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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly

In Two Volumes
Croly, George (1780-1860)

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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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290

PINDAR.

In the grave this head was laid;—
All its atoms in the sun
Through a thousand years have play'd,
Through a thousand shapes have gone:
It has blossom'd in the flower—
It has floated in the wave—
It has lit the starlight hour—
It has whisper'd through the cave!
Has the spirit perish'd all?
This was but its mouldering wall!
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Fame, the prize of life, was won;
Pindar's mighty task was done;
Then on air his wing was cast!
Like a flame, the soul has past,
While the ashes rest below;—
Like a trumpet's sudden blast,
Gone!—what strength shall check it now?
When the lightning wears a chain,
Pindar's soul shall stoop again!—
Yet the world has need of thee,
Man of Immortality:
Greece,—the name is lost in tears,—
Land of laurels, lyres, and spears!
Visions on that spot have birth,
Brighter than are born of earth:
In that soil of glorious strife,
Not an atom but had life.
Glow'd and triumph'd, fought and died,
As the patriot battle's tide,
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Flood of arrow, lance, and sword,
O'er the whelm'd invader roar'd.
Hear us! from thy golden sphere!—
Shall the eternal sepulchre
Hide the spirit of the land?
Shall no great, redeeming hand—
(Oh, for such as dyed her seas
In thy day, Miltiades!)
Issuing from her peasant ranks,
Smite the turban'd robber horde,
Till the chain no longer clanks,—
Till the Turkish battle, gored,
Over Helle's purple banks
In returnless flight is pour'd;—
Till the phalanx, laurel-brow'd,
Like a rolling thunder-cloud,
Like a conflagration sweeping,
Of its plague-spot clears the soil;
And no more the voice of weeping,
Woman's shame, or manhood's spoil,
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Grieves the listening midnight sky?—
Pindar! shall her glory die!
Shall, like thine, no godlike strain
Teach her to be great again?
Hear us, from thy starry throne
Hear!—by those in Marathon!
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