The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed. [selected]SONGS FROM THE TROUBADOUR.[5]Reading editionChapter navigation97 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…THE POEMS OF Winthrop Mackworth Praed.Introductory Notice.THE RED FISHERMAN; OR, THE DEVIL’S DECOY. (1827.)THE LEGEND OF THE DRACHENFELS.L’Envoi. To the Countess Von C——, Bonn.THE LEGEND OF THE TEUFEL-HAUS.THE LEGEND OF THE HAUNTED TREE.THE BRIDAL OF BELMONT. A LEGEND OF THE RHINE.CHIVALRY AT A DISCOUNT.THE CONJURER. “Marry come up! I can see as far into a wall as another!”COUSINS. “L’Hymen, dit-on, craint les petits Cousins.”—Scribe.BAGATELLES!THERE’S NOTHING NEW BENEATH THE SUN. (The Brazen Head.)PEACE BE THINE.THE CONFESSION OF DON CARLOS.[1] (Imitated from the Spanish.)MARRIAGE.THE BACHELOR.[2] T. QUINCE, ESQ., TO THE REV. MATTHEW PRINGLE.HOW TO RHYME FOR LOVE.SURLY HALL.MY FIRST FOLLY. (Stanzas written at Midnight.)SONGS FROM THE TROUBADOUR.[5]I. (FROM CANTO I.)III. (FROM CANTO II.)V. (FROM CANTO III.)THE SEPARATION.AN INVITATION.A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY A COLLEGE TUTOR, AT A SUPPER PARTY, JULY 1ST, 1825.GOOD NIGHT.HOBBLEDEHOYS.A CLASSICAL WALK.STANZAS.BECAUSE!SONG TO A SERENADER IN FEBRUARY. Air—“Why hast thou taught me to love thee?”THE CHILDE’S DESTINY.THE MODERN NECTAR.AN EPITAPH On the late King of the Sandwich Islands. 1825.THE CHAUNT OF THE BRAZEN HEAD.MY OWN FUNERAL. (From Beranger.)L’INCONNUE.SONG. (From Lidean’s Love.)JOSEPHINE.SONG FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY. By a General Lover. “Mille gravem telis, exhaustâ pene pharetrâ.”PALINODIA.TIME’S SONG.THE HOOPOE’S INVOCATION TO THE NIGHTINGALE. (From the Birds of Aristophanes, 1. 209.)GOOD NIGHT TO THE SEASON. “So runs the world away.”—Hamlet.SONG.—YES OR NO.UTOPIA.MARRIAGE CHIMES.REMEMBER ME.THE FANCY BALL.A LETTER OF ADVICE. (From Miss Medora Trevilian, at Padua, to Miss Araminta Vavasour, in London.)EVERY-DAY CHARACTERS.APRIL FOOLS.SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS. FLOREAT ETONA.ARRIVALS AT A WATERING-PLACE.TWENTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINE.LETTERS FROM TEIGNMOUTH.SONG.CONFESSIONS. From the Manuscript of a Sexagenarian.SONG.[9] LORD ROLAND.CHILDHOOD AND HIS VISITORS.LOVE AT A ROUT.BEAUTY AND HER VISITORS.THE FORSAKEN.SECOND LOVE.HOPE AND LOVE.STANZAS.CASSANDRA.SIR NICHOLAS AT MARSTON MOOR.THE COVENANTER’S LAMENT FOR BOTHWELL BRIDGE.WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE.ANTICIPATION.MARS DISARMED BY LOVE. (1830.)WATERLOO.THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS.SONG.—WHERE IS MISS MYRTLE? Air—“Sweet Kitty Clover.”THE CONFESSION.STANZAS WRITTEN IN LADY MYRTLE’S “BOCCACCIO.”A BALLAD TEACHING HOW POETRY IS BEST PAID FOR. “Non voglio cento scudi.”—Italian Song.OLD WINE.THE TALENTED MAN. A LETTER FROM A LADY IN LONDON TO A LADY AT LAUSANNE.PLUS DE POLITIQUE. (1832.)TALES OUT OF SCHOOL. A DROPPED LETTER FROM A LADY.STANZAS TO THE SPEAKER ASLEEP. (1833.)LATIN HYMN TO THE VIRGIN.THE NEWLY-WEDDED. (1835.)SKETCH OF A YOUNG LADY FIVE MONTHS OLD. (October 10, 1836.)TO HELEN. (July 7th, 1836.)TO HELEN. (WITH A SMALL CANDLESTICK, A BIRTHDAY PRESENT.) February 12th, 1838.TO HELEN. (July 7th, 1839.)GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. (1839.)CHARADES.The Canterbury Poets.The Camelot Classics.The Camelot Classics.The Canterbury Poets.Previous chapter ←MY FIRST FOLLY. (Stanzas written at Midnight.)Next chapter →I. (FROM CANTO I.)All chapters and sections (97)Other sectionsTHE POEMS OF Winthrop Mackworth Praed.Introductory Notice.THE RED FISHERMAN; OR, THE DEVIL’S DECOY. (1827.)THE LEGEND OF THE DRACHENFELS.L’Envoi. To the Countess Von C——, Bonn.THE LEGEND OF THE TEUFEL-HAUS.THE LEGEND OF THE HAUNTED TREE.THE BRIDAL OF BELMONT. A LEGEND OF THE RHINE.CHIVALRY AT A DISCOUNT.THE CONJURER. “Marry come up! I can see as far into a wall as another!”COUSINS. “L’Hymen, dit-on, craint les petits Cousins.”