The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems

Name: The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems
Author: John Reade

by John Reade

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THE Prophecy of Merlin AND O T H E R P O E M S.
CONTENTS.
POEMS.
THE PROPHECY OF MERLIN.
DEVENISH.
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VII.
KINGS OF MEN.
VASHTI.
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III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
SHAKSPERE. April 23rd, 1864.
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IV.
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VI.
VII.
VIII.
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XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
SPRING.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IN MEMORIAM.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
[Postscript.] XIV.
XV.
XVI.
WINTER.
PER NOCTEM PLURIMA VOLVENS.
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III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
BALAAM.
GOOD NIGHT.
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II.
III.
WINTER SUNSHINE.
CHRISTUS SALVATOR.
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II.
DEW. “Who hath begotten the drops of dew?”—Job xxxviii, 28.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
THALATTA! THALATTA!
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II.
III.
RIZPAH. (2 Samuel xxi. 10.)
NATALIE.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
THE FENIAN RAID. June, 1866.
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II.
III.
IV.
Humanum est errare, Divinum condonare.
SING ME THE SONGS I LOVE.
IN MEMORIAM.
KILLYNOOGAN.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
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XXI.
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XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
HASTINGS. October 14th, 1066.
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IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
THE NAUGHTY BOY. (From H. C. Andersen’s Tales.)
ROSA.
JUBAL. (Book of Genesis iv. 21.)
APOLLO DROPT A SEED OF SONG.
I.
II.
III.
VOX DEI.
THE OLD WAR-HORSE.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
ELOISE.
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II.
III.
WHEN THE SPRING-TIME COMES.
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II.
III.
IV.
HOPE.
DOMINION DAY. July, 1st, 1867.
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II.
III.
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V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
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XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
IN MY HEART.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
SISERA. Judges v., 28-30.
COLUMBA SIBYLLA.
SUMMER IS DEAD.
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II.
III.
IV.
ON A DEAD FIELD-FLOWER.
LINES Written on the Departure of the Prince of Wales from Portland, October, 1860. (Set to Music by F. Barnby, Esq., and sung at a Concert given in honour of the Prince, in Montreal, November 9th, 1860.)
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II.
III.
ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. March 10th, 1863.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
TO A SNOWBIRD.
I.
II.
THE CLOUDS ARE BLUSHING.
UNSPOKEN.
JEPHTHAH. Judges xi.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
DE PROFUNDIS.
LOCHLEVEN.
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II.
UNUS ABEST.
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN. (St. Luke’s Gospel, xv. 17-32.)
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
IT IS THE QUIET HOUR.
ESSAYS IN TRANSLATION.
HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
THE PARTING. (Homer’s Iliad vi. 369-503.)
THE LAMENT OF ANDROMACHE FOR HECTOR. (Homer’s Iliad xxii. 437-515.)
THE BEACON LIGHT ANNOUNCING THE FALL OF TROY AT ARGOS. (From the Agamemnon of Æschylus, v. 255.)
PRIAM AND HELEN. (Iliad iii. 161.)
SONG OF THE TROJAN CAPTIVE. (Euripidis Hecuba, 905.)
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II.
III.
IV.
V.
BELLEROPHON. (Iliad vi. 152-195.)
HORACE. (Book i. Ode xi.)
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. (From Virgil—Georgic IV. 457-527.)
ADRIAN’S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL. (From Catullus.)
VERSION I.
VERSION II.
VERSION III.
PYRAMUS AND THISBE. (From Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”)
THE WITHERED LEAF. (From the French of A. V. Arnault.) “De ta tige détachée.”
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER’S DEATH-SONG.
THE LAKE. (From Lamartine.)
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VII.
VIII.
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XI.
THE WANDERING JEW. (From Beranger.)
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