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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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CATILINE;
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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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261

LEONIDAS.

Shout for the mighty men
Who died along this shore—
Who died within this mountain glen!
For never nobler chieftain's head
Was laid on Valour's crimson bed,
Nor ever prouder gore
Sprang forth, than theirs who won the day
Upon thy strand, Thermopylæ!
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Shout for the mighty men,
Who on the Persian tents,
Like lions from their midnight den,
Bounding on the slumbering deer,
Rush'd—a storm of sword and spear;—
Like the roused elements,
Let loose from an immortal hand,
To chasten or to crush a land!
But there are none to hear;
Greece is a hopeless slave.
Leonidas! no hand is near
To lift thy fiery falchion now;
No warrior makes the warrior's vow
Upon thy sea-wash'd grave.
The voice that should be raised by men,
Must now be given by wave and glen.
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And it is given!—the surge—
The tree—the rock—the sand—
On Freedom's kneeling spirit urge,
In sounds that speak but to the free,
The memory of thine and thee!
The vision of thy band
Still gleams within the glorious dell,
Where their gore hallow'd, as it fell!
And is thy grandeur done?
Mother of men like these!
Has not thy outcry gone,
Where Justice has an ear to hear?—
Be holy! God shall guide thy spear;
Till in thy crimson'd seas,
Are plunged the chain and scimitar,
Greece shall be a new-born Star!
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