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Poems of the late George Darley

A memorial volume printed for private circulation
Darley, George (1795-1846)
  
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LENIMINA LABORUM.
 I. 
I. TO RHODANTHE.
 II. 
II. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE PROMONTORY.
 III. 
III. HEROA.
 IV. 
IV. PRAYER AT BURIAL.
 V. 
V. TO MIE TIRANTE.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII. TO MY LYRE.
 VIII. 
VIII. THE LAMENT.
 IX. 
IX. Occasioned by a “Lady” weeping as she copied some Verses by the Author.
 X. 
X. Written in a Leafless Bower at Hon. Mrs. Westenra's, December, 1826.
 XI. 
XI. HYMN TO THE SUN.
 XII. 
XII. MEMENTO MORI:
 XIII. 
XIII. TO GLORIANA.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE FAIR WARNING.
 XV. 
XV. “MONET ANNUS.”
 XVI. 
XVI. To a Lady who would Sing only in the Evening.
 XVII. 
XVII. SOLILOQUY AMONG THE TOMBS.
  
EPIGRAM.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION.
 XIX. 
XIX. IN AN ALBUM: VIX VOCANTE POESIA.
 XX. 
XX. A POETICAL PROBLEM.
  
Answer to the above.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE BOWER.
 XXII. 
XXII. ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. TO HEROA.
 XXIV. 
XXIV.
 XXV. 
XXV.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. THE COY MAIDEN.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. THE FREE-BOOTER.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. TO MY DEAD MISTRESS.
  
MY OWN EPITAPH.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. IN AN ALBUM.
 XXX. 
XXX. ON THE DEATH OF TALMA.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. SYREN CHORUS IN THE “SEA-BRIDE.” (MS.)
 XXXII. 
XXXII. IN AN ALBUM.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. CUPID SLEEPING.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. DEPARTING MUSIC.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. THE LOST ONE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. MAID MARIAN'S SONG.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. HYMN TO THE OCEAN.
  
EPIGRAM.
 XL. 
XL. LOVE'S LIKENESS.
 XLI. 
XLI. WINTER.
 XLII. 
XLII. ON A YOUNG TREE
 XLIII. 
XLIII. ON A FOUNTAIN.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. ON A CHILD:
 XLV. 
XLV. From the “Sea-Bride.” (MS.)
 XLVI. 
XLVI. THE ROMAN COTTAGER.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. TO ROSELLA.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. IN AN ALBUM.
 XLIX. 
XLIX.
 L. 
L.
 LI. 
LI. SONG OF THE SUMMER-WINDS.
 LII. 
LII. THE FIGHT OF THE FORLORN.
  
LAY OF THE FORLORN.
 LIII. 
LIII. DIRGE.
 LIV. 
LIV. TO A CYPRESS TREE.
 LV. 
LV.
 LVI. 
LVI. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE THORN.
 LVII. 
LVII. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE CAVE.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. LAMENT FOR LOVE.
 LIX. 
LIX.
  
EPIGRAM.
 LX. 
LX. ZEPHYR AMONG THE FLOWERS.
 LXI. 
LXI. WEEP NOT, MY BRIDE!
  
EPIGRAM
 LXII. 
LXII. ON THE PICTURE OF A GIRL.
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POEMS. Chiefly from “Labours of Idleness” and “Errors of Ecstasie.”
  
THE FALLEN STAR.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG.
  
A RYGHTE PYTHIE SONGE.
  
TO HELENE—ON A GIFTE-RING CARELESSLIE LOST.
  
THE REBELLION OF THE WATERS.
  
TO A STREAM.

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X. Written in a Leafless Bower at Hon. Mrs. Westenra's, December, 1826.

Fair as the flower is, it will yet decay;
Green as the leaf is, it will yet be sere;
Night has a pall to wind the gaudiest day,
And Winter wraps in shrouds the loveliest year:
For those the gale mourns in loud accents drear,
The blooms that gave it sweeter breath are gone;
Heaven's glistening eyes with many a silent tear
Beweep the nightly burial of the sun;
Nature herself the lifeless year deplores,
Sad Mother, laying all her children low,
From her deep heartspring grief's wild torrent pours,
Hill, vale, and desolate woodland speak her woe:
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Thou too must fade like year—day—leaf—and bloom,
Pale moralist!—wilt have like mourners at thy tomb?
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