The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905, 2-Volume Set

Volume Cover Volume 1 Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgements General Introduction Bibliography Introduction Chronology Note on the Text WILLIAM JONES A Hymn to Camdeo (1784) ELIZABETH RYVES The Hastiniad (1785) RALPH BROOME From The Letters of Simkin the Second (1791) Letter I Letter II Letter IV ‘TIMOTHY TOUCHSTONE, GENT.’ From Tea and Sugar, or the Nabob and the Creole (1792) The Nabob ANNA MARIA JONES From The Poems of Anna Maria (1793) Invocation to the Muse Sonnet to the Moon Ode inscribed to Della Crusca Adieu to India JOHN HORSFORD From A Collection of Poems Written in the East Indies (1797) The Prospect The Contrast Ode to Benares From Miscellaneous Poems Written in the East Indies (1800) The Art of Living in India AMELIA OPIE From Twelve Hindoo Airs (1800) Let not Sorrow Cloud thy Brow To the Chace Let’s Away From A Second Set of Hindoo Airs (1800) A Hindustàni Girl’s Song JOHN LEYDEN From English Minstrelsy (1810) Verses Written at the Island of Sagur Ode to an Indian Gold Coin From The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr John Leyden (1819) The Dirge of Tippoo Sultan JOHN LAWSON From The Maniac (1810) The Hindoo’s Complaint From Orient Harping: A Desultory Poem (1821) Jăgănnātha From Miscellaneous Poems (1826) The City of Palaces A Bengal Picture A River Scene Evening ‘W’ From India: A Poem in Four Cantos (1812) WILLIAM HENRY MAJENDIE From Calcutta: A Poem (1811) MARIA NUGENT From A Journal from the Year 1811 till the Year 1815 (1839) ‘The Hour is Past – Oh Hour of Woe!’ Lines, Suggested by a Visit to the Court of Lucnow, in 1812 Lines written on seeing the Taaje, at Agra Written at Hurdwar JOHN HOBART CAUNTER From The Cadet: A Poem, in Six Parts (1814) ‘QUIZ’ From The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan (1816) HENRY BARKLEY HENDERSON From The Goorkha, and other Poems (1817) A Suttee From The Decoit: A Fragment From Satires in India (1819) From Satire IV WRITERS OF THE CALCUTTA JOURNAL From The Calcutta Journal (1820) A Letter from Sir Anthony Fudge From Rinaldo, or the Incipient Judge: A Tale of Writers’ Buildings THOMAS MEDWIN From Oswald and Edwin: An Oriental Sketch From Sketches in Hindoostan, with Other Poems From The Pindarees THOMAS D'ARCY MORRIS From the Bombay Gazette (1820) From The Griffin From the Oriental Sporting Magazine (1831) The Midnight Boar Meet me when Daylight may Dawn GEORGE ANDERSON VETCH From Songs of the Exile (1820) The Suttee; or, Funeral Pile Words written for a Mahratta Air On Hearing a Lady Sing a Hindoo Song in Scotland From Poems: containing Sultry Hours and Songs of the Exile (1821) From Sultry Hours: Metrical Sketches of India THE AUTHOR OF SHIGRAM-PO From The Life and Adventures of Shigram-Po (1821) ‘Jack Kightly Came to Hindoostan’ From The Life and Adventures of James Lovewell (1829) JAMES ATKINSON From The City of Palaces: A Fragment, and Other Poems (1824) From The City of Palaces From The Bengal Annual (1836) Odes to a Punkah! DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON From Sonnets, and Other Poems (1825) Sonnet: Written on the Banks of the Ganges Sonnet An Indian Day Sonnet: Written in India From Sonnets, and Other Poems (1827) Sonnet: The Suttee From Literary Leaves (1840) Sonnet: Scene on the Ganges London, in the Morning View of Calcutta Sonnet: Evening, on the Banks of the Ganges From Literary Chit-Chat (1848) To Laha Pennoo: The God of War To Bera Pennoo: The Earth Goddess Lines to the Memory of David Hare HENRY MEREDITH PARKER From the Oriental Herald (1827) The Indian Day From The