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Stones from The Quarry

or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison]

Ellison, Henry

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THE DOUBLE LIFE: ESOTERIC.

HOMUNCULUS, OR THE LORD OF CREATION.

“CONSCIENCE MAKES COWARDS OF US ALL.”

ON THE MOMENTOUS SOCIAL UPHEAVALS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

ON NOT RECOGNISING MY OWN COMPOSITION.

GREECE, THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND ROME.

“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.”

DITTO IN ANOTHER KEY.

DITTO TRANSPOSED INTO A MINOR KEY.

INTERCOMMUNION.

THE LANGDALE PIKES.

TO THE INCOMPARABLE M. L.

NEAR DAWN ON A STILL NIGHT.

SHAKSPEAR: A TRIAD.

SIR JOHN HANMER'S POEMS.

DAWN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE SPRING-HEAD.

“ENTAIL TO HEIRS SPECIAL.”

THE PREMATURE DEATH OF KEATS.

THE “STRONG-MINDED WOMAN.”

“EPICŒNE,” OR “STRONG-MINDED WOMEN” AGAIN.

ON THE DEATH OF MY FRIEND, MAJOR G. P. THOMAS.

ON THE DEATH OF MY FRIEND, G. P. THOMAS.

“NEC FONTE LABRA PROLUI CABALLINO,”&c.

THE FURNACE TEST.

PLATFORM WOMEN.

MIND AND MATTER.

HORA FUGIT; HOC QUOD LOQUOR INDE EST.

THE RANGE OF BEING.

TOO FAR AND FAST.

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT.

THE UPRIGHT JUDGE.

“SACRI VATES, ET DIVÛM CURA VOCAMUR.”

ON SHAKSPEAR'S POEMS.

THE SERVICE OF THE MUSES.

A SPRINGTIDE SUNDAY.

A HINT TO POETS.

A SPRINGTIDE MORNING.

ON A MISSING PORTRAIT.

ANCIENT GREECE.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.

THE ENGLISH DRAMA.

LIVINGSTONE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE MUSES AND HYGEIA.

TO MILTON; ON HIS TRACT AFTER CROMWELL'S DEATH.

NATURAL SELECTION.

TO POETS—HAVE A GOOD LEADING-OFF RIME.

THE SPIRIT-TEMPLE; OR, A NEW ACT IN THE WORLD'S DRAMA.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS AGAIN.

FRIENDS INDEED!

TO SHAKSPEAR, UPON HIS PLAYING “KNO'-WELL” IN BEN JONSON'S COMEDY.

POETICAL ACCOUCHEMENTS.

A DEFENCE OF POESY.

REVISITING THE SEA.

INFUSORIA; OR, THE MARVELS OF CREATION.

THE GOLDEN MEAN.

THE MAN AND HIS TIMES.

LIFE ACCORDING TO NATURE.

MODERN SCIENCE.

AULD LANG SYNE.

MAKE READY; PREPARE!

BRICK AND MORTAR HUMANITY.

“THE FELL ARREST WITHOUT ALL BAIL.”

ON A SEAT BY AN ANCIENT TOMB.

SUNSET ON THE LAGO MAGGIORE.

EXTRA FLAMMANTIA MŒNIA MUNDI.

HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.

MENTAL DIGESTION.

DAWN IN A CATHEDRAL.

HUMAN INCONSISTENCIES.

ON THE EXQUISITE FRENCH PICTURE OF PERSEUS AND MEDUSA.

THE TRUE ALCHYMIST.

THE PLAGUE OF BOOKS.

HOW TO READ GREAT AUTHORS.

THE WONDROUS PHENOMENA OF THE NORTH POLAR NIGHT AND DAY.

THE SONNET “AT A HEAT.”

THE CONSTELLATION LYRA.

MISAPPRECIATION.

THE ALABASTER VASE LIT UP.

ON THE STRANGELY BOTCHED ENDINGS OF SOME OF SHAKSPEAR'S SONNETS.

THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD.

THE ORGAN-GRINDER.

