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Poems of the late George Darley

A memorial volume printed for private circulation
Darley, George (1795-1846)
  
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LENIMINA LABORUM.
 I. 
I. TO RHODANTHE.
 II. 
II. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE PROMONTORY.
 III. 
III. HEROA.
 IV. 
IV. PRAYER AT BURIAL.
 V. 
V. TO MIE TIRANTE.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII. TO MY LYRE.
 VIII. 
VIII. THE LAMENT.
 IX. 
IX. Occasioned by a “Lady” weeping as she copied some Verses by the Author.
 X. 
X. Written in a Leafless Bower at Hon. Mrs. Westenra's, December, 1826.
 XI. 
XI. HYMN TO THE SUN.
 XII. 
XII. MEMENTO MORI:
 XIII. 
XIII. TO GLORIANA.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE FAIR WARNING.
 XV. 
XV. “MONET ANNUS.”
 XVI. 
XVI. To a Lady who would Sing only in the Evening.
 XVII. 
XVII. SOLILOQUY AMONG THE TOMBS.
  
EPIGRAM.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION.
 XIX. 
XIX. IN AN ALBUM: VIX VOCANTE POESIA.
 XX. 
XX. A POETICAL PROBLEM.
  
Answer to the above.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE BOWER.
 XXII. 
XXII. ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. TO HEROA.
 XXIV. 
XXIV.
 XXV. 
XXV.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. THE COY MAIDEN.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. THE FREE-BOOTER.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. TO MY DEAD MISTRESS.
  
MY OWN EPITAPH.
 XXIX. 
XXIX. IN AN ALBUM.
 XXX. 
XXX. ON THE DEATH OF TALMA.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. SYREN CHORUS IN THE “SEA-BRIDE.” (MS.)
 XXXII. 
XXXII. IN AN ALBUM.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. CUPID SLEEPING.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. DEPARTING MUSIC.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. THE LOST ONE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. MAID MARIAN'S SONG.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. HYMN TO THE OCEAN.
  
EPIGRAM.
 XL. 
XL. LOVE'S LIKENESS.
 XLI. 
XLI. WINTER.
 XLII. 
XLII. ON A YOUNG TREE
 XLIII. 
XLIII. ON A FOUNTAIN.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. ON A CHILD:
 XLV. 
XLV. From the “Sea-Bride.” (MS.)
 XLVI. 
XLVI. THE ROMAN COTTAGER.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. TO ROSELLA.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. IN AN ALBUM.
 XLIX. 
XLIX.
 L. 
L.
 LI. 
LI. SONG OF THE SUMMER-WINDS.
 LII. 
LII. THE FIGHT OF THE FORLORN.
  
LAY OF THE FORLORN.
 LIII. 
LIII. DIRGE.
 LIV. 
LIV. TO A CYPRESS TREE.
 LV. 
LV.
 LVI. 
LVI. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE THORN.
 LVII. 
LVII. THE TEMPTRESS OF THE CAVE.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. LAMENT FOR LOVE.
 LIX. 
LIX.
  
EPIGRAM.
 LX. 
LX. ZEPHYR AMONG THE FLOWERS.
 LXI. 
LXI. WEEP NOT, MY BRIDE!
  
EPIGRAM
 LXII. 
LXII. ON THE PICTURE OF A GIRL.
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POEMS. Chiefly from “Labours of Idleness” and “Errors of Ecstasie.”
  
THE DOVE'S LONELINESS.
  
ROBIN'S CROSS.
  
[We Dryad Sisters exiled be]
  
[O'er golden sands my waters flow]
  
SONNET.
  
[In my bower so bright]
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
THE WILD BEE'S TALE.
  
AILEEN ASTORE;
  
ELLINORE.
  
SONG.
  
THE FALLEN STAR.
  
THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG.
  
A RYGHTE PYTHIE SONGE.
  
TO HELENE—ON A GIFTE-RING CARELESSLIE LOST.
  
THE REBELLION OF THE WATERS.
  
TO A STREAM.

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XXXV. DEPARTING MUSIC.

Its sweetness fell away
Into the calm of night, like the last wave
That, as the rustling wind blows smoothly o'er,
Spreads wide and wider,—till it lose itself
Upon the heaveless bosom of the sea.
I listened—it was gone! And yet methought
Its echoes, by the ether still undrowned,
Made some far ocean-music in mine ear:
But no!—'twas Memory, so fond to raise
Vain semblances of joys now sepulchred
In the great gloomy Past, the gorge of Time—
Then came one sound, one lost, forgotten sound,
That vanished by me, as a midnight bird
Fleeting upon its dark wing fast away!
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