The Poems of Charlotte Smith

English

by  Charlotte Smith

Contents Page: vii
Foreword Page: xiii
Introduction Page: xix
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems Page: 1
To William Hayley, Esq Page: 2
Preface to the first and second editions Page: 3
Preface to the third and fourth editions Page: 3
Preface to the fifth edition Page: 4
Preface to the sixth edition Page: 4
Preface to the second edition of Volume II Page: 6
I. Page: 13
II. Written at the close of spring Page: 13
III. To a nightingale Page: 14
IV. To the moon Page: 15
V. To the South Downs Page: 15
VI. To hope Page: 16
VII. On the departure of the nightingale Page: 17
VIII. To spring Page: 17
IX. Page: 18
X. To Mrs. G. Page: 18
XI. To sleep Page: 19
XII. Written on the sea shore.—October, 1784 Page: 20
XIII. From Petrarch Page: 21
XIV. From Petrarch Page: 21
XV. From Petrarch Page: 22
XVI. From Petrarch Page: 23
XVII. From the thirteenth cantata of Metastasio Page: 23
XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont Page: 24
XIX. To Mr. Hayley Page: 25
XX. To the Countess of A— Page: 25
XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter Page: 26
XXII. By the same. To solitude Page: 27
XXIII. By the same. To the North Star Page: 28
XXIV. By the same Page: 28
XXV. By the same. Just before his death Page: 29
XXVI. To the River Arun Page: 33
XXVII. Page: 30
XXVIII. To friendship Page: 31
XXIX. To Miss C— Page: 32
XXX. To the River Arun Page: 33
XXXI. Written in Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784 Page: 34
XXXII. To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun Page: 34
XXXIII. To the naiad of the Arun Page: 35
XXXIV. To a friend Page: 36
XXXV. To fortitude Page: 36
XXXVI. Page: 37
XXXVII.Sent to the Honorable Mrs. O'Neill Page: 37
XXXVIII. Page: 38
XXXIX. To night Page: 39
XL. Page: 39
XLI. To tranquillity Page: 40
XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs Page: 40
XLIII. Page: 41
XLIV. Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex Page: 42
XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex Page: 42
XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in autumn 1788 Page: 43
XLVII. To fancy Page: 44
XLVIII. To Mrs. **** Page: 45
XLIX. Supposed to have been written in a church-yard Page: 45
L. Page: 46
LI. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides Page: 47
LII. The pilgrim Page: 47
LIII. The Laplander Page: 48
LIV. The sleeping woodman. Written in April 1790 Page: 49
LV. The return of the nightingale. Written in May 1791 Page: 49
LVI. The captive escaped in the wilds of America Page: 50
LVII. To dependence Page: 51
LVIII. The glow-worm Page: 51
LIX. Written September 1791, during a remarkable thunder storm Page: 52
LX. To an amiable girl Page: 53
LXI. Supposed to have been written in America Page: 54
LXII. Written on passing by moonlight through a village Page: 55
LXIII. The gossamer Page: 55
LXIV. Written at Bristol in the summer of 1794 Page: 56
LXV. To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic drawings Page: 57
LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex Page: 58
LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country Page: 59
LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, midsummer, 1795 Page: 59
LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a seaman return Page: 60
LXX. On being cautioned against walking on an headland Page: 61
LXXI. Written at Weymouth in winter Page: 61
LXXII. To the morning star. Written near the sea Page: 62
LXXIII. To a querulous acquaintance Page: 63
LXXIV. The winter night Page: 63
LXXV. Page: 64
LXXVI. To a young man entering the world Page: 65
