Famille

EIDOLON, OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL, AND OTHER POEMS[: 'Alcesté', 'Pygmalion'; Miscellaneous Poems: 'Ode to Fancy', 'What is a sigh? ', 'Ione', 'Reality', 'Retrospection', 'The stormy Petrel', 'To --', 'The Mermaid', 'The Spirit of the Air', 'Why do I love Thee?', 'Lady Annabel', 'To Jenny Lind', 'The Gold Seekers', 'To Woman'(!), 'The Poet', 'Evening', 'Life', 'Sorrow'; Sonnets: I. ''Written at Ulleswater.'', II. ''There is a spell by which the panting soul. . .'', III. ''We wonder on through life as pilgrims do. . .'', IV. ''Sweet spirits of the Beautiful! where'er ye dwell,. . .'', V. ''We are ambitious overmuch in life, . . .'', VI. ''Mountains! and huge hills! wrap your mighty forms. . .'', VII. ''To Elia.'', VIII. ''I traverse oft in thought the battle-plain. . .'']. - CHARLES' PEELS COPY, INSCRIBED AND WITH WHOLEPAGE AUTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR and in a master-binding. . .

1850 · c2206270149xbvk — London, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850. 1 blank sheet; xii pages (incl. foretitle-sheet, title-sheet, printed dedication-sheet, 'Contents' and 'Introduction to Eidolon'), 240 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Richly gilt handbound green chagrin-leather binding over 5 raised bands with gilt title at spine (stamp-signed ''Bound by Hayday'' at inner frontpanel), all edges gilt, silken marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 11,5 cm).