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The poetical works of Leigh Hunt

Now finally collected, revised by himself, and edited by his son, Thornton Hunt. With illustrations by Corbould

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

Narrative Poems.

Narrative Modernizations.

Narrative Imitations.

Political and Critical Poems.

TO THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET.

TO HENRY ROBERTSON, JOHN GATTIE, AND VINCENT NOVELLO,

TO THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A.

TO MY WIFE.

TO KOSCIUSKO,

ON A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR.

TO PERCY SHELLEY,

TO MISS K.

TO THE AUTHOR OF “ION.”

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III.

TO CHARLES DICKENS.

TO POERIO AND HIS FELLOW-PATRIOTS.

THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT.

THE DEFORMED CHILD.

Blank Verse.

Miscellaneous Poems.

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II.

Yes, I beheld the old accustom'd sight,
Pit, boxes, galleries; I was at “the play;”
I saw uprise the stage's strange floor-day,
And music tuning as in tune's despite;
Childhood I saw, glad-faced, that squeezeth tight
One's hand, while the rapt curtain soars away,—
And beauty and age, and all that piled array—
Thousands of souls drawn to one wise delight.

A noble spectacle!—Noble in mirth—
Nobler in sacred fellowship of tears!
I've often asked myself what sight on earth
Is worth the fancying of our fellow spheres;
And this is one—whole hosts in love with worth,
Judging the shapes of their own hopes and fears.