The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems by Washington Allston
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Sonnet on the Luxembourg Gallery
Sonnet to my venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy The Mad Lover at the Grave of his Mistress First Love: a Ballad The Complaint Will, the Maniac: a Ballad The Sylphs of the Seasons; _A Poet's Dream._ Prefatory Note to The Sylphs of the Seasons. As it may be objected to the following Poem, that some of the images there introduced are not wholly peculiar to the Season described, the Author begs leave to state, that, both in their selection and disposition, he was guided by that, which, in his limited experience, was found to be the Season of their greatest impression: and, though he has not always felt the necessity of pointing out the collateral causes by which the effect was increased, he yet flatters himself that, in general, they are sufficiently implied either by what follows or precedes them. Thus, for instance, the _running brook_, though by no means peculiar, is |
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