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The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival
With a biographical sketch
Percival, James Gates (1795-1856)
1.
VOL. I.
POETRY.
THE DESERTED WIFE.
CONSUMPTION.
THE CORAL GROVE.
[I had found out a sweet green spot]
THE BROKEN HEART.
TO SENECA LAKE.
[O, had I the wings of a swallow, I'd fly]
RETROSPECTION.
CALM AT SEA.
THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS.
THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR.
LIBERTY TO ATHENS.
THE GREEK EMIGRANT'S SONG.
ODE TO FREEDOM.
LOVE OF STUDY.
HEAVEN.
A PICTURE.
MENTAL BEAUTY.
MENTAL HARMONY.
RUINS.
THE VILLAGE GIRL.
A TALE.
NIGHT WATCHING.
PLEASURES OF CHILDHOOD.
VOYAGE OF LIFE.
A PICTURE.
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM.
HOME.
LOVE AT EVENING.
[Silent she stood before me, in the light]
[Star of the pensive! “melancholy star,”]
[“O, there is a bliss in tears!”—in tears that flow]
VAUCLUSE.
LIGHT OF LOVE.
FLOWER OF A SOUTHERN GARDEN.
ROSE OF MY HEART.
CATANIA.
SONNETS.
1.
[I. I stand upon the mountains, 'mid a sea]
2.
[II. Monarch of mountains! whose serenest brow]
3.
[III. My country,—at the sound of that dear name]
4.
[IV. Now to my task:—be firm,—the work requires]
5.
[V. Come forth, fair waters, from the classic spring]
6.
[VI. Farewell, sad flowers, that on a desert blow]
7.
[VII. Would I were but a spirit, veiled in light]
AN ODE TO MUSIC.
THE JUDGMENT.
A TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE.
THE SENATE OF CALLIMACHI.
A PLATONIC BACCHANAL SONG.
[Here's to her who wore]
DITHYRAMBIC.
THE SERENADE.
TO THE HOUSTONIA CERULEA.
ON FINDING THE ANEMONE HEPATICA,
[A tulip blossomed, one morning in May]
[A lake once lay, where the thunder-clouds sail]
THE MERMAID.
LINES
THE PARTING OF WILLIAM AND MARY.
“VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY.”
THE FAIREST ROSE IS FAR AWA'.
THE FLOWER OF THE VALLEY.
LINES
[Once, on a cloudless summer-day]
[My heart too firmly trusted, fondly gave]
[How beautiful is Night!]
[Often, when at night delaying]
SONG.
THE LAND OF THE BLEST.
[My heart was a mirror, that showed every treasure]
[O, now's the hour, when air is sweet]
[O, wilt thou go with me, love]
[Here the air is sweet]
THE WANDERING SPIRIT.
FAREWELL TO MY LYRE.
[Care-worn, and sunk in deep despondency]
ANACREONTICS.
HORATIAN.
[Come on your sky-blue wings, ye Paphian doves!]
[Man is born to die]
['T was midnight,—and the full round moon]
NEW ENGLAND.
NAVAL ODE.
[Thou art endeared to me by all]
THE FRENCHMAN'S DARLING.
[Adieu! fair flower, though frail]
[We met in cheerless hours, my dear]
[O, love was made to mourn]
TRANSLATION OF A LATIN ODE.
THE SABBATH.
[O Evening! thou art lovely:—in thy dress]
[Empress of night! I saw thee through the rack]
[Star of the dewy morning! from thy sphere]
A REVERIE.
[Motherless infant, to the quiet sleep]
[Image of calm devotion, on thy brow]
SONNETS.
MAID OF YEMEN.
FREEDOM.
[Give the Warrior Chief his due]
[Hail to the land of the free and the bold]
[I saw the sun, at the dawning of day]
[Two flowers were budding on on stem]
[I found thee on an apple-tree]
[Sweet, sainted haunt of early days!]
[I saw, upon a mountain]
[I will go to the grave where my child has gone]
THE CARRIER PIGEON.
[These weeping skies, these weeping skies]
[Fair breaks the morning on my eye]
[Now the setting sun is glowing]
SONG OF THE REIM-KENNAR.
[The wave is resting on the sea]
[There's a valley that lies in the bosom of hills]
[I would follow the sun when the north winds arise]
THE PIRATE LOVER.
THE FAREWELL.
[Let us love while life is young]
[Thy charms are all decaying, love]
THE LUNATIC GIRL.
[Come to my heart, thou stricken deer!]
[O Mary, my dearest! though waves roll between us]
[Dove of my heart! I've built a nest]
[She has no heart, but she is fair]
[The winds of the winter are over]
[The dark cloud is over, the storm flies away]
[The frenzy of a lover who can tell?]
[They gazed upon each other. They were young]
[Beneath the pensive willow's shade]
PARAPHRASE OF ISAIAH XXXIV.
RELIGION.
[In wisdom God hath made the world]
[There is an infant, pillowed sweetly]
HOLY DYING.
S. M. A. M. FISHER.
CARMEN SECULARE.
[There is a calm lagoon]
[All live and move to the poetic eye.]
[I saw, on the top of a mountain high]
SONNET.
SONNET.
GENIUS SLUMBERING.
GREECE, FROM MOUNT HELICON.
THE PARTHENON.
THE SUNIAN PALLAS.
THE GREEK MOUNTAINEERS.
THE LAST SONG OF THE GREEK PATRIOT.
GRECIAN LIBERTY.
HELLAS.
ODE.
ODE.
SEA PICTURES.
A FRAGMENT.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF GREECE.
PAINTING.
MUSINGS.
[She faded, but in beauty;—not a charm]
[She was the first I loved; but years had gone]
[He had a twofold nature, and the one]
INSCRIPTION.
A FRAGMENT.
THE DEATH OF A CHILD.
CLOUDS.
THE GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS.
THE DESOLATE CITY.
MORNING AMONG THE HILLS.
THE PERPETUAL YOUTH OF NATURE.
ITALY.
THE FAIR ITALIAN.
INSCRIPTION.
A VISION.
DREAMS.
SONNETS.
[When the woodlands are covered with leaves and flowers]
SPRING.
THE REIGN OF MAY.
TRUE GREATNESS.
[There is nothing can equal the tender hours]
[Dear moments of childhood! how sweetly ye smile]
[Come from thy home in the far blue sky]
[Thou hast come from thy home in the far blue sky]
[Soul of the lyre and song!]
[I looked on the broad setting sun]
[Thou glorious spirit of life and love!]
[Where hast thou been on thy rainbow wing]
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE.
[Spirit of high and mighty souls!]
[Had I the pinions of an eagle's wing]
ON THE DEATH OF ---.
THE LAST DAYS OF AUTUMN.
THE SOUL OF SONG.
MORNING TWILIGHT.
[Where are now the flowers that once detained me]
INSPIRATION.
REMORSE.
A FANCY-PIECE.
SPIRIT OF MAY.
[Shall I gather the rose of the mountain]
TO A SHIP, ON GOING TO SEA.
APOSTROPHE TO THE ISLAND OF CUBA.
TO MELANTHE.
SONNET.
CANZONETS.
SONNET.
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
[Every day I muse upon thee]
HOME.
THE FLIGHT OF TIME.
FADING FLOWERS.
MOONLIGHT IN A WOOD.
THE CONTRAST.
MY NATIVE LAND.
ODE.
ODE.
WASHINGTON'S NAME.
LIBERTY.
THE GREEK SONG OF VICTORY.
BIRTHDAY OF LINNÆUS.
HOPE OF FAME.
THE VOICE OF LOVE.
Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ.
SONNETS.
2.
VOL. II.
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