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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly

In Two Volumes
Croly, George (1780-1860)

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PARIS IN 1815.
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THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS.
  
ON THE BUST OF THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA, IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AT BERLIN, 1812.
  
NOON.
  
THE PEN.
  
THE POET'S HOUR.
  
CZERNI GEORGE.
  
THE ANGEL OF THE WORLD.
  
ON THE GRAVE OF MAJOR SCHILL,
  
ON THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS.
  
SANDT, THE MURDERER.
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GEMS, FROM THE ANTIQUE;
  
PERICLES AND ASPASIA.
  
THE GENIUS OF DEATH.
  
A WOMAN CONTEMPLATING A HOUSEHOLD GOD.
  
LEONIDAS.
  
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
  
CUPID BREAKING THE THUNDERBOLT.
  
A FAUN.
  
CUPID CARRYING PROVISIONS. A.D. 1600.
  
SAPPHO.
  
DIANA.
  
GENIUS BOUND.
  
BACCHUS ON A PANTHER.
  
THESEUS.
  
A TRITON AND NEREID.
  
ATALANTA.
  
SILENUS LOOKING AT A GOBLET.
  
VENUS CLIPPING THE WINGS OF CUPID.
  
FLORA.
  
THE EDUCATION OF BACCHUS.
  
PINDAR.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE CASKET, CONTAINING A RING.
  
THE BATTLE SONG.
  
DEATH.
  
THE MAGIC LAMP.
  
NELSON'S PILLAR, AT YARMOUTH.
  
THE INDIAN GIRL AND SERPENT.
  
A SKETCH FROM LIFE.
  
ON A GRAVE AT WATERLOO.
  
ON A PORTRAIT, BY MASQUERIER, OF A LADY STANDING BEFORE A GLASS.
  
INSCRIPTION ON AN URN.
  
SEGUIDILLA.
  
NAPOLEON. 1820.
  
THE WINTER'S EVENING.
  
AN ÆSTUARY.
  
MIDNIGHT.
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CATILINE;
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LORENZO DE' MEDICI.
  
THE ARTIST'S CHAMBER.
  
EPITAPH.
  
SATAN.
  
THE PROPHET'S SCIMITAR.
  
THE SONG OF ANTAR.
  
INSCRIPTION ON ALEXANDER OF MACEDON.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR THEMISTOCLES.
  
ROSOLIA.
  
REBELLION.
  
EPITAPH ON AN OLD CULTIVATOR.
  
THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.
  
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
  
THE PAINTER.
  
JACOB'S DREAM.
  
ON THE RUINS OF MESOLONGHI.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A GROTTO.
  
THE SIBYL'S TOMB.
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LINES ON THE DEATH OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
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CUPID CARRYING PROVISIONS. A.D. 1600.

There was once a gentle time
Whenne the world was in its prime;
And everie day was holydaye,
And everie monthe was lovelie Maye.—
Cupide thenne hadde but to goe
With his purple winges and bowe;
And in blossomede vale and grove
Everie shepherde knelte to Love.
Thenne a rosie, dimplede cheeke,
And a blue eye fonde and meeke;
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And a ringlette-wreathenne browe,
Like hyacynthes on a bed of snowe;
And a lowe voice silverre sweete
From a lippe without deceite:
Onlie those the heartes coulde move
Of the simple swaines to love.
But thatte time is gone and paste;
Canne the summerre alwayes laste!
And the swaines are wiser growne,
And the hearte is turnede to stone,
And the maidenne's rose may witherre,
Cupide's fled, no manne knowes whitherre!
But anotherre Cupide's come,
With a browe of care and gloome;
Fixede upon the earthlie moulde,
Thinkinge of the sullenne golde:
In his hande the bowe no more,
At his backe the householde store,
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That the bridalle colde muste buye;
Uselesse nowe the smile ande sighe:
But he weares the pinion stille,
Flyinge at the sighte of ille.
Oh, for the olde true-love time,
Whenne the worlde was in its prime!
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