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Rialto, the, 169, 473.

The swift,' 165. Depth of its

Ribas, Admiral, known in Russian story,' 553.
Ribaupierre, General, 562.

Rich, Claudius, Esquire, and the bricks of Babel,' 534.
Richards, Rev. George, D.D., wakes a genuine poet's
fires,' 100. His literary productions, 632.
Richelieu, Duc de, humanity of, 541.

Ridotto, description of a, 476.

Rienzi! last of Romans!' 178, 649.

Riga, Greek patriot, translation of the famous war-song
of, 48. His career and end, 48, 627.

Ring: the damn'dest part of matrimony,' 572.
River, that rollest by the ancient walls, 85.
Rochefoucault's maxims, 647.

Rogers, Samuel: melodious Rogers,' 98. Characterised
as Pollio,' 109 Dedication to him, 185. Byron's opin-
ion of his Pleasures of Memory,' 631, 653. Idea bor-
rowed from him, 653.

Romaic-or modern Greek-Songs, translations of, 48,

49, 56.

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Roman Labourers' Chorus, 168.

Rome, bows her to the storm,' 173. Lone mother of
dead empires,' 175. The Niobe of nations,' 175. Pog-
gio's exclamation o'er its ruins, 648. Its present degra
dation, 649. The spoiler of the spoil of France,' 280.
Romilly, the lamented late Sir Samuel,' 482. His
suicide, 482.

Roque, M., on the character of the modern Greeks, 641.
Rosbach, trivial cause which led to the battle of, 306.
Roscoe's Leo the Tenth, mysterious story from, 655.
Rothschild, and his fellow Christian, Baring,' 587.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques: Lines written in his Letters
of an Italian Nun, 4. Self-torturing sophist,' 164.
His memorable kiss,' 164, 647. His life one long war
with self-sought foes,' 164. Scenery of Clarens, and his
connexion with it, 166, 647. Scene of the catastrophe
of his Heloise,' 657.

Rousseau-Voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael,' 79.
Rumour, that live Gazette,' 609.

Rushton, Robert ('my little page'), 141.

Sabbath in London, 146.

S

Sabellicus, epithet bestowed on Venice by, 648.
Sadness, Grecce the abiding place of, 157.

Saint Angelo, castle of, the mole which Hadrian reared,'
181, 649.

Saint Anthony. See Anthony.

Saint Augustine. See Augustine.

Saint Bartholomew, 533. Nature of his martyrdom, 666.
Saint Francis and his monastic concubine,' 543. How
he overcame the devil, 667.

Saint Helena, yon lone isle,' 131.

The rocky isle,' 132.
Saint Mark's, Venice, 170. The Saint's lion, 648.
Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate, 123.
Saint Peter's, Rome, the vast and wondrous dome,' 181,
182, 271, 283, 659.

The

Saint Sophia, Constantinople: Sophia's bright roofs,'
181. Cupola with golden gleam,' 530.
Salamis, unconquered,' 111. The day of,' 133.
gulf, the rock of,' 186. Sea-born Salamis,' 519.
Salvator Rosa, 'savage Salvatore,' 598.
Sanguinetto, where the dead made the earth wet,' 174.
'Santa Croce's holy precincts,' 173, 174.
Sappho, the Lesbian,' 152. Doubtful morality of her
Ode,' 484. Sage blue stocking,' 511. The place of
her leap, 640.

Saragoza, heroism of the maid of, 145. Her more than
Amazonian blade,' 134.

SARDANAPALUS, A Tragedy, 339. Sketch of the story
on which it is founded, 663.

Satan's 'power to pay a heavenly visit,' 125.

Satiric rhyme first sprang from selfish spleen,' 103.
Satanic school, the, 121.

SAUL, 65. His Song before his last battle,' 65.

Savary's devotion to Napoleon, 628.

Scamander, old,' 527.

Schiller, 170.

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Scotland and 'Auld lang syne,' 574.

Scott, Sir Walter, satirical allusions to, 93, 94, 99, 132
Dedication to him, 392.

Scriptures out of church are blasphemies,' 600, 669.
'Sea attorney,' specimen of a, 513.*

Sea-coal fires, 475, 598.