“FREE LOVE.”

SHAKSPEAR'S SONNETS.

MY BOOKSHELVES; OR, THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD.

THE POET'S RULE OF LIFE.

CRITICS OF THE BASER SORT.

THE TRUE CRITIC.

THE SONNET AGAIN.

THE POET'S TEST.

“FREE LOVE” AGAIN.

SCHOOL-BOARD WRANGLES.

HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE VERSUS PARIS AND HELEN.

“FREE LOVE” AGAIN.

THE EARLY DEATH OF KEATS.

THE MUSE'S SERVICE.

RAPHAEL'S MADONNA DELLA SEGGIOLA.

MAN-PROUD SPARTA.

WORLDLY WEALTH.

MODERN WARFARE.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

THE BOOK YOU MAY HOLD OVER THE FIRE.

THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WELLINGTON ON CONSTITUTION HILL.

POLITICAL MILESTONES.

HAPPINESS FROM WITHIN.

EARLY OPPORTUNITIES LOST.

BEETHOVEN AND HANDEL.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.

LIGHT AND SOUND.

THE PURE IN SPIRIT.

LUXURY AND SCEPTICISM.

THE TRUE BRAVE.

LABOUR VERSUS LUXURY.

THE MUSIC FROM WITHIN.

AFTER A LONG FOG-SPELL; LONDON-XXX.

APPRAISEMENT OF LIFE.

THE BEST PHYSICIAN.

IN, NOT OF, THE WORLD.

IMPULSIVE CHARITY.

THE HEALING ART.

ENDOWMENTS AND MORTMAINS.

UNHEARD MELODIES.

THE BEST PRESCRIPTION, NOT IN THE PHARMACOPŒIA.

SHAKSPEAR'S SONNETS.

TOO LATE!—TOO SOON!

DANTE'S “FRANCESCA DA RIMINI.”

SUDDEN PROSPERITY.

WHAT WEATHERS THE STORM.

THE MUSE IN THE DUMPS.

DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY.

NIGHTINGALE AND POET.

THE GOBLET OF LIFE.

THE ART OF KEEPING YOUNG.

CRITICS, EXPLAIN YOUR EXPLANATION; OR, VARIORUM READINGS.

THE INNER LIFE.

TO A MERE ANATOMY OF A MAN.

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE?”

PROCRASTINATION.

“TRESPASSERS BEWARE.”

A HINT TO POETS.

THE “CITY” AT HIGH BUSINESS.

THE CLEOPATRA OF SHAKSPEAR AND DRYDEN.

THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF THE “GREAT DUKE.”

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S HOUSE.

“FREE LOVE,” WRIT LARGE.

“FREE LOVE,” WRIT SMALL.

ENGLAND'S IDOLATRY.

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE.”

ON HEARING BEETHOVEN'S CHORAL SYMPHONY.

THE TEMPLE OF THE SOUL.

AS THE LIGHT SO WE SEE.

LABOUR IN VAIN.

“KILLING TIME.”

INVITÂ MINERVÂ.

INFLUENCE FOR GOOD.

THE SELF-DUBBED “IMMORTALS.”

RECOVERED HEALTH.

ABSORBING OCCUPATIONS.

THE ANGEL OF TRUTH.

“THE MISSING LINK;” OR, THE FETISH OF SCIENCE.

REFLECTIONS ON THE PRECEDING.

THE COST OF TRUTH.

PLATFORM MOUNTEBANKS.

THE STARS, OR POSSIBILITIES OF EXISTENCE.

A NEW ACT OF THE LIFE-DRAMA.

THE DEATH OF NELSON.

TRADE VERSUS WAR.

THIS BALL OF EARTH.

THE ANGEL OF DEATH.

DAWN OVER THE ATLANTIC IN KERRY.

THE IRONY OF LIFE.

ACTUALITIES AND POSSIBILITIES.

WIT AND HUMOUR.

PRODUCTION OF SPECIES BY SELECTION.

ESSENTIAL LIFE.

