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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly

In Two Volumes
Croly, George (1780-1860)

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VOL. I.
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PARIS IN 1815.
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PART II.
  
THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS.
  
ON THE BUST OF THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA, IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AT BERLIN, 1812.
  
NOON.
  
THE PEN.
  
THE POET'S HOUR.
  
CZERNI GEORGE.
  
THE ANGEL OF THE WORLD.
  
ON THE GRAVE OF MAJOR SCHILL,
  
ON THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS.
  
SANDT, THE MURDERER.
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GEMS, FROM THE ANTIQUE;
  
PERICLES AND ASPASIA.
  
THE GENIUS OF DEATH.
  
A WOMAN CONTEMPLATING A HOUSEHOLD GOD.
  
LEONIDAS.
  
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
  
CUPID BREAKING THE THUNDERBOLT.
  
A FAUN.
  
CUPID CARRYING PROVISIONS. A.D. 1600.
  
SAPPHO.
  
DIANA.
  
GENIUS BOUND.
  
BACCHUS ON A PANTHER.
  
THESEUS.
  
A TRITON AND NEREID.
  
ATALANTA.
  
SILENUS LOOKING AT A GOBLET.
  
VENUS CLIPPING THE WINGS OF CUPID.
  
FLORA.
  
THE EDUCATION OF BACCHUS.
  
PINDAR.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE CASKET, CONTAINING A RING.
  
THE BATTLE SONG.
  
DEATH.
  
THE MAGIC LAMP.
  
NELSON'S PILLAR, AT YARMOUTH.
  
THE INDIAN GIRL AND SERPENT.
  
A SKETCH FROM LIFE.
  
ON A GRAVE AT WATERLOO.
  
ON A PORTRAIT, BY MASQUERIER, OF A LADY STANDING BEFORE A GLASS.
  
INSCRIPTION ON AN URN.
  
SEGUIDILLA.
  
NAPOLEON. 1820.
  
THE WINTER'S EVENING.
  
AN ÆSTUARY.
  
MIDNIGHT.
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VOL. II.
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CATILINE;
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XL. ZEPHYR AND THE ROSE-NYMPH .
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LORENZO DE' MEDICI.
  
THE ARTIST'S CHAMBER.
  
EPITAPH.
  
SATAN.
  
THE PROPHET'S SCIMITAR.
  
THE SONG OF ANTAR.
  
INSCRIPTION ON ALEXANDER OF MACEDON.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR THEMISTOCLES.
  
ROSOLIA.
  
REBELLION.
  
EPITAPH ON AN OLD CULTIVATOR.
  
THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.
  
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
  
THE PAINTER.
  
JACOB'S DREAM.
  
ON THE RUINS OF MESOLONGHI.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A GROTTO.
  
THE SIBYL'S TOMB.
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LINES ON THE DEATH OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
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'T was night; but there were thoughts in England's breast
Too wild, too waking for its hour of rest;
The strong anxieties of hope and fear,
That must be joy or woe ere morn appear.
Man loves the throne!—'t is not the glare of power;
Flatterers may fawn before it, dastards cower,
The free-soul'd feel the homage that they feign:
That morn might England hail a Sovereign!
But, round the couch where England's daughter lies
Are hovering all the heart's high sympathies.
And thousands, tens of thousands that had ne'er
Look'd on the face, now pale in peril there,
Were sleepless through her long, drear hours of pain,
And sent up hopes and prayers,—in vain—in vain.
By Claremont's walls in deepening circles wait
The royal courier, equipage of state;
And broadly through the dusk the torches glow
On crowds, that hour by hour like billows flow,
Still, as from time to time the portals ope,
Rushing to catch the menial's tale of hope;
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As spurs the muffled horseman through the gate,
Perusing in his face the nation's fate.
The hour's at hand!—a moment—and they fling
The shout to heaven, the shout for Ocean's king!
No shout was given. In Claremont's chambers now
Tears fall from eyes not used to their light flow;
A group are bending round a canopy,
With man's reluctant tear and struggling sigh;
Prelate and chief are there, a stately ring,
Pondering on fate: there lies their infant King!—
And now,—that pillow's all his sovereign throne;
'T is Death's cold lip has kiss'd him,—he is gone.
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