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Hours at Naples, and Other Poems

By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley

Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline (1806-1855)

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LINES WRITTEN AT NAPLES.

LINES ON MORNING.

LINES ON A FINE PROSPECT AT NAPLES.

QUEEN JOANNA'S RUINED PALACE AT NAPLES.

INDIAN SONG OF FESTIVAL.

THE SONG OF THE WANDERING TROUBADOUR.

THE WANDERER'S RETURN.

A MOUNTAINOUS VIEW.

A CHINESE LOVE SONG.

AN EASTERN NIGHT.

REMEMBER ME! REMEMBER ME!

ON THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.

THE LOVER'S DEBT.

MY HEAVENLY COUNTRY.

THE OLDEN TIMES.

OH! THEY WHOSE LIFE.

HOPE.

THE FIRST VIOLET.

TO THE VIOLET AT NAPLES.

THE FELON'S GRAVE.

THE GEORGIAN SULTANA.

ON A PICTURE OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.

A MEMORY'S MEMORY.

LOVE AND FREEDOM.

OH! HOW AT TIMES.

SUNSHINE AND MOONLIGHT.

THE DELIGHTS OF IMAGINATION.

THE HAPPY LAND OF DREAMS.

DEATH AND INFANCY.

THE MOURNFUL GUEST.

THE TWILIGHT TIME.

AH, ME! HOW MUCH I PITY THOSE.

I TURN TO THEE.

THE CHERISHED LOT.

THOUGHTS ON OTHER WORLDS.

IF GENTLEST SUFFERANCE.

THE LOVELY LAND.

THE DEER OF THE FOREST.

HAUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD.

LIFE'S FIRST GRIEF.

I WOULD FORGET!

I HAVE ADMIRED THROUGH CIRCLING HOURS.

WHEN HEARTS THAT LOVED.

THE WITHERED REED.

STRANGE IS THE POWER.

ONCE FROM GAY FOLLY'S PATHS.

EVENING THOUGHTS.

MORNING THOUGHTS.

A MORNING WALK.

AN EVENING WALK.

HOPE, THOU ART GONE.

IN THE SWEET SEASONS.

MANUEL TO INEZ.

THE LOVELY SONG.

ART THOU CONTENT?

WHY HAVE THEY TOLD ME THIS?

THOU TELL'ST ME.

LOVE'S SLAVERY.

A CHANGEFUL LOT.

MANUEL'S COMPLAINT.

THE CAPRICE OF SORROW.

THE SECRET OF THE SOUL.

YEARS FLEET AWAY.

IT SHALL NOT BE.

I LOOK FOR THEE.

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HOPE.

The drowning Seaman grasps the empty air
Above him in its hopeless clearness spread,
Clutches the wave with desperation there—
Still striving—struggling on—till he is dead.

So Hope, when nought substantial meets its grasp,
Strains any Shadow fleeting faintly by,
Nor knoweth wholly to withdraw its clasp,
Till sweeping Ruin saith, “Despair and Die!”