MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

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On my joyful Departure from the same City (Cologne)..

Written in an Album....

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To the Author of the Ancient Mariner.

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Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy.....

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The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified..

The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified.

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To the young Artist, Kayser of Kayserworth...

Job's Luck.....

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Part I. The Prelude, entitled "The Usurper's Fortune"......
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Part II. The Sequel, entitled "The Usurper's Fate”.

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THE PICCOLOMINI; or, THE FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN: A Drama.

Translated from the German of Schiller...

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THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN: A Tragedy in Five Acts..

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Notes to the Translation....

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JUVENILE POEMS

And sweet your Voice, as Seraph's song.
Yet not your heavenly Beauty gives
This heart with passion soft to glow :
Within your soul a Voice there lives!
It bids you hear the tale of Woe.
When sinking low the Sufferer wan
Beholds no hand outstretcht to save,
Fair, as the bosom of the Swan
That rises graceful o'er the wave,
I've seen your breast with pity heave,
And therefore love I you, sweet Genevieve!

SONNET.

TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON.

MILD Splendor of the various-vested Night!
Mother of wildly-working visions! hail!
I watch thy gliding, while with watery light
Thy weak eye glimmers through a fleecy veil;
And when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud
Behind the gathered blackness lost on high;
And when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud
Thy placid lightning o'er the awakened sky.
Ah such is Hope! as changeful and as fair!
Now dimly peering on the wistful sight;
Now hid behind the dragon-winged Despair:
But soon emerging in her radiant might
She o'er the sorrow-clouded breast of Care
Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight.

ANTHEM

FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

SERAPHS! around th' Eternal's seat who throng
With tuneful ecstacies of praise :

O! teach our feeble tongues like yours the song
Of fervent gratitude to raise-

Like you, inspir'd with holy flame

To dwell on that Almighty name

Who bade the child of woe no longer sigh,
And Joy in tears o'erspread the Widow's eye.

Th' all-gracious Parent hears the wretch's prayer;
The meek tear strongly pleads on high;
Wan Resignation struggling with despair
The Lord beholds with pitying eye;
Sees cheerless want unpitied pine,
Disease on earth its head recline,

And bids compassion seek the realms of woe
To heal the wounded, and to raise the low.

She comes! she comes! the meek ey'd power I see With liberal hand that loves to bless;

The clouds of sorrow at her presence flee;

Rejoice! rejoice! ye children of distress!

The beams that play around her head

Thro' want's dark vale their radiance spread : The young uncultur'd mind imbibes the ray,

And vice reluctant quits th' expected prey.

Cease, thou lorn mother! cease thy wailings drear ·
Ye babes! the unconscious sob forego;

Or let full gratitude now prompt the tear
Which erst did sorrow force to flow.
Unkindly cold and tempest shrill

In life's morn oft the traveller chill,

But soon his path the sun of Love shall warm;
And each glad scene look brighter for the storm!