1st Edition

The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb Vol 2

    Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron. Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates her literary achievements within the context of her Whig allegiances, her sense of noblesse oblige and her promotion of aristocratic reform.

    Introduction -- Graham -- Volume I -- Volume II -- Collected Poems -- Poems From -- ‘I’m Mad’ -- ‘To Georgiana’ -- ‘Th e Wand Was Broke Her Elves Dismiss’d’ -- Th ey Took From Me My Cherub Boy’ -- ‘Says a Smile To a Tear’ -- ‘Th e Sun With Bright Th ough Parting Ray’ -- ‘On Farewell’ -- ‘Vacant that Heart’ -- ‘When Return’d To His Home’ -- ‘May No Sad Dreams’ -- ‘Friend of My Heart Accept Th is Letter’ -- ‘Th e Cowslip & the Lemon Pale’ -- ‘Like a Fair Fruit Peach that Never Has Been Tasted’ -- ‘I’ve Been Nearly in a Teff ’ -- ‘Oh Hartington Th ou Base Deceiver’ -- ‘Death Soon Perhaps At Once Each Prospect Ending’ -- ‘Ye Sprites that Roam on Earth’ -- ‘Once Were His Th oughts As Spotless Pure & True’ -- ‘Sweet Was the Voice that Sang of Truth & Love’ -- ‘Since I No Longer Little John Can Send’ -- ‘Th en Since It Is So Wilt Th ou Th en Leave Me For Ever’ -- ‘Oh that Like Th ee Childe Harold I had Power’ -- ‘Cousin Of Mine Th y Verses Stray & Quaint’ -- Verses from Glenarvon -- ‘O Loudly Sing the Pillalu: Irish Lament’ -- ‘Th e Task to Tell thy Fate, Be Mine’ -- ‘Th is Heart Has Never Stoop’d Its Pride: Glenarvon’s Song’ -- ‘Waters of Elle To the air of Ils ne sont plus’ ‘Farewell’ -- ‘By Th at Smile Which Made Me Blest: To the Air of Hear Me -- How Much I love’ -- ‘My Heart’s Fit to Break: St. Clara’s Song’ -- ‘And Can’st Th ou Bid My Heart Forget: To Glenarvon: Elinor’s Song:’ -- ‘To a Mendicant: Poor Wretch! Who Hast Nothing Hope For In Life’ -- ‘Curs’d Be the Fiend’s Detested Art: St. Clara’s Prophecy’ -- ‘When Turf and Faggots Crackling Blaze’ -- ‘For the Heart that Has Once Been Estrang’d’ -- ‘If To Lose All that Love Th ee Should E’er Be Th y Lot’ -- Long -- A New Canto (1819) -- Gordon: A Tale: A Poetical Review of Don Juan (1821) -- Verses from Graham Hamilton (1822) and Ada Reis -- ‘Th ou Would’st Not Do What I have Done’ -- ‘Sir Henry De Vaux’ -- ‘What I am – May’st Th ou Never Know’ -- ‘Remorse Feeds On My Heart In the Still Night’ -- ‘Sing Not For Others, But For Me’ -- ‘Weep for What Th ou Hast Lost, Love’ -- ‘Th e Kiss Th at’s On Th y Lip Impress’d [Duet]’ -- Additional Verses from Isaac Nathan’s Fugitive Pieces and -- ‘As the Flower Early Gathered, Whilst Fresh in Its Bloom’ -- ‘William Lamb’s Return From Paris, Asking Me My Wish’ -- ‘Aft er Many a Well Fought Day’ -- ‘Amidst the Flowers Rich and Gay’ -- ’To William Lamb’ -- ‘Would I had seen thee Dead and Cold’ -- ‘Let Th e Harp Be Mute For Ever’ -- ‘If a Dark Wretch E’er Stray’d’ -- ‘Little Birds in Yonder Grove’ -- ‘Lines to Harriet Wilson’ -- Verses Printed in the -- ‘To the Hon. William Lamb’ -- ‘To a Friend, on Sending a Fancy Drawing, Aft er Promising Her Picture in the Character of a Gypsey’ -- ‘Invocation to Sleep’ -- ‘Woman’s Love’ -- Editorial Notes -- Silent Corrections -- Textual Notes.