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Songs and Poems from 1819 to 1879

By J. R. Planché
Planché, J. R. (1796-1880)

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PART I.
  
STANZAS TO A BROKEN LUTE.
  
SONG
  
TO------
  
TO------
  
STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
  
TO------
  
TO------, WITH A RING.
  
TO------
  
TO THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.
  
TO------
  
SONG.
  
TO------
  
PARTING.
  
SCOTCH MELODY.
  
VENETIAN MELODY.
  
FRENCH MELODY.
  
LINES ON PASSING THROUGH FRANCE.
  
TO------
  
ELLEN.
  
SILENTLY.
  
VULCAN AND HYMEN.
  
IRISH MELODY. No. 1.
  
IRISH MELODY. No. 2.
  
IRISH MELODY. No. 3.
  
IRISH MELODY. No. 4.
  
IRISH MELODY. No. 5.
  
TO------
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ---
  
SONG.
  
RONDEAU.
  
OLD ENGLISH MELODY.
  
TO J--- H---, ESQ., ON HIS MARRIAGE.
  
A SONG.
  
A SONG.
  
TO MY WIFE AFTER AN ILLNESS.
  
I LOVE THEE.
  
I'M IN LOVE.
  
A SONG
  
“THERE WAS A TIME.”
  
A SONG.
  
A SONG.
  
A SONG.
  
TO LIZZIE.
  
OH! NOT BY THE RIVER.
  
FROM THE FRENCH.
  
FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF CACCEORUS.
  
ASK YE WHERE MY HOME?
  
GIOVANNA.
  
SOUVENIR OF MOUNT EDGECUMBE.
  
ON HEARING A LADY SING “LOVE IS PASSING.”
  
AN ACROSTIC.
  
WEARY.
  
A SONG.
  
ACROSTIC
  
ON LEAVING PENCARROW.
  
A PROLOGUE.
  
AN EXCHANGE.
  
AN ANSWER.
  
TO MY WIFE.
  
“POVERTY PARTS GOOD COMPANY.”
  
THE FLOWERS OF TOWTON FIELD.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE “FORTY THIEVES.”
  
PROLOGUE TO “VALENTINE AND ORSON.”
  
SONG FROM “BABIL AND BIJOU.”
  
LOVE'S GIFTS.
  
WOMAN.
  
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
  
“WITH WOMAN AS WITH OTHER GAME.”
  
“WHEREFORE NOT BEING SAD.”
  
OH! YE LORDS OF THE CREATION!
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF CARL MARIA VON WEBER.
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PART II.
  
SOME OLD READINGS OF OLD NURSERY RHYMES.
  
TO SYDNEY HALL, ESQ.
  
A CHRISTMAS GREETING.
  
“THE MAGPIE” TO “THE MAID.”
  
POLLY CONNOR
  
A WORD IN SEASON.
  
A SONG
  
UNSUPPORTED SUPPORTERS.
  
A LITERARY SQUABBLE.
  
JOHN BROWN'S ANSWER
  
MADAME VESTRIS'S ANSWER TO THE ALPHABET.
  
INTRODUCTION TO “MIRTH.”
  
SELF-EVIDENT.
  
NOTES OF AN OLD MOCKING-BIRD.
  
THE STORY OF ARIADNE.

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GIOVANNA.

Wandering one day I found
A diamond Giovanna;
I had searched the world around
For that diamond Giovanna.
Worth a Sultan's diadem,
Nobles coveted that gem;
Nobles! Ho! who envied them?
Not I, Giovanna!
How I prized that jewel rare!
Kissed it, Giovanna;
Some few months, and oh! Despair!
'Twas gone, Giovanna!
On another's hand it gleams,
With its sparkle pleased he seems,
But that 'tis a diamond dreams
He not, Giovanna.
Oh, how much I envy him!
Him, my Giovanna;
Should a breath the lustre dim
Of that gem, Giovanna!
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Lightly from him 'twill be tossed,
Not one heart-pang him 'twill cost;
For he will never know he lost
A diamond, Giovanna!
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