Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 3

Miscellaneous Poetry 3
Circa 1823

By

Felicia Hemans

Taken from
Poems of Felicia Hemans
Blackwood
1872
Page 245 and Pages 295-299

Compiled
by
Peter J. Bolton

Contents

Fragment - Rest on your Battle-field, ye brave!	⁠245
To Miss F. A. L. On her Birthday	295
Written on the First Leaf of an Album of the Same	295
To the Same on the Death of her Mother	296
Appearance of the Spirit of Vasco da Gama (tr. Camoens)⁠	297
A Dirge	298
Translations from Horace:—
To Venus	298
To his Attendant	298
To Delius	299
To the Fountain of Bandusia	299
To Faunus	299

Other Miscellaneous Poems in the Collected Works

	From
Song. Founded on an Arabian Anecdote⁠	The Literary Gazette 1821
Alp-horn Song	⁠The Edinburgh Register 1819
The Cross of the South	The Literary Gazette 1821
The Sleeper on Marathon	The New Monthly 1823

Of the two translations given in the collected works on page 296, that 'From the Spanish of Garcilaso de la Vega' is an extract from work by Mr J. H. Wiffen, which Felicia Hemans may have noted down. That 'From the Italian of Sannazaro' is part of a Canzone, published anonymously in The Edinburgh Magazine, December 1824, entitled 'To the Tomb of Androgeus'.

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