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Impressions of Italy and Other Poems

By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley

Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline (1806-1855)

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ON THE ANCIENT BURIAL PLACE AT PISA.

ON THE LEANING TOWER AT PISA.

THE SYBIL'S GROT.

WRITTEN AT NAPLES.

FAREWELL TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.

BELLS AT NAPLES.

OH! AUSONIA'S LAND.

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SONGS, &c. FROM UNPUBLISHED POEMS.

SHALL I TELL ALL THE WORLD.

YES! 'TWAS BUT ONE CHANCE WORD.

ONCE I WALKED THROUGH A WORLD.

MY HEART!—POOR HEART!

ALONE! I LOVE TO BE ALONE.

THE BELOVED NAME.

GIVE TO ANOTHER ONE MY PART.

A STAR DESERTED BY ITS SUN.

A WHISPERED WORD.

IN FORMER YEARS.

BROKEN HEARTED!—BROKEN HEARTED!

'TIS WELL FOR ME.

LOVE AND PRIDE.

MY LOVE HATH BEEN A LOVELY DREAM.

FAREWELL! LIFE'S MADE UP OF FAREWELLS.

OH! THAT I COULD BUT LOOK ON THEE!

THE BIRTH OF LOVE.

MANUEL TO INEZ.

I LOVE THEE IN ALL WAYS.

REMEMBER ME, AND FORGET ME.

WHENEVER THOU REMEMBEREST ME.

AND ART THOU GONE?

FRIEND, GENTLEST FRIEND.

SELF GOVERNMENT.

TO TELL THEE THAT I LOVE THEE AND TO DIE.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

SORROW IS MY PERPETUAL GUEST.

CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE.

THE FATAL RESOLVE.

TO M. S. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1833.

MY TEARS ARE PRISONERS.

THE MAIDEN'S LAMENTATION.

REFORM—LIBERTY—MARCH OF INTELLECT— EQUALITY.

TO SILVIO PELLICO.

THE PASSION-LIGHTNINGS SEARED AND SCATHED TOO SOON.

WAKING AT MIDNIGHT.

FAR AWAY!—LONG AGO!

I FLEW TO 'SCAPE FROM LOVE AND THEE.

MOUNTAINEER'S BATTLE SONG.

INEZ TO MANUEL.

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THE PASSION-LIGHTNINGS SEARED AND SCATHED TOO SOON.

The Passion-lightnings seared and scathed too soon,
My inmost being bared before their power;
Then came cold, cold Indifference' frozen swoon,
While yet my life was in its opening hour.

Alas! the Pinions of my Thought too fast
Once bore me upwards—upwards—far and free;
Then, all exhausted and o'erborne at last,
How sunk they, shivering, in Life's swallowing sea!