calls to mind
    My poor lost little one, my latest born.
    26 lines
  • Sweet Sister
    Sweet sister, if you knew, like me,
    The charms of guileless infancy,
    23 lines
  • Jersey
    Dear Jersey! jewel jubilant and green,
      'Midst surge that splits steel ships, but sings to thee!
    34 lines
  • Envy And Avarice
    Envy and Avarice, one summer day,
        Sauntering abroad
    71 lines
  • Genius
    Woe unto him! the child of this sad earth,
          Who, in a troubled world, unjust and blind,
    28 lines
  • The First Black Flag
    JOB. Hast thou ne'er heard men say
    That, in the Black Wood, 'twixt Cologne and Spire,
    33 lines
  • The Roll Of The De Silve Race
    [HERNANI, Act III.]
    45 lines
  • The Old And The Young Bridegroom
    [HERNANI, Act I.]
    59 lines
  • The Beggar’s Quatrain
    Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
      But one weak child to guide his vision dim.
    3 lines
  • The Sower
    Sitting in a porchway cool,
      Fades the ruddy sunlight fast,
    23 lines
  • Then, Most, I Smile
    Late it is to look so proud,
      Daisy queen! come is the gloom
    13 lines
  • On Hearing The Princess Royal Sing
    In thine abode so high
      Where yet one scarce can breathe,
    53 lines
  • Regret
    Yes, Happiness hath left me soon behind!
      Alas! we all pursue its steps! and when
    40 lines
  • The Portrait Of A Child
    That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
      Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:
    23 lines
  • The Emperor’s Return
    _The EMPEROR FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, believed to be dead, appearing
    as a beggar among the Rhenish nobility at a castle, suddenly revea
    46 lines
  • A Storm Simile
    See, where on high the moving masses, piled
    By the wind, break in groups grotesque and wild,
    5 lines
  • The Quiet Rural Church
    It was a humble church, with arches low,
      The church we entered there,
    13 lines
  • An Autumnal Simile
    The leaves that in the lonely walks were spread,
    Starting from off the ground beneath the tread,
    5 lines
  • Esmeralda In Prison
    [OPERA OF "ESMERALDA," ACT IV., 1836.]
    16 lines
  • Lord Rochester’s Song
    [CROMWELL, ACT I.]
    28 lines
  • The Pity Of Angels
    [LA PITIE SUPREME VIII., 1881.]
    11 lines
  • Paternal Love
    [LE ROI S'AMUSE, Act II]
    29 lines
  • Serenade
    When the voice of thy lute at the eve
            Charmeth the ear,
    25 lines
  • The Exile’s Desire
    Would I could see you, native land,
    Where lilacs and the almond stand
    28 lines
  • The Refugee’s Haven
    You may doubt I find comfort in England
      But, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers!
    3 lines
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