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The Solitary, and other poems

With The Cavalier, a play. By Charles Whitehead
Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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THE SOLITARY.
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THE STORY OF JASPER BROOKE.
  
THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON.
  
ODE TO A RIVER.
  
THE RIDDLE OF LIFE.
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SONNETS.
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EVENING.
  
OPHELIA.
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IPPOLITO.

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Now, when the scrivener and the leech,
Awe-stricken, leave the place of death,
What is the hideous thing that each
Beholds, down-looking far beneath?
The two descend, holding their breath,
Fearing, from death above they go,
To meet him once again below.
Nor are they wrong; 'tis even so.
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Kirke, in a noose his hands had made,
Hangs from the lowest balustrade:—
His journey had not been delay'd.
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