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The poems posthumous and collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849)

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VOL. I.
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THE SECOND BROTHER;
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TORRISMOND;
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DRAMATIC SCENES AND FRAGMENTS.
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I. ERMINIA ABBANDONATA.
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II. AN APOTHEOSIS.
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III. The Israelite amid Philistines.
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IV. Lovers' Identity.
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V. Prison Thoughts.
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VI. Man's petty Universe contrasted with the True.
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VII. Recognition.
 VIII. 
VIII. Reception of Evil Tidings.
 IX. 
IX. A Ruffian.
 X. 
X. Recollection of Early Life.
 XI. 
XI. A Crocodile.
 XII. 
XII. “Bona de Mortuis.”
 XIII. 
XIII. Rosily dying.
 XIV. 
XIV. Speaker's Meaning dimly descried.
 XV. 
XV. Anticipation of Evil Tidings.
 XVI. 
XVI. Midnight Hymn.
 XVII. 
XVII. Concealed Joy.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. Life a Glass Window.
 XIX. 
XIX. A Dream.
 XX. 
XX. Metaphor of Rain.
 XXI. 
XXI. Meditation.
 XXII. 
XXII. Sweet to Die.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. Extreme Acclivity.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. Rain.
 XXV. 
XXV. Life's Uncertainty.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. Kisses.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. Subterranean City.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. Dream of Dying.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. Insignificance of the World.
 XXX. 
XXX. Sleeper's Countenance contemplated.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. A beautiful Night.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. Humble Beginnings.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. A Countenance foreboding Evil.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. A lofty Mind.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. Sorrow.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. Sad and cheerful Songs contrasted.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. A subterranean City.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. Man's anxious, but ineffectual, Guard against Death.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. A Day of surpassing Beauty.
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XL. The slight and degenerate Nature of Man.
 XLI. 
XLI. A Night-Scene.
 XLII. 
XLII. Dirge.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. Mourners consoled.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. A great Sacrifice self-compensated.
 XLV. 
XLV. “Love is wiser than Ambition.”
 XLVI. 
XLVI. The Murderer's haunted Couch.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. Human Life: its value.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
ALFARABI; THE WORLD-MAKER.
  
THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY.
  
PYGMALION.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF THE ‘PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.’
  
SONNET:
  
LETTER TO B. W. PROCTER, ESQ.
  
ANOTHER LETTER TO THE SAME.
  
THE BODING DREAMS.
  
LOVE'S LAST MESSAGES.
  
THE GHOSTS' MOONSHINE.
  
FROM THE GERMAN.
  
THE PHANTOM-WOOER.
  
A DIRGE.
  
ANOTHER DIRGE.
  
BRIDAL SERENADE.
  
DIRGE.
  
DIRGE AND HYMENEAL:
  
DIAL-THOUGHTS.
  
DREAM-PEDLARY.
  
BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE.
  
SONG, ON THE WATER.
  
LOVE-IN-IDLENESS.
  
THE REASON WHY.
  
THE TWO ARCHERS.
  
THE RUNAWAY.
  
SONG ON THE WATER.
  
ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG.
  
SONG: TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE.
  
SONG OF THE STYGIAN NAIADES.
  
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
  
A LAMENT.
  
DIRGE.
  
EPITAPH.
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POETIC FRAGMENTS.
  
THE TREE OF LIFE.
  
THE NEW-BORN STAR.
  
THRENODY.
  
LINES, WRITTEN AT GENEVA; JULY, 1824.
  
STANZAS. (FROM THE IVORY GATE.)
  
LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND.
  
DOOMSDAY.
  
THRENODY.
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VOL. II.
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Death's Jest-book:
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ACT IV.
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L'ENVOI.
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THE BRIDES' TRAGEDY
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ACT I.
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XXVIII. Dream of Dying.

Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand,
My ears, those entrances of word-dressed thoughts,
My pictured eyes, and my assuring touch,
Fell from me, and my body turned me forth
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From its beloved abode: then I was dead;
And in my grave beside my corpse I sat,
In vain attempting to return: meantime
There came the untimely spectres of two babes,
And played in my abandoned body's ruins;
They went away; and, one by one, by snakes
My limbs were swallowed; and, at last, I sat
With only one, blue-eyed, curled round my ribs,
Eating the last remainder of my heart,
And hissing to himself. O sleep, thou fiend!
Thou blackness of the night! how sad and frightful
Are these thy dreams!
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