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Metrical essays

on subjects of history and imagination. By Charles Swain

Swain, Charles (1801-1874)

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

PAULUS ÆMILIUS.

KING RICHARD III. AND HIS SON.

INEZ DE CASTRO.

CONSTANCE DE CEZELLI.

LINES WRITTEN BY THE SEA SHORE.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

STANZAS TO A LADY.

LAST WORDS OF AN EXILE.

A LOVER'S LAST SONG.

LADY JANE GRAY.

A MONARCH'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HIS SON.

THE DEATH OF OTHO.

ODE TO SOLITUDE.

WOMAN'S AFFECTION.

ODE TO IMAGINATION.

AN EXILE'S SONG.

DI TANTI PALPITI.

ALLEGORICAL STANZAS.

THE PEASANT GIRL'S SONG.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

LE POUR ET LE CONTRE.

STANZAS TO A LADY.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

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THE VOICE OF NATURE.

THE OLD MARINER.

WRITTEN ON MY MOTHER'S GRAVE.

THE VILLAGE CHURCH.

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------ Ego, apis Matinæ
More modoque,
Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus, uvidique
Tiburis ripas, operosa parvus
Carmina fingo.
Horace.