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The works of Mrs. Hemans

With a memoir of her life, by her sister. In seven volumes

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835)

II.

III.

A TALE OF THE SECRET TRIBUNAL.

SUPERSTITION AND REVELATION,

THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERTS.

MARIUS AMONGST THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE.

SONG. FOUNDED ON AN ARABIAN ANECDOTE.

THE CROSS OF THE SOUTH.

THE SLEEPER OF MARATHON.

TO MISS F. A. L. ON HER BIRTHDAY.

WRITTEN IN THE FIRST LEAF OF THE ALBUM OF THE SAME.

TO THE SAME—ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER.

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA.

FROM THE ITALIAN OF SANNAZARO.

A DIRGE.

THE MAREMMA.

STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE THE THIRD.

A TALE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.

THE LAST CONSTANTINE.

GREEK SONGS.

ELYSIUM.

THE FUNERAL GENIUS; AN ANCIENT STATUE.

THE TOMBS OF PLATÆA.

THE VIEW FROM CASTRI.

THE FESTAL HOUR.

SONG OF THE BATTLE OF MORGARTEN.

SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL.

THE SIEGE OF VALENCIA.

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VII.

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OH! IF THOU WILT NOT GIVE THINE HEART.

Oh! if thou wilt not give thine heart,
Give back mine own to me,

Or bid thine image thence depart,
And leave me lone, but free.

Yet no! this mournful love of mine,
I would not from me cast!
Let me but dream 'twill win me thine
By its deep truth at last.

Can aught so fond, so faithful, live
Through years without reply?
Oh! if thine heart thou wilt not give,
Give me a thought, a sigh!

The first two lines of this song are literally translated from the German.