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The Poetical Works of Sydney Dobell

With Introductory Notice and Memoir by John Nichol
Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874)

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VOL. I.
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THE ROMAN.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  
A MUSING ON A VICTORY.
  
ISABEL.
  
TO A CATHEDRAL TOWER, ON THE EVENING OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF WATERLOO.
  
CRAZED.
  
THE SNOWDROP IN THE SNOW.
  
THE HARPS OF HEAVEN.
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SONNETS ON THE WAR.
  
L'AVENIR.
  
THE ARMY SURGEON.
  
THE WOUNDED.
  
THE WOUNDED.
  
VOX POPULI.
  
CZAR NICHOLAS.
  
CAVALRY CHARGE AT BALACLAVA.
  
HOME, IN WAR-TIME.
  
WARNING.
  
AMERICA.
  
AMERICA.
  
A STATESMAN.
  
POLAND. ITALY. HUNGARY.
  
JERUSALEM.
  
AUSTRIAN ALLIANCE.
  
CHILDLESS.
  
THE COMMON GRAVE.
  
ESSE ET POSSE.
  
GOOD-NIGHT IN WAR-TIME.
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ENGLAND IN TIME OF WAR.
  
DESOLATE.
  
THE MARKET-WIFE'S SONG.
  
THE LITTLE GIRL'S SONG.
  
‘HE IS SAFE.’
  
THE SODGER'S LASSIE.
  
LADY CONSTANCE.
  
HOW'S MY BOY?
  
FAREWELL.
  
THE MILKMAID'S SONG.
  
THE GERMAN LEGION.
  
A HEALTH TO THE QUEEN.
  
WOE IS ME.
  
THE YOUNG MAN'S SONG.
  
DEAD-MAID'S-POOL.
  
THE SAILOR'S RETURN.
  
THE WIDOW'S LULLABY.
  
THE GABERLUNZIE'S WALK.
  
LIBERTY TO M. LE DIPLOMATE.
  
AN EVENING DREAM.
  
IN WAR-TIME
  
A SHOWER IN WAR-TIME.
  
IN WAR-TIME.
  
A HERO'S GRAVE.
  
IN WAR-TIME.
  
HOME, WOUNDED.
  
A NUPTIAL EVE.
  
THE MOTHER'S LESSON.
  
ALONE.
  
FAREWELL.
  
SLEEPING AND WAKING.
  
‘HE LOVES AND HE RIDES AWAY.’
  
THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE.
  
GRASS FROM THE BATTLE-FIELD.
  
AFLOAT AND ASHORE.
  
THE GHOST'S RETURN.
  
DAFT JEAN.
  
THE RECRUITS' BALL.
  
FOR CHARITY'S SAKE.
  
WIND.
  
‘WHEN THE RAIN IS ON THE ROOF.’
  
THE BOTANIST'S VISION.
  
THE ORPHAN'S SONG.
  
TOMMY'S DEAD.
  
‘SHE TOUCHES A SAD STRING OF SOFT RECALL.’
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VOL. II.
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BALDER. PART THE FIRST.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
 VIII. 
SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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SCENE X.
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SCENE XI.
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SCENE XII.
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SCENE XIII.
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SCENE XIV.
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SCENE XV.
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SCENE XVI.
 XVII. 
SCENE XVII.
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SCENE XVIII.
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SCENE XIX.
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SCENE XX.
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SCENE XXI.
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SCENE XXII.
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SCENE XXIII.
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SCENE XXIV.
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SCENE XXV.
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SCENE XXVI.
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SCENE XXVII.
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SCENE XXVIII.
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SCENE XXIX.
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SCENE XXX.
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SCENE XXXI.
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SCENE XXXII.
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SCENE XXXIII.
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SCENE XXXIV.
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SCENE XXXV.
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SCENE XXXVI.
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SCENE XXXVII.
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SCENE XXXVIII.
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SCENE XXXIX.
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SCENE XL.
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SCENE XLI.
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SCENE XLII.
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LATER MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
THE MAGYAR'S NEW-YEAR-EVE.
  
THE YOUTH OF ENGLAND TO GARIBALDI'S LEGION.
  
LOVE.
  
AN AUTUMN MOOD.
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SONNETS AND OTHER SHORT POEMS.
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TWO EPIGRAMS.
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I. ON A PORTRAIT PRESENTED TO J. Y. SIMPSON, M.D. (AFTERWARDS SIR JAMES SIMPSON).
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II. ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD FORBES.
  
ON A RECENTLY FINISHED STATUE.
  
THE CONVALESCENT TO HER PHYSICIAN.
  
SAMUEL BROWN.
  
TO PROFESSOR AND MRS. J. S. BLACKIE.
  
TO THE AUTHORESS OF ‘AURORA LEIGH.’
  
TO MRS. J. S. BLACKIE.
  
DEDICATORY.
  
SISTER TO SISTER,
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BROWNING.
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TWO SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE ALBERT.
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II.
  
TO 1862.
  
TO TÖCHTERCHEN, ON HER BIRTHDAY.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO A FRIEND IN BEREAVEMENT.
  
AT THE GRAVE OF A SPANISH FRIEND.
  
TO AN AMERICAN EMBASSY.
  
JOHN BOHUN MARTIN.
  
DEPRECATING A GIFT.
  
PERHAPS.
  
TO JAMES H.
  
ON READING A DICTATED LETTER.
  
UNDER ESPECIAL BLESSINGS.
  
ON RECEIVING A BOOK FROM ‘X. H.’
  
TO JAMES Y. SIMPSON.
  
ON RECEIVING A BOOK FROM DANTE ROSSETTI.
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THREE SONNETS ON LOVE AND BEAUTY.
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I. TO A PROMESSA SPOSA.
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II. TO THE SAME.
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III. TO A FAIR WOMAN, UNSATISFIED WITH WOMAN'S WORK.
  
TO THE TIBER.
  
[Where are you, Poets, that a Hero dies]
  
ENGLAND'S DAY:
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FRAGMENTS.
  
THE OLIVE.
  
SONG OF A MAD GIRL, WHOSE LOVER HAS DIED AT SEA.
  
FRAGMENT OF A SLEEP-SONG.
  
BALLAD.
  
LORD ROBERT.
  
FRAGMENT OF BALLAD.
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FRAGMENTS OF POEMS FOUND SINCE THE WRITER'S DEATH.
  
BAYONET SONG.
  
MENTANA.
  
SNOWDROPS.
  
NEW-YEAR'S EVE.

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SCENE XVII.

The Study.
Balder, solus. Through the door comes a sound of weeping.
Balder.
My heart doth beat,
But I am calm, calm as a winter tree
Whereon one dead leaf flutters in the wind.
The waters of my soul that swelled so high,
Broke up my deeps and filled my universe,
Have sunk to such a mirror as reflects
The heaven and earth, and makes whatever face
Bends anew o'er them out of the unknown
A part of all things. Now I cannot weep.
I have climbed out o' the thunder, and most cold
Upon the heights of everlasting snow
Stand with cherubic knowledge.
This hot breast
Seems valley deep, and what the wind of Fate
Strikes on that harp strung there to bursting, I,
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Descending, mean to catch as one unmoved
In stern notation. A strange sense of sight,
Fearless that lightning-like finds easiest way
Self-warranted where way is none, makes wide
Mine eyes that could look thro' into the depths
Behind the face of God.
'Tis well. Even so
Would I meet Death.
[Exit through the door of the adjoining room.

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