DEATH NOT IN THE POT, BUT PEN.

THE “SELECTION” THEORY.

ILLUSIONS OF SENSE.

LORD ROSS'S TELESCOPE.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT NATION.

INFANT-TRAINING.

THE LIGHTS OF ALL TIME; A LIBRARY— SUGGESTION.

THE LOVE THAT WANETH NOT.

“TO BE, OR NOT TO BE,” AGAIN.

THE INNER LIFE.

DEATH AND THE PUBLISHER.

MAN, PROUD MAN!

THE GRASSHOPPER.

DIVINE PHILOSOPHY.

AURORA VERSUS BACCHUS.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

NATURE BELOW THE SURFACE.

SAPPHO ANTIQUE.

METEMPSYCHOSIS, OR SAPPHO MODERN;

HUMAN PERFECTIBILITY?

WEALTHY AND LUXURIOUS OLD AGE.

ALLEGORY OF THE FUTURE.

A FAMILIAR COLLOQUY.

A FASHIONABLE DINNER SET-OUT.

“TIME-KILLERS.”

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE.”

“ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE.”

TIME A MERELY HUMAN IDEA: A NIGHT-THOUGHT.

HARMONIC PAUSES IN MUSIC.

PRIDE OF WEALTH.

SHAKSPEAR'S SONNETS.

THE NEW PROMETHEUS, AFTER J. S. MILL'S “PRESCRIPTION.”

THE NEW PROMETHEUS AND ERÔS.

ON SHAKSPEAR'S PROFOUND SONNET (CXXIII), “NO! TIME, THOU SHALT NOT BOAST.”

“LET US EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY FOR TO-MORROW WE DIE.”

OUR “WAR SPECIAL.”

THE PIANO-FORTE.

THE ALTAR AND THE VICTIM: ESOTERIC.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

MODERN LITERATURE, OR DELUGE NO. II.

YOUTH'S ILLUSIONS.

“MORS SOLA FATETUR,” ETC.

YOUTH KEEPS THE WORLD A-GOING.

DEATH AND TIME.

FORECAST AND RETROSPECT.

THE GLORIFICATION OF YOUTH.

HUMAN NATURE'S DARKER SIDE.

USE WELL THY YOUTH.

OUT, DAMNÈD FIEND!

HAMLET'S EXALTATION OF MAN, “THE PARAGON OF ANIMALS.”

A SUPREME AGONY!

THE NEMESIS OF LUXURY.

THE LAST QUEST OF ULYSSES.

THE MARTYRDOM OF LATIMER, RIDLEY, AND CRANMER.

ON THE OMISSION OF CROMWELL'S STATUE.

DECAY OF FAITH.

ON THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY.

AN ALLEGORY OF SCEPTICISM AND ITS EFFECTS.

THE “EASTING” OF THE EARTH.

ON SHAKSPEAR'S PORTRAIT.

A HINT TO SONNET-WRITERS.

THE YEAR IN OUR NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

MAN “DARWINISED;” OR, THE ANTI-CLIMAX.

HYDE PARK IN A DECEMBER SMOKE: TRANSITION SCENE FROM THE “RIDE” AT 6 P.M.

ON THE WELL-KNOWN ANECDOTE OF MILTON ASLEEP UNDER A TREE.

ON THE INCOMPARABLE “CUPID” OF M. ANGELO, IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

THAT CHARMING LOCALE, LEICESTER-SQUARE AS IT WAS.

DISILLUSION AND ESTRANGEMENT.

THE FAMILY “TRIAD,” FATHER, CHILD, AND MOTHER.

THE DEATH OF MOZART.

MAID AND MOTHER.

TENURE OF LIFE.

LONDON IN DEAD OF NIGHT.

MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN INDIA, AND SCEPTICISM AT HOME.

CLARISSA HARLOWE.

LOVELACE AND CLARISSA HARLOWE.

MODERN LIFE FOR SHOW.

PYGMALION REVERSED.

THE SINKING OF THE “WARRIOR,” ARMOUR-PLATED VESSEL.

