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Romantic

Reginald Heber

1783–1826

Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was an English Anglican bishop of Calcutta, a man of letters and a hymn-writer.

The poems here are taken from Alfred H. Miles (ed.), The Poets and the Poetry of the Century (London: Hutchinson, 1891–1897), vol. 10, from the Internet Archive scans of that edition. Spelling is that of the anthology; Miles's biographical essay and extracts from longer poems are omitted, and only poems that could be read cleanly from the scan are included. Further poems come from The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, D.D. (London and New York: Frederick Warne, The Lansdowne Poets).

Major Works (3)

  1. Europe — Narrative poem, 1809
  2. Palestine — Prize poem, 1803
  3. The Passage of the Red Sea — Narrative poem

Poems (103)

  1. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
  2. By cool Siloam's shady rill
  3. The Lord of Might, from Sinai's brow
  4. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
  5. From Greenland's icy mountains
  6. Sympathy
  7. Advent Sunday
  8. Second Sunday in Advent, No. 1
  9. Second Sunday in Advent, No. 2
  10. Third Sunday in Advent
  11. Fourth Sunday in Advent
  12. Christmas Day
  13. St. Stephen's Day
  14. St. John the Evangelist's Day
  15. Innocents' Day
  16. First Sunday after Epiphany, No. 1
  17. Second Sunday after Epiphany, No. 1
  18. Second Sunday after Epiphany, No. 2
  19. Second Sunday after Epiphany, No. 3
  20. Third Sunday after Epiphany
  21. Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, No. 1
  22. Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, No. 2
  23. Septuagesima Sunday
  24. Sexagesima Sunday
  25. Quinquagesima
  26. Third Sunday in Lent
  27. Fourth Sunday in Lent
  28. Fifth Sunday in Lent
  29. Good Friday
  30. Easter Day
  31. Fifth Sunday after Easter
  32. Ascension Day and Sunday After
  33. Whitsunday
  34. First Sunday after Trinity, No. 1
  35. First Sunday after Trinity, No. 2
  36. Second Sunday after Trinity
  37. Third Sunday after Trinity
  38. Fourth Sunday after Trinity
  39. Fifth Sunday after Trinity
  40. Seventh Sunday after Trinity
  41. Tenth Sunday after Trinity
  42. Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
  43. Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
  44. Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
  45. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
  46. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
  47. Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity
  48. Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
  49. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity
  50. For St. James's Day
  51. Michaelmas Day
  52. In Times of Distress and Danger
  53. Before the Sacrament
  54. Evening Hymn
  55. At a Funeral (Beneath our feet and o'er our head)
  56. An Introit, to Be Sung between the Litany and Communion Service
  57. On Recovery from Sickness
  58. At a Funeral (Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee)
  59. The Prophecy of Ishmael
  60. Fragment on Alchemy
  61. Imitation of a Song
  62. Honour Its Own Reward
  63. Translation of a Fragment of a Danish Song
  64. To Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, K.B.
  65. Lines Spoken in the Theatre, Oxford, on Lord Grenville's Installation as Chancellor
  66. Epitaph on a Young Naval Officer
  67. Translation of an Inscription on a Monument in Norway
  68. Versification of the Speech of Geoorgin to Beyun
  69. From the Moallakah of Hareth
  70. A Fragment
  71. Translation of an Ode of Klopstock's
  72. Song to a Scotch Air
  73. The Rising of the Sun
  74. Song to a Welsh Air (The moon in silent brightness)
  75. Inscription Proposed for the Vase Presented to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
  76. Timour's Councils
  77. The Spring Journey
  78. Man's Pilgrimage
  79. Song to a Welsh Air (I mourn not the forest)
  80. Carol for May-Day
  81. On Heavenly and Earthly Hope
  82. To —— (When I was sick)
  83. Bow-Meeting Song (Merry archers, come with me)
  84. Parody of Liston's "Beautiful Maid"
  85. Farewell
  86. The Outward-Bound Ship
  87. Bow-Meeting Song (Ye spirits of our fathers)
  88. To a Welsh Air. "Codiad yr Hydod."
  89. Ballad
  90. To Chauncey Hare Townshend, on His Lines Praising the Tranquillity of a River, While the Sea Was Heard on the Neighbouring Shore
  91. The Ground Swell
  92. Bow-Meeting Song (By yon castle wall)
  93. On Crossing the Range of High Land between Stone and Market Drayton, January 4th, 1820
  94. Happiness
  95. The Well of Oblivion
  96. The Oracle
  97. Translated from the German
  98. Lines Written to a March Composed in Imitation of a Military Band
  99. Bow-Meeting Song (We find it well observed)
  100. Imitation of an Ode by Koodrut
  101. Translation of a Sonnet
  102. Lines Addressed to Mrs. Heber
  103. An Evening Walk in Bengal

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