Sea-sickness, best of remedies' against, 497.
Sea walls of the Adriatic, inscription on the, 670.
Seale's false quantities, 9. His Greek metres, 623.
Second-hearing, superstition of, 651.

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Shakspeare, 54, 170, 552, 646. His 'ever-blooming gar-
den, 606.

Shaving, an entailed curse, 602.

She walks in beauty like the night, 63.

She epistle,' earth has nothing like a, 600.

Shee, Sir Martin Archer, P.R.A.. poetic eulogy on, 99.
Sheridan, Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley, Monody on the
death of, 77. His eloquence, 77.

Sheridan, Thomas, and Beaumont's pilfer'd caratsch,'
96. His character, 630.

Shipwreck of the Trinidada,' 498, 504.
Shooter's Hill, 579, 580.

SIEGE OF CORINTH, The, 235. Incident on which the
poem is founded, 235.

Sierra Morena, the, and its fortifications, 144, 637.
Sigæum, Cape, 527.

Simeon, Rev. Charles, 105. His Calvinistic ardour, and
rustic coadjutor, 633.

Simoom, the, and its effects, 188, 525.

Since now the hour is come at last, 6.

Since our country, our God-Oh my sire! 64.
Since the refinement of this polish'd age, 21.
'Sinking fund's unfathomable sea,' 623.

Skeffington, Sir Lumley, 96.

SKETCH, A, 71.

SKULL, Lines inscribed on a cup formed from a, 43.
Slave market at Constantinople, 529, 531, 532.
Slavery of men to their own whims, 531.

'Sleep hath its own world,' 74. Sleep is awful,' 507.
State of sleep, 523.

Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, 111, 218.
Smith, Mrs. Spencer, sweet Florence,' 151. Verses to
her, 46. "Sweet Florence, where art thou?' 47.
Smith, Rev. Sydney, smug Sydney,' 96. Characterised
as Peter Pith,' 621. His fat fen vicarage,' 621. His
Plymley Letters, 630. His 'twelve parson-power' joke,

668.

Smith, Wm., M.P. See Southey.
Smoking, eulogy on, 268.

Snow a remedy for hot blood, 485, 343, 665, 667.
So Castlereagh has cut his throat! 87.

So he has cut his throat at last! 87.

So we'll go no more a-roring, 81.

Society, the sweet consequence of,' 562. Is but a game,"
590. That china without flaw,' 592. Oue polish'd
horde,' 599. That wild,' 692. The snake,' 608.
Socrates, the murder'd sage,' 111. His confession of
ignorance, 551. Great Socrates,' 609. Model of all
duty,' 614. His death, 635. Why put to death, 642.
Soignies, wood of, and its historical associations, 646.
Solano 'the traitor,' 148, 637, 638,

Solitude, true elements of, 150. Least alone in,' 165.
Should teach us how to die,' 171. Humorous defini
tion of, 487. 'Her realms,' 534. Crime not her child,

561.

'Solitudes called social,' 523.

Solyman; was he the last of his line? 666.
SONG FOR THE LUDDITES, 81.

SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, 65.

SONNET on Chillon, 250.

'To Genevra,' 58.

To the same,' 58.

'To George the Fourth,' 85.

"To Lake Leman,' 79.

'From Vittorelli,* 81.

Sons of the Greeks, arise, 48.
'Soracte's ridge,' 175.

'Sorrow ponders on the past, 157. Preys upon its soll-
tude,' 386.

Sotheby, William, 98. His 'Orestes, 82. Old Both-
erby, 119. His muse, 495. His writings,, 631.
'Soul,' 606.

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South, Dr., Whom every week I study,' 508.
Southcote, Joanna, and fier Shiloh,' 125, 520, 586.
Southey, Robert, LL.D., 93. The ballad monger,' 93.
His tremendous Thalaba' and other works, 93, 109,
629. Ludicrous story fathered on his Curse of Keha-
ma,' 634. His Joan of Arc,' 93, 604. His epic moun-
tains,' 104. Strictures on his alleged political apostasy,
122. His eulogium on Walter Savage Landor, 122.
Sarcastic allusions to him, 125, 127, 129. Satirical
account of his career, 130. His last Pæan,' 61.
Ironical dedication of Don Juan' to him, 479. Lines
playfully quoted from him, 496. Allusions to him in
that poem, 495, 520, 584.