REITERATION OF OLD, WORN-OUT THEMES.

THE GLORY OF WOMANHOOD.

THE DREAD “LOGIC OF FACTS:” A PASSING SHADOW.

MAN'S POWER OVER NATURE.

GÖTHE'S “FAUST” NOT AN “ACTING-PLAY” OR A “SENSATION” MELODRAMA.

LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH.

THE FUSION OF NATIONS; OR, THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.

ON THE “MECHANICAL” HORRORS AND DIABLERIE IMPORTED INTO “DER FREISCHÜTZ.”

THE PORTRAIT. TO ------.

PITT AND THE POLITICAL LILLIPUTIANS.

THE CHILD OF THE GUTTER AND THE CHILD OF THE FIELDS.

SHAKSPEAR'S EARLY DEATH.

POETIC INSPIRATION.

SCIENCE AND FAITH.

THE MALIGNED NEGRO.

WHITE AND BLACK.

HALF SEAS OVER.

NECK OR NOTHING.

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

DON'T “GIVE IN.”

DE PROFUNDIS: A NOCTURN.

THE NIGHT-KNELL.

WARNING ON THE SPREAD OF LUXURY.

ANOMALIES OF HUMAN NATURE.

THE MYSTERY OF BREED.

THE HEAVENS AT NIGHT.

THE SPELL OF THE TRUE POET.

SPIRITUAL AGENCIES.

THE “TO BE!” STROPHÉ—FAITH.

OR “NOT TO BE;” ANTISTROPHÉ—DOUBT.

THE RAVING BACCHANTE.

“UNSEAWORTHY” ENGLAND!

“WITH WHAT I MOST ENJOY CONTENTED LEAST.” SHAKSPEAR'S SONNETS.

“DESIRING THIS MAN'S ART AND THAT MAN'S SCOPE.” SAME SONNET.

FAITH. THE SCEPTIC “MALGRÉ LUI.

TO ------. A CONTRAST.

A SPLENDID NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAINS.

THE DEADLY SIN OF UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS. TO ENGLAND.

SELF-EXPERIENCE.

THE MYSTERY OF BEING.

CHRIST FROM THE MERELY HUMAN POINT OF VIEW.

MILTON'S “PARADISE LOST.”

THE LAST SAD SCENE OF ALL.

“THE HORSE AND (NOT) HIS RIDER” IN LEICESTER-SQUARE.

THE LOST: IN MEMORIAM.

LONDON AND THE THAMES.

THE VANISHING-POINT.

CHARING-CROSS, AND THE REGICIDES EXECUTED THERE.

NO. 50, ALBEMARLE-STREET; MR. MURRAY'S RESIDENCE.

ON THE 57TH REGIMENT (THE DIEHARDS) TAKING THEIR OLD COLOURS TO ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

THE POET AND THE CUP OF TRUTH.

THE HOUSE OFF TAVISTOCK-PL., TAVISTOCK-SQ., WHERE FRANCIS BAILY WEIGHED THE EARTH.

NELSON'S COLUMN, TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

BOOKS: THE CHILDREN OF THE BRAIN.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.

NELSON'S COLUMN IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED.

THE DESIGN OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

A CATHEDRAL FUNERAL-SERVICE.

THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM.

THE DEATH OF SPINOZA.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

THE TRUE AMBITION.

WHAT THOU DOEST, DO WITH ALL THY MIGHT.

INTELLECTUAL LABOUR.

VIVE MEMOR LETHI!

HAPPINESS IN REACH OF ALL.

THE VIOLENT CONTRASTS OF NATURE.

TRUE GREATNESS.

TO MAY, ON A LOVELY, DREAMY DAY.

PERSONAL IDENTITY.

ON A LOVELY, STILL MAY-DAY.

“HEU! QUANTO JUCUNDIUS EST TUI MEMINISSE QUAM ALIIS VERSARI.”

THE SERVICE OF THE MUSE.

THE REVERSIBLE POLITICAL PALETÔT.

MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO.

GENIUS; ITS CREATIVE POWER.

LOVE'S DIALECT.

GENIUS; ITS STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS.

THE SWAY OF GREAT AUTHORS.

TO A YOUNG LADY.

SHAKSPEAR'S WONDERFUL ASSIMILATIVE POWER.

GENIUS ISOLATED—“VÆ SOLO ET SINGULARI.”

TO THE SWEET NYMPH ------.

TO A YOUNG MOTHER.

THE EARLY DEATHS OF RAPHÁEL, MOZART, KEATS, &c.

AN ASPIRATION.

ON A VERY MILD FEBRUARY.

NIGHT ON WATER.

TO THE ADDRESSEE OF THE SONNET P.

UNDER A CLOUD, OR IMMORTALITY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY.

LOOK IN THIS GLASS.

GREAT MEN STOOPING TO PEERAGES.

LONDON MENDICANCY.

ON AN EXQUISITE BYGONE FEMALE FACE.

OUR PUBLIC MONUMENTS TO NELSON, HAVE-LOCK, ETC., AND OUR ART JOBBERY.

TO A RAY OF LIGHT.

THE “TICHBORNE” TRIAL.

THE GRIEF APART.

MUSIC IN EXCELSIS.

GERMANY AND “ARMED PEACE.”

THE ASHANTI WAR.

TINTERN ABBEY AND THE WYE.

THE TRAGIC AND HIGH-PASSIONED BUSKIN.

A CHRISTMAS WAIL, NOT CAROL: THE BELLS THAT RANG IN RING OUT.

LIBERATED ROME—A SUNSET VIEW FROM THE HEIGHTS.

TO ------, CONVALESCING.

FALSE PRIDE OF INTELLECT.

HUMILIATING ASPECT OF OLD AGE.

CUPID AND PLUTUS.

THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD.

TO A NOBLE FRIEND.

TO THE DEPARTED: AN ANSWER.

TO MY NOBLE FRIEND, MAJOR G. P. THOMAS.

THE WORN-OUT ORGAN-GRINDER.

SLEEP AND DEATH.

THE WORKS OF GOD.

PLEASURE-HUNTERS.

THE FOUNTAIN-VASE.

MOORE'S SENTIMENTAL, “BOUDOIR” VEIN.

THE SONNET. TO ------, A CAVILLER.

TO ------, THE DEPARTED.

MY MUSE—FICTION.

CHILD-TRAINING BY PERAMBULATORS, ETC.—FACT.

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE.

THE GOLDEN MEAN.

SELF-APPRAISEMENT.

THE WIFE'S BIBLE.

THE STARS AND THE MYSTERY OF BEING.

“A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT.”

ROME MEDIÆVAL; POPE AND KING.

A MUSE OF THE “JUST MILIEU.”

COLONEL LOVELACE.

LOVELACE AGAIN.

THE EVIL SPIRIT OF DOUBT.

“EVERLASTINGS” AND NEVERLASTINGS.

THE SONNET-RACK.

SURROUNDINGS AND BELONGINGS.

THE SUEZ CANAL, OR THE MARRIAGE OF THE RED SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

THE SLAVE-TRADE IS SAID TO BE ALREADY REVIVING SINCE LIVINGSTONE DIED!

CAST NOT PEARL TO SWINE.

A SUDDEN BURST OF SPRING.

WOMAN AT HER BEST.

BACK-ENTRIES IN A DIARY.

THE UNCORRUPTED AFRICAN.

LIVINGSTONE'S PICTURE AND APPRAISEMENT OF THE UNSOPHISTICATED AND FREE AFRICAN.

TO MRS. ------.

UNFULFILLED LIVES.

TO ------. PROTEST AGAINST A BASE ACTION.

LIVINGSTONE'S GRAVE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE DISBELIEF OF A FUTURE LIFE.

ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ! ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ!

FIRST TRUE LOVE.

“PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF TIME.”

MIGHTY IN VACUO.

A SPRINGTIDE THOUGHT.

