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The poems posthumous and collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849)

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VOL. I.
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THE SECOND BROTHER;
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TORRISMOND;
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DRAMATIC SCENES AND FRAGMENTS.
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I. ERMINIA ABBANDONATA.
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II. AN APOTHEOSIS.
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III. The Israelite amid Philistines.
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IV. Lovers' Identity.
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V. Prison Thoughts.
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VI. Man's petty Universe contrasted with the True.
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VII. Recognition.
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VIII. Reception of Evil Tidings.
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IX. A Ruffian.
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X. Recollection of Early Life.
 XI. 
XI. A Crocodile.
 XII. 
XII. “Bona de Mortuis.”
 XIII. 
XIII. Rosily dying.
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XIV. Speaker's Meaning dimly descried.
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XV. Anticipation of Evil Tidings.
 XVI. 
XVI. Midnight Hymn.
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XVII. Concealed Joy.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. Life a Glass Window.
 XIX. 
XIX. A Dream.
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XX. Metaphor of Rain.
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XXI. Meditation.
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XXII. Sweet to Die.
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XXIII. Extreme Acclivity.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. Rain.
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XXV. Life's Uncertainty.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. Kisses.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. Subterranean City.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. Dream of Dying.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. Insignificance of the World.
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XXX. Sleeper's Countenance contemplated.
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XXXI. A beautiful Night.
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XXXII. Humble Beginnings.
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XXXIII. A Countenance foreboding Evil.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. A lofty Mind.
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XXXV. Sorrow.
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XXXVI. Sad and cheerful Songs contrasted.
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XXXVII. A subterranean City.
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XXXVIII. Man's anxious, but ineffectual, Guard against Death.
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XXXIX. A Day of surpassing Beauty.
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XL. The slight and degenerate Nature of Man.
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XLI. A Night-Scene.
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XLII. Dirge.
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XLIII. Mourners consoled.
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XLIV. A great Sacrifice self-compensated.
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XLV. “Love is wiser than Ambition.”
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XLVI. The Murderer's haunted Couch.
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XLVII. Human Life: its value.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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POETIC FRAGMENTS.
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VOL. II.

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THRENODY.

No sunny ray, no silver night,
Here cruelly alight!
Glare of noon-tide, star of e'en,
Otherwhere descend!
No violet-eyed green,
With its daisies' yellow end,
The dewy debt receive of any eye!
It is a grave: and she doth lie
'Neath roses' root,
And the fawn's mossy foot,
Under the sky-lark's grassy floor,
Whose graceful life held every day,—
As lilies, dew—as dews, the starry ray—
More music, grace, delight than they.
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When stars are few let light be here,
Of the softest, through the boughs
Berry-laden, sad and few;
And the wings of one small bird,
His form unseen, his voice unheard— [OMITTED]
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