Spagnoletto's 'tainted brush,' 598.

Spain, compass'd by unyielding foes,' 143.

Renown'd,

romantic land,' 143. Sad will be thy reckoning day,'

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Stickles, John, 633.

Still must I hear ?-shall hoarse Fitzgerald hawl, 92.
'Stoics-men without a heart,' 531.

Stonehenge-what the devil is it?' 581.

Stott, grovelling, 93. Specimen of his bathos, 628.
Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times, 83.
Stranger! behold interr'd together, 49.

Strangford, Lord, Translator of the tinsel song,' 94.

His egotistic laudation of blue eyes, 94, 629. Character
of his rendering of Camoëns, 94, 629,

Suicide, the impelling motive to, 601.

Suli's rocks' and shaggy shore,' 152, 154, 519.

Suliotes, hospitality of the, 154.

Sulpicius's letter to Cicero, 648.

Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star! 66.

Sunday in London, 146.

Sunium's marbled steep,' 519.

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'Hail! Thamis,

Thames, the: thy Thamis, 146.
hail! 581. The gentle sound of,' 581.
The antique Persians taught three useful things, 615.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 67.
The braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass, 87.
The castled crag of Drachenfels, 162.

The chain I gave was fair to view, 54.
The Devil returned to hell by two, 58.

The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom, 269.
The good old times'-all times when old are good, 131.
The harp the monarch minstrel swept, 63.
The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, 518.
The king was on his throne, 66.

The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left, 49.
The land where I was born sits by the seas, 291.
The man of firm and noble soul, 5.

The modest bard, like many a bard unknown, 48.
The Moorish king rides up and down, 79.
The morning watch was come; the vessel lay, 262.
The Origin of Love!'-Ah, why, 56.

The roses of love glad the garden of life, 12.
The serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, 224.
The Son of Love and Lord of War I sing, 87.
The spell is broke, the charm is flown! 47.
The spirit of the fervent days of old, 299.
The wild gazelle on Judah's hills, 63.
The winds are high on Helle's wave, 201.
The world is a bundle of hay, 87.
Themistocles, tomb of, 185, 649.

There be none of Beauty's daughters, 69.
There is a tear for all that die, 62.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 542.
There's not a joy the world can give, 68.
There was a time, I need not name, 44.
Thermopylae, 186, 280, 519.

These locks which fondly thus entwine, 13.
Theseus' fane,' 111.

They say that hope is happiness, 81.

Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair, 58.

Think'st thou I saw those beauteous eyes, 6.

This band, which bound thy yellow hair, 30.

This day, of all our days, has done, 87.

This faint resemblance of thy charms, 11.

This votive pledge of fond esteem, 7.

Thornton, Thomas, mistakes of, relative to the character
of the modern Greeks, 642. His miscorrection of
Pouqueville, 642, note *.

Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue, 41.

Thou art not false, but thou art fickle, 56.

Thou lay thy branch of laurel down,' 57.

Thou Power who hast ruled me through infancy's days,

40.

Thou whose spell can raise the dead, 65.
Though the day of my destiny's over, 72.

THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION,

20.

Thrasimene's lake, and defeat of the Romans there, 174.
Thrasybulus and his train,' 155.

Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen, 47.
Through life's dull road so dim and dirty, 87.

Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds
whistle, 3.

Thunderstorm, description of a, 165, 647. Stanzas com-
posed during one, 47.

Thurlow, Thomas Hovell, second Lord: On the poems

of, 57. Lines To Lord Thurlow,' 57.

Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe, 58.

Thy days are done, thy fame begun, 65.

Thy verse is 'sad' enough, no doubt, 39.

THYRZA, To, 51. Other pieces devoted to the same fair
one, 51, 52, 53.

Tibullus, imitation of, 4.

Tillotson, Archbishop, 508, 551.

Timbuctoo, there 'black is fair,' 591.
Time, 158, 170, 182, 519, 521, 522,

Time! on whose arbitrary wing, 55.
Tiresias, 606.

'Tis done-and shivering in the gale, 45.
'Tis done-but yesterday a king7 59.
'Tis done !-I saw it in my dreams, 30.

