Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810

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• Volume 1 Joan of Arc (1796) Volume 2 Madoc (1805) Volume 3 Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) Volume 4 The Curse of Kehama (1810) Volume 5 Selected Shorter Poems 1793-1810 To the Nettle (1794); Elinor (1794); The Retrospect (1795); The Faded Flower; To the Exiled Patriots (1795); Elegy. Written in May, 1794 (1796); Mortality (1796); Othryades, a Mono-Drama (1796); Sonnet ('Pleasant it is awhile to linger here') (1796); Sonnet ('As one, whom the dark phantoms of the night') (1796); The Death of Joshua (1796); To a Frog (1796); Sonnet ('Evening, as musing on my lonely way') (1796); Sonnet ('With wayworn feet a pilgrim woe-begone') (1796); To Mary Wollstonecraft (1797); The Triumph of Woman (1797); Poems on the Slave Trade (1797); Sonnet ('Hold your mad hands! for ever on the plain'); Sonnet ('Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair'); Sonnet ('Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run'); Sonnet ("Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep'); Sonnet ('Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword'); Sonnet ('High in the air expos'd the Slave is hung'); To the Genius of Africa (1797); To my own miniature picture, taken at two years of age (1797); The Pauper's Funeral (1797); Ode written on the First of January, 1794 (1797); For a Tablet at Godstow Nunnery; For a Column at Newbury; For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon; For the Apartment in Chepstow-Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years; For a Monument at Silbury-Hill; For a Monument in the New Forest; For a Tablet on the Banks of a Stream; For the Cenotaph at Ermenonville; Birth-Day Odes (1797); Elinor; Humphrey and William; John, Samuel, and Richard; Frederic; 'Go Valentine and tell that lovely maid'; 'Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way'; 'Not to thee Bedford mournful is the tale'; 'What tho' no sculptur'd monument proclaim'; 'Hard by the road, where on that little mound'; To a Brook Near the Village of Corston; To the Evening Rainbow; 'With many a weary step, at length I gain'; 'Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky'; 'How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns'; Sappho (1797); Ode written on the First of December 1793 (1797); Written on Sunday Morning (1797); On the Death of a Favourite Old Spaniel (1797); To Contemplation (1797); To Horror (1797); The Soldier's Wife. Dactylics (1797); The Widow; Sapphics (1797); To the Chapel Bell (1797); The Race of Banquo (1797); Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin (1797); Mary (1797); Donica (1797); Rudiger (1797); Hymn to the Penates (1797); Sonnet (Lonely my way, when last along this road) (1797); Retrospective musings, written January 15, 1797 (1797); Lines written on Monte Salgueiro (1797); Sonnet ('Another mountain yet! I thought this brow') (1797); Lines upon the Widow of Villa Franca (1797); Lines upon Christmas Day (1797); Inscription for a Monument, where Juan de Padilla suffered death (1797); Inscription for a Column at Truxillo (1797); Ode ('When at morn, the muleteer') (1797); Musings after visiting the Convent of Arrabida (1797); Sonnet ('Cheerless my road, and long and lone the way') (1797); To Night (1797); Aristodemus, a monodrama (1797); Hannah, a Plaintive Tale (1797); To A. S. Cottle, from Robert Southey (1797); Botany-Bay Eclogue. Edward and Susan (1798); On the Settlement of Sierra Leona (1798); The Bee (1798); Inscription for a Column in Smithfield where Wat Tyler was killed (1798); The Ring (1798); Sonnet ('Smile on sweet infant!') (1798); St David's Day (1798); March the First (1798); Scriptural Ode. Wednesday, March 7, 1798 the Day appointed for a Fast (1798); The Ides of March. March 15 (1798); Lord William (1798); March 18th. King Edward the Martyr, murdered at Corfe; Inscription for a Monument at Corfe Castle (1798); To Joseph Gerald, 1794 (1798); Inscription for a Monument at Merida (1798); The Lover's Rock (1798); Jasper (1798); St Patrick's Purgatory (1798); The Remembrance of Youth is a Sigh. From the Proverbs of Ali (1798); King John Crowned. Epitaph (1798); Ode (1798); On leaving a Place of Residence (1798); The Advantages of a Remonstrance (1798); A War-Poem (On the Late Mr. Blythe, a Midshipman on board The Mars) (1798); The Origin of the Rose (1798); Lines to a Stream (1798); The Complaints of the Poor (1798); The Idiot. The circumstances related in the following ballad