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Virginalia ; or, songs of my summer nights

A Gift of Love for the Beautiful
Chivers, T. H. (1809-1858)

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CHACTAS; OR, THE LAMENT OF THE HARMONIOUS VOICE.
 
UNA; OR, THE LOST ONE.
 
GANYMEDE.
 
THE BEAUTIFUL SILENCE:
 
THE CRUCIFIXION.
 
THE BELLES OF TONTINE.
 
APOLLO.
 
LILY ADAIR.
 
VALETE OMNIA.
 
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
 
THE FALL OF USHER.
 
ROSALIE LEE.
 
ROSIGNOL SUEDOIS.
 
BIRTH OF THE NEW LOVE.
 
AMORE DIVINO
 
THE MOON OF MOBILE.
 
ELEGY OF TEARS.
 
THE LADY ALICE.
 
CELUTA.
 
THE BRIGHT NEW MOON OF LOVE.
 
MORCIA FUNEBRE; OR,
 
THE RISING OF THE NATIONS.
 
THE NEW ODIN.
 
CYGNE D'ITALIA.
 
ALAMOTH;
 
THE CHAPLET OF PALMS.
 
PRIMO AMORE.
 
FIRST LOVE.
 
THE MARVEL OF ARABIA.
 
LAMENT FOR MARY IN HEAVEN.
 
ORPHIC HYMN OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
 
ISRAFELIA.
 
THE TREE OF HEAVEN.
 
TO THE ONLY ONE.
 
A VISION OF THE NIGHT.
 
ISABEL.
 
MEMORIAL OF MY CHILDHOOD.
 
EUTHANASIA.
 
ATALA'S PRAYER.
 
TO AVALON IN HEAVEN.
 
LORD BYRON'S DYING WORDS TO ADA.
 
SONG TO UNA OF AUSTER.
 
THE HEAVENLY REAPER.
 
IONA.
 
PAS D'EXTASE.
 
SONG.
 
THE CONFESSION.
 
ALMA.
 
DARK IS MY SOUL WITHOUT THEE.
 
BOAT-SONG.
 
CHANT D'AMOUR.
 
THE PLACE WHERE I WAS BORN.
 
THE INVITATION.
 
PERIA PERSICA.
 
THE ANGEL'S WHISPER.
 
BESSIE BELL.
 
TOHOO VABOHOO.
 
INVOCATION TO SPRING.
 
BYRON.
 
TO FLORENCE IN HEAVEN.
 
WORDS TO THE UNWISE.
 
VIGIL OF SORROW.
 
SOPHIA.
 
THE DYING NIGHTINGALE.
 
SONG TO THE POPPY.
 
URANOTHEN.
 
SERENADE.
 
TO THE ROSE OF SONG.
 
TO THE MAID OF MANY SONGS.
 
CHORAL SONG OF THE TEMPERANCE LEGIONS.
 
THE POET OF LOVE.
 
TO ADA IN PARADISE.
 
THE COMFORTER.
 
THE NEW MOON.
 
SONG OF SALEM.
 
SONNET TO ISA.
 
THE ANGELUS.
 
LIBERTY.
 
THE BLOOD-STAINED ALDER.
 
THE EXILE'S LAMENT.
 
SONNET.
 
CHAUNT OF HOPE.
 
THE WIND.
 
THE NIGTINGALE OF HEAVEN.
 
HYMN FROM THE INNER LIFE.
 
VISION OF THE HEAVENLY ONES.
 
TRUST IN GOD.
 
TO CARIE.
 
SONNET
 
TO AN ANGEL ON EARTH.
 
SONNET.
 
UNE SONGE D'UNE NUIT D'ETE.
 
LAMORAH'S DEATH SONG FOR HIS SON.
 
TO AN ANGEL IN HEAVEN.
 
TO MY LITTLE DAUGHTER.
 
SONNET.
 
THE SONG OF SERALIM.
 
CONSOLATION.
 
TO ENDEA.
 
CANZONET TO CARIE.
 
CRADLE-SONG.
 
ASTARTE'S SONG TO ENDYMION.
 
SONNET.
 
SPRING.
 
THE POET'S FAREWELL TO HIS HARP.

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HYMN FROM THE INNER LIFE.

How long before the bloody sweat of anguish,
Bathing my marble brow, shall cease to flow?
Or cease my soul in this dark world to languish,
Waiting for that which Earth can never know?
This is the burden of my song—
“How long, Oh! Lord! how long?”
How long before our souls, like ministering Angels,
Shall do each other deeds of heavenly love,
By acting out the Lord's divine Evangels—
Doing God's will on earth as it is done above?
This is the burden of my song—
“How long, Oh! Lord! how long?”
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How long before the world shall know its duty—
Man treat Man right—right take the place of wrong—
Truth, clad in garments of supernal beauty,
Triumph o'er Error that has grown so strong?
Answer this burden of my song—
“How long, Oh! Lord! how long?”
Soon shall Man's soul be bathed in blissful wonder,
Hearing Heaven's choral shouts burst through the sky—
God's Scripture rolling down in rhythmic thunder
Out of the diapason of the stars on high.
Then shall this burden of my song
Be changed to joy as deep as life is long.
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