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The Poetical Works of Horace Smith

Now First Collected. In Two Volumes

Smith, Horace (1779-1849)

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I.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

PREFATORY STANZAS.

HYMN TO THE FLOWERS.

ADDRESS TO A MUMMY.

ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES,

SICILIAN ARETHUSA.

THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS.

THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE.

THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION.

THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER.

THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING.

MORAL COSMETICS.

THE OLD MAN'S PÆAN.

ANSWER TO “AN OLD MAN'S PÆAN.”

THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE.

THE SUN'S ECLIPSE.

LACHRYMOSE WRITERS.

WHY ARE THEY SHUT?

THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR.

DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET.

CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL.

THE LIFE AND DEATH.

HOPE'S YEARNINGS.

TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE.

UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS.

TO THE FURZE BUSH.

THE FIRST OF MARCH.

INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO.

SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENCE.

THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

THE CHOLERA MORBUS.

THE RECANTATION.

THE POET AMONG THE TREES.

TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.

THE SONG-VISION.

THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE.

THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING.

AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION.

THE CHARMS OF LIFE.

A HINT TO CYNICS.

THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM.

A HINT TO THE FARMERS.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE DYING POET'S FAREWELL.

TO THE SETTING SUN.

ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN.

ON A GREEN-HOUSE.

ON A STUPENDOUS LEG OF GRANITE,

WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT.

ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

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The Poetical Works of Horace Smith

Now First Collected. In Two Volumes

Horace Smith

1779-1849

Henry Colburn

London

1846