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The Poetical Works of Horace Smith

Now First Collected. In Two Volumes

Smith, Horace (1779-1849)

ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES,

SICILIAN ARETHUSA.

THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS.

THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE.

THE SANCTUARY.

THE POPPY.

THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION.

THE CONTRAST.

THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER.

THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING.

ANSWER TO “AN OLD MAN'S PÆAN.”

INVOCATION.

THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE.

THE SUN'S ECLIPSE.

LACHRYMOSE WRITERS.

WHY ARE THEY SHUT?

THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR.

DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET.

CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL.

THE LIFE AND DEATH.

HOPE'S YEARNINGS.

TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE.

UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS.

TO THE FURZE BUSH.

THE FIRST OF MARCH.

INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO.

MAN.

SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENCE.

THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

THE POET AMONG THE TREES.

TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.

NIGHT-SONG.

THE SONG-VISION.

THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE.

SONG TO FANNY.

THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING.

AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION.

THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM.

STANZAS

A HINT TO THE FARMERS.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE DYING POET'S FAREWELL.

SONNETS.

MORNING.

TO THE SETTING SUN.

ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN.

ON A GREEN-HOUSE.

ON A STUPENDOUS LEG OF GRANITE,

WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT.

THE WORLD.

TO A ROSE.

ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

SUNSET.

II.

VOL. II.

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SONG TO FANNY.

Nature! thy fair and smiling face
Has now a double power to bless,
For 'tis the glass in which I trace
My absent Fanny's loveliness.

Her heav'nly eyes above me shine,
The rose reflects her modest blush,
She breathes in every eglantine,
She sings in every warbling thrush.

That her dear form alone I see
Need not excite surprise in any,
For Fanny's all the world to me,
And all the world to me is Fanny.