happened some years since in Herefordshire (1798); The Emblem (1798); Inscription for Sherwood Forest (1798); The System of Coercion. A Sonnet from Scripture (1798); July Thirteenth. Charlotte Corde executed for putting Marat to death (1798); Saul and His Asses (1798); The Negro Child(1798); Jehosophat (1798); Inscription for a Monument where the Battle of Barnet was fought (1798); The Spanish Armada (1798); The Martins (1798); The Battle of Blenheim (1798); The Plagues of Egypt - Their Cause and Cure (1798); Lucretia. A Monodrama (1798); The Massacre of St Bartholomew (1798); The Death of Wallace (1798); The Contrast (1798); Stanzas ('Sweet to the morning traveller') (1798); Inscription for Cardiff Castle, where Robert of Normandy was confined by his brother Henry the First (1798); King Henry and the Hermit of Dreux. The following poem is founded on a circumstance related in Mezeray (1798); Night (1798); The Battle of Bosworth. An Eclogue (1798); To a Friend (1798); Inscription. For the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey (1798); Simile. The Ivy'd Castle (1798); Henry, the Hermit (1798); Written on a view of Malvern Hills (1798); Ode ('Man hath a weary pilgrimage') (1798); Bishop Bruno (1798); Sonnet ('Beware a speedy friend, th'; Sappho (1797); Ode written on the First of December 1793 (1797); Written on Sunday Morning (1797); On the Death of a Favourite Old Spaniel (1797); To Contemplation (1797); To Horror (1797); The Soldier's Wife. Dactylics (1797); The Widow; Sapphics (1797); To the Chapel Bell (1797); The Race of Banquo (1797); Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin (1797); Mary (1797); Donica (1797); Rudiger (1797); Hymn to the Penates (1797); Sonnet (Lonely my way, when last along this road) (1797); Retrospective musings, written January 15, 1797 (1797); Lines written on Monte Salgueiro (1797); Sonnet ('Another mountain yet! I thought this brow') (1797); Lines upon the Widow of Villa Franca (1797); Lines upon Christmas Day (1797); Inscription for a Monument, where Juan de Padilla suffered death (1797); Inscription for a Column at Truxillo (1797); Ode ('When at morn, the muleteer') (1797); Musings after visiting the Convent of Arrabida (1797); Sonnet ('Cheerless my road, and long and lone the way') (1797); To Night (1797); Aristodemus, a monodrama (1797); Hannah, a Plaintive Tale (1797); To A. S. Cottle, from Robert Southey (1797); Botany-Bay Eclogue. Edward and Susan (1798); On the Settlement of Sierra Leona (1798); The Bee (1798); Inscription for a Column in Smithfield where Wat Tyler was killed (1798); The Ring (1798); Sonnet ('Smile on sweet infant!') (1798); St David's Day (1798); March the First (1798); Scriptural Ode. Wednesday, March 7, 1798 the Day appointed for a Fast (1798); The Ides of March. March 15 (1798); Lord William (1798); March 18th. King Edward the Martyr, murdered at Corfe; Inscription for a Monument at Corfe Castle (1798); To Joseph Gerald, 1794 (1798); Inscription for a Monument at Merida (1798); The Lover's Rock (1798); Jasper (1798); St Patrick's Purgatory (1798); The Remembrance of Youth is a Sigh. From the Proverbs of Ali (1798); King John Crowned. Epitaph (1798); Ode (1798); On leaving a Place of Residence (1798); The Advantages of a Remonstrance (1798); A War-Poem (On the Late Mr. Blythe, a Midshipman on board The Mars) (1798); The Origin of the Rose (1798); Lines to a Stream (1798); The Complaints of the Poor (1798); The Idiot. The circumstances related in the following ballad happened some years since in Herefordshire (1798); The Emblem (1798); Inscription for Sherwood Forest (1798); The System of Coercion. A Sonnet from Scripture (1798); July Thirteenth. Charlotte Corde executed for putting Marat to death (1798); Saul and His Asses (1798); The Negro Child(1798); Jehosophat (1798); Inscription for a Monument where the Battle of Barnet was fought (1798); The Spanish Armada (1798); The Martins (1798); The Battle of Blenheim (1798); The Plagues of Egypt - Their Cause and Cure (1798); Lucretia. A Monodrama (1798); The Massacre of St Bartholomew (1798); The Death of Wallace (1798); The Contrast (1798); Stanzas ('Sweet to the morning traveller') (1798); Inscription for Cardiff Castle, where Robert of Normandy was confined by his brother Henry the First (1798); King Henry and the Hermit of Dreux. The following poem is founded on a circumstance related in Mezeray (1798); Night (1798); The Battle of Bosworth. An Eclogue (1798); To a Friend (1798); Inscription. For the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey (1798); Simile. The