Draught of Immortality, and Other Poems (1827) The Prophecy of Timoor Pindarry War Song A Few Lines in Honor of the Late Mr. Simms From Bole Ponjis (1851) The Adjutant: A Bengal Eclogue Chateaux en Espagne Young India: A Bengal Eclogue REGINALD HEBER From Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India (1828) ‘If Thou Wert by My Side, My Love’ An Evening Walk in Bengal CATHERINE ELIZA RICHARDSON From Poems (1828) Song: Where Went My Sweet Ameerin? Fragment: To the Memory of P. C. S Kishen Kower: A Fragment Kishen Kower: Princess of Odeypoor CHARLES D'OYLY From Tom Raw, the Griffin (1828) JAMES YOUNG From The Bengal Annual (1830) The Mosquitos’ Song: A Calcutta Fragment EMMA ROBERTS From Oriental Scenes (1830) A Scene in the Doaab The Rajah’s Obsequies The Land Storm Stanzas From Oriental Scenes (1832) The Hindoo Girl An Evening Scene in Hindoostan Indian Graves Sunset at Agra AUGUSTUS PRINSEP From the Bengal Annual (1831) From The Dakoit: An Indian Sketch ‘CHESHUNT OWEN’ From the Calcutta Magazine (1831) Frederick and Flora ROBERT CALDER CAMPBELL From the Calcutta Magazine (1831) Sonnets – Beejapore From the Calcutta Literary Gazette (1832) Sonnets: Banks of the Gutpurba From the Orient Pearl (1834) Madras Mohurrim Song From the Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer (1839) Sonnet: Scene in the Valley Of Berar Camp Lyrics Sonnets amidst the Ruins of Beejapore The Cholera Editorial Notes Silent Corrections Volume 2 Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Introduction Chronology Note on the Text WILLIAM FRANCIS THOMPSON From India: A Poem (1834) From The Bengal Annual (1834–6) The Jogi’s Address to the Ganges Indian Revelry The Rajpoot’s Lament Song of the Hindoo Bandit From The City of the East, and Other Poems (1837) From The City of the East THE AUTHOR OF 'GRIFFE EPISTLES' From The Oriental Observer and Literary Chronicle (1837) Griffe Epistles: No. 8 From Griffe Epistles: No. 12 JAMES ROSS HUTCHINSON From The Sunyassee, an Eastern Tale, and Other Poems (1838) From The Sunyassee SAMUEL SLOPER From The Dacoit, and Other Poems (1840) From The Dacoit JAMES ABBOTT From The T’hakoorine: A Tale of Maandoo (1841) JAMES HENRY BURKE From Days in the East: A Poem (1842) WILLIAM BINGHAM From The Field of Ferozeshah (1848) Thoughts on a Tomb Juggernaut HENRY GEORGE KEENE From Blackwood’s Magazine (1852) The Gold-Finder From Ex Eremo: Poems Chiefly Written in India (1855) The Tomb of the Suttee Clive’s Dream before the Battle of Plassy From Peepul Leaves: Poems Written in India (1879) The Taj JOHN DUNBAR From Poems (1853) Sonnet – Famine From The Voyage – A Fragment Sonnet – Monghyr The Adjutant and the Crow Hog-Hunting, the Sport Par Excellence The Regeneration of India THOMAS SEYMOUR BURT From Poems (1853) From The Exile’s Return MARY CARSHORE From Songs of the East (1855) The Jumna’s Victim, or the Minstrel’s Dream The Beara Festival Rock of Jungeera MARY JOHNSON JOURDAN From Mind’s Mirror: Poetical Sketches (1856) The Hindu Widower The Pindärry to his Steed The Charun’s Curse Chant of the Phansygar Song of the Mahratta Saces ELLA HAGGARD From Myra: or, The Rose of the East (1857) MARY ELIZA LESLIE From Sorrows, Aspirations and Legends from India (1858) Sorrows and Aspirations ‘D. M.’ From Scenes from the Late Indian Mutinies (1858) The Soldier’s Death JAMES INNES MINCHIN From Ex Oriente: Sonnets on the Indian Rebellion (1858) LIONEL JAMES TROTTER From East and West; and Other Poems (1859) A Rainy Day at Maulmain The Year of Woe Righteous Vengeance for Innocent Blood CHARLES ARTHUR KELLY From Delhi and Other Poems (1864) From Delhi From Delhi and Other Poems (