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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems of Thomas Hood, Winthrop Mackworth Praed and Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Table of Dates
xii
 
Further Reading
xxvi
 
Thomas Hood
1
152
Preface
3
6
The Ballad of `Sally Brown, and Ben the Carpenter' (Faithless Sally Brown)
9
2
Fair Ines
11
2
Ode: Autumn
13
2
Sonnet. - Silence
15
1
Sonnet Written in Keat's Endymion
15
1
Sonnet: - Death
16
1
The Death-Bed
16
1
A Friendly Epistle to Mrs Fry in Newgate
17
5
Stanzas (I remember, I remember)
22
1
Autumn
23
1
Faithless Nelly Gray
23
3
The Last Man
26
7
Mary's Ghost
33
2
Ruth
35
1
Song (The stars are with the voyager)
35
1
Death in the Kitchen
36
2
The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
38
9
Domestic Asides; or, Truth in Parentheses
47
1
Ode to Mr Malthus
48
4
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or John Jones's Kit-Cat-Apostrophe
52
1
A Waterloo Balled
53
3
A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months
56
2
I'm going to Bombay
58
3
Ode To the Advocates for the Removal of Smithfield Market
61
3
The Lament of Toby, the Learned Pig
64
3
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg
67
74
Her Pedigree
67
2
Her Birth
69
6
Her Christening
75
4
Her Childhood
79
2
Her Education
81
4
Her Accident
85
5
Her Precious Leg
90
3
Her Fame
93
2
Her First Step
95
1
Her Fancy Ball
96
9
Her Dream
105
5
Her Courtship
110
4
Her Marriage
114
8
Her Honeymoon
122
8
Her Misery
130
4
Her Last Will
134
2
Her Death
136
4
Her Moral
140
1
Lear
141
1
The Song of the Shirt
141
3
The Workhouse Clock
144
3
The Bridge of Sighs
147
3
Stanzas (Farewell, Life!)
150
3
Win Throp Mack Worth Pread
153
96
Preface
155
4
from The Etonian
159
1
Laura
159
7
To Julia
166
6
The Bachelor
172
8
from The Brazen Head
180
1
Chaunt I
180
3
Chaunt II
183
3
from The New Monthly Magazine
186
1
Time's Song
186
1
Good-Night to the Season
186
4
My Partner
190
3
The Fancy Ball
193
4
A Letter of Advice
197
4
Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine
201
3
from London Magazine
204
1
Arrivals at a Watering-Place
204
4
You'll Come to Our Ball (Our Ball)
208
3
School and Schoolfellows
211
3
from The Casket
214
1
Childhood and His Visitors
214
2
Beauty and Her Visitors
216
2
Anticipation
218
1
Lines Written for a Blank Page of `The Keepsake'
219
2
from The Literary Souvenir
221
1
The Legend of the Haunted Tree
221
14
Waterloo
235
2
The Belle of the Ball-Room, An Every-day Character
237
3
Stanzas Written in Lady Myrtle's Baccaccio
240
3
The Talented Man
243
2
One More Quadrille (The Last Quadrille)
245
2
from The Morning Post
247
1
Stanzas To the Speaker Asleep
247
2
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
249
15
Preface
251
6
Alfarabi
257
5
from The Improvisatore, in three Fyttes, with Other Poems
262
1
To Night
262
1
To a Bunch of Grapes
262
2
The Brides' Tragedy
264
53
From Act I.I: Lines, ``Twas on a fragrant bank I laid me down' with Song (Poor old pilgrim Misery)
264
2
From Act II.I with Song (A ho! A ho!)
266
2
Opening of Act III.II: Floribel's soliloquy, `And must I wake again? Oh come to me'
268
1
from The Athenaeum
269
1
Lines Written by the Author of `The Bride's (sic) Tragedy', in the blank-leaf of the `Prometheus Unbound'
269
1
fragments from The Last Man
270
1
A Crocodile
270
1
Sweet to Die (Death Sweet)
270
1
Midnight Hymn
271
1
A Lake
271
1
Dream of Dying
271
2
from Outidana or effusions, amorous, pathetic and fantastical
273
1
Lines Written at Geneva; July, 1824
273
1
A Dirge (To-day is a thought)
274
1
Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty
274
1
Pygmalion
275
7
fragment from Love's Arrow Poisoned
282
1
Humble Beginnings
282
1
from Torrismond
283
2
From Act I.III: Veronica's quatorzain (Come then, a song; a winding, gentle song) and song (How many times do I love thee, dear?)
283
1
From Act I.IV (O father, father! must I have no father)
284
1
from The Second Brother
285
2
From Act I.I, with Song (Strew not earth with empty stars)
285
1
From Act I.II, with Song (Will you sleep these dark hours, maiden)
286
1
From Act II.I, a simile
286
1
songs from Death's Jest-Book
287
10
Opening of Act II.I: Dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart)
287
1
From Act III.III, with Song by Isbrand (Squats on a toad-stool under a tree)
288
2
From Act IV.III, with Songs (We have bathed, where none have seen us; We have crowned thee queen of women; Lady, was it fair of thee; A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet)
290
4
From Act V.IV, with Songs (My goblet's golden lips are dry; Old Adam, the carrion crow) and Dirge (We do lie beneath the grass)
294
3
Another Letter to the Same [Bryan Waller Procter]
297
2
The Ghosts' Moonshine
299
2
Lines written in the album of one who had watched the progress of the American and French revolutions
301
2
from The Ivory Gate
303
1
Silenus in Proteus
303
1
Lord Alcohol
304
1
Dream-Pedlary
305
2
Love-in-Idleness
307
1
Dirge (Let dew the flowers fill)
308
1
An Unfinished Draft (A thousand buds are breaking)
309
1
Song of the Stygian Naiades
310
1
Thanatos to Kenelm
311
1
The Phantom-Wooer
312
1
Threnody (Far away)
313
1
songs and fragments from the revisions of Death's Fest-Book
314
3
From Act I.I: Song from the Ship (To sea, to sea!)
314
1
From Act I.II: A Beautiful Night
315
1
From Act I.IV: A Voice From the Waters (The swallow leaves her nest); A Subterranean City (I followed once a fleet and mighty serpent)
316
1
From Act V.I: The Slight and Degenerate Nature of Man (Pitiful post-diluvians)
316
1
Notes
317
65
Index of Titles and First Lines
382