'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout, 472.
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, 90.
Titan to whose immortal eyes, 78.
Tittle tattle, that abominable,' 589.
Titus, Love's master, 511.

To be the father of the fatherless, 85.

To hook the reader, you, John Murray, 82.
Tobacco, sublime,' 268.

Tombs, huge, 534.

Tomerit, vast, 153. Its ancient name, 640.

Tom Jones, we have no accomplish'd blackguards like,

601.

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Troy, 520, 528.

Truth stranger than fiction,' 608.

Tully's voice and Virgil's lay,' 176.

Turkey and the Turks, 645. Sincerity of their devo-

tions, 647. Condition of their women, 477, 541.

Turnpike roads, eulogy on, 579.

'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, 255.

'Twas now the hour when night had driven, 5.
Twilight in Greece, 635. Sweet hour,' 521.
Two FOSCARI, The, 370.

Tyre's proud piers,' 100.
Tyrian purple, 616, 670.

U

Ulysses and his Argus,' 514. His whistle, 600.
Unhappy Dives! in an evil hour, 50.
Unities. See Dramatic Unities.
Utraikey, lone, 154.

Vaccination, 490.

Vampire, superstition of the, 651.

Vandals, ancient and modern, in Cambridgeshire, 632.
Vathek.' See Beckford.

Vatican, the, and its Art-treasures, 182.
Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice,' 174.
Venice, a sea Cybele,' 169. Her songless gondoliers,'
169. Her poetic attractions, 169, 170. Sinks like a
sea-weed,' 170. Her youth, 170. Their morals and
manners, 662. Roger Ascham's verdiet thereon, 4:2.
Verified prophecy of her fate, 663. Violent end of her
Doges, 663. See de.

Venus and her coadjutors, Ceres and Bacchus, 509, 622.
Venus of Medicis, the, 173, 526.

'Vernet's ocean lights,' 598.

Vernon, General, 481.

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Vice clings to the tott'ring walls,' 144. How soft are
thy voluptuous ways,' 146. Spares nothing for a
rarity,' 529.

Victory, king-making,' 159. 'Such is victory,' 564.
Vineyards, the very best of,' 598.

Virgil, Harvey's odd mode of expressing admiration for,
633. His songs are pure,' 484.

Virgin, the, much teased to shrive them free,' 146.
Virtues, the, are saving, 529.

VISION OF BELSHAZZAR, 66.

VISION OF JUDGMENT, 121. Occasion of the pcem, 121,

122.

Voice, sweet, an arrow for the heart,' 609.
Voltaire's retreat at Ferney, 166. His dictum on eating,
532. Character of his writings, 667. His defence of
Calas, 667.

W

Izaak, 'quaint, old, cruel coxcomb,' 609. Sen-
savage,' 669.

Fan Apostrophic Hymn, 114. The only
h teaches girls to think,' 584.

War, 557. Pions pastime,' 506. Brain-spattering, wind-
pipe-slitting art,' 567.

Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword, 65
Wars, trivial origin of many, 306.

Warton, Thomas, on Voltaire's writings, 667.
Washington, George, 129, 133, 177. The tyrant-tamer,'

134. His battle fields holy ground,' 557. Had thanks
and nought beside, 568.

Wat Tyler. See Southey.

Waterloo, the grave of France,' 159. Fatal Waterloo,'
160. With Canna's carnage vies,' 163. The battle,
and the ball previous thereto, 159, 646. • Bloody and
most bootless,' 133. We do not curse thee,' 68. See
also 135, 560, 567, G07.

Watson, Bishop, anecdote of, 392.

We do not curse thee, Waterloo ! 68.

We sate down and wept by the waters, 67.
Weber, Henry, Sir W. Scott's amanuensis, 632
Wedlock and padlock mean the same,' 541.
Weep, daughter of a Royal line, 53.
Well thou art happy, and I feel, 43.

Wellesley, Long Pole, afterwards Lord Mornington, 585.
Wellesley, Lord, 115, 635.

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, on the night be-
fore Quatre Bras, 646. The hook where he suspends
the world,' 135. Sarcastic allusions to him, 560, 566,
567, 588. His 'great moral lesson,' 590. Extravagant
title bestowed on him, 635.

Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be, 66.
WERNER; or, The Inheritance: a Tragedy, 422.
West, Benjamin, P.R.A.: Europe's worst dauber,' 112.
Westminster Abbey and Westminster's lamps, 581.
What are you doing now, 81.

What matter the pangs of a husband and father, 87.
What say I?' not a syllable further in prose, 61.

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, 86.

When all around grew drear and dark, 12.

When amatory poets sing their loves, 530.

When Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter, 580.
When coals to Newcastle are carried, 57.

When coldness wraps this suffering clay, 65.

When Dryden's fool, unknowing what he sought,' 55.
Whene'er I view those lips of thine, 6.

When energising objects men pursue, 55.
When fierce conflicting passions urge, 19.

When friendship or love our sympathies move, 22.

When from the heart where sorrow sits, 58.

When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive,

11.

When I hear you express an affection so warm, 7.

When I roved a young Highlander o'er the dark heath,

35.

When man expell'd from Eden's bowers, 43.
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found, 573.
When slote disease, with all her host of pains, 26.
When some proud son of man returns to earth, 43.
When the last sunshine of departing day, 77.
When the vain triumph of the imperial lord, 62.
When Thurlow this damn'd nonsense sent, 57.
When Time, or soon or late, shall bring, 52.
When, to their airy hall, my father's voice, 3.
When we two parted, 42.

Where are those honours, Ida! once your own, 8.
Whigs, the, 585.

Whistlecraft. See Frere.
Whitbread, 585.

White as a white sail on a dusky sea, 271.

White, Lydia, Miss Diddle,' 121.
White, Henry Kirke, 98. His genius and fate, 631.

Who hath not glowed above the page where fame, 61.
Who kill'd John Keats? 87.

Who would not laugh, if Lawrence, hired to grace, 101.
Why, how now, Billy Bowles? 87.

Why, how now, saucy Tom? 87.

Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain, 22.
Why should my anxious breast repine, 32.
Wicklow gold mines, 633.

Widdin, 531.

Wilberforce, William, 529.

Worth a million fighters,'

588. The Washington of Africa,' 607.
Wilkes, John, a merry, cock-eyed, curious looking
sprite,' 127.

Wilson, John (Professor), 307.

WINDSOR POETICS: Lines on the Prince Regent being
seen standing between the coffins of Henry VIII. and
Charles I., 59.

Wine and its penalties, 523, 525.

Wingfield, Hon. John: Alonzo; best and dearest,” 28.
And thou, too, my friend, 148. Byron's great regard

for him, 638.

Wisdom's world, 161.

With death doom'd to grapple, 86.

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Woman! experience might have told me, 11.
Wooden spoons of verse,' 521.

Words are things,' 519.

Wordsworth, William, mild apostate from poetic rule,
93. Vulgar,' and 'simple,' 99. His official employ-
ment, 480. Sharp remarks thereon, 664. His Excur-
sion, 480. A drowsy, trowzy poem,' 520. 'Crazed
beyond all hope,' 495. His Waggoners,' 520. 'Poet
Wordy,' 529. His genealogy of Carnage, 558, 668. See
also 487, 496.

World, vicissitudes of the, 525.

be former,' 570. Meaning of
Where is the world,' 555.

602.

When this world shall

the great world,' 583.
No description recent,

Worms, 'sad hungry Jacobins,' 543.
Wright, Walter Rodwell, 99, 641.

Wrinkles, the democrats, won't flatter,' 575.

X

Xerxes, 280, 489, 509.

Y

Yanina, 153.

Ye Cupids, droop each little head, 5.
Ye scenes of my childhood, 10.

'Years steal fire from the mind,' 158.

You call me still your life-Oh! change the word, 58.
You have ask'd for a verse,' 89.

Young oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground, 40.
Young, Dr. Edward, 585.

Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend, 23.
Youth, a chymic treasure,' 496.
Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove, 48.

Z

Zappi, Giovanni Battista, sonnet by, 659.
Zegri, the, 134.

Ziska, John, use made of the skin of, 132.
Zitza, convent and village of, 152, 640.

Zoroaster, the Persian, devilish doctrine of,' 598.

JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

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