THE WORKS OF ELIZABETH BARRETTBROWNING

GENERAL EDITOR

Sandra Donaldson

Volume 5

Last Poems (1862)Works Unpublished in EBB s Lifetime

Consolidated Index

VOLUME EDITORS: Sandra Donaldson, Rita Patteson,Marjorie Stone and Beverly Taylor

LONDONPICKERING & CHATTO

2010

CONTENTS

Introduction xix

II.B Last Poems 11. Little Mattie 52. A False Step 93. Void in Law 114. Lord Walters Wife 155. Bianca among the Nightingales 206. My Kate 267. A Song for the Ragged Schools of London 298. Mays Love 369. Amy's Cruelty 3710. My Heart and I 4011. The Best Thing in the World 4312. Where's Agnes? 44B.DeProfundis 5014. A Musical Instrument 57[Political Poems] 60

15. First News from Villafranca 6216. King Victor Emanuel Entering Florence 6517. The Sword of Castruccio Castracani 7018. Summing Up in Italy 7319. "Died..." 7820. The Forced Recruit 8021. Garibaldi 8322. Only a Curl 8723. A View Across the Roman Campagna 9124. The King's Gift 9425. Parting Lovers 9626. Mother and Poet 10327. Nature's Remorses 10928. The North and The South 113

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Paraphrases 11629. Paraphrase on Theocritus: The Cyclops 119Paraphrases on Apuleius 124

30. Psyche Gazing on Cupid 12631. Psyche Wafted by Zephyrus 12832. Psyche and Pan 12833. Psyche Propitiating Ceres 12934. Psyche and the Eagle 13135. Psyche and Cerberus 13136. Psyche and Proserpine 13237. Psyche and Venus 13338. Mercury Carries Psyche to Olympus 13339. Marriage of Psyche and Cupid 133

Paraphrases on Nonnus 13540. How Bacchus Finds Ariadne Sleeping 13741. How Bacchus Comforts Ariadne 139

42. Paraphrase on Hesiod: Bacchus and Ariadne 14243. Paraphrase on Euripides: Antistrophe 14344. Paraphrases on Homer: Hector and Andromache 145

45. The Daughters of Pandarus 14846. Another Version 150

47. Paraphrase on Anacreon: Ode to the Swallow 15148. Paraphrases on Heine 153

Works Unpublished in EBB's Lifetime 1591812-14

1. On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man 1592. On Early Rising 1603. 'Ye lovely lilies of the vale' 1604. 'Near to a shady wood where Fir trees grew' 1615. 'Ah! Virtue - come my steps to stay' 1616. 'Loft on the top of that high hill' 1617. 'Upon the boundaries of a lofty wood' 1628.'Oh! thou! whom Fortune led to stray' 1629. 'Soft as the dew from Heaven descends' 16310. 'Soft were the murmurs of the gentle rill' 16311.'Its golden plumage glittered on its breast' 163

18141. To my dearest Papa 27th April 1814 1652. On the return of the fine Season 1653. Occasioned by a fall of Snow 1664. In imitation of'Pity the sorrows of a poor old man' 166

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5. Sent to Mama on 1st May 1814 1676. The Hermit 1687. To Flora 1688. On an Eruption of Mount Etna! - 1689. To the Fishing Net Written the Morning the Pond was drawn at

Hope End. 10th May 1814 16910. 'Mine's the sweet home in yonder cell' 16911. An Epistle to Henrietta 17012. 'Wild were the winding[s] of the stream' 17013. To Baby 17114. Addressed to dearest Papa on his birthday upon the recovery

