Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Vol 5

Sandra Donaldson, Rita Patteson, Marjorie Stone, Beverly Taylor, Simon Avery, Cynthia Burgess, Clara Drummond, Barbara Neri

• Volume 5 Last Poems (1862) Works Unpublished in EBB’s Lifetime Consolidated Index. Introduction II.B Last Poems 1. Little Mattie 2. A False Step 3. Void in Law 4. Lord Walter’s Wife Bianca among the Nightingales 6. My Kate 7. A Song for the Ragged Schools of London 8. May’s Love . Amy’s Cruelty 10. My Heart and I 11. The Best T ing in the World 12. Where’s Agnes? 13. De Profundis 14. A Musical Instrument [Political Poems] 15. First News from Villafranca 16. King Victor Emanuel Entering Florence 17. The Sword of Castruccio Castracani 18. Summing Up in Italy 19. “Died . . .” 20. The Forced Recruit 21. Garibaldi 22. Only a Curl 23. A View Across the Roman Campagna 24. The King’s Gif 25. Parting Lovers 26. Mother and Poet 27. Nature’s Remorses 28. The North and The South Paraphrases 29. Paraphrase on Theocritus: The Cyclops Paraphrases on Apuleius 30. Psyche Gazing on Cupid 31. Psyche Waf ed by Zephyrus 2. Psyche and Pan 33. Psyche Propitiating Ceres 34. Psyche and the Eagle 35. Psyche and Cerberus 36. Psyche and Proserpine 37. Psyche and Venus 38. Mercury Carries Psyche to Olympus 39. Marriage of Psyche and Cupid Paraphrases on Nonnus 40. How Bacchus Finds Ariadne Sleeping 41. How Bacchus Comforts Ariadne 42. Paraphrase on Hesiod: Bacchus and Ariadne 43. Paraphrase on Euripides: Antistrophe 44. Paraphrases on Homer: Hector and Andromache 45. The Daughters of Pandarus 46. Another Version 47. Paraphrase on Anacreon: Ode to the Swallow 48. Paraphrases on Heine Works Unpublished in EBB’s Lifetime 1812–1. On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man 2. On Early Rising 13. ‘Ye lovely lilies of the vale’ 4. ‘Near to a shady wood where Fir trees grew’ 5. ‘Ah! Virtue – come my steps to stay’ 6. ‘Lof on the top of that high hill’ 7. ‘Upon the boundaries of a lof y wood’ 8. ‘Oh! thou! whom Fortune led to stray’ 9. ‘Sof as the dew from Heaven descends’ 10. ‘Sof were the murmurs of the gentle rill’ 11. ‘Its golden plumage glittered on its breast’ 1814 1. To my dearest Papa 27th April 1814 12. On the return of the f ne Season 3. Occasioned by a fall of Snow 4. In imitation of ‘Pity the sorrows of a poor old man’ 5. Sent to Mama on 1st May 1814 6. The Hermit 7. To Flora 8. On an Eruption of Mount Etna! – 9. To the Fishing Net Written the Morning the Pond was drawn at Hope End. 10th May 1814 10. ‘Mine’s the sweet home in yonder cell’ 11. An Epistle to Henrietta 12. ‘Wild were the winding[s] of the stream’ 13. To Baby 14. Addressed to dearest Papa on his birthday upon the recovery of little Arabella, from a dangerous illness 15. Upon the Rose blowing after the Lilly 16. ‘Oh virtues gone, sweet virtue flies’ 17. On Visiting Matlock – Derbyshire 18. To her Uncle Sam, with her Poetry– 19. ‘Fair Emma pluckt the sweet carnation’ 20. A Song 21. On first seeing the Sea at Tynemouth 22. The Beggar Boys petition to little Sam 23. On a Ship being lost at Tynemouth 24. Ah! now, stern winter’s chilling blast returns’ 25. An Epistle to dearest Papa in London 26. ‘Down in a Vale, a little cottage stood’ 27. ‘Fair and chrystal is the Spring’ 28. Prologue 29. First French Lines 30. On hearing Catalani Sing at Newcastle Sebastian or The Lost Child 32. The Way to humble Pride 33. Disobedience 34. After a Shower of Rain 35. ‘Oh Virtue sweet, Oh beauteous Truth’ 136. ‘Far along a rugged wood’ 37. ‘By a large and spacious plain’ 38. Hannibal’s Passage of the Alps 39. ‘By the side of a hill hollow’ 40. ‘As I wandered along thro’ a Wood’ 41. ‘Down in a Vale a cottage rose’ 42. ‘In a Vale a lilly droops’ 43. The Seasons. Spring 1815 1. ‘Grateful Sleep returning spring’ 2. Aurora 3. To Little Sam on his Birthday 4. [The Seasons:] Summer 5. On Mr Bell’s Sickness at Hope End 6. To Mama Hope End 23rd March 1815 7. ‘A King is a Man, the same as the Beggar’ 8. Of Prophecy 19. An Address to Truth 10. ‘Amid the secret windings of a grove’ 11. On the first of May – Mama’s birthday – 1815 12. On the Clock put up at Hope End 13. On Papa’s birthday May 28th 1815 14. To Mama 15. On Morning [first version] 16. ‘Where can happiness be found?’ 1816 – 1859 part contents…Undated Items and Fragments - Poetry 1. ‘Fair poesy may here Her treasure store’ 2. ‘Have any dreamt that when the cross’ 3. ‘Here are deposited the remains of Henry Thrale’ 4. ‘My child! my hope and art thou dead’ 5. ‘Speak a truth shepherds? am I then not fair’ 6. ‘Then did thou see thy country’s much-loved land’ 7. To dearest Henrietta (the same to me) 8. ‘You might be elated’ Verse Translations 1. Horace: A free translation of 9th ode. Lib. 3 2. From Latin: ‘At the tomb of Virgil’ Prose Translations 1. The epitaph of Moschus on Bion 2. Translation from Plato, Dialogue between Criton and Socrates Essays, Stories, Notes, Imitations 1. A Horse and a Stag 2. Friendship 3. ‘I am not a mystag[og]ue’ 4. ‘I am not unwilling to allow’ 5. ‘It was a long time after the use of Greek writing’ 6. ‘Perhaps, while reflecting on the inhabitants of the moon’ 7. The Robber 8. ‘Shall we keep the poor from them?’ Fragments (presented provisionally) 1. ‘But there the Alp-peak puts it by’ 2. Cleone 3. ‘To which I answer – amen – let it be’ Consolidated Index