MIGHTIER FAR

THAN STRENGTH OF NERVE AND SINEW, OR THE SWAY
OF MAGIC, POTENT OVER SUN AND STAR,
Is Love, THOUGH OFT TO AGONY DISTREST,
AND THO' HIS FAVOURITE SEAT BE FEEBLE WOMAN'S BREAST.

Wordsworth.

DAS IST DAS Loos DES SCHOENEN AUF DER ERDE,

Schiller.

CONTENTS

RECORDS OF WOMAN

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Arabella Stuart,

The Bride of the Greek Isle,

The Switzer's Wife,

Properzia Rossi,

Gertrude ; or, Fidelity till Death,

Imelda,

Edith,

The Indian City,

The Peasant Girl of the Rhone,

Indian Woman's Death-Song,

Joan of Arc in Rheims,

Pauline,

Juana,

The American Forest Girl,

Costanza,

Madeline,

The Queen of Prussia's Tomb,

The Memorial Pillar,

The Grave of a Poetess,

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Carolan's Prophecy,

The Mourner for the Barmecides,

The Spanish Chapel,

The Kaiser's Feast,

Tasso and his Sister,

The Release of Tasso,

Ulla; or, The Adjuration,

To Wordsworth,

A Monarch's Deathbed,

To the Memory of Heber,

The Adopted Child,

The Birds of Passage,

Invocation,

Körner and his Sister,

The Death-Day of Körner,

A Voyager's Dream of Land,

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England,

The Effigies,

The Departed,

The Palm-Tree,

The Child's Last Sleep,

The Sunbeam,

Breathings of Spring,

The Spirit's Mysteries,

An Hour of Romance,

The Illuminated City,

Roman Girl's Song,

The Spells of Home,

The Distant Ship,

The Graves of a Household,

Mozart's Requiem,

The Image in Lava,

Christmas Carol,

A Father Reading the Bible,

The Last Wish,

Fairy Favours,

Meeting of the Brothers,

The Sisters,

The Last Song of Sappho,

Dirge,

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Mignon's Song,

The Curfew-Song of England,

The Call to Battle,

Night-Blowing Flowers,

The Wanderer and the Night-Flowers,

The Swan and the Skylark,

Echo Song,

The Muffled Drum,

Genius Singing to Love,

A Song of the Rose,

Music at a Deathbed,

Marshal Schwerin's Grave,

The Fallen Lime-Tree,

The Bird at Sea,

Far Away,

Keene; or, Lament of an Irish Mother over her Son,

The Music of St Patrick's,

The Lonely Bird,

The Ivy-Song,

The Necromancer,

The Dying Girl and Flowers,

Dirge at Sea,

The Lyre and Flower,

The Meeting of the Ships,

Sister ! since I met Thee last,

Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star,

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WELSH MELODIES

The Harp of Wales,

Druid Chorus on the Landing of the Romans,

The Hirlas Horn,

The Hall of Cynddylan,

The Sea-Song of Gafran,

The Lament of Llywarch Hen,

The Green Isles of Ocean,

Grufydd's Feast,

The Cambrian in America,

Taliesin's Prophecy,

Prince Madoc's Farewell,

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Howel's Song,

Caswallon's Triumph,

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Owen Glyndwr's War-Song,

244

The Mountain-Fires,

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Eryri Wen,

247

Chant of the Bards before their Massacre by Edward I., 249

The Dying Bard's Prophecy,

ib.

The Fair Isle,

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The Rock of Cader Idris,

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NOTES,

254

SONGS OF THE CID

The Cid's Departure into Exile,

The Cid's Deathbed,

The Cid's Funeral Procession,

The Cid's Rising,

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