of little Arabella, from a dangerous illness 17115. Upon the Rose blowing after the Lilly 17216. 'Oh virtues gone, sweet virtue flies' 17217. On Visiting Matlock - Derbyshire 17318. To her Uncle Sam, with her Poetry- 17519. 'Fair Emma pluckt the sweet carnation' 17520. A Song 17621. On first seeing the Sea at Tynemouth 17722. The Beggar Boys petition to little Sam 17823. On a Ship being lost at Tynemouth 17824. Ah! now, stern winter's chilling blast returns' 17925. An Epistle to dearest Papa in London 17926. 'Down in a Vale, a little cottage stood' 18127. 'Fair and chrystal is the Spring' 18128. Prologue 18229. First French Lines 18330. On hearing Catalani Sing at Newcastle 18331. Sebastian or The Lost Child 18432. The Way to humble Pride 18633. Disobedience 18834. After a Shower of Rain 18935. 'Oh Virtue sweet, Oh beauteous Truth' 18936. 'Far along a rugged wood' 19037. 'By a large and spacious plain' 19038. Hannibal's Passage of the Alps 19139. 'By the side of a hill hollow' 19240. As I wandered along thro' a Wood' 19241. 'Down in a Vale a cottage rose' 19342. 'In a Vale a lilly droops' 19343. The Seasons. Spring 193

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18151. 'Grateful Sleep returning spring'2. Aurora3. To Little Sam on his Birthday4. [The Seasons:] Summer5. On Mr Bell's Sickness at Hope End6. To Mama Hope End 23rd March 18157. A King is a Man, the same as the Beggar'8. Of Prophecy9. An Address to Truth10. Amid the secret windings of a grove'11. On the first of May - Mama's birthday - 181512. On the Clock put up at Hope End13. On Papa's birth day May 28th 181514. To Mama15. On Morning [first version]16. 'Where can happiness be found?'

18161. To Summer2. On Poverty3- To Flora4. On a rose being pulled on a dewy morning 18155. The Muse6. 'Come forth thou blessed strain of poetry'7. To Mama and Papa8. Untitled [Morning November, 1816]9. To Spring10. On Morning [second version]11. To Dearest Henrietta On her birthday12. To Evening13- 'See that rock which o'er looks the turbulent deep'14. 'Look up that mountain's craggy steep'15. To My Dearest Papa On His Birthday [including notes:

Accept my gift!' and 'May flowery gales']16. 'In one of the hottest Evenings of June'17. "The dark grey clouds have passed horizon'18. Hymn to the tune of the 4th psalm19. The Cathedral20. 'Soyez satisfaite'21. To my Dearest Brother Edward22. Julia or Virtue. A Novel.

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23. To dearest Storm on his birth day 22424. The False triumph of Romulus 22425. To Pity 22526. Regulus 22527. After the Farce of Hamlet 23128. 'From the blest sea with a majestic pull' 23229. A Song 233

1817l.Tomy Dearest Henrietta 2352. To my dearest Mama 2353. The Sorrows of the Muses 2364. Charades 2435. To the Memory of Sir William Button the favorite pug dog of

Miss Graham Clarke 2476. Address to Lord Somers 2487. On having seen Kean in Othello 2508.'Youthful Minstrels of the sky' 2529. On the death of the Princess Charlotte 25310. To dearest Charles John 254

18181. "The little waves murmured as they kissed the pebbles' 2552. A Fragment - In imitation of Sterne 2563. To our dearest pet Henrietta 2574. A Vision An Allegory 2595. With an Offering of a Book of Prayer To the Communion table

of Colwall Church 2616. To my dearest dear Mama on her birthday 2617. To my dearest Papa on his birth day 2628. 'Here stay my wandering steps' 2639. 'One lamp & one only' 26410. To my dearest Bro, alias Edward, on his Birth day 26511. To my sweetest Pudding alias George Goodin on his birth day 26612. Address to Poetry 26713. A Fragment Written in four minutes 26814. On the Moon 26815. 'High on her pedestal Epione stands' 26916. For Sale 27017. Lines on the death of Sir S. Romilly 27118. To our beloved Storm On his birth day 27219. Lines Extempore on taking my last farewell of the statue of

Hygeia at Cheltenham 273

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20. Charles de Grandville21. Addles22. Ba23. Bro24. Impromptu on a Candlestick25. Mary Barrett26. Mary Maddox27. Minny28. Papa29. 'Sweet is the perfume of apples & shaddocks'

