The Sylphs of the Seasons, with other poems

Allston, Washington (1779-1843)

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THE SYLPHS OF THE SEASONS, A POET'S DREAM.

Prefatory Note TO THE SYLPHS OF THE SEASONS.

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THE TWO PAINTERS: A TALE.

ECCENTRICITY.

THE PAINT-KING.

MYRTILLA.

TO A LADY, Who spoke slightingly of Poets.

SONNET On a Falling Group in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo , in the Cappella Sistina.

SONNET On the Group of the Three Angels before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle , in the Vatican.

SONNET On seeing the Picture of Æolus by Peligrino Tibaldi , in the Institute at Bologna.

SONNET On Rembrant ; occasioned by his Picture of Jacob's Dream.

SONNET On the Luxembourg Gallery.

SONNET To my venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy.

THE MAD LOVER At the Grave of his Mistress.

FIRST LOVE.

THE COMPLAINT.

WILL THE MANIAC.

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Rear'd in the midst, a double throne
Like burnish'd cloud of evening shone;
While, group'd the base around,
Four Damsels stood of Faery race;
Who, turning each with heavenly grace
Upon me her immortal face,
Transfix'd me to the ground.

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