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BEVERAGES.

TIME “ON ENTAIL.”

A MIDDLE-AGE PASSION.

TIME WAS: TIME IS: TIME'S PAST.

THE DAYS THAT ARE FEW AND EVIL.

THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS.

ELIZABETH BARRETT'S SONNETS.

AN AIRY VISION!

LOVE “WRIT LARGE.”

NEAR A FOUNTAIN IN ITALY.

ON A VERY HOT SUMMER'S DAY.

LIVINGSTONE'S GRAVE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE BLESSED RETROSPECT OF GOOD DEEDS.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

REALITIES AND SEMBLANCES.

THE BORE OF THE SEVERN.

DOUBT: AN ALLEGORY.

THE “MISSING LINK.”

SHAKSPEAR'S PORTRAIT.

SHAKSPEAR'S UNIVERSALITY.

WHAT IS COMING?

TRUE SELF-DENYING GOOD DEEDS.

TO-MORROW AND TO-MORROW!

ON A FAR-OFF STAR.

THE OVERCROWDED “SLUMS” OF LONDON.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY AGAIN.

OLD AGE, THE SITTER.

DER DOPPELGÄNGER; OR, MAN AND HIS “DOUBLE.”

THE LAST SAD STAGE OF ALL.

ON A PHOTOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE.

THE STATE CHURCH.

THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN'S CORONATION.

THE SUPERNATURAL.

LATE-RIPE INTELLECTS.

TO A NOBLE-HEARTED COSTERMONGER.

ON A VERY PECULIAR AND SPLENDID SUNSET.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY AGAIN.

UNDER THE SURFACE.

TIME AND CHANGE.

TRUTH AT ALL COST, AND AT THE COST OF ALL!

LIFE AS A WHOLE.

THE STEAM-ENGINE.

CORDELIA'S TEARS.

THE DOG OF CIVILISATION; OR, ANIMAL EDUCATION.

ON AN EXQUISITE CLOUD-APPEARANCE, JULY 9th.

A LIFE-COMPARISON.

A DE PROFUNDIS OF OLD AGE.

THE COMPENSATIONS OF EXISTENCE.

TRUTH AND FICTION.

TO A HAUGHTY BEAUTY.

CONVENTIONALISM.

THE APPROXIMATION AND CO-OPERATION OF MANKIND.

KEEP THY BODY IN SUBJECTION.

TO A LAUGHTER-LOVING, BUDDING BEAUTY.

AN ALLEGORY OF GOOD AND EVIL.

ON A BEAUTIFUL STARRY NIGHT.

THE NEW-MARRIED.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

REFERENCE TO A BYGONE YEAR.

THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD.

TO THE SWALLOW.

“THE TREES OF THE LORD ARE FULL OF SAP.”

“IL DOLCE FAR NIENTE.”

CHANCE AND CHANGE.

FORECAST OF THE END.

TRUE LOVE AND LOVE PAR AMOURS.

SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.

NATURE LEARNING HER A. B. C. IN MASTODONS, &c.

Ϝεσπερε, παντα φερεις, οσα φαινολις εσκεδασ' αυως.—

THE MUSIC OF HUMANITY.

WHAT IS POETRY?

VÆ SOLO ET SINGULARI.

SCIENTIFIC DISILLUSION.

THE ARCH-EVIL-SPIRIT.

“KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE;” OR, THE POWER OF STEAM.

THE WORN-OUT ORGAN-GRINDER; A “REPLICA.”

UNAVAILING PRESCIENCE.

THE VANITY OF MAN REBUKED BY THE STARRY HEAVENS.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM, OR THE ENIGMA OF LIFE.

SWORD AND LEDGER KEEP TOGETHER.

FAITH AND HOPE IN VIEW OF THE “AUTOMATIC ACTION OF MATTER” THEORY.

LOVE UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS.

RELIGION UNDER THE SAME BAN.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE STARS AGAIN.

PITT, BURKE, FOX, AND SHERIDAN.

