CONTENTS OF VOLUME L .................. PAON Lilian......................... Recollections of the Arabian Nights.. The Poet's Mind.................................. Circumstance................................... Mariana in the South........................... ................................ . PAG The Death of the Old Year........ “ You ask me why, though ill at ease". "Of old sat freedom on the heights". • Love thou thy land with love far brought' 117 To after reading a Life and Letters. To E. L., on his Travels in Greece.... The Arrival ............................ PAQ WII Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue. 231 Lady Claro..... 238 The Lord of Burleigh.. 241 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinovere. 244 A Farewell. 245 The Beggar Maid..... 246 The Vision of Sin.............. 247 The Skipping Rope... 258 • Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” 254 . * Break, break, break 254 The Poet's Song. 255 The Princess.... 255 Enoch Arden... .......................................... 851 TO THE QUEEN. REVERED, beloved,- you that hold A nobler office upon earth Than arms, or power of brain, or birth, To one of less desert allows That yokes with empire, yield you time To make demand of modern rhyme, And through wild March the throstle calls, Take, Madam, this poor book of song; For, though the faults were thick as dust In vacant chambers, I could trust As noble till the latest day! 1 VOL. I. |