The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White with a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas

By White, Henry Kirk

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Title:	The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White with a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
Author:	White, Henry Kirk
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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It has been said that the contrasts of light and shade are as necessary to biography as to painting, and that the character which is radiant with genius and virtue requires to be relieved by more common and opposite qualities. Though this may be true as a principle, there are many exceptions; and the life of Henry Kirke White, whose merits were unalloyed by a single vice, is one of the most memorable. The history of his short and melancholy career, by Mr. Southey, is extremely popular; and when it is remembered that its author is one of the most distinguished of living writers, that as a biographer he is unrivaled, and that he had access to all the materials which exist, it would be as vain to expect from the present Memoir any new facts, as it would be absurd to hope that it will be more worthy of attention than the imperishable monument which his generous friend has erected to his memory.

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CONTENTS. Memoir of Henry Kirke White MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Clifton Grove Time Childhood; Part I Part II The Christiad Lines written on a Survey of the Heavens Lines supposed to be spoken by a Lover at the Grave of his Mistress My Study Description of a Summer's Eve Lines--Go to the raging sea, and say, 'Be still!' Written in the Prospect of Death Verses--When pride and envy, and the scorn Fragment--Oh! thou most fatal of Pandora's train Loud rage the winds without.--The wintry cloud To a Friend in Distress Christmas Day Nelsoni Mors Epigram on Robert Bloomfield Elegy occasioned by the Death of Mr. Gill, who was drowned in the River Trent, while bathing Inscription for a Monument to the Memory of Cowper