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The Poetical Works of Laman Blanchard

With a Memoir by Blanchard Jerrold
Blanchard, Laman (1804-1845)

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PART I.POEMS OF SENTIMENT.
  
A POET'S BRIDE.
  
THE SPIRIT OF POESY.
  
THE SULTANA PREPARING FOR HER BATH.
  
THE CAPTIVE LAMB.
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SONNETS
 I. 
IYESTERDAY.
 II. 
IITO-DAY.
 III. 
IIITO-MORROW.
 IV. 
IVWISHES OF YOUTH.
 V. 
VON TIME.
 VI. 
VITHE CHARM OF SOUND.
 VII. 
VIIHIDDEN JOYS.
 VIII. 
VIIIINFANCY ASLEEP.
 IX. 
IXTO J. O.
 X. 
XLIBERTY.
 XI. 
XITO NATURE.
 XII. 
XIITO D. W. J.
 XIII. 
XIIIMORNING.
 XIV. 
XIVNOON.
 XV. 
XVEVENING.
 XVI. 
XVIMIDNIGHT.
 XVII. 
XVIITHE MOUNTAINS.
 XVIII. 
XVIIINATURAL STUDIES.
 XIX. 
XIXTHE STATE OF MAN.
 XX. 
XXIN MEMORY OF KEATS.
 XXI. 
XXIDELIGHT NOT DISDAIN.
  
MY PEN.
  
TO ONE DESERTED.
  
TO AN EARTHLY BEAUTY.
  
SONG FOR SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTHDAY.
  
STANZAS FOR EVENING.
  
PLEASURES OF PROMISE.
  
THE DOMINION OF PAIN.
  
FICTION AND TRUTH.
  
TO GREECE.
  
THE SHADOWS OF LIFE.
  
THE POET'S HEART.
  
A HISTORY OF LIFE.
  
THE WAVE.
  
ON THE SICKNESS OF A CHILD.
  
SUNSET.
  
ON A SET OF GEMS FROM THE ANTIQUE.
  
LEISURE AND LOVE.
  
THE MAGIC OF NIGHT.
  
SIMPLICITY.
  
MOORLAND MARY.
  
STANZAS.
  
MELODY À LA MOORE.
  
LOVE.
  
THE SHADOWS OF LOVE.
  
THE MOTHER'S HOPE.
  
MALIBRAN IS DEAD.
  
THE DANCE OF THE PEASANTS.
  
THE YOUNG GLEANER.
  
SONG FOR SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTHDAY.
  
THE CHILD AND HER CAPTIVE.
  
THE GAME AT CHESS.
  
THE DOUBLE LESSON.
  
SONNET.
  
THE SIMPLEST CHARM PREVAILS.
  
OLD REMEMBRANCE.
  
SPACE—TIME.
  
THE ELOQUENT PASTOR DEAD.
  
THE GREAT CHRISTMAS FIRE.
  
CHRISTMAS ALWAYS.
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PART II.POEMS OF HUMOUR.
  
THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING.
  
THE EPITAPH OF 1830.
  
ON FIRST SEEING THE PORTRAIT OF L.E.L.
  
APOSTROPHE TO THE APPROACHING COMET.
  
ODE TO THE LITTLE LORD MAYOR.
  
A BRAHAM-ESE BALLAD
  
SOUR GRAPES.
  
THE LADIES AND THE PARLIAMENT.
  
ON MACLISE'S PORTRAIT OF MACREADY IN MACBETH.
  
ON THE DESTRUCTION OF SIR JOHN SOANE'S PORTRAIT BELONGING TO THE LITERARY FUND SOCIETY.
  
FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC.
  
CONGRATULATORY VERSES TO MISS ELLEN TREE.
  
TO ELLEN TREE IN ‘ION.’
  
THE BREAKFAST PARTY.
  
ACUTE DEDUCTION.
  
PHILOSOPHY OF GAMES.
  
A POETICAL COLUMN.
  
THE PROPER USE OF THE EYES.
  
MINERVA AT THE PORTICO OF THE ATHENÆUM TO THE DUKE OF YORK AT THE HEAD OF HIS COLUMN.
  
THE RACES.
  
“THE VIXEN.”
  
CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO MADAME VESTRIS ON HER RECENT JOURNEY TO BRIGHTON.
  
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S STOCKINGS.
  
HER MAJESTY'S EXCURSION TO BRIGHTON.
  
MY DREAM.
  
HELEN FAUCIT IN ‘THE LADY OF LYONS.’
  
TO WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY.
  
LOVE HAS LEGS.
  
LOVE'S MASQUERADINGS.
  
TWO OF A TRADE.
  
SUCH A DUCK.
  
A SONG OF CONTRADICTIONS.
  
LINES BY A Y---G L---Y OF F*SH---N.
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ORIGINAL POETRY.
  
ODE TO THE HUMAN HEART.
  
ON LIFE, ET CETERA.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA,
 I. 
IINVITATION TO SIT.
 II. 
IITHE PROCESS OF THE PORTRAITURE.
 III. 
IIITHE CRITICISMS OF THE SITTERS—THE MORAL.
  
TO NELL GWYNNE'S LOOKING-GLASS.
  
LOVE SEEKING A LODGING.
  
THE TOUR OF LOVE AND TIME.
  
NEW YEAR'S ODE.
  
CHRISTMAS CHIT-CHAT,
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MULBERRY LEAVES.
  
TRUTH AND RUMOUR.
  
SCIENCE AND GOOD-HUMOUR.

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ACUTE DEDUCTION.

‘He takes his hat, and why I would be knowing.’
‘Learn,’ cries that subtle devil, Paul,—‘he's going!’
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