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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
1.
VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL
SONG.
GLEE.
LOVE AND OPPORTUNITY.
TERZETTO.
BALLAD.
CHORUS.
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.
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.
3.
VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN
NIGHTMARE ABBEY
[Why are thy looks so blank, grey friar?]
[There is a fever of the spirit]
[Seamen three! What men be ye?]
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]
4.
VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE
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.
CROTCHET CASTLE.
[If I drink water while this doth last]
[‘Beyond the sea, beyond the sea]
LLYN-Y-DREIDDIAD-VRAWD.
5.
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.
6.
VOLUME SIX POEMS
PALMYRA, AND OTHER POEMS
TO THE REVIEWERS:
PALMYRA
THE VISIONS OF LOVE
MARIA'S RETURN TO HER NATIVE COTTAGE
FIOLFAR, KING OF NORWAY
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
NUGÆ
LEVI MOSES
SLENDER'S LOVE-ELEGY
A FRAGMENT
STANZAS WRITTEN AT SEA
THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:
PROŒMIUM
THE GENIUS OF THE THAMES:
I.
PART I
II.
PART II
PALMYRA
INSCRIPTION FOR A MOUNTAIN-DELL
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.
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]
THE ROUND TABLE; OR, KING ARTHUR'S FEAST.
INTRODUCTION
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7.
VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS
RHODODAPHNE:
I.
Canto I
II.
Canto II
III.
Canto III
IV.
Canto IV
v.
Canto V
VI.
Canto VI
VII.
Canto VII
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
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
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
AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments
AHRIMANES
1.
Canto the First The devil is come upon the earth with great power.
2.
Canto the Second
VERSE FRAGMENTS
“FAREWELL, MY SON”
“WELL, WE HAVE LOVED”
“OH WOULD THAT TRUTH”
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[The love that follows fain]
The love that follows fain
Will never its faith betray:
But the faith that is held in a chain
Will never be found again,
If a single link give way.
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock