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Read Ebook: Poems translated and original by Ellet E F Elizabeth Fries
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 621 lines and 47796 words, and 13 pagesPOEMS. POEMS, TRANSLATED AND ORIGINAL. MRS. E. F. ELLET. Philadelphia: KEY & BIDDLE, 23 MINOR STREET. 1835. Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1835, by KEY & BIDDLE, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: T. K. & P. G. Collins, Printers, No. 6 George Street. PREFACE. Many of the following poems have appeared, within the last two years, in different periodical publications, and are now, by permission, inserted in this collection. The tragedy at the end of the volume, is founded upon an incident well known in the history of Venice, which has formed the material for various works of fiction. Niccolini has written a classic play upon the subject, of which the author of this piece has availed herself in part of the first scene of the first act, and in a few occasional passages of scene first of the fifth act. The conduct of the plot, and the leading incidents, differ materially from those of Niccolini. The author takes this opportunity to render her grateful acknowledgments to the distinguished lady, Miss Phillips, who sustained the part of the heroine; and to whose talents and exertions the play was indebted for its success in representation. The Sepulchres, PAGE 13 Lake Ontario, 22 The Prince and the Palm Tree, 24 Hacon, 26 The Forest Temple, 29 Oh! her glance is the brightest that ever has shone, 31 To a Waterfall, 32 The Sea Kings, 34 The waves that on the sparkling sand, 36 Is this a Day of Death? 37 Paraphrase of the one hundred and thirty-seventh Psalm, 38 The cloud where sunbeams soft repose, 40 Like southern birds, 41 The Loss of the Anio, 42 The Guardian Genius, 47 Stanzas, 49 Song--the closing year, 51 Scene from Alfieri's Tragedy of Saul, 53 The Vanity of the Vulgar Great, 59 Sonnet--Rome in ruins, 61 Fables, 62 O'er the far mountain peak on high, 65 Incantation of Hervor, 66 Death, 69 Enthusiasm, 71 The Dying Poet, 74 I would I were the light winged bird, 80 Midnight Thoughts, 82 Song of the Jewish Exiles, 84 The Druids' Hymn, 86 The Blind Harper, 88 The Mermaid's Song, 90 Susquehanna, 91 Romance, 94 The Death of St. Louis, 96 Complaint of Harald, 100 Echo, 102 The Pictured Rocks, 103 Sunset, 107 To the Lance-fly, 108 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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