page 54.
Epigram. On a Miser who had built a Stately Mansion. 77
[_Of every pleasure is thy mansion void_]
The Invitation. [_Parry_, _of all my friends the best_] 78
The Rising of Achilles. [_Straightway Achilles arose_, 82
_the belov'd of Jove_, _round his shoulders_]
The Meeting of Odysses and Achilles. [_Tow'rds me came 85
the Shade of Peleidean Achilles_]
Hymn To Thetis and Neoptolemus. [_Of Thetis I sing with 90
her locks of gold-shine_]
The Grave of Demos. [_Thus old Demos spoke_, _as sinking 91
sought the sun the western wave_]
The Sorceries of Canidia. [_Father of Gods_, _who rul'st 92
the sky_]
The French Cavalier. [_The French cavalier shall have my 97
praise_]
Address To Sleep. [_Sweet death of sense_, _oblivion of 98
ill_]
The Moormen's March From Granada. [_Reduan_, _I but 101
lately heard_]
The Forsaken. [_Up I rose_, _O mother_, _early_] 103
Stanzas. From the Portuguese. [_A fool is he who in the 104
lap_]
My Eighteenth Year. [_Where is my eighteenth year_? _far 105
back_]
Song. From the Rommany. [_The strength of the ox_] 106
Another version of this _Song_, bearing the title "_Our
Heart is heavy_, _Brother_," is printed in _Marsk Stig's
Daughters and other Songs and Ballads_, 1913, pp. 17-18.
NOTE.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.
In 1892 _Targum_ was reprinted, together with _The Talisman_, by Messrs.
Jarrold & Sons, of Norwich, in an edition of 250 copies.
There is a copy of the First Edition of _Targum_ in the Library of the
British Museum. The Press-mark is C.57.i.6.
[Picture: Title page of Targum, 1835]
[Picture: Manuscript of The Miarkemal]
[Picture: Manuscript of The History of Taliesin]
(5) [THE TALISMAN: 1835]
The / Talisman. / From the Russian / of / Alexander Pushkin. / With other
Pieces. / St. Petersburg. / Printed by Schulz and Beneze, / 1835.
Collation:--Royal octavo, pp. 14; consisting of: Title-page, as above
(with a Russian quotation upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 1-2; and
Text of _The Talisman_ and other Poems pp. 3-14. There are no
head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in
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