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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

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VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL
  
SONG.
  
GLEE.
  
LOVE AND OPPORTUNITY.
  
TERZETTO.
  
BALLAD.
  
CHORUS.
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VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT
  
THE TOMB OF LOVE
  
[“What makes all doctrines plain and clear?]
  
GLEE—THE GHOSTS.
  
THE FLOWER OF LOVE.
  
THE LADY, THE KNIGHT, AND THE FRIAR.
  
TERZETTO.
  
THE MORNING OF LOVE.
  
[O sovereign Sleep! in whose papaverous glen]
  
THE SUN-DIAL.
  
MR. FEATHERNEST, MR. VAMP, MR. KILLTHEDEAD, MR. PAPERSTAMP, AND MR. ANYSIDE ANTIJACK.
  
THE MAGIC BARK.
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VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN
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NIGHTMARE ABBEY
  
[Why are thy looks so blank, grey friar?]
  
[There is a fever of the spirit]
  
[Seamen three! What men be ye?]
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MAID MARIAN.
  
[“The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble]
  
[The courtly pad doth amble]
  
[But wherefore does the sheep wear wool?]
  
[The rose on the nose doth all virtues disclose]
  
[The damsel stood to watch the fight]
  
[For the slender beech and the sapling oak]
  
[The love that follows fain]
  
[For hark! hark! hark!]
  
[Then follow, oh follow! the hounds do cry]
  
[Though I be now a grey, grey friar]
  
[An archer keen I was withal]
  
[A staff, a staff, of a young oak graff]
  
[Drink and sing, and eat and laugh]
  
[For I must seek some hermit cell]
  
[Oh! bold Robin Hood is a forester good]
  
[Bold Robin has robed him in ghostly attire]
  
[Over, over, over, jolly, jolly rover]
  
[A damsel came in midnight rain]
  
[It was a friar of orders free]
  
[When the wind blows, when the wind blows]
  
[Ye woods, that oft at sultry noon]
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VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE
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THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN
  
THE CIRCLING OF THE MEAD HORNS.
  
THE SONG OF THE FOUR WINDS.
  
GWYDDNAU EI CANT, PAN DDOAI Y MOR DROS CANTREV Y GWAELAWD.
  
ANOTHER SONG OF GWYTHNO.
  
DYHUDDIANT ELFFIN.
  
CANU Y MEDD.
  
SONG OF THE WIND.
  
THE INDIGNATION OF TALIESIN WITH THE BARDS OF MAELGON GWYNETH.
  
[Maid of the rock! though loud the flood]
  
THE WAR-SONG OF DINAS VAWR.
  
GORWYNION Y GAUAV.
  
AVALLENAU MYRDDIN.
  
THE MASSACRE OF THE BRITONS.
  
THE CAULDRON OF CERIDWEN.
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CROTCHET CASTLE.
  
[If I drink water while this doth last]
  
[‘Beyond the sea, beyond the sea]
  
LLYN-Y-DREIDDIAD-VRAWD.
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VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE
  
THE DEATH OF PHILEMON.
  
THE DAPPLED PALFREY.
  
LOVE AND AGE.
  
A NEW ORDER OF CHIVALRY.
  
[Wake, Gryllus, and arise in human form.]
  
THE LEGEND OF SAINT LAURA.
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VOLUME SIX POEMS
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PALMYRA, AND OTHER POEMS
  
TO THE REVIEWERS:
  
PALMYRA
  
THE VISIONS OF LOVE
  
MARIA'S RETURN TO HER NATIVE COTTAGE
  
FIOLFAR, KING OF NORWAY
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MISCELLANIES
  
HENRIETTE
  
THE OLD MAN'S COMPLAINT
  
ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES PEMBROKE, ESQ.
  
THE RAIN-BOW
  
ELLEN
  
FAREWELL TO MATILDA
  
MIRA
  
CLONAR AND TLAMIN
  
FOLDATH, IN THE CAVERN OF MOMA FROM THE SAME
  
DREAMS FROM PETRONIUS ARBITER
  
PINDAR ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
  
TO A YOUNG LADY, NETTING
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NUGÆ
  
LEVI MOSES
  
SLENDER'S LOVE-ELEGY
  
A FRAGMENT
  
STANZAS WRITTEN AT SEA
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THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:
  
PROŒMIUM
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THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:
 I. 
PART I
 II. 
PART II
  
PALMYRA
  
INSCRIPTION FOR A MOUNTAIN-DELL
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF MELANCHOLY
 I. 
PART I
 II. 
PART II
 III. 
PART III
 IV. 
PART IV
  
THE SPIRIT OF FIRE
  
SIR HORNBOOK; OR, Childe Launcelot's Expedition.
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SIR PROTEUS: A SATIRICAL BALLAD: BY P. M. O'DONOVAN, Esq.
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I. [JOHNNY ON THE SEA.]
 II. 
II. [JOHNNY IN THE SEA]
 III. 
III. [JOHNNY UNDER THE SEA]
 IV. 
IV. [CHEVY CHASE]
 V. 
V. [THE BATHOS]
 VI. 
VI. [THE WORLD'S END]
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THE ROUND TABLE; OR, KING ARTHUR'S FEAST.
  
INTRODUCTION
  
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VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS
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RHODODAPHNE:
 I. 
Canto I
 II. 
Canto II
 III. 
Canto III
 IV. 
Canto IV
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Canto V
 VI. 
Canto VI
 VII. 
Canto VII
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PAPER MONEY LYRICS, AND OTHER POEMS.
  
