THE POETICAL WORKS OF

HENRY KIRKE WHITE

ALDI

DISCIP.

ANGLVS

71.

LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING

1830

LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT.

CONTENTS.

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MEMOIR OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE ......

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Clifton Grove .............

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Childhood ; Part I..................

Part II......

The Christiad ................

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Lines written on a Survey of the Heavens

Lites supposed to be spoken by a Lover at the Grave of

his Mistress...............

My Study ............

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Description of a Summer's Eve..........

Lines" Go to the raging sea, and say, 'Be still !'”...

Written in the Prospect of Death ................ ............ 83

Verses—“When pride and envy, and the scorn"........ ' 85

Fragment—“Oh! thou most fatal of Pandora's train”

“ Loud rage the winds without.—The win-

try cloud”.

To a Friend in Distress....... ..................................

Christmas Day............................

Nelsoni Mors .......................

Epigram on Robert Bloomfield............

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

drowned in the River Trent, while bathing ..............

Inscription for a Monument to the Memory of Cowper .. 95

“ I'm pleased, and yet I'm sad” .........

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Solitude.....

“ If far from me the Fates remove”......

“ Fanny! upon thy breast I may not lie !" ..............!

Fragments." Saw'st thou that light ? exclaim'd the

youth, and paused :”.........................

“The pious man” ..........

“ Lo ! on the eastern summit, clad in gray"

“ There was a little bird upon that pile;”... 1

“O pale art thou, my lamp, and faint” ....... 1

“O give me music—for my soul doth faint ;"

“And must thou go, and must we part”..... 1

“Ah! who can say, however fair his view,” 1

“ Hush'd is the lyre-the hand that swept”.. 1

“When high romance o’er every wood and

stream”.........

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“ Once more, and yet once more,"............

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

To a Friend ................................................

Lines on Reading the Poems of Warton .

Fragment—" The western gale,”....

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Commencement of a Poem on Despair

The Eve of Death..........

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

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

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Music..............

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On being confined to School one pleasant Morning in

Spring ..................

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To Contemplation ...............

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

Lines written in Wilford Churchyard....................... 132

Verses—“ Thou base repiner at another's joy,”.......... 135

Lines—" Yes, my stray steps have wanderd, wander'd

far” ...........................

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The Prostitute.............

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