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Metrical essays
on subjects of history and imagination. By Charles Swain
Swain, Charles (1801-1874)
[epigraph]
[dedication]
[section]
TO POESY.
AGRIGENTUM.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
THE ROSE.
PAULUS ÆMILIUS.
THE WAR SHIP.
KING RICHARD III. AND HIS SON.
INEZ DE CASTRO.
CONSTANCE DE CEZELLI.
LINES WRITTEN BY THE SEA SHORE.
CAPSALIS.
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
STANZAS TO A LADY.
LAST WORDS OF AN EXILE.
THOUGHT.
A LOVER'S LAST SONG.
THE TEMPEST.
LADY JANE GRAY.
A MONARCH'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HIS SON.
SERENADE.
FIRST LOVE.
THE DEATH OF OTHO.
CARTHAGE
ODE TO SOLITUDE.
PARTING WORDS.
MEMORY.
THE PROSPECT.
WOMAN'S AFFECTION.
ODE TO IMAGINATION.
AN EXILE'S SONG.
SACRED MELODY.
THE PENITENT.
A NIGHT SCENE.
SERENADE.
DI TANTI PALPITI.
A FAREWELL.
ALLEGORICAL STANZAS.
THE PEASANT GIRL'S SONG.
STANZAS.
GOOD NIGHT!
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
MARIE.
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
LE POUR ET LE CONTRE.
STANZAS TO A LADY.
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
SONNETS.
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------ Ego, apis Matinæ
More modoque,
Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus, uvidique
Tiburis ripas, operosa parvus
Carmina fingo.
Horace.
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