PAN IN TOWN
  
THE THREE LITTLE MEN
  
PROŒMIUM OF AN EPIC
  
A MOOD OF MY OWN MIND,
  
LOVE AND THE FLIMSIES
  
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM
  
CHORUS OF BUBBLE BUYERS
  
A BORDER BALLAD
  
ST. PETER OF SCOTLAND
  
LAMENT OF SCOTCH ECONOMISTS ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE ONE-POUND NOTES
  
CALEDONIAN WAR WHOOP
  
CHORUS OF SCOTCH ECONOMISTS, ON A PROSPECT OF SCOTCH BANKS IN ENGLAND.
  
YE KITE-FLYERS OF SCOTLAND
  
CHORUS OF NORTHUMBRIANS ON THE PROHIBITION OF SCOTCH ONE-POUND NOTES IN ENGLAND.
  
MARGERY DAW
  
RICH AND POOR; OR SAINT AND SINNER
  
THE FATE OF A BROOM
  
BYP AND NOP
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  
LETTER TO HIS MOTHER 14 FEBRUARY 1795
  
LETTER TO ROBERT WALROND 25 SEPTEMBER 1795
  
ANSWER TO THE QUESTION “Is History or Biography the more improving Study?”
  
EPIGRAMS
  
LIBERTY
  
PEACE
  
THE MAN OF FASHION
  
LETTER TO HIS GRANDMOTHER 16 JULY 1801
  
LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER 11 AUGUST 1801
  
THE STORM
  
FROM THE REVELATIONS
  
ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY
  
THE ALARMISTS
  
PARAPHRASE FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH
  
THE COMPARISON
  
ON THE DEATH OF A LAP DOG CALL'D LADY
  
TO MRS. SEWELL
  
IMITATED FROM OSSIAN
  
REBUS
  
ON A LAP DOG OF MISS --- NAM'D QUISI
  
“WITH TRUEST REPENTANCE”
  
PADDY'S LAMENTATION
  
ACROSTIC
  
ON THE FIRST LEAF OF THE BOOK OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO L.O.
  
GLEE
  
TO A FRIEND AT GUERNSEY
  
TO MATILDA
  
THE MONKS OF ST. MARK
  
“WHEN HOPE HER WARM TINTS ON THE FUTURE SHALL CAST”
  
TO MRS. DE ST. CROIX
  
LETTER TO HARRY SEDGWICK 26 DECEMBER 1805
  
TIME
  
THE VIGILS OF FANCY
  
MIDNIGHT
  
‘I DUG, BENEATH THE CYPRESS SHADE”
  
REMEMBER ME
  
ROMANCE
  
ADDRESS SPOKEN BY LIEUTENANT LASCELLES,
  
ADDRESS WRITTEN BY MR. PEACOCK AND SPOKEN BY LT. HAVERFIELD
  
OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF WILD OATS,
  
EPILOGUE
  
THE ART OF THE MODERN DRAMA
  
FAREWELL TO MEIRION
  
NECESSITY
  
YOUTH AND AGE
  
PHÆDRA AND NURSE.
  
CHORAL ODE TO LOVE.
  
CONNUBIAL EQUALITY
  
CHORAL ODE ON THE EVILS OF LIFE
  
“OH BLEST ARE THEY, AND THEY ALONE”
  
LAW OF NECESSITY
  
AL MIO PRIMIERO AMORE
  
LINES TO A FAVOURITE LAUREL
  
PROLOGUE TO MR. TOBIN'S COMEDY OF THE GUARDIANS, PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, NOVEMBER, 1816
  
EPILOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GUARDIANS
  
“FROM TEN TO ELEVEN”
  
A BILL FOR THE BETTER PROMOTION OF OPPRESSION ON THE SABBATH DAY
  
MARGARET LOVE PEACOCK
  
TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION PLACED UNDER THE FIRST STONE OF THE LONDON-UNIVERSITY
  
“OH NOSE OF WAX! TRUE SYMBOL OF THE MIND”
  
TOUCHANDGO
  
A SPEECH IN EMBRYO
  
“WHEN JOHN OF ZISCA WENT TO KINGDOM COME”
  
THE LEGEND OF MANOR HALL
  
THE NEW YEAR
  
NEWARK ABBEY
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF JULIA
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A GOODLYE BALLADE OF LITTLE JOHN
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Fytte the First
 2. 
Fytte the Second
  
IN REMEMBRANCE OF FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
  
“THE BRIEFEST PART OF LIFE'S UNCERTAIN DAY”
  
LETTER TO LORD BROUGHTON
  
“INSTEAD OF SITTING WRAPPED UP IN FLANNEL”
  
CASTLES IN THE AIR
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AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments
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AHRIMANES
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Canto the First The devil is come upon the earth with great power.
 2. 
Canto the Second
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VERSE FRAGMENTS
  
“FAREWELL, MY SON”
  
“WELL, WE HAVE LOVED”
  
“OH WOULD THAT TRUTH”

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The Saxons came first, the pre-eminence claiming,
With scarce one among them but Alfred worth naming.
Full slily they looked upon Canute the bold,
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And remembered the drubbing he gave them of old:
Sad Harold came last; and the crown which he wore
Had been broken, and trampled in dust and in gore.
 

The Saxons invaded England, and dispossessed the Britons. The most famous of the Saxon kings was Alfred.

The Danes, under Canute, conquered the Saxons. The sons of Canute died without children, and the government returned to the Saxon kings.

The last of the Saxon kings was Harold II., who was killed in the battle of Hastings, when William, Duke of Normandy, gained a decisive victory.

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