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The Dream and Other Poems

By the Hon'ble Mrs Norton
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877)
  
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DEDICATION.
  
THE DREAM.
  
THE CREOLE GIRL;
  
TWILIGHT.
  
A DESTINY.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
THE CHAPEL ROYAL ST. JAMES'S,
  
ON SEEING ANTHONY, THE ELDEST CHILD OF LORD AND LADY ASHLEY.
  
THE DYING HOUR.
  
I CANNOT LOVE THEE!
  
THE POET'S CHOICE.
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THE GERMAN STUDENT'S LOVE-SONG.
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THE HUNTING-HORN OF CHARLEMAGNE.
  
THE FAITHFUL FRIEND.
  
TO FERDINAND SEYMOUR.
  
THE WINTER'S WALK.
  
THE REPRIEVE.
  
THE FAITHFUL GUARDIAN.
  
THE FORSAKEN.
  
THE VISIONARY PORTRAIT.
  
THE PICTURE OF SAPPHO.
  
THE SENSE OF BEAUTY.
  
THE MOTHER'S HEART.
  
MAY-DAY, 1837.
  
THE FEVER-DREAM.
  
TO THE LADY H. O.
  
THE FALLEN LEAVES.
  
THE AUTUMN WIND.
  
THE BLIND MAN'S BRIDE.
  
THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED.
  
THE TRYST.
  
THE BANNER OF THE COVENANTERS.
  
THE ROCK OF THE BETRAYED.
  
THE LAMENT FOR SHUIL DONALD'S DAUGHTER.
  
WEEP NOT FOR HIM THAT DIETH.
  
THE CHILD OF EARTH.
  
THE CHRISTENING.
  
THE MOTHER'S LAST WATCH.
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SONNETS.
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SONNET I. ON SEEING THE BUST OF THE YOUNG PRINCESS DE MONTFORT
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SONNET II. RAPHAEL.
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SONNET III. THE FORNARINA.
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SONNET IV.
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SONNET V.
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SONNET VI.
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SONNET VII.
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SONNET VIII. O MY BOOKS.
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SONNET IX. TO THE COUNTESS HELÉNE ZAVADOWSKY.
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SONNET X. TO TAGLIONI.
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SONNET XI. THE MOSS-WALK AT MARKLY, SUSSEX.
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SONNET XII. THE DISDAINED LOVER.
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SONNET XIII. THE WEAVER.
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SONNET XIV.
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SONNET XV. TO MISS AUGUSTA COWELL.
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PRINCESS MARIE OF WIRTEMBURG.
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SONNET XVI.
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ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON.
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SONNET XVIII.
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SONNET II. RAPHAEL.

Bless'd wert thou, whom Death, and not Decay,
Bore from the world on swift and shadowy wings,
Ere age or weakness dimm'd one brilliant ray
Of thy rapt spirit's high imaginings!
While yet thy heart was full of fervid love,
And thou wert haunted by resistless dreams
Of all in earth beneath, or Heaven above,
On which the light of beauty richest gleams,—
Dead, but not deathlike, wert thou borne along;
Silent and cold, oh thou that didst combine
Sculpture, and painting, and the gift of song;
While on thy brow, and on that work divine
Borne with thee, glow'd from thine Italian sky
A light whose glory spoke of immortality!
 

The celebrated picture of the Transfiguration (at which Raphael is said to have worked the evening before his death) was borne at the bier-head in the procession of his funeral.

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