FOX AND PITT LIE ALMOST SIDE BY SIDE, NEAR TO CHATHAM, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE AUTOMATIC ACTION-OF-MATTER THEORY.

“BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER!”

THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.

THE DEPTH AND THE HEIGHT.

TRUE UNION OF HEARTS.

THE “AUTOMATIC ACTION OF MATTER” THEORY, AND ITS ISSUES.

DESECRATION WITHOUT THEREFROM: WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

DESECRATION WITHIN THEREFROM.

TRUE WEDDED LOVE.

MAN'S RELATION TO GOD.

THE BEST PREACHERS.

SELF AND TRUTH.

AGRARIAN MURDERS IN IRELAND, AND ATONEMENT.

LIVINGSTONE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. TO ENGLAND.

SEIZURES AND INSPIRATIONS.

THE PARTING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.

ON REPERUSING THE SONNET, “A SPRING-TIDE SUNDAY,” PAGE 24.

PAINTED FROM LIFE.

THE AUTOMATIC ACTION OF MATTER.

THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.

ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

LOOKING TOO FAR AHEAD.

PEN VERSUS SWORD.

THE DYING HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE.

HOFER, THE TYROLESE PATRIOT, AND HIS BETRAYER.

ON A MOST IMPRESSIVE SUNSET.

TRUE WEDDED LOVE.

BORROWED LIGHTS.

THE TRIUNE SAPPHO OF THE FUTURE.

APPROACH TO THE SUCCEEDING SONNET.

“TO BE, OR NOT TO BE” DURING SEVERE ILLNESS.

LOOK NOT TOO CLOSE.

THE SERVICE WHICH IS FREEDOM.

DARWIN, “SPECIES BY SELECTION,” AND EMPEDOCLES.

A SPLENDID AND PECULIAR SUNSET.

ALCESTIS: OF THE INNER LIFE.

TO ------, ON HER RETURN FROM THE SEASIDE.

PLATFORM-WOMANKIND.

THE PRINTING-PRESS.

PATIENT GENIUS.

SOUL-YEARNINGS.

WHERE GOD IS MOST REVEALED.

FRANCE, THE PROTEUS OF NATIONS.

ALL MUST BE, NOT SEEM.

WHAT TRUTH DEMANDS: ESOTERIC.

SELF-LOVE AND LOVE.

THE STUDY OF SHAKSPEAR.

HIATUS VALDE DEFLENDUS.

THE BRITISH MIDAS.

ON THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.

ATLANTIC “ROLLERS” AND CALM.

THE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN!

KEEP SHORT RECKONINGS WITH SELF.

NON OMNIS MORIAR.

SCIENTIFIC “QUINTAINS.”

ON CONCLUDING THIS VOLUME, WRITTEN IN A YEAR.

ON THE SAME THEME.

TO MRS. THOMAS, ON THE RETURN OF HER HUSBAND FROM THE CRIMEA, APRIL, 1856.

THE POETICAL HIVE.

TAKE THE WILL FOR THE DEED.

THE LAST STONE.

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ODE TO THE STATUE OF A MUSE PLAYING ON A LYRE AND ENTITLED “EUMOUSIA,” IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

TO THE INCOMPARABLE VENUS OF MILO.

ON ANNIBALE CARACCI'S LANDSCAPE IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY: A WATER SCENE WITH PLEASURE PARTIES.

THE WIFE: A SONG.

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AN ASPIRATION.

O thou grand Lyre of the Muses, have
Or have I not—is it a vain conceit
That I have—stirred by your great borrowed heat
Of inspiration, tried a chord that gave
New tones, and new-attunèd ears doth crave?
A sound went forth, and echoes strange did meet
With grand reverbs; o'er Time and Space they fleet
Into Eternity, beyond the Grave!
And I have shrunk from them. My petty cry
(As when, oppressed with mountain-solitude,
Echoes reduplicate and magnify)
Startles strange sounds that Evil bode, as Good.
Little mine ear receives; all's mystery;
So much more that World-echo doth include!