—Scribe.BAGATELLES!THERE’S NOTHING NEW BENEATH THE SUN. (The Brazen Head.)PEACE BE THINE.THE CONFESSION OF DON CARLOS.[1] (Imitated from the Spanish.)MARRIAGE.THE BACHELOR.[2] T. QUINCE, ESQ., TO THE REV. MATTHEW PRINGLE.HOW TO RHYME FOR LOVE.SURLY HALL.MY FIRST FOLLY. (Stanzas written at Midnight.)SONGS FROM THE TROUBADOUR.[5]Sections123Other sectionsTHE SEPARATION.AN INVITATION.A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY A COLLEGE TUTOR, AT A SUPPER PARTY, JULY 1ST, 1825.GOOD NIGHT.HOBBLEDEHOYS.A CLASSICAL WALK.STANZAS.BECAUSE!SONG TO A SERENADER IN FEBRUARY. Air—“Why hast thou taught me to love thee?”THE CHILDE’S DESTINY.THE MODERN NECTAR.AN EPITAPH On the late King of the Sandwich Islands. 1825.THE CHAUNT OF THE BRAZEN HEAD.MY OWN FUNERAL. (From Beranger.)L’INCONNUE.SONG. (From Lidean’s Love.)JOSEPHINE.SONG FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY. By a General Lover. “Mille gravem telis, exhaustâ pene pharetrâ.”PALINODIA.TIME’S SONG.THE HOOPOE’S INVOCATION TO THE NIGHTINGALE. (From the Birds of Aristophanes, 1. 209.)GOOD NIGHT TO THE SEASON. “So runs the world away.”—Hamlet.SONG.—YES OR NO.UTOPIA.MARRIAGE CHIMES.REMEMBER ME.THE FANCY BALL.A LETTER OF ADVICE. (From Miss Medora Trevilian, at Padua, to Miss Araminta Vavasour, in London.)EVERY-DAY CHARACTERS.APRIL FOOLS.SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS. FLOREAT ETONA.ARRIVALS AT A WATERING-PLACE.TWENTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINE.LETTERS FROM TEIGNMOUTH.SONG.CONFESSIONS. From the Manuscript of a Sexagenarian.SONG.[9] LORD ROLAND.CHILDHOOD AND HIS VISITORS.LOVE AT A ROUT.BEAUTY AND HER VISITORS.THE FORSAKEN.SECOND LOVE.HOPE AND LOVE.STANZAS.CASSANDRA.SIR NICHOLAS AT MARSTON MOOR.THE COVENANTER’S LAMENT FOR BOTHWELL BRIDGE.WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE.ANTICIPATION.MARS DISARMED BY LOVE. (1830.)WATERLOO.THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS.SONG.—WHERE IS MISS MYRTLE? Air—“Sweet Kitty Clover.”THE CONFESSION.STANZAS WRITTEN IN LADY MYRTLE’S “BOCCACCIO.”A BALLAD TEACHING HOW POETRY IS BEST PAID FOR. “Non voglio cento scudi.”—Italian Song.OLD WINE.THE TALENTED MAN. A LETTER FROM A LADY IN LONDON TO A LADY AT LAUSANNE.PLUS DE POLITIQUE. (1832.)TALES OUT OF SCHOOL. A DROPPED LETTER FROM A LADY.STANZAS TO THE SPEAKER ASLEEP. (1833.)LATIN HYMN TO THE VIRGIN.THE NEWLY-WEDDED. (1835.)SKETCH OF A YOUNG LADY FIVE MONTHS OLD. (October 10, 1836.)TO HELEN. (July 7th, 1836.)TO HELEN. (WITH A SMALL CANDLESTICK, A BIRTHDAY PRESENT.) February 12th, 1838.TO HELEN. (July 7th, 1839.)GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. (1839.)CHARADES.The Canterbury Poets.The Camelot Classics.The Camelot Classics.The Canterbury Poets.SONGS FROM THE TROUBADOUR.[5]Notes in this chapterNote 1 · First published in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine.← MY FIRST FOLLY. (Stanzas written at Midnight.)I. (FROM CANTO I.) →