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The Legend of Genevieve

with other tales and poems. By Delta [i.e. David Macbeth Moir]
Moir, D. M. (1798-1851)

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LEGEND OF GENEVIEVE.
  
SIR ETHELRID.
  
ELLEN, THE FORSAKEN.
  
MARY'S MOUNT.
  
NAPOLEON'S ADDRESS TO THE STATUE OF HIS SON.
  
THE GREEK TO HIS SWORD.
  
SPANISH PATRIOTIC ODE.
  
THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE.
  
THE RUINED CASTLE.
  
THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL.
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF KOSCIUSKO.
  
STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.
  
ON ANDREW HOFFER.
  
TO HAYDON.
  
LOCHLEVEN CASTLE.
  
SCENE ON THE GRAMPIANS.
  
THE MOSSY SEAT.
  
THE EVENING LANDSCAPE.
  
FEMALE DECAY.
  
EVENTIDE.
  
THE VISION.
  
BALLAD STANZAS.
  
STANZAS. ON THIS GREEN BANK, &c.
  
THE CONFESSION.
  
SONNET. TO LOVE.
  
ODE ON THE OLDEN TIME.
  
THE LEAFLESS TREE.
  
THE MIDNIGHT REVERIE.
  
THE SEPTEMBER FOREST.
  
THE SILENT EVE.
  
THE WILD ROSE.
  
THE MANIAC'S PLAINT.
  
A MOTHER'S DIRGE OVER HER CHILD.
  
VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
  
THE NOVEMBER GARDEN.
  
THE ARBOUR.
  
SOLITUDE.
  
RURAL SECLUSION.
  
INCH-KEITH BEACON.
  
EVENING RETROSPECT.
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SONNETS.
 I. 
No. I. RAINY MORNING.
 III. 
No. III. DAYS OF YORE.
 IV. 
No. IV. THE SCHOOL BANK.
 V. 
No. V. TO THE EVENING STAR.
 VI. 
No. VI. DECAY OF CHIVALRY.
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BALLADS.
 I. 
No. I. SIR HAROLD.
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No. II. ADELINE.
 III. 
No. III. FALSE FLORENCE.
 IV. 
No. IV. THE BARD'S WISH.
 V. 
No. V. FITZTRAVER'S GRAVE.
 VI. 
No. VI. THE SPECTRE'S VISIT.
  
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE WORLD.

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No. VI. DECAY OF CHIVALRY.

The poetry of life hath pass'd away,
And men become tame citizens; here and there
Lifting their battlements through liquid air,
Rise castled cliffs, majestic in decay;
A solemn grandeur wraps the dark Abbaye;
And, as we gaze, the pomp of former times
Wakens, with glow that raises and sublimes
Our souls bow'd down to suit the passing day!—
These are thy monuments, lost Chivalry,
Thy tombstones, for the spirit long hath fled;
What have we in thy stead?—Affections cold;
Feelings to generous emulation dead;
The grasping hand; dull heart; and stony eye;
Body, and mind, and soul, to Mammon sold!
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