The Sylphs of the Seasons, with other poems

Allston, Washington (1779-1843)

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THE SYLPHS OF THE SEASONS, A POET'S DREAM.

Prefatory Note TO THE SYLPHS OF THE SEASONS.

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THE TWO PAINTERS: A TALE.

ECCENTRICITY.

THE PAINT-KING.

MYRTILLA.

TO A LADY, Who spoke slightingly of Poets.

SONNET On a Falling Group in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo , in the Cappella Sistina.

SONNET On the Group of the Three Angels before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle , in the Vatican.

SONNET On seeing the Picture of Æolus by Peligrino Tibaldi , in the Institute at Bologna.

SONNET On Rembrant ; occasioned by his Picture of Jacob's Dream.

SONNET On the Luxembourg Gallery.

SONNET To my venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy.

THE MAD LOVER At the Grave of his Mistress.

FIRST LOVE.

THE COMPLAINT.

WILL THE MANIAC.

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“Oh blessed band, of birth divine,
“What mortal task is like to mine!”—
And further had I spoke,
When, lo! there pour'd a flood of light
So fiercely on my aching sight,
I fell beneath the vision bright,
And with the pain awoke.

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