LXXVII. To the insect of the gossamer Page: 66
LXXVIII. Snowdrops Page: 67
LXXIX. To the goddess of botany Page: 68
LXXX. To the invisible moon Page: 69
LXXXI. Page: 70
LXXXII. To the shade of Burns Page: 71
LXXXIII. The sea view Page: 72
LXXXIV. To the Muse Page: 72
LXXXV. Page: 73
LXXXVI. Written near a port on a dark evening Page: 74
LXXXVII. Written in October Page: 74
LXXXVIII. Nepenthe Page: 75
LXXXIX. To the sun Page: 76
XC. To oblivion Page: 77
XCI. Reflections on some drawings of plants Page: 77
XCII. Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799 Page: 78
Ode to despair Page: 79
Elegy Page: 80
Song from the French of Cardinal Bernis Page: 84
The origin of flattery Page: 85
The peasant of the Alps Page: 90
Song Page: 92
Thirty-eight Page: 92
Verses intended to have been prefixed to the novel of Emmeline Page: 95
The dead beggar Page: 96
The female exile Page: 97
Written for the benefit of a distressed player Page: 99
Inscription on a stone, in the church-yard at Boreham Page: 103
A descriptive ode Page: 103
Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest Page: 107
Song from the French Page: 108
Apostrophe to an old tree Page: 109
The forest boy Page: 111
Verses, on the death of [Henrietta O'Neill] Page: 117
April Page: 119
Ode to death Page: 121
Stanzas Page: 122
To the winds Page: 123
To Vesper Page: 125
Lydia Page: 126
The Emigrants Page: 131
To William Cowper, Esq Page: 132
Book the First Page: 135
Book the Second Page: 149
Uncollected Poems Page: 165
Hymn to love and life Page: 167
Sonnet to the Forest Ytene Page: 167
Prologue to What is She? Page: 168
Epilogue [A] to What is She? Page: 170
Epilogue [B] to What is She? Page: 171
Epilogue [C] to What is She? Page: 173
Prologue to Godwin's Antonio Page: 174
Conversations Introducing Poetry Page: 177
To a green-chafer, on a white rose Page: 179
A walk by the water Page: 180
Invitation to the bee Page: 181
The hedge-hog seen in a frequented path Page: 183
The early butterfly Page: 184
The moth Page: 185
To the snow-drop Page: 187
Violets Page: 188
To a butterfly in a window Page: 189
Wild flowers Page: 190
The close of summer Page: 192
The wheat-ear Page: 194
An evening walk by the sea-side Page: 196
The heath Page: 198
Ode to the missel thrush Page: 200
Ode to the olive tree Page: 202
To the fire-fly of Jamaica Page: 204
Lines composed in passing through a forest in Germany Page: 207
To a geranium which flowered during the winter Page: 208
To the mulberry-tree Page: 210
Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems Page: 213
Advertisement Page: 215
Beachy Head Page: 217
Notes to the Fables Page: 251
The dictatorial owl Page: 253
The jay in masquerade Page: 257
The truant dove, from Pilpay Page: 260
The lark's nest Page: 269
The swallow Page: 273
Flora Page: 279
Studies by the sea Page: 289
The horologe of the fields Page: 295
Saint Monica Page: 299
A walk in the shrubbery Page: 303
Hope. A rondeau Page: 306
Evening Page: 307
Love and Folly Page: 308
On the aphorism "L'Amitié est l'Amour sans ailes" Page: 310
To my lyre Page: 310
Textual Notes Page: 313
Index of First Lines Page: 325
A Page: 325
B Page: 325
C Page: 325
D Page: 325
E Page: 325
F Page: 325
G Page: 326
H Page: 326
I Page: 326
J Page: 326
L Page: 327
M Page: 327
N Page: 327
O Page: 327
P Page: 328
Q Page: 328
R Page: 328
S Page: 328
T Page: 328
W Page: 329
Y Page: 329
Index of Titles Page: 331
A Page: 331
B Page: 331
C Page: 331
D Page: 331
E Page: 331
F Page: 331
G Page: 332
H Page: 332
I Page: 332
J Page: 332
L Page: 332
M Page: 332
N Page: 332
O Page: 332
P Page: 333
R Page: 333
S Page: 333
T Page: 333
V Page: 335
W Page: 335