THE

REMAINS

OF

HENRY KIRKE WHITE,

OF NOTTINGHAM,

LATE OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS

LIFE,

BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. 1.

THE TENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED, FOR
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

- Not alone by the Muses, But by the Virtues loved, his soul in its youthful aspirings Sought the Holy Hill, and his thirst was for Siloa's waters.

Vision of Judgement.

LONDON:
Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

PAGE

Account of the Life of H. K. White ..........

POEMS INSERTED IN THE LIFE.

On being confined to School one pleasant Morning in Spring; written

at the Age of Thirteen ........................................................ ix

Extract from an Address to Contemplation ; written at Fourteen....... xi

To the Rosemary ............

...................... xxiv

To the Morning ................

My own Character ................

............... xxxii

Ode on Disappointment .............................................. xlii

Lines, written in Wilford Church-Yard, on Recovery from Sickness.. xlv

xxvi

Letters ...

........................................................

............

POEMS INSERTED IN THE LETTERS.

Elegy, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Gill, who was drowned in the

River Trent ..

Extemporaneous Verses ............

« Yes, my stray Steps have wandered” ..............

........ 161

...

27

Hints, &c............

A Prayer.............

A Prayer ............

........... 261

............... 262

............... 263

Lines, and Note, by Lord Byron ..........

....... 266

Lines, by Professor Smyth, of Cambridge, on a Monument erected

by an American Gentleman, in All Saints' Church, Cambridge,

to the Memory of Henry Kirke White ..

..... 267

POEMS WRITTEN BEFORE THE PUBLICATION

OF CLIFTON GROVE.

277

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.... 294

298

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307

310
311

The pieces which originally appeared in the Supplementary Volume
are distinguished by an asterisk.

PAGE

Childhood, Part I. ..............

271

II. .............

* The Fair Maid of Clifton — A Ballad in the old style ............

... 287

* Song “ The Robin Red Breast”..........

292

* Winter Song ................................................................

* Song “ Sweet Jessy I fain would caress”........ ............. 296

* “Oh, that I were the fragrant Flower that kisses”............. 297

Fragment of an Eccentric Drama .........

..........

To a friend ........

....................... 305

On reading the Poems of Warton...

To the Muse .....

308

To Love ............................................................................

The Wandering Boy ............................

.............

Fragment “ The Western Gale”.........

Ode, written on Whit-Monday.......

315

Canzonet......................

Commencement of a Poem on Despair .................

............

On Rural Solitude.........

320

* « In hollow Music, sighing through the glade” ......................

* “ Thou Mongrel, who dost show thy teeth, and yelp” ............

* Ode to the Morning Star... ....

................

The Hermit of the Pacific...........

................ 326

To the Wind, a Fragment...........

........... 330

The eve of death...................................

........... ibid.

Thanatos.............................................

.............

Athanatos.................................

.............. 333

On M usic......................................................................

335

Ode to the Harvest Moon .........

337

Song, “ Softly, softly blow, ye breezes” ............................... 340

The Shipwreck'd Solitary's Song................. ........................ 342,

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312

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ibid.

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