Poems / by James G. Percival [electronic text]

Title

Poems / by James G. Percival [electronic text]

Author

Percival, James Gates, 1795-1856

Publication

New York: Charles Wiley

1823

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Contents

• TITLE PAGE
• CONTENTS
• THE WRECK,
• PROMETHEUS.
  • PROMETHEUS, PART I.
  • PROMETHEUS,PART II.
• THE SUICIDE.
• POETRY.
• LOVE OF STUDY.
• HEAVEN.
• A PICTURE.
• MENTAL BEAUTY.
• MENTAL HARMONY.
• RUINS.
• MARIA, THE VILLAGE GIRL.
• A TALE.
• NIGHT WATCHING.
• PLEASURES OF CHILDHOOD.
• VOYAGE OF LIFE.
• A PICTURE.
• SPIRIT OF FREEDOM.
• HOME.
• THE DESERTED WIFE.
• LOVE AT EVENING.
• Silent She Stood Before Me.
• Star of the Pensive.
• O! There is a Bliss in Tears.
• VAUCLUSE.
• LIGHT OF LOVE.
• FLOWER OF A SOUTHERN GARDEN.
• ROSE OF MY HEART.
• THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS.
• THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR.
• CATANIA.
• SONNETS.
  • I Stand upon the Mountains, 'mid a Sea.
  • Monarch of Mountains! Whose Serenest Brow.
  • My Country—At the Sound of that Dear Name.
  • Now to My Task—Be Firm—The Work Requires.
  • Come Forth, Fair Waters, from the Classic Spring.
  • Farewell, Sad Flowers, that on a Desert Blow.
  • Would I Were but a Spirit, Veiled in Light.
• AN ODE TO MUSIC.
• THE JUDGMENT.
• A TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE.
• LIBERTY TO ATHENS.
• THE SENATE OF CALLIMACHI. ODE.
• THE GREEK EMIGRANT'S SONG.
• ODE TO FREEDOM.
• A PLATONIC BACCHANAL SONG.
• Here's to Her.
• DITHYRAMBIC.
• THE SERENADE.
• CONSUMPTION.
• TO THE HOUSTONIA CERULEA.
• THE CORAL GROVE.
• The Anemone.
• A Tulip Blossomed.
• I Had Found Out a Sweet Green Spot.
• BALLADS.
  • The Lake in Vermont.
  • THE MERMAID.
  • The House of My Birth.
  • THE BROKEN HEART.
  • THE PARTING OFWILLIAM AND MARY.
  • "VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY."
  • THE FAIREST ROSE IS FAR AWA'.
• THE FLOWER OF THE VALLEY.
• Montevideo.
• Once, on a Cloudless Summer-Day.
• My Heart Too Firmly Trusted.
• TO SENECA LAKE.
• How Beautiful is Night.
• Often, When at Night Delaying.
• SONG.
• O! Had I the Wings of a Swallow.
• THE LAND OF THE BLEST.
• RETROSPECTION.
• CALM AT SEA.
• My Heart Was a Mirror.
• O! Now's the Hour.
• O! Wilt Thou Go with Me, Love.
• Here the Air is Sweet.
• THE WANDERING SPIRIT.
• FAREWELL TO MY LYRE.
• Despondency.
• ANACREONTICS.
• HORATIAN.
• The Paphian Doves.
• Fragments of a Poem on the Incas.
• ERRATA.