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Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems

By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols

Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline (1806-1855)

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I, II, III.

VOL. I., VOL. II., VOL. III.

SONNET DEDICATORY. TO THE QUEEN.

SONNET DEDICATORY. TO THE QUEEN.

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SKETCHES AND SHADOWINGS.

THE LIGHTNINGS.

SONG OF THE DYING IMPROVISATRICE.

DEATH'S SOVEREIGNTY.

MEMORY'S MAGIC.

EARTHLY AFFECTION.

LINES. (FROM AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.)

THE FAREWELL TO FRANCE.

WHEN JOY IS LIVING.

RELIGIOUS MUSIC.

THE ARAB CHIEF.

THE SAILOR'S GRAVE.

SWEET FRIENDS—SWEET FRIENDS.

ON MY CHILD'S BIRTH-DAY.

SONNET TO SLEEP.

SUMMER THOUGHTS.

BRIGHT WATERS BLUE.

THE ENGLISH EXILE'S RETURN.

YES! SOMETIMES I HAVE FELT.

THE SPANISH EXILE'S LAMENT.

THE HOUR OF STORM.

THE SOLEMN HOUR.

OH! YE WHO SUFFER.

A SHADOW ROUND ME.

OH! I HAVE MANY DREAMS.

HOPE! HADST THOU FLOWN AWAY.

THE HUMAN HERITAGE.

HAVE I NOT LOVED THEE?

NOW WOULD I PLUNGE MY SOUL.

OH! FOR INDIFFERENCE.

HENCE, FATAL DREAM!

HOW CANST THOU WEARY OF MY LOVE?

SUFFER ME BUT TO LOVE THEE.

I THINK OF THEE.

MY LONE HEART DROOPS.

NO! NO! IT MUST NOT BE.

WHAT ARE MYSTERIES?

QUEEN BERENGARIA'S COURTESY.

THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER SERAPIS AT POZZUOLI.

THE ISLAND OF CAPRI.

SONNET TO THE SAME.

ON PASSING A CORPSE LYING IN STATE AT NAPLES.

THE DISCONSOLATE YOUNG LADY.

EARTH'S VANITIES.

THE ZEGRI MAIDEN.

SONNET TO NAPLES.

TO THE NIGTINGALE.

THE TOMB'S REPROOF.

THE SPANISH MAIDEN'S SORROW.

THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS.

CHILDHOOD'S MERRIMENT.

THE BEAUTIFUL BARQUE!

THE WAVES COME SHOREWARDS ROLLING ON.

THE FALLING LEAF.

AWAY! OH, AWAY!

THE MOON'S LIGHT.

DEAR WILD FLOWERS.

TO THE BUTTERFLY.

TWILIGHT AND PEACE.

THE SAGE'S HERITAGE.

AWAY THEN TO THE FESTAL SCENE.

THE WARRIOR'S FUNERAL.

THE GHASTLY GUEST.

I DO NOT CHIDE THEE.

A BEAUTIFUL SCENE.

BONDS OF UNION.

FAILURES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS.

LINES TO ------.

A DREAM OF DEATH.

THE SONG OF DEATH.

EARTH'S WEARY ONES.

LINES FROM A MS. POEM.

DEEP IN THY DARK, DARK EYE.

THE SKY-LARK NOW.

SORROW AND JOY.

AN INFANT'S FUNERAL.

THE MARRIAGE PEAL AND PASSING BELL.

THE SINKING SUN.

NOTHING, NOTHING E'ER IS LOST.

HOW GLAD THIS HEART.

SOMETIMES THINK OF ME.

SORROW'S CLOUD.

VOICES FROM THE DEAD.

THE DELIGHTS OF THE DREAMER.

THE SOUND OF BEES.

THOU NEED'ST NOT TELL.

I MOVE THROUGH MANY SHADOWS.

AND ARE WE STRANGERS?

OH! OFTTIMES IN THE FESTAL HALL.

I SEE THEE NOT.

ON THE BROAD BLAZONED ROLLS.

ONCE I WAS BLESSED.

AND THOU CANST FAITHLESS.

AWAY UNTO THE WOODLAND SCENES!

SUNSET AT MOLA DE GAETA.

SEA! LOVELY SEA!

FAIR FAIRY DAYS.

SONNET ON MY CHILD'S BIRTH-DAY.

MY EARTHWARD-CLINGING HOPES.

BEAUTIFUL SUMMER.

THE SEA AT TERRACINA.

OH! THAT MY HEART.

I BLESS THEE, LOVE!

PARODY ON THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.

THE CHARMS OF MORNING.

NATURE'S SCENES.

FROM “INEZ,” A MS. POEM.

THE DEATH OF HOPE.

FANCY AND FEELING.

ON ------'S BIRTHDAY.

SONNET SUGGESTED BY A GROUPE OF SCULPTURE AT THE CHURCH OF ST. SEVERINO, AT NAPLES.

THE RETURN HOME.

THE HEART'S POWER.

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SONNETS TO DR. W--- ON HIS PROJECTED NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.

[Proclaim the proud Truth to the Hills and Wolds]

THE BACKWARD SPRING.

THOSE WHO LOVE NOT.

THE SOUL'S UNREST.

O'ER VINEYARD GROUNDS.

ALAS! WHY ART THOU FAR?

THE LAND OF BEAUTY.

SONNET ON GALILEO.

THE MAIDEN'S SONG OF SORROW.

THE VOICE OF WAVES.

