The Poetical Works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton ::

The Poetical Works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton

Collected ed.

Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)

VOLUME I

MEMORIALS OF TRAVELS IN GREECE

THE ELD.

CORFU.

A DREAM OF SAPPHO.

THE RETURN OF ULYSSES.

TEMPE.

OLYMPUS.

A VISION OF THE ARGONAUTS.

THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLÆ.

GREEK RELIGION

MARATHON.

THE CONCENTRATION OF ATHENS.

PELASGIAN AND CYCLOPEAN WALLS.

WRITTEN AT MYCENÆ.

GRECIAN SUNSET.

A GRECIAN THUNDER-STORM.

CORINTH,

MODERN GREECE.

ON RETURNING TO GREECE IN 1842.

DELPHI.

THE TOMB OF LAIUS.

THE FLOWERS OF HELICON.

MODERN ATHENS.

DELOS.

MEMORIALS OF TRAVELS IN ITALY.

AN ITALIAN TO ITALY.

WRITTEN IN PETRARCH'S HOUSE AT ARQUA,

FEELINGS EXCITED BY SOME MILITARY MANŒUVRES AT VERONA.

MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE.

II.

III.

IV.

THE VENETIAN SERENADE.

FROM GÖTHE.

A DREAM IN A GONDOLA.

ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE.

TO ---

TO THE MOON OF THE SOUTH.

PICTURES IN VERSE.

I. PICTURE BY GIOV. BELLINI, IN THE CHURCH OF THE REDENTORE AT VENICE.

II.

II. THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. CHRISTINA,

III.

III. JESUS AND JOHN CONTENDING FOR THE CROSS.

IV.

IV. CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO PURGATORY.

SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S.

THE ILLUMINATIONS OF ST. PETER'S.

THE FIREWORKS.

ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE LADY GWENDOLIN TALBOT WITH THE ELDEST SON OF THE PRINCE BORGHESE.

ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS BORGHESE,

ROMAN RUINS.

ON A SCENE IN TUSCANY.

SWITZERLAND AND ITALY.

PALM LEAVES.

THE GREEK AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

THE TURK AT CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE FRANK.

THE HAREEM.

THE MOSQUE.

MOHAMMEDANISM.

THE SONG OF THE WAHABEES.

ARABIAN LEGENDS.

I. THE PRIDE OF NIMROD.

II.

II. ABRAHAM AND HIS GODS.

III.

III. MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI.

IV.

IV. SOLOMON AND THE ANTS.

V. FALLING STARS.

VI.

VI. THE INFANCY OF MOHAMMED.

VII.

VII. MOHAMMED AND THE MISER.

VIII.

VIII. MOHAMMED AND THE BLIND ABDALLAH.

IX.

IX. MOHAMMED AND THE ASSASSIN.

EASTERN THOUGHTS

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I. THE THINKER AND THE POET.

II.

II. THE EASTERN EPICUREAN.

III.

IV.

IV. PHYSICAL AND MORAL BLINDNESS.

V. DISCORDANT ELEMENTS.

VI.

VI. THE TWO THEOLOGIES.

VII.

VII. LOSS AND GAIN.

VIII.

VIII. THE MOTH.

IX.

IX. THE SAYINGS OF RABIA.

X. PLEASURE AND PAIN.

XI.

XI. THE PEACE OF GOD.

XII.

XII. CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE.

A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESSION ON THE NILE.

OTHER SCENES.

THE RIVER TRAUN.

TO AN ENGLISH LADY,

ON THE CHURCH OF THE MADELEINE AT PARIS.

ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE,

THE SAME.

ON COWPER'S GARDEN AT OLNEY.

ON MILTON'S COTTAGE, AT CHALFONT ST. GILES,

ANSWER TO WORDSWORTH'S SONNET AGAINST THE KENDAL AND BOWNESS RAILWAY.

TINTERN ABBEY.

ON THE GRAVE OF BISHOP KEN,

OCCASIONAL POEMS.

THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON.

IRELAND, 1847.

A MONUMENT FOR SCUTARI,

ON THE PEACE

CRIMEAN INVALID SOLDIERS REAPING AT ALDERSHOT.

COLUMBUS AND THE MAY-FLOWER.

CHINA, 1857.

AN ENVOY TO AN AMERICAN LADY.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1863.

ON THE OPENING OF THE FIRST PUBLIC PLEASURE-GROUND AT BIRMINGHAM

WORKMAN'S CHORAL SONG.

ON THE OPENING OF THE ALBERT HALL

IN MEMORIAM.

LADY CAMPBELL.

GEORGE VERNON COLEBROKE.

ARTHUR AND HELEN HALLAM.

MRS. DENISON.

MARY AND AGNES BERRY.

DRYDEN AND THACKERAY.

THE DEATH OF LIVINGSTONE.

GHAZELES.

II.

III.

III. WRITTEN AT AMALFI.

IV.

IV. TO ------.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

BALLAD.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING.

VERSICLES.

[Amid the factions of the field of life]

[I sent my memo'ry out]

[The heart that Passion never fired]

[Because your nature can extend]

(PREFIXED TO PALM LEAVES.)

[Through clouds of care mankind must move]

[Since in this world's eternal chorus]

TO A. H. H.

II.

VOLUME II

POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION.

MUTABILITY.

TO A CHILD WITH BLACK EYES AND GOLDEN HAIR.

CARPE DIEM.

THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH.

ON LEAVING A PLACE WHERE ONE HAD DWELT MANY YEARS.

YOUTH'S FAIR RESOLVE.

THE LAY OF THE HUMBLE.

THE VIOLET-GIRL.

ON MY YOUTHFUL LETTERS.

FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.

THE FRIENDSHIP-FLOWER.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

VIII. WRITTEN AT THE BATHS OF LUCCA.

THE VOICES OF HISTORY.

THE BARREN HILL.

THE CHRONICLE OF HOPES.

THE PALSY OF THE HEART.

THE WORLD TO THE SOUL.

THE EXHAUSTION OF LIFE.

THE SOLITUDE OF LIFE.

THE WEARY SOUL.

THE MARTYRS OF THE MIND.

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE.

I. LABOUR.

II.

II. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

III.

III. THE PATIENCE OF THE POOR.

IV.

VI.

THE SPRING AND THE BROOK.

LOVE WITHOUT SYMPATHY.

ON ALFRED OF ENGLAND.

INSERTED IN M. RIO'S WORK, “LA PETITE CHOUANNERIE.”

“THE INFANT'S THREE SABBATHS.”

THE OLD MANORIAL HALL.

THE DEPARTURE OF ST. PATRICK FROM SCOTLAND.

BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN.

BRETON FAITH.

THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD.

PRINCE EMILIUS OF HESSEN-DARMSTADT.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE LAC DE GAUBE IN THE PYRENEES.

VENUS AND THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT.

THE NORTHERN KNIGHT IN ITALY.

CHARLEMAGNE, AND THE HYMN OF CHRIST.

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A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESSION ON THE NILE.

When you have lain for weeks together
On such a noble river's breast,
And learnt its face in every weather,
And loved its motions and its rest,—

'Tis hard at some appointed place
To check your course and turn your prow,
And objects for themselves retrace
You past with added hope just now.

The silent highway forward beckons,
And all the bars that reason plants
Now disappointed fancy reckons
As foolish fears or selfish wants.

The very rapids, rocks, and shoals
Seem but temptations which the stream
Holds out to energetic souls,
That worthy of its love may seem.

But life is full of limits; heed not
One more or less—the forward track
May often give you what you need not,
While wisdom waits on turning back.

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A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESSION ON THE NILE.