National Lyrics, and Songs for Music

by Felicia Hemans

NATIONAL LYRICS,

AND

SONGS FOR MUSIC.

BY

FELICIA HEMANS.

DUBLIN:
WILLIAM CURRY JUN. AND COMPANY.
SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON.

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MDCCCXXXIV.

DUBLIN:
Printed by John S. Folds, 5, Bachelor's Walk.

TO

MRS. LAWRENCE

OF

WAVERTREE HALL;

HER FRIEND,

AND

THE SISTER OF HER FRIEND

COLONEL D'AGUILAR,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

IN REMEMBRANCE OF

MANY BRIGHTLY ASSOCIATED HOURS,

BY

FELICIA HEMANS.

Contents.
	Introductory Stanzas—The Themes of Song	3
	Rhine Song of the German Soldiers	7
	A Song of Delos	11
	Ancient Greek Chaunt of Victory	16
	Naples, a Song of the Siren	19
	The Fall of D'Assas	23
	The Burial of William the Conqueror	27
	Ancient Spanish Battle Song	32
	The Death Song of Alcestis	53
	Chorus from the Alcestis of Alfieri	41
	Songs of a Guardian Spirit:
	1. Near thee, still near thee	45
	2. Oh! droop thou not	48
	Mignon's Song, translated from Goethe	51
	The Sisters, a Ballad	54
	The Last Song of Sappho	61
	Dirge	65
	A Song of the Rose	68
	Night Blowing Flowers	73
	The Wanderer and Night Flowers	75
	Echo Song	78
	The Muffled Drum	80
	The Swan and the Sky Lark	83
	Songs of Spain
	1. Ancient Battle Song	89
	2. The Zegri Maid	91
	3. The Rio Verde Song	95
	4. Seek by the Silvery Darro	98
	5. Spanish Evening Hymn	99
	6. Bird that art singing on Ebro's Tide	101
	7. Moorish gathering Song	102
	8. Song of Mina's Soldiers	104
	9. Mother, oh! sing me to rest	106
	10. There are sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles	108
	The Curfew Song of England	110
	The Call to Battle	114
	Songs for Summer Hours:
	1. And I too in Arcadia	119
	2. The Wandering Wind	124
	3. Ye are not missed, Fair Flowers	126
	4. Willow Song	128
	5. Leave me not yet	130
	6. The Orange Bough	132
	7. The Stream set free	134
	8. The Summer's Call	137
	9. Oh! Sky-Lark, for thy wing	140
	Genius singing to Love	142
	Music at a Death-bed	147
	Where is the Sea? Song of the Greek islander in exile	151
	Marshal Schwerin's Grave	155
	Songs of Captivity:
	Introduction	160
	1. The Brother's Dirge	162
	2. The Alpine Horn	164
	3. Oh! ye Voices	166
	4. I dream of all things free	168
	5. Far over the Sea	170
	6. The Invocation	172
	7. The Song of Hope	174
	The Bird at Sea	176
	The Dying Girl and Flowers	179
	The Ivy Song	183
	The Music of St. Patrick's	188
	Keene, or Lament of an Irish Mother over her Son	191
	England's Dead	195
	Far away	199
	The Lyre and Flower	201
	Sister, since I met thee last	203
	The lonely Bird	205
	Dirge at Sea	208
	Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star	210
	The Spartan's March	213
	The Meeting of the Ships	217
	The Rock of Cader Idris, a Legend of Wales	220
	A Farewell to Wales	224
	The Dying Bard's Prophecy	226
	Come away	229
	Fair Helen of Kirconnel	231
	Music from Shore	234
	Look on me with thy cloudless eyes	236
	I go, sweet friends	238
	If thou hast crushed a flower	240
	Brightly hast thou fled	243
	Sing to me, Gondolier	245
	O'er the far blue mountains	247
	O thou breeze of Spring	249
	Come to me, dreams of Heaven	251
	Good night	253
	Let her depart	255
	Water Lilies, a Fairy Song	257
	The broken Flower	259
	I would we had not met again	261
	Fairies' Recall	263
	The Rock beside the Sea	265
	O ye voices gone	267
	By a mountain stream at rest	269
	Is there some Spirit sighing	271
	The Name of England	273
	Old Norway	275
	English Soldier's Song of Memory	278
	Come to me, gentle sleep	280
	MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
	The Home of Love	285
	Books and Flowers	290
	For a Picture of St. Cecilia attended by Angels	294
	The Voice of the Waves	297
	The Haunted House	301
	O'Connor's Child	305
	The Brigand Leader and his Wife	309
	The Child's return from the Woodlands	312
	The faith of Love	316
	The Sister's Dream	320
	Written after visiting a tomb near Woodstock	324
	Prologue to Fiesco	328
	A Farewell to Abbotsford	333
	Scene in a Dalecarlian Mine	335
	The Victor	339

ADVERTISEMENT.

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This Volume contains, besides a few poems on subjects of national tradition, all those of the Author's pieces which have, at different periods, been composed either in the form of the ballad, the song, or the scena, with a view to musical adaptation.—They are now first collected and arranged to lay before the Public.

The reader is particularly requested to correct the following

ERRATA.

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Page 7	line 11	for	and the Cossacks	read	and even the Cossacks.
—14	—18	for	breaking	read	beating.
—19	—12	for	summer's air	read	summer air.
—20	—11	for	now	read	how.
—23	—10	for	ennemids	read	ennemis.
—64	—11	for	fairy	read	fiery.
—79	note	for	Mrs.	read	Mr.
—95	line 3	for	their	read	that.
—121	—6	for	wanderer	read	wanderers.
—225	—11	for	strangers	read	stranger.
—231	—3	for	bethrothed	read	betrothed.
—244	—6	for	thou	read	thus.
—254	—5	for	thine	read	their.
—299	—8	for	sigh	read	sign.

NATIONAL LYRICS,

AND

SONGS FOR MUSIC.