THE

REMAINS

OF

HENRY KIRKE WHITE,

OF NOTTINGHAM,

LATE OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS

LIFE,

BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. 1.

THE TENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED, FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

Not alone by the Muses,

But by the Virtues loved, his soul in its youthful aspirings
Sought the Holy Hill, and his thirst was for Siloa's waters.

Vision of Judgement.

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.

POEMS INSERTED IN THE LIFE.

On being confined to School one pleasant Morning in Spring; written

at the Age of Thirteen

ix

Extract from an Address to Contemplation; written at Fourteen....... xi

Lines, written in Wilford Church-Yard, on Recovery from Sickness.. xlv

Elegy, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Gill, who was drowned in the

River Trent

Extemporaneous Verses

"Yes, my stray Steps have wandered" ........

Hints, &c........

A Prayer..........

A Prayer....

Lines, and Note, by Lord Byron

...... 161

........... 261

Lines, by Professor Smyth, of Cambridge, on a Monument erected

by an American Gentleman, in All Saints' Church, Cambridge,

to the Memory of Henry Kirke White

........... 267

iv

CONTENTS.

POEMS WRITTEN BEFORE THE PUBLICATION

OF CLIFTON GROVE.

The pieces which originally appeared in the Supplementary Volume
are distinguished by an asterisk.

* The Fair Maid of Clifton - A Ballad in the old style............. 287

* Song "The Robin Red Breast".

Song "Sweet Jessy I fain would caress"...............

"Oh, that I were the fragrant Flower that kisses"..

Fragment of an Eccentric Drama......

* "In hollow Music, sighing through the glade"

On Rural Solitude...........

* "Thou Mongrel, who dost show thy teeth, and yelp" .....