18191. To dear Sam on his Birthday2. On Night A Fragment3. Visions4. To Peace5. To the Rig1 ReV1 Dr Harry Parry Barrett6. On putting Hooker under my pillow at night7. To myself8. 'Ye Muses warbling in melodious spells'9. To my dearest Uncle Sam on his birthday10. Morning Prayer11. 'I am a gaudy dazzling thing'12. Ode to my dearest Mama On her birthday13. First Greek Ode, To Summer14. On Thompson's Spas Cheltenham15. Ode to Gladness on dearest Papa's birthday16. To Dearest Fanny on receiving from her an apron of exquisite

workmanship17. Charades18. A Journal of the adventures of our journey From Hope End to

Worthing written in the carriage June 1919- Socrates20. The Tragedy of Laodice21. Eudocia. In imitation of Lord Byron22. On leaving Hope End for Worthing23. Oram - A Fragment24. On English Composition25. 'The object of Poetry'26. 'Heavenly bodies'27. Translations from Cicero28. A welcome for sweetest Bum to Hope End

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29. Translation from Dante, Inferno 3271820

1. To be opened every New Years day 3292. 'Joys but a rainbow' 3293. To my beloved Sam on his birthday with appologies for haste 3304. Ode to my beloved Henrietta on her birthday 3305. Ode to my dearest Mama on her happy birth day 3326. To my dearest Papa on his welcome birthday 3337. Die natali patris Carissimi 3348. Ode to my beloved Arabel 3359. To my sweetest George Goodin On his Birthday 33610. Ode on my sweet Henry's birthday 33811. To my beloved Storm 33912. On the silence of the lyre of Moore 33913. Translation of part of Horace's 9th satire 34014. A Vision (Extempore) 34115. Princess Caroline of Brunswick 34116. 'Though I am unable to swell into the sublime standard of

Ciceronian eloquence' 34717. Letters to Homer, Socrates and Pindar; 'Esop's Fables' 34818. On Ancient and Modern Literature 35219. A Fragment of my thought 35320. Written in Anguish of Bidding Farewell to my Beloved Bro 35421. Bros Lament over a pocket handkerchief 35522. The vision of Epicurus 356

1821Translations from Anacreon 357

1. 'Nature gave horns to bulls, & hoofs to horses' 3572. 'Fain would I sing' 3583. "Anacreon," the ladies say' 358

4. Reflections arising from the contemplation of the philosophicaldoctrines of Optimism, Perfectibility and Agathism 359

Translations from Homer's Iliad 3605. Book 1,11.1-12 3606. Book 1,11.1-36 3607. Book 1,11.37-61 3618. Book XXIV, c. 11. 5 50-602 362

9. Ode to my dearest Addles On her birthday March 4th 1821 36410. Ode to my ever dearest Sam on his birthday March 31!I1821 36511. Ode To my dearest Mama on her birthday 36612. Ode To my dearest Alfred On his birthday 367

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13. Ode To my beloved Papa On his birthday 36814. Letter to the editor of the Literary Gazette 369

1822'Leila' and 'The Enchantress' 373

1. Leila: A Tale, dedication 3742. Leila: A Tale 3743. The Enchantress 388

4. The African: A Poem in Two Cantos 3915. My beloved Sister [Dear]est Henrietta on her birthday 4086. Translation of a part of Horace's Ars Poetica' 4097. Addressed to my beloved Storm 4158. Fragment of An Essay on Woman' 4169. Song 41910. Defence of the Bishop of Worcester's Objection to Mr. Lockes

assertion 'that possibly we shall never be able to know whetherany mere material Being thinks or no' 420

