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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

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1.

VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL

LOVE AND OPPORTUNITY.

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2.

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.

THE MORNING OF LOVE.

[O sovereign Sleep! in whose papaverous glen]

MR. FEATHERNEST, MR. VAMP, MR. KILLTHEDEAD, MR. PAPERSTAMP, AND MR. ANYSIDE ANTIJACK.

THE MAGIC BARK.

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3.

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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[“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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4.

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.

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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5.

VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE

THE DEATH OF PHILEMON.

THE DAPPLED PALFREY.

A NEW ORDER OF CHIVALRY.

[Wake, Gryllus, and arise in human form.]

THE LEGEND OF SAINT LAURA.

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6.

VOLUME SIX POEMS

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PALMYRA, AND OTHER POEMS

TO THE REVIEWERS:

THE VISIONS OF LOVE

MARIA'S RETURN TO HER NATIVE COTTAGE

FIOLFAR, KING OF NORWAY

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THE OLD MAN'S COMPLAINT

ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES PEMBROKE, ESQ.

FAREWELL TO MATILDA

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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SLENDER'S LOVE-ELEGY

STANZAS WRITTEN AT SEA

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THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:

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THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:

I.

II.

INSCRIPTION FOR A MOUNTAIN-DELL

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF MELANCHOLY

I.

II.

III.

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.

I.

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.

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7.

VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS

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I.

II.

III.

IV.

v.

VI.

VII.

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PAPER MONEY LYRICS, AND OTHER POEMS.

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.

RICH AND POOR; OR SAINT AND SINNER

THE FATE OF A BROOM

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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?”

THE MAN OF FASHION

LETTER TO HIS GRANDMOTHER 16 JULY 1801

LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER 11 AUGUST 1801

FROM THE REVELATIONS

ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY

PARAPHRASE FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH

ON THE DEATH OF A LAP DOG CALL'D LADY

IMITATED FROM OSSIAN

ON A LAP DOG OF MISS --- NAM'D QUISI

“WITH TRUEST REPENTANCE”

PADDY'S LAMENTATION

ON THE FIRST LEAF OF THE BOOK OF THE AUTHOR'S POEMS WRITTEN AND PRESENTED TO L.O.

TO A FRIEND AT GUERNSEY

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

THE VIGILS OF FANCY

‘I DUG, BENEATH THE CYPRESS SHADE”

ADDRESS SPOKEN BY LIEUTENANT LASCELLES,

ADDRESS WRITTEN BY MR. PEACOCK AND SPOKEN BY LT. HAVERFIELD

OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF WILD OATS,

THE ART OF THE MODERN DRAMA

FAREWELL TO MEIRION

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”

A SPEECH IN EMBRYO

“WHEN JOHN OF ZISCA WENT TO KINGDOM COME”

THE LEGEND OF MANOR HALL

LINES ON THE DEATH OF JULIA

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A GOODLYE BALLADE OF LITTLE JOHN

1.

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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1.

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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ON THE DEATH OF A LAP DOG CALL'D LADY

Oh could I wake the sounding Lyre
To dithyrambic strains sublime;
Or would the gentle Muse inspire
One single spark of Pindar's fire,
To aid my feeble rhyme:

Then, Lady, then thy praise to tell
Would I full many a stanza fill,
Long on thy talents would I dwell,
Thy charming bark, thy piteous yell
Most musically shrill!

Though to record thy humble fate
No pompous monument arise,
Yet on thy lowly dust shall wait
(Denied how often to the great)
A tear from beauty's eyes!

Poor Lady! To thy humble urn
Far better strains than these are due;
None surely can thy memory spurn;
If beauty for thy loss can mourn
The Muse must mourn thee too.