Ivy'd Castle (1798); Henry, the Hermit (1798); Written on a view of Malvern Hills (1798); Ode ('Man hath a weary pilgrimage') (1798); Bishop Bruno (1798); Sonnet ('Beware a speedy friend, th' Arabian said) (1798); The Well of St Keyne (1798); Lines on visiting Lanthony Abbey (1798); Inscription for a Tablet at Penshurst, the birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney (1798); On seeing a Vessel leave the Port (1798); The Holly-Tree; an Emblem (1798); Lines, written amid the Ruins of Abergavenny Castle (1798); Inscription for a Monument in the Vale of Ewias (1798); Epitaph on Algernon Sidney (1798); Sonnet to a Friend (1798); Ode ('In vain the trav'ller seeks Aberffraw's tow'rs') (1798); To Joseph Cottle (1798); Sonnet - To a Goose (1799); History (1799); The Old Man's Comforts, and how he procured them (1799); Ode ('Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul') (1799); St Romuald (1799); The Circumstances related in the following lines happened at the evacuation of Toulon (1799); Epitaph. On Joseph Gerald (1799); To a Friend (1799); Cortez. History is Philosophy, teaching by example (1799); Inscription under an Oak (1799); The Filbert (1799); Metrical Letter (1799); The Cross Roads (1799); The Sailor who had served in the Slave Trade (1799); A Ballad, shewing how an old woman rode double, and who rode before her (1799); The Surgeon's Warning (1799); English Eclogues (1799); The Old Mansion-House; The Grandmother's Tale; The Funeral; The Sailor's Mother; The Witch; The Ruined Cottage; To a Spider (1799); The Soldier's Funeral. A Fragment (1799); Chimalpoca. A monodrama, founded on an event in the Mexican history (1799); The Oak of Our Fathers (1799); Love Elegy. The Poet relates how he procured Delia's pocket-handkerchief (1799); The Tax repealed; or, an historical ballad of King Edward the Confessor (1799); Inscription in a Forest (1799); Ode. The Battle of Pultowa (1799); Inscription. For a Monument at King William's Cove, Torbay (1799); St Michael's Chair and who sat there (1799); Inscription. For a Monument at Old Sarum (1799); Love Elegy. The Poet relates how he stole a lock of Delia's Hair, and her anger (1799); Sonnet ('Thou linger'st, spring! still wintry is the scene') (1799); The Pig - a Colloquial Poem (1799); Epigram ('Tom, dost thou see the weathercock') (1799); The circumstance on which the following ballad is founded,happened not many years ago in Bristol (1799); Ode. To Silence, alias Unanimity (1799); The Poet Perplext (1799); The Ebb Tide (1799); Monodrama. The Wife of Fergus (1799); Inscription, for a Monument at Taunton (1799); Ode, to a Pig, while his nose was boring (1799); To a Dancing Bear. Recommended to the Advocates for the Slave Trade (1799); Sonnet on Leaving a Favourite Place of Residence (1799); The Song of the Old American Indian (1799); The King of the Crocodiles (1799); A Morning Landscape (1799); Telemachos - the Martyr (1799); Sonnet, on seeing a Ship entering Port (1799); Song of the Araucans, during a thunder-storm (1799); Inscription. For a Monument at Oxford, opposite Balliol Gate-Way (1799); Verses intended to have been addressed to His Grace the Duke of Portland, Chancellor of the University, &c. on his installation at Oxford, 1793 (1799); To a College Cat. Written soon after the Installation at Oxford, 1793 (1799); Eclogue, by Robert Southey, The Last of the Family (1799); The Dirge of the American Widow (1799); Amatory Sonnet. By Abel Shufflebottom; National Songs - No. 4. The Huron's Address to the Dead (1799); The Coming of Winter (1799); Reflections on an Old Pair of Shoes (1799); Epigram ('Doris can find no taste in tea') (1799); God's Judgment on a Bishop (1799); National Songs - No. V. The Peruvian's dirge over the body of His Father (1799); Eclogue. The Wedding (1800); Sonnet ('A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee') (1800); Dramatic Fragment (1800); John Bull's Invitation (1803); Queen Urraca and the Five Martyrs of Morocco (1803); Epigram. - On the War (1803); Another Epigram. - [On the War] (1803); 'Which is Bonaparte's road to Heaven' (1803); The Inchcape Rock (1803); Stanzas written after a long absence (1803); A Lamentation (1803); Epigram. Gallus and Taurus (1803); Monodrama. Florinda (1804); Sonnet to Lord Percy, on his late motion for the gradual abolition of slavery in the West-Indies (1807); The Alderman's Funeral; an English Eclogue. - Original (1810); Verses. Spoken in the Theatre at Oxford upon the Installation of Lord Grenville (1811); Selected Juvenilia; Selected Collaborations.