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Lyrics of the heart

With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. With forty-one engravings on steel
Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797-1864)

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[dedication]
 
TO NINE SISTERS.
 
TEN YEARS AGO.
 
THE PAINTER'S DREAM.
 
MAY-FLOWERS
 
FOR EVER THINE.
 
WE MET WHEN HOPE AND LIFE WERE NEW.
 
THE FIRST-BORN.
 
TO A PORTRAIT.
 
RUTH.
 
HE NEVER SAID HE LOVED ME.
 
THEY ARE NO MORE.
 
GREECE.
 
LEAVES FROM A POET'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
 
MY OWN FIRE-SIDE.
 
A LADY IN A FLORENTINE COSTUME;
 
TO CAROLINE BOWLES.
 
A WITHERED ROSE.
 
KIRKSTALL ABBEY REVISITED.
 
THE SILENT TOAST.
 
THE RETURN FROM INDIA.
 
THE DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN.
 
THE WHARFE REVISITED.
 
WE PLIGHTED VOWS TOGETHER!
 
THE POET'S HOME.
 
THE SLEEPING CUPID OF GUIDO.
 
THE FISHERMAN'S HYMN TO THE VIRGIN.
 
THE BACHELOR'S DILEMMA.
 
KING PEDRO'S REVENGE.
 
GUARD AGAINST A RAINY DAY.
 
HYMN OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON.
 
ON BURNING A PACKET OF LETTERS.
 
A PARAPHRASE.
 
THE TWIN SISTERS.
 
THE ÆOLIAN HARP.
 
RICHMOND HILL.
 
CONSOLATION.
 
THE LAMENT OF BOABDIL EL CHICO;
 
A SKETCH FROM PRIVATE LIFE.
 
LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PORTRAIT.
 
ÆTNA.
 
TO A CHILD, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF ABSENCE.
 
A REMONSTRANCE.
 
A SCENE FROM FAUST.
 
LOVE AND SPRING.
 
A PORTRAIT FROM REAL LIFE.
 
THE MARTYRS OF ROYAL-LIEU.
 
THE ANNIVERSARY.
 
THE YOUNGLING OF THE FLOCK.
 
EVENING.
 
A WOMAN'S FAREWELL.
 
THE SISTER OF CHARITY.
 
STANZAS
 
YOU ASK ME FOR A PLEDGE, LOVE.
 
MY NATIVE VALE.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE BARRET.
 
A FAREWELL.
 
SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD.
 
I THINK OF THEE!
 
THE GREY HAIR.
 
TO A SLEEPING CHILD.
 
THE GIRL AND THE HAWK.
 
THE MELODY OF YOUTH.
 
THE EXILES.
 
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP.
 
THE DEATH OF POMPEY THE GREAT.
 
MUSIC.
 
MORNING.
 
QUEEN VICTORIA AT SPITHEAD.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG FRIEND, OF FEVER, AT LAGUIRA.
 
FORGET THEE, NO, NEVER!
 
TO A CHILD BLOWING BUBBLES.
 
A DAY DREAM,
 
MEET ME AT SUNSET.
 
INVOCATION TO THE ECHO OF A SEA-SHELL.
 
THE WEDDING DAY.
 
TO OCTAVIA,
 
WOMAN'S LOVE.
 
THE CLOSING SCENE.
 
ON REVISITING A SCENE OF EARLY LIFE.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD.
 
EGYPT UNVISITED.
 
THE AVALANCHE.
 
TO POESY.
 
THE HOME OF TALIESSIN.
 
I WILL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE!
 
A LAMENT FOR THE FAIRIES.
 
NAPOLEON'S DREAM.
 
THE LOVE OF POETRY NOT EXTINCT.
 
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
 
RHINE SONG.
 
LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK PAGE OF THE POEMS OF WORDSWORTH.
 
I'VE ROAMED THE WIDE WORLD OVER.
 
A WOMAN'S LAST SONG.
 
INSCRIPTION.
 
A REMONSTRANCE TO THE POET CAMPBELL,
 
A CHRISTMAS SONG.
 
THOU HAST FLASHED ON MY SIGHT.
 
ENVOY.

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LOVE AND SPRING.

'Twas the genial month of flowers,
Merry May, when first we met;
Youth, and Hope, and Love were ours,
Love, and Hope are with us yet;—
Time, and Care defy the will,
But our hearts are spring-like still.
Time may “thin the flowing hair;”
Rob the eye of half its light;
And the breath of low-born Care
Hope may canker, Beauty blight;—
Fate may frown and Friends grow chill,
So the heart be vernal still!
Centred thus 'mid Alpine snows,
Storms above, and glaciers 'round,
One green spot no winter knows;
But, like fairy-haunted ground,
Holds within its charmed ring
All the freshest hues of spring!
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