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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly

In Two Volumes
Croly, George (1780-1860)

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VOL. I.
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PARIS IN 1815.
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PART II.
  
THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS.
  
ON THE BUST OF THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA, IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AT BERLIN, 1812.
  
NOON.
  
THE PEN.
  
THE POET'S HOUR.
  
CZERNI GEORGE.
  
THE ANGEL OF THE WORLD.
  
ON THE GRAVE OF MAJOR SCHILL,
  
ON THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS.
  
SANDT, THE MURDERER.
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GEMS, FROM THE ANTIQUE;
  
PERICLES AND ASPASIA.
  
THE GENIUS OF DEATH.
  
A WOMAN CONTEMPLATING A HOUSEHOLD GOD.
  
LEONIDAS.
  
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
  
CUPID BREAKING THE THUNDERBOLT.
  
A FAUN.
  
CUPID CARRYING PROVISIONS. A.D. 1600.
  
SAPPHO.
  
DIANA.
  
GENIUS BOUND.
  
BACCHUS ON A PANTHER.
  
THESEUS.
  
A TRITON AND NEREID.
  
ATALANTA.
  
SILENUS LOOKING AT A GOBLET.
  
VENUS CLIPPING THE WINGS OF CUPID.
  
FLORA.
  
THE EDUCATION OF BACCHUS.
  
PINDAR.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE CASKET, CONTAINING A RING.
  
THE BATTLE SONG.
  
DEATH.
  
THE MAGIC LAMP.
  
NELSON'S PILLAR, AT YARMOUTH.
  
THE INDIAN GIRL AND SERPENT.
  
A SKETCH FROM LIFE.
  
ON A GRAVE AT WATERLOO.
  
ON A PORTRAIT, BY MASQUERIER, OF A LADY STANDING BEFORE A GLASS.
  
INSCRIPTION ON AN URN.
  
SEGUIDILLA.
  
NAPOLEON. 1820.
  
THE WINTER'S EVENING.
  
AN ÆSTUARY.
  
MIDNIGHT.
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VOL. II.
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CATILINE;
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XL. ZEPHYR AND THE ROSE-NYMPH .
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LORENZO DE' MEDICI.
  
THE ARTIST'S CHAMBER.
  
EPITAPH.
  
SATAN.
  
THE PROPHET'S SCIMITAR.
  
THE SONG OF ANTAR.
  
INSCRIPTION ON ALEXANDER OF MACEDON.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR THEMISTOCLES.
  
ROSOLIA.
  
REBELLION.
  
EPITAPH ON AN OLD CULTIVATOR.
  
THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.
  
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
  
THE PAINTER.
  
JACOB'S DREAM.
  
ON THE RUINS OF MESOLONGHI.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A GROTTO.
  
THE SIBYL'S TOMB.
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LINES ON THE DEATH OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
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We are immortals! Earth to us is vain;
The lesson of our vigour must be pain.
Is the world in thee still, thy heart a tide
Still rolling with the gusts of passion, pride?—
Go to the house of mourning! see the eye,
Rais'd in its meek submissiveness, to die;
The bloom, like roses once, now sunk and sere;
Check not the tear; there's virtue in that tear.
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'T is not in mockery thus that Death betrays
His footsteps; 'tis to force,—to fix our gaze.
Go to the house of mourning! Is there one,
Dear to such thoughts as manly hearts may own,
Some soft, fair, high soul'd being, that thy heart
Has treasured like a virtue, pure, apart—
Stand by her death-bed! is one folly thine?
Can it resist that beauty's pale decline?
Is thy heart yet unchasten'd, yet a slave
To earth's dark passions?—stand beside her grave!
But when the lesson must awake a land,
It bears the impress of th'eternal hand;
Lean Famine o'er her millions spreads his pall,
Pale Pestilence breathes upon them, and they fall;
Or is there one, their idol, bright, pure, dear,
So loved,—the single blow were deadly there;
It rushes like the midnight thunder-ball,
Her diadem is struck at once, for all.
Earth has no mightier wisdom than the cry
Sent from that grave,—that all is vanity.
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