The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems

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The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems (1812)
by Felicia Hemans
2667743The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems1812Felicia Hemans


POEMS.





THE


DOMESTIC AFFECTIONS,


AND OTHER


P O E M S.



BY

FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE.



LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T.CADELL, AND W. DAVIES, STRAND,

BY J. M'CREERY, BLACK-HORSE-COURT,


1812.






ADVERTISEMENT.




The following Poems are a sequel to the former juvenile publications, by the same young Author, printed for the same Booksellers, in the year 1808.


ERRATA.

 Page 20, l. 4, for from, r. fan.

52,3, for tears, r. fears.
72,9, for In yon, r. For you.
87,3, for moon, r. morn,
92,10, for charges, r. charger.

 Page 100, l. 7, for lucid, r. lurid:

123,4, for make, r. wake.
143,19, for fame, r. fane.
168,4, for Enjoys, r. In joy's,

Contents.



PAGE
Ode to Cheerfulness 1
Song—The Smile 5
Moon-light 7
Address to Music 9
The Memory of Joys that are Past 11
The Emigrant 13
Sonnet 16
Address to Fancy 17
Sonnet.—To Italy 20
The Laplander to his Rein-deer 21
Song 24
Song 26
To the Head-Ache 28
To Resignation 31
Address to Thought 33
The Indian Lover 36
War Song 39


Contents.
PAGE
Hymn 42
To Experience 45
Lines to the Memory of an amiable young Lady, who died at the Age of eighteen 47
To my younger Brother 50
To my Mother 52
Lines written to the Memory of Elizabeth Smith 57
The Silver Locks 60
The Bards to the Soldiers of Caractacus 63
Sea Piece 67
The Angel of the Sun 69
The Ruin and its Flowers 77
Mountaineer Song 83
Christmas Carol 86
War and Peace 89
The Wreath of Loyalty 122
The Statue of the dying Gladiator 136
The Call of Liberty 139
To my eldest Brother with the British Army in Portugal 145
The Domestic Affections 148

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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