Page To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre.... Lines composed in a Concert Room To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 196 Something Childish, but very Natural.. Home-sick : written in Germany On revisiting the Sea-shore .... Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni ...... 213 Lines written in an Album at Elbingerode in the On observing a Blossom on the First of February .. 221 Recollections on having left a place of Retirement 227 Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath.. This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing To a Gentleman, composed on the night after his reci- tation of a Poem on the growth of an individualmind 247 Page VOLUME III. The PiccoloMINI, OR The First Part Of WALLENSTEIN 1 249 PREFACE. COMPOSITIONS resembling those of the present volume are not unfrequently condemned for their querulous Egotism. But Egotism is to be condemned then only when it offends against time and place, as in a History or an Epic Poem. To censure it in a Monody or Sonnet is almost as absurd as to dislike a circle for being round. Why then write Sonnets or Monodies? Because they give me pleasure when perhaps nothing else could. After the more violent emotions of Sorrow, the mind demands amusement, and can find it in employment alone: but full of its late sufferings, it can endure no employment not in some measure connected with them. Forcibly to To the First and Second Editions. VOL. I. B |