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1. To my dearest Mama. On her birthday 4272. To dear Alfred, On his birthday 4283. To my ever dearest Papa On his birthday 4294. Dialogue entre le Roi d'Espagne & l'Armee de la Foi, qui lui

demande tres humblement une Constitution de sa fac,on, unCode Ferdinand 430

5. Translation of Hippolitus Pindemonde description of an Eng-lish park 431

18241. Playbill & prologue: R. B. Sheridan's Pizarro 4332. 'All the players are dressed' 4343. 'I sent a message to the muse' 4364. Stanzas 4375. 'A while ago, & we were not' 4396. The Suliot boy to the Seraskier 4407. Lines on the Death of Lord Byron 4428. Hymns Sung on the occasion of the annual sermon for the

benefit of the Sabbath School 4439. A Thomsoni 446

18251. 'Fortune-telling' To my dearest Henrietta On her birthday 4492. To My Beloved Papa On his Birthday 4503. On literature 451

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18261. My beloved Papa's birthday 4532. Meditations 4543. 'Underneath uproar over gentle Damon' 4554. Translation of Gregory Nazianzen's Orations 38 and 29 4575. Translation from Claudian 471

18271. To Uvedale Price Esq' on his birthday 4732. Dwarf Ode - to Occyta 4753. The first of May. 1827 4764. Scene. The Kiosk 4795. The Statesman's funeral 4816. The Poets' Enchiridion 4837. "The Lady Medora an heiress - beloved by Theon the poet' 4878. "The poet finds Myrrha asleep in a ruined chapel' 488

18281. To my beloved Mama 491

18291. Translation of an extract from J. J. Barthelemy's Voyage... of

Anacharsis 4931830

1. The Reply of Malvern to the address of H. S. Boyd, Esqr. - 4952. Translation of Thomas Warton's 'In Somnum' 496

18311. Translation of Vittorelli's 'Sonnet on a Nun' 4992. On the Death of Thomas Hope Esqr 5013. Preface 5014. On Flowers 5035. Prologue to a puppet show 5036. The Poet's Record 505

18321. 'To thee, acquaint with each' 5112. A Sunset 512

18331. To Mary Hunter on her birthday, Sept 11th From her affection-

ate E.B.B 5152. A Trae Dream 5163. Lines Written by EBB in a page of a Copy of her Essay on Mind

given by EMB to the Revd. G. B. Hunter 5201835

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18361. [Prose account of first meeting Wordsworth]2. 'Your lyrics found me dull as prose'3. 'The moon looks downward on the earth'

18371. Epistle to a Canary

18381. To E. W. C. Painting my Picture

1839l.The Repose2. The GorseTranslations from Goethe

3. To favourers4. The New Amadis5. The Little Field Rose6. The Convert7. The muses' son8. On the New-Year9. The Lady10. The young Gentleman11. The Experienced12. The Happy13. Joyous Counsel14. [A Coptic Song]: 'Let the learned'15. [Another Coptic Song]: 'Go! obey my beckon!'16. Prometheus17. Anacreon's Grave18. Ganymede19. Limits of Humanity20. The Brothers21. The Divine22. The Musagetes23. The Singer24. The violet25. The Erl King26. The fisherman27. The King in Thule28. The little flower of wonderful beauty. Song of the captive

Count29. Knight Curt's Marriage Journey [in part]30. The treasure digger

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31. The Bride of Corinth [in part]32. Spring33. Summer34. Autumn35. 'Stones! declare to me - o speak ye high palaces! - '36. Eagle and Dove37. The Wander[er]

18401. Translation from Plato's Symposium

18411. 'To Pity whom I sought so long ago'2. A good man was there of religion'3. 'When Phoebus bright his chair of gold so high'4. Adam's Farewell to Eden5. T knew her not - this lady - hither led'

18421. The Queen in ScotlandUnused contributions for Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1843

2. Adelaide Kemble3. Herr Dobler4. To the King of Prussia5. To the Prince of Wales6. Samuel Rogers

7. 'Crown Her the Queen of the Hops'8. [The recollected version]

9. The Medea of EuripidesFrom Wimpole Street Notebook

10. Translated from Zappi - to Pilli11. 'Hearers, in broken rhyme, of echoes old' [Petrarch, Rime 1]

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61]14. The Princess Marie15. 'She was a fair countess'16. 'Didst thou hate my father.. mother?'17. "The land of Sweden was a silent land'18. 'Rock me softly - softly mother'19. 'O pardon dear lady'20. 'When she, my sweet and faithful consolation' [Petrarch,

