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Hours at Naples, and Other Poems

By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley

Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline (1806-1855)

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LINES WRITTEN AT NAPLES.

LINES ON MORNING.

LINES ON A FINE PROSPECT AT NAPLES.

QUEEN JOANNA'S RUINED PALACE AT NAPLES.

INDIAN SONG OF FESTIVAL.

THE SONG OF THE WANDERING TROUBADOUR.

THE WANDERER'S RETURN.

A MOUNTAINOUS VIEW.

A CHINESE LOVE SONG.

AN EASTERN NIGHT.

REMEMBER ME! REMEMBER ME!

ON THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.

TO THE VIOLET AT NAPLES.

THE FELON'S GRAVE.

THE GEORGIAN SULTANA.

SONG.

ON A PICTURE OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.

A MEMORY'S MEMORY.

LOVE AND FREEDOM.

OH! HOW AT TIMES.

SUNSHINE AND MOONLIGHT.

SOLITUDE.

THE DELIGHTS OF IMAGINATION.

THE HAPPY LAND OF DREAMS.

AH, ME! HOW MUCH I PITY THOSE.

I TURN TO THEE.

THE CHERISHED LOT.

THOUGHTS ON OTHER WORLDS.

PITY AND LOVE.

IF GENTLEST SUFFERANCE.

THE DEER OF THE FOREST.

MINSTREL FAME.

ONCE! ONCE!

HAUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD.

I HAVE ADMIRED THROUGH CIRCLING HOURS.

WHEN HEARTS THAT LOVED.

SONG.

THE WITHERED REED.

STRANGE IS THE POWER.

ONCE FROM GAY FOLLY'S PATHS.

IN THE SWEET SEASONS.

MANUEL TO INEZ.

THE LOVELY SONG.

ART THOU CONTENT?

WHY HAVE THEY TOLD ME THIS?

THE CAPRICE OF SORROW.

THE SECRET OF THE SOUL.

IT SHALL NOT BE.

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IT SHALL NOT BE.

No! no! it shall not be,
I will arouse me now,
And set mine own soul free,
And clear my clouded brow.

It shall not—must not be;
I will do battle strong
Against myself and thee,
Dark Memory—now ere long!

It shall not—must not be;
Or if in truth it must—
I may not live to see—
Shrouded in senseless dust.

No! no! it shall not be—
In Life—or Death—'tis o'er!
From Love—Grief—Memory—free,
I will despair no more!