# National Lyrics, and Songs for Music

NATIONAL LYRICS,
AND
SONGS FOR MUSIC.
BY
FELICIA HEMANS.
DUBLIN: WILLIAM CURRY JUN. AND COMPANY. SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXXIV.
DUBLIN: Printed by John S. Folds, 5, Bachelor's Walk.
TO
MRS. LAWRENCE
OF
WAVERTREE HALL;
HER FRIEND,
AND
THE SISTER OF HER FRIEND
COLONEL D'AGUILAR,
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
MANY BRIGHTLY ASSOCIATED HOURS,
BY
FELICIA HEMANS.
Contents. :
| Introductory Stanzas—The Themes of Song | 3 |
| Rhine Song of the German Soldiers | 7 |
| A Song of Delos | 11 |
| Ancient Greek Chaunt of Victory | 16 |
| Naples, a Song of the Siren | 19 |
| The Fall of D'Assas | 23 |
| The Burial of William the Conqueror | 27 |
| Ancient Spanish Battle Song | 32 |
| The Death Song of Alcestis | 53 |
| Chorus from the Alcestis of Alfieri | 41 |
| Songs of a Guardian Spirit: | |
| 1. Near thee, still near thee | 45 |
| 2. Oh! droop thou not | 48 ​ |
| Mignon's Song, translated from Goethe | 51 |
| The Sisters, a Ballad | 54 |
| The Last Song of Sappho | 61 |
| Dirge | 65 |
| A Song of the Rose | 68 |
| Night Blowing Flowers | 73 |
| The Wanderer and Night Flowers | 75 |
| Echo Song | 78 |
| The Muffled Drum | 80 |
| The Swan and the Sky Lark | 83 |
| Songs of Spain | |
| 1. Ancient Battle Song | 89 |
| 2. The Zegri Maid | 91 |
| 3. The Rio Verde Song | 95 |
| 4. Seek by the Silvery Darro | 98 |
| 5. Spanish Evening Hymn | 99 |
| 6. Bird that art singing on Ebro's Tide | 101 |
| 7. Moorish gathering Song | 102 |
| 8. Song of Mina's Soldiers | 104 |
| 9. Mother, oh! sing me to rest | 106 |
| 10. There are sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles | 108 ​ |
| The Curfew Song of England | 110 |
| The Call to Battle | 114 |
| Songs for Summer Hours: | |
| 1. And I too in Arcadia | 119 |
| 2. The Wandering Wind | 124 |
| 3. Ye are not missed, Fair Flowers | 126 |
| 4. Willow Song | 128 |
| 5. Leave me not yet | 130 |
| 6. The Orange Bough | 132 |
| 7. The Stream set free | 134 |
| 8. The Summer's Call | 137 |
| 9. Oh! Sky-Lark, for thy wing | 140 |
| Genius singing to Love | 142 |
| Music at a Death-bed | 147 |
| Where is the Sea? Song of the Greek islander in exile | 151 |
| Marshal Schwerin's Grave | 155 |
| Songs of Captivity: | |
| Introduction | 160 |
| 1. The Brother's Dirge | 162 |
| 2. The Alpine Horn | 164 ​ |
| 3. Oh! ye Voices | 166 |
| 4. I dream of all things free | 168 |
| 5. Far over the Sea | 170 |
| 6. The Invocation | 172 |
| 7. The Song of Hope | 174 |
| The Bird at Sea | 176 |
| The Dying Girl and Flowers | 179 |
| The Ivy Song | 183 |
| The Music of St. Patrick's | 188 |
| Keene, or Lament of an Irish Mother over her Son | 191 |
| England's Dead | 195 |
| Far away | 199 |
| The Lyre and Flower | 201 |
| Sister, since I met thee last | 203 |
| The lonely Bird | 205 |
| Dirge at Sea | 208 |
| Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star | 210 |
| The Spartan's March | 213 |
| The Meeting of the Ships | 217 |
| The Rock of Cader Idris, a Legend of Wales | 220 |
| A Farewell to Wales | 224 |
| The Dying Bard's Prophecy | 226 ​ |
| Come away | 229 |
| Fair Helen of Kirconnel | 231 |
| Music from Shore | 234 |
| Look on me with thy cloudless eyes | 236 |
| I go, sweet friends | 238 |
| If thou hast crushed a flower | 240 |
| Brightly hast thou fled | 243 |
| Sing to me, Gondolier | 245 |
| O'er the far blue mountains | 247 |
| O thou breeze of Spring | 249 |
| Come to me, dreams of Heaven | 251 |
| Good night | 253 |
| Let her depart | 255 |
| Water Lilies, a Fairy Song | 257 |
| The broken Flower | 259 |
| I would we had not met again | 261 |
| Fairies' Recall | 263 |
| The Rock beside the Sea | 265 |
| O ye voices gone | 267 |
| By a mountain stream at rest | 269 |
| Is there some Spirit sighing | 271 |
| The Name of England | 273 ​ |
| Old Norway | 275 |
| English Soldier's Song of Memory | 278 |
| Come to me, gentle sleep | 280 |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. | |
| The Home of Love | 285 |
| Books and Flowers | 290 |
| For a Picture of St. Cecilia attended by Angels | 294 |
| The Voice of the Waves | 297 |
| The Haunted House | 301 |
| O'Connor's Child | 305 |
| The Brigand Leader and his Wife | 309 |
| The Child's return from the Woodlands | 312 |
| The faith of Love | 316 |
| The Sister's Dream | 320 |
| Written after visiting a tomb near Woodstock | 324 |
| Prologue to Fiesco | 328 |
| A Farewell to Abbotsford | 333 |
| Scene in a Dalecarlian Mine | 335 |
| The Victor | 339 |
ADVERTISEMENT.
This Volume contains, besides a few poems on subjects of national tradition, all those of the Author's pieces which have, at different periods, been composed either in the form of the ballad, the song, or the scena, with a view to musical adaptation.—They are now first collected and arranged to lay before the Public. ​
The reader is particularly requested to correct the following
ERRATA.
| Page 7 | line 11 | for | and the Cossacks | read | and even the Cossacks. |
| —14 | —18 | for | breaking | read | beating. |
| —19 | —12 | for | summer's air | read | summer air. |
| —20 | —11 | for | now | read | how. |
| —23 | —10 | for | ennemids | read | ennemis. |
| —64 | —11 | for | fairy | read | fiery. |
| —79 | note | for | Mrs. | read | Mr. |
| —95 | line 3 | for | their | read | that. |
| —121 | —6 | for | wanderer | read | wanderers. |
| —225 | —11 | for | strangers | read | stranger. |
| —231 | —3 | for | bethrothed | read | betrothed. |
| —244 | —6 | for | thou | read | thus. |
| —254 | —5 | for | thine | read | their. |
| —299 | —8 | for | sigh | read | sign. |
NATIONAL LYRICS,
AND
SONGS FOR MUSIC.
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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