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The Dream and Other Poems

By the Hon'ble Mrs Norton
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877)
  
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DEDICATION.
  
THE DREAM.
  
THE CREOLE GIRL;
  
TWILIGHT.
  
A DESTINY.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
THE CHAPEL ROYAL ST. JAMES'S,
  
ON SEEING ANTHONY, THE ELDEST CHILD OF LORD AND LADY ASHLEY.
  
THE DYING HOUR.
  
I CANNOT LOVE THEE!
  
THE POET'S CHOICE.
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THE GERMAN STUDENT'S LOVE-SONG.
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THE HUNTING-HORN OF CHARLEMAGNE.
  
THE FAITHFUL FRIEND.
  
TO FERDINAND SEYMOUR.
  
THE WINTER'S WALK.
  
THE REPRIEVE.
  
THE FAITHFUL GUARDIAN.
  
THE FORSAKEN.
  
THE VISIONARY PORTRAIT.
  
THE PICTURE OF SAPPHO.
  
THE SENSE OF BEAUTY.
  
THE MOTHER'S HEART.
  
MAY-DAY, 1837.
  
THE FEVER-DREAM.
  
TO THE LADY H. O.
  
THE FALLEN LEAVES.
  
THE AUTUMN WIND.
  
THE BLIND MAN'S BRIDE.
  
THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED.
  
THE TRYST.
  
THE BANNER OF THE COVENANTERS.
  
THE ROCK OF THE BETRAYED.
  
THE LAMENT FOR SHUIL DONALD'S DAUGHTER.
  
WEEP NOT FOR HIM THAT DIETH.
  
THE CHILD OF EARTH.
  
THE CHRISTENING.
  
THE MOTHER'S LAST WATCH.
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SONNETS.
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SONNET I. ON SEEING THE BUST OF THE YOUNG PRINCESS DE MONTFORT
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SONNET II. RAPHAEL.
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SONNET III. THE FORNARINA.
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SONNET IV.
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SONNET V.
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SONNET VI.
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SONNET VII.
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SONNET VIII. O MY BOOKS.
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SONNET IX. TO THE COUNTESS HELÉNE ZAVADOWSKY.
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SONNET X. TO TAGLIONI.
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SONNET XI. THE MOSS-WALK AT MARKLY, SUSSEX.
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SONNET XII. THE DISDAINED LOVER.
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SONNET XIII. THE WEAVER.
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SONNET XIV.
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SONNET XV. TO MISS AUGUSTA COWELL.
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PRINCESS MARIE OF WIRTEMBURG.
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SONNET XVI.
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XVII.
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ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON.
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SONNET XVIII.
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SONNET I. ON SEEING THE BUST OF THE YOUNG PRINCESS DE MONTFORT

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(In the studio of Bartolini, at Florence).

Sweet marble! didst thou merely represent,
In lieu of her on whom our glances rest,
Some common loveliness,—we were content,
As with a modell'd beauty, well express'd;
But, by the very skill which makes thee seem
So like her bright and intellectual face,
The heart is led unsatisfied to dream;
For sculpture cannot give the breathing grace,
The light which plays beneath that shadowy brow,
Like sunshine on the fountains of the south,—
The blush which tints that cheek with roseate glow,—
The smile which hovers round that angel-mouth:
No! such the form o'er which Pygmalion sigh'd—
Too fair to be complete while soul was still denied!
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