# Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans

POETICAL REMAINS
OF THE LATE
MRS HEMANS.
Vainly, too vainly 'gainst the power I strive, Which, night and day, comes rushing through my soul! Without that pouring forth of thought and song My life is life no more! Wilt thou forbid the silkworm to spin on, When hourly with the laboured line he draws Nearer to death?—In vain! the costly web Must from his inmost being still be wrought, Till he lies wrapt in his consummate shroud. Oh! that a gracious God to us may give The lot of that blest worm!—to spread free wings And burst exultingly on brighter life, In a new realm of sunshine! Translated by F. H. From the Tasso of Goethe.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH; AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI.
Contents. :
| | PAGE |
| Despondency and Aspiration | 1 |
| The Huguenot's Farewell | 11 |
| The English Boy | 15 |
| Antique Greek Lament | 19 |
| To a Picture of the Madonna | 23 |
| Records of the Spring of 1834 | 27 |
| I. A Vernal Thought | 28 |
| II. To the Sky | 29 |
| III. On watching the Flight of a Sky-Lark | 30 |
| IV. On Records of Immature Genius | 31 |
| V. A Thought of the Sea | 32 |
| VI. Distant Sound of the Sea at Evening | 33 |
| VII. The River Clwyd in North Wales | 34 |
| VIII. Orchard Blossoms | 35 |
| IX. To a Distant Scene | 36 |
| X. Thoughts connected with Trees | 37 |
| XI. The Same | 38 |
| XII. A Remembrance of Grasmere | 39 |
| XIII. On reading Paul and Virginia in Childhood | 40 |
| XIV. A Thought at Sunset | 41 |
| XV. Images of Patriarchal Life | 42 ​ |
| XVI. Attraction of the East | 43 |
| XVII. To an Aged Friend | 44 |
| XVIII. Foliage | 45 |
| XIX. A Prayer | 46 |
| XX. Prayer Continued | 47 |
| XXI. Memorial of a Conversation | 48 |
| Records of the Autumn of 1834 | 49 |
| I. The Return to Poetry | 49 |
| II. On reading Coleridge's Epitaph written by Himself | 50 |
| III. Dreams of the Dead | 51 |
| IV. Hope of Future Communion with Nature | 52 |
| V. On the Datura Arborea | 53 |
| VI. On a Scene in the Dargle | 54 |
| VII. Design and Performance | 55 |
| VIII. The Poetry of the Psalms | 56 |
| IX. To Silvio Pellico on Reading his "Prigione," | 57 |
| X. To the Same, Released | 58 |
| The Shepherd Poet of the Alps | 59 |
| Marguerite of France | 71 |
| The Free'd Bird | 79 |
| To the Mountain Winds | 83 |
| The Procession | 86 |
| To the Blue Anemone | 90 |
| The Broken Lute | 94 |
| The Burial in the Desert | 101 |
| The Maremma | 105 |
| Sebastian of Portugal | 121 |
| Translations from Horace | 154 |
| I. To Venus | 154 |
| II. To his Attendant | 155 ​ |
| III. To Delius | 157 |
| IV. To the Fountain of Bandusia | 160 |
| V. To Faunus | 163 |
| VI. In Imitation of part of Ode III. Book II. | 165 |
| On the Hebe of Canova | 166 |
| From the Italian of Filicaya | 167 |
| Ode on the Defeat of King Sebastian of Portugal, and his Army in Africa | 168 |
| Fragments from the Iphigenia of Goethe | 176 |
| I. Joy of Pylades on hearing his Native Language | 176 |
| II. Exclamation of Iphigenia on seeing her Brother | 177 |
| III. Lot of Man and Woman compared by Iphigenia | 178 |
| IV. Longing of Orestes for repose | 179 |
| V. "Hark! in the trembling leaves," | 180 |
| The Sculptured Children | 181 |
| The Voice of Music | 186 |
| The Chieftain's Son | 189 |
| Psyche borne by Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure | 192 |
| Passing Away | 196 |
| Belshazzar's Feast | 199 |
| The Wish | 206 |
| Song for Air by Hummel | 209 |
| A Fragment | 210 |
| To a Wandering Female Singer | 212 |
| Song of the Spanish Wanderer | 214 |
| No More | 216 |
| To my own Portrait | 219 |
| The Broken Chain | 222 |
| The Angler | 225 |
| Dreams of Heaven | 228 |
| The Funeral Genius, an Antique Statue | 232 ​ |
| The Song of Penitence | 236 |
| A Tale of the Fourteenth Century | 239 |
| The Bard's Farewell | 267 |
| The Prayer for Life | 271 |
| The Welcome to Death | 275 |
| Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna, in 1829 | 278 |
| The Wanderer | 279 |
| Welsh Melodies | 281 |
| I. Druid Chorus on the Landing of the Romans | 283 |
| II. The Sea-song of Gavran | 285 |
| III. The Hall of Cynddylan | 287 |
| IV. The Lament of Llywarch Hen | 289 |
| V. Grufydd's Feast | 292 |
| VI. The Cambrian in America | 295 |
| VII. The Monarchy of Britain | 297 |
| VIII. Taliesin's Prophecy | 299 |
| IX. Owen Glyndwr's War Song | 302 |
| X. Prince Madoc's Farewell | 306 |
| XI. Caswallon's Triumph | 308 |
| XII. Howel's Song | 310 |
| XIII. The Mountain-Fires | 313 |
| XV. Eryri Wen | 316 |
| XVI. Chant of the Bards before their Massacre by Edward I. | 319 |
| Sabbath Sonnet | 321 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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