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The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber

Heber, Reginald (1783-1826)

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PALESTINE:
  
EUROPE:
  
THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.
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FRAGMENT OF A POEM ON THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD.
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MORTE D'ARTHUR.
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CANTO I.
  
CANTO II.
  
CANTO III.
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FRAGMENTS OF THE MASQUE OF GWENDOLEN.
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BLUE-BEARD.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B.
  
LINES SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD, ON LORD GRENVILLE'S INSTALLATION AS CHANCELLOR.
  
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER,
  
FRAGMENT ON ALCHEMY.
  
IMITATION OF A SONG,
  
HONOUR ITS OWN REWARD.
  
TRANSLATION OF A FRAGMENT OF A DANISH SONG.
  
TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT,
  
VERSIFICATION OF THE SPEECH OF GEOORGIN TO BEYUN, (FROM THE SHAH NAMEH.)
  
FROM THE MOALLAKAH OF HARETH.
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THE BOKE OF THE PURPLE FAUCON.
  
Icy commence le Romaunt du Grand Roye Pantagruelle.
  
Ycy commence le II Chant du Bon Roy Pantagruelle.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
TRANSLATION OF AN ODE OF KLOPSTOCK'S.
  
SONG TO A SCOTCH AIR.
  
THE RISING OF THE SUN.
  
SONG TO A WELCH AIR.
  
INSCRIPTION
  
TIMOUR'S COUNCILS.
  
THE SPRING JOURNEY.
  
HAPPINESS.
  
ON HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY HOPE.
  
MAN'S PILGRIMAGE.
  
SONG TO A WELCH AIR.
  
CAROL FOR MAY-DAY.
  
TO ---.
  
BOW-MEETING SONG.
  
FAREWELL.
  
PARODY OF LISTON'S “BEAUTIFUL MAID.”
  
TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS.
  
THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIP.
  
BOW-MEETING SONG.
  
TO CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND,
  
BOW-MEETING SONG.
  
ON CROSSING THE RANGE OF HIGH LAND BETWEEN STONE AND MARKET DRAYTON, JAN. 4, 1820.
  
BALLAD.
  
SYMPATHY.
  
LINES WRITTEN TO A MARCH COMPOSED IN IMITATION OF A MILITARY BAND.
  
THE WELL OF OBLIVION.
  
THE ORACLE.
  
TO A WELCH AIR, “CODIAD YR HYDOD.”
  
THE GROUND SWELL.
  
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
  
BOW-MEETING SONG.
  
FROM THE GULISTAN.
  
FROM THE GULISTAN.
  
FROM THE GULISTAN.
  
IMITATION OF AN ODE BY KOODRUT.
  
TRANSLATION OF A SONNET, BY THE LATE NAWAB OF OUDE, ASUF UD DOWLA.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. HEBER.
  
AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL.

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PARODY OF LISTON'S “BEAUTIFUL MAID.”

My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear:
I trembled to hear what he said,
For salmon and shrimps 'twas the wrong time of year,
So I pitch'd on a Beautiful Maid.
I brought home my beautiful maid,
“Here cook, dress this beautiful maid!
Come boil it, don't spoil it, but see it well done,
And I'll dine on my beautiful maid!”
But an ugly black cat—I speak it with grief,
My delicate tit-bit waylaid,
The cook turn'd her back, and the long-whisker'd thief
Ran away with my beautiful maid!
She claw'd up my beautiful maid!
She elop'd with my beautiful maid!
Oh pussy—you hussy, oh what have you done,
You've eat up my beautiful maid!
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