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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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II.

BALDER. PART THE FIRST.

LATER MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

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SONNETS AND OTHER SHORT POEMS.

ON A RECENTLY FINISHED STATUE.

THE CONVALESCENT TO HER PHYSICIAN.

TO PROFESSOR AND MRS. J. S. BLACKIE.

TO THE AUTHORESS OF ‘AURORA LEIGH.’

TO MRS. J. S. BLACKIE.

SISTER TO SISTER,

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BROWNING.

TWO SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE ALBERT.

TO TÖCHTERCHEN, ON HER BIRTHDAY.

TO A FRIEND IN BEREAVEMENT.

AT THE GRAVE OF A SPANISH FRIEND.

TO AN AMERICAN EMBASSY.

JOHN BOHUN MARTIN.

DEPRECATING A GIFT.

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.

THREE SONNETS ON LOVE AND BEAUTY.

[Where are you, Poets, that a Hero dies]

FRAGMENTS OF POEMS FOUND SINCE THE WRITER'S DEATH.

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SCENE XXIX.

The Study.
Balder, solus.
Balder.
I will sit down
And let the stars roll on. Such pitiless signs
Cannot for universal health maintain
An hour's ascendant. If the heavens could halt
I might despair, but the worst orb that moves
Betters my fate.