Rime 359]21. 'My lovely Dame! I see' [Petrarch, Rime 72]

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22. 'Pure waters, clear & still' [Petrarch, Rime 126] 63523. 'Depart in peace true mortal angel Dame' [from Petrarch,

'Triumph of Death'] 63724. 'Like motes in a broad sunshine I beheld' 63725. 'Italy! world's Italy' 638

18431. 'My Sisters! Daughters of this Fatherland' 6412. "There sate a lady in her hall' 6423. A yellow field flower is that runs to seed' 6434. The Lady of Lor 643

18441. 'What is under the rose' 6452. To my friend, the Revd. G. B. H. with my poems omitting his

name 6463. Translation from Balzac: The Young Girl's Song 648

18451. [Aeschylus's Monodrama] 651From the Yale Poems and Sonnets Notebook 659

2. 'I die all day in Sylvia's adoration' 6603. 'One object of his fantasy' 6614. 'Once, o my charming fair' 6625. 'I dared to love' 6636. 'We are not equal.. thou & I' 6637. Maude Clarence 6648. 'My young dear friend it is too late for ghosts - ' 665

9. 'Like to others n'ertheless my look' 6661846

1. Ballad 6692. 'My death I love my life I hate & all for a lady sheen' 6713. Translation from Pietro d'Abano 673From 1844-6 ('1849-61') Yale Notebook 673

4. 'In the land of free men' 6735. Translation from Theocritus: Epitaph on Hipponax 6766. 'O sweet cruelties' [Petrarch, Rime 351] 6767. 'Merry England Merry England' 6778. 'I think the only thing in all the world' 6789. An old Greek poet chants on a viewless shore' 678

Translations of Anacreontic verse 67910. Anacreontea 68211. 'Best of painters I elect thee' 68212. 'Blessing on thee Grasshopper' 683

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13. 'I love to see a glad old man' 68314. 'In this shadow O Bathyllus' 68415. 'O love, the Muses bound him' 68416. 'Sweetest do not fly me' 68517. 'The earth drinks herself dark with the fast falling rain" 68518. 'When I drink the red red wine' 68619.'Where Bacchus enters bright' 68620. 'If the leaves of every tree' 687

21. Translation from Hesiod, Shield ofHerakles 68822. Translation from Hesiod, Works and Days 68823. Translation from Homer, Iliad 68924. Translation from Dante, Inferno 68925. A Ring 69426. 'I see the flowers, I see the sun' 69527. Politian on Giotto 69628. 'Italy - Italy - is it but a name' 697

1852l.Stabat Mater 6992. Our Journey to Sinigaglia 701

18551. "Twas the feast day of St. John' 703

18591.'She was fifteen - had great eyes' 705

Undated Items and FragmentsPoetry 707

1. 'Fair poesy may here Her treasure store' 7072. 'Have any dreamt that when the cross' 7073. 'Here are deposited the remains of Henry Thrale' 7084. 'My child! my hope and art thou dead' 7095. 'Speak a truth shepherds ? am I then not fair' 7106. "Then did thou see thy country's much loved land' 7117. To dearest Henrietta (the same to me) 7118. 'You might be elated' 712

Verse Translations 7121. Horace: A free translation of 9th ode. Lib. 3 7122. From Latin: At the tomb of Virgil' 713

Prose Translations 7141. The epitaph of Moschus on Bion 7142. Translation from Plato, Dialogue between Criton and Socrates 715

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Essays, Stories, Notes, Imitations 7161. A Horse and a Stag 7162. Friendship 7163. 'I am not a mystag[og]ue' 7164. 'I am not unwilling to allow' 7175. 'It was a long time after the use of Greek writing' 7196. 'Perhaps, while reflecting on the inhabitants of the moon' 7207. The Robber 7218. 'Shall we keep the poor from them?' 722

Fragments (presented provisionally) 7221. 'But there the Alp-peak puts it by' 7232. Cleone 7233. 'To which I answer - amen - let it be' 727

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