THE CAMPAGNA OF ROME.

I THINK OF THEE.

THE ANGEL-SWEETNESS OF THY SMILE.

BUT LET ME LOOK ON THEE.

THE FALSE-HEARTED.

MANUAL TO INEZ.

MY SOUL IS WITH THEE.

SUNSHINE THROUGH FOLIAGE.

GIVE ME A PLACE WITHIN THY HEART!

I HEARD MY DOOM.

LINES FROM A MS. POEM.

MY THOUGHTS ARE FOLLOWERS IN THY TRAIN.

ABSENCE AND PRESENCE.

NEVER THINK I LOVE.

SONG OF THE DYING.

THE DEATH OF DAY.

ENOUGH, ENOUGH!

ADIEU! THOU GLORIOUS ITALY!

MANUEL TO INEZ.

STRANGE!—THOUGHTS GLIMPSE THOUGHTS.

NOW MORNING AFTER MORNING DAWNS.

NO BIRD THAT SINGS IN SUMMER'S BOWERS.

THE SORROWS OF ABSENCE.

THE BAY OF NAPLES.

OH, PITY THOSE!

STAMPED ON MY MIND.

SONNET ON NIAGARA.

MY THOUGHTS SPEED O'ER THE RESTLESS WATERS.

THE CAMPO SANTO, AT NAPLES.

SONNET ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

SONNET ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

SONNET, ON A PICTURE.

SEAS AND MOUNTAINS.

THE STAR'S REFLECTION.

EARTH'S LOFTY SPIRITS.

FOR THE BITTERNESS AND MOURNING.

HOPE AND HAPPINESS.

SPRING'S YOUNG DAYS.

ONE WORD WITH THEE!

A LESSON IN SORROW.

THE WORLD OF GRAVES.

I WILL NOT LISTEN.

THE HEART'S HISTORY.

THE NIGHT OF SORROW.

CHILDREN ROUND A NEW-MADE GRAVE.

THE MEMORY OF DELIGHT.

THE BLUE, BRIGHT SKIES.

THE LAST MEETING.

ONE MORE FAREWELL!

A TRANCE OF THOUGHT.

CLOUDS! LOVELY CLOUDS.

I KNOW I LOVE THEE.

THE SONG TO THE ROSE.

HOPE, I ABJURE THEE!

THE BURIED SECRET.

THE NAME OF DEATH.

THE POWERS OF NIGHT.

A CHURCHYARD AT EVENING.

TIME AND ABSENCE.

WEEP NOT BECAUSE I WEEP.

REMEMBERED MUSIC.

LOVE'S FIRST DAYS.

OH, NO! THOU DOST NOT LOVE ME!

NIGHT'S SHADOWS.

ABSENCE IN PRESENCE.

LINES FROM INEZ, A MS. POEM.

THE NIGHT COMES ON.

I SAW THY TEARS.

TO MADAME CARADORI, SINGING.

THE CHANGE OF SEASONS.

IT IS THE VOICE OF SPRING.

OH! COULD WE LOVE BUT LITTLE!

THERE ARE TREASURES.

A FAIR, GOOD MORNING.

THY MEMORY AND THY TEARS.

GOOD NIGHT!—GOOD NIGHT!—

THE FATAL TRUTH.

I HAVE THOUGHT ON MY DOOM.

THE MORNING HOUR.

LOW SIGH OF LOVE.

GO, AND BE HAPPY!

THEY SPEAK OF THEE!

WHERE ART THOU?

THIS CHANGED HEART.

OH! LET ME BREATHE A LIGHTER AIR!

I LOVE THEE, SURELY.

I SEND THEE SOME FEW FLOWERS.

THE HOUR OF SHADOWS.

CHILDHOOD'S LAUGHTER.

THOU KNOWEST NOT THAT I LOVE THEE!

A THOUGHT IN SPRING.

I AM WEARY OF MY THOUGHTS.

THEN THINK OF ME!

THE DEATH-BELL.

THE WORLD OF NATURE.

LINES FROM “INEZ.” (A MS. POEM.)

HUMAN JUDGMENTS.

FROM “INEZ,” A MS. POEM.

SORROW'S RICHES.

I SAW THE SHIVERED GOBLET.

THE LAMP—THE LYRE—THE HEART!

LINES FROM “INEZ,” A MS. POEM.

THOUGHTS—LOVELIEST THOUGHTS!

A LAST FAREWELL.

FLOWERS IN LONDON.

SONNET TO ------.

SONNET TO ------.

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MY LONE HEART DROOPS.

My lone heart droops—with many a bursting sigh
It trembling mourns, while joyless hours fleet by,
Pale phantom things, that seem with sorrow bowed,
Haunt it—fond Memory! round thy steps they crowd!

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My sad heart droops—Oh! let me not think why,
'Tis vain to analyze Despondency!—
A thousand cares from one that was shall spring,
If curiously we sound the heart's deep string!

We magnify and multiply our woes,
We rouse a host of hidden slumbering foes,
We tread upon the serpent's nest, and bring
The coiled-up reptiles forth to hiss and sting.

My lone heart droops—Oh! let me not think why,
'Tis vain to analyze Despondency!—
Ten thousand cares from one that was shall spring,
If curiously we sound the heart's deep string!

Let those foes slumber—let those serpents rest
Coiled up and couched within their viewless nest—
What gain, what good, can it e'er be to know,
Still helpless to o'ercome the heart's deep woe?