Poems (Southey)/Volume 1

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Drawn by Jackson. Engraved by H. Meyer.

ROBERT SOUTHEY ESQ^RE.
Poet Laureate.

POEMS,

by

Goddess of the Lyre! with thee comes
Majestic Truth; and where Truth deigns to come,
Her sister Liberty will not be far..
Akenside.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

THIRD EDITION.

BRISTOL

PRINTED BY BIGGS AND COTTLE,
FOR MESSRS. LONGMAN AND REES, PATERNOSTER
ROW, LONDON.

1799.

CONTENTS.

To Mary Wollstonecraft	3
The Triumph of Woman	7
Poems on the Slave-Trade.	29
Sonnet 1	33
⁠ 2	34
⁠ 3	35
⁠ 4	36
⁠ 5	37
⁠ 6	38
To the Genius of Africa	39
Sappho	43
LYRIC POEMS.
Written on 1st. December	51
Written on 1st. January	51
Written on Sunday Morning	58
To Contemplation	61
To Horror	66
To a Friend	73
The Soldier's Wife	77
The Widow	78
To the Chapel Bell	80
The Race of Banquo	83
Botany-Bay Eclogues	85
Elinor	87
Humphrey and William	93
John, Samuel, and Richard	101
Frederic	105
Sonnet 1	115
⁠ 2	116
⁠ 3	117
⁠ 4	118
⁠ 5	119
⁠ 6	120
⁠ 7	121
⁠ 8	122
⁠ 9	123
⁠ 10	124
Inscription 1	127
⁠ 2	128
⁠ 3	130
⁠ 4	131
⁠ 5	132
⁠ 6	133
⁠ 7	134
MUSINGS
The Pauper's Funeral	137
On my own Miniature Picture	139
On the death of a favourite old Spaniel	141
On a landscape of Gaspar Poussin	143
Mary	151
Donica	165
Rudiger	173
Hymn to the Penates	191

I have collected in this Volume the productions of very distant periods. The lyric pieces were written in earlier youth. The poems addressed to the heart and the understanding, are those of my maturer judgment. The Inscriptions will be found to differ from the Greek simplicity of Akenside's in the point that generally concludes them. The Sonnets were written first, or I would have adopted a different title, and avoided the shackle of rhyme, and the confinement to fourteen lines.

December, 1796.

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