STANZAS

FAREWELL, Life! My senses swim,
And the world is growing dim;
Thronging shadows cloud the light,
Like the advent of the night,—
Colder, colder, colder still,
Upward steals a vapour chill-
Strong the earthy odour grows
I smell the mould above the rose !

Welcome, Life! the Spirit strives!
Strength returns, and hope revives;
Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn
Fly like shadows at the morn,-
O'er the earth there comes a bloom-
Sunny light for sullen gloom,
Warm perfume for vapour cold-
I smell the rose above the mould!

February 1845.

The stars are with the voyager, 41

The swallow with summer, 152

The world is with me, and its many cares, 280
Thine eyelids slept so beauteously, I deem'd, 31
To trace the Kilmansegg pedigree, 194

'Twas in a shady Avenue, 281

'Twas in that mellow season of the year, 80
'Twas in the prime of summer time, 160

Unfathomable Night! how dost thou sweep, 30

Welcome, dear Heart, and a most kind good-morrow, 153
We watch'd her breathing through the night, 168
What is mine-a treasury-a dower, 66

Who hath ever been lured and bound by a spell, 10
With fingers weary and worn, 299

Young ardent soul, graced with fair Nature's truth, 37

END OF VOL. I

Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh.

Serenade (p. 39).-Hood's children found this Poem in MS.
dated 1823. Place of first publication as yet unknown.

Verses in an Album (p. 39).—Assigned by Hood's son and
daughter to this year, 1824. Apparently not printed until after
Hood's death.

The Forsaken (p. 40).—First printed, apparently, in the
"Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," etc., in 1827.

Song (p. 41): "The Stars are with the Voyager," “Plea of
Midsummer Fairies," 1827.

Song: "O Lady, leave thy silken thread." Date unknown
(p. 42).-Written in some album, and communicated to the
Times after Hood's death by Mr. F. Shoberl.

Birthday Verses (p. 43).—This and the three following poems
are assigned by Hood's son and daughter from internal evidence
to the year 1824. The Birthday Verses were first printed in

the Gem for 1829.

The Two Swans (p. 46).—New Monthly Magazine, 1824.

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy (p. 57).—New
Monthly Magazine, 1824.

Song: "There is dew for the Flow'ret" (p. 62).—The first two
stanzas by Hood, the other two contributed by Barry Cornwall
at the request of Mrs. Hood, with a view to the poem being set

to music.

The Water Lady (p. 63).—Forget-me-not for 1826. Suggested,
according to Hood's son, by a water-colour drawing by Keats's
friend Severn.

Autumn (p. 64).—Friendship's Offering, 1826.

I remember, I remember (p. 65).—Friendship's Offering, 1826.
The Poet's Portion (p. 66).—Printed after Hood's death in
1846. Original date unknown.

Ode to the Moon (p. 67).—Blackwood's Magazine, 1827.

Sonnet written in a volume of Shakspeare (p. 70).—Literary
Souvenir, 1827.

A Retrospective Review (p. 71).-Literary Souvenir, 1827.
Ballad: "It was not in the winter" (p. 75). - Literary
Souvenir, 1827.

Time, Hope, and Memory (p. 76).—Friendship's Offering, 1827.
Flowers (p. 77): "I will not have the mad Clytie.”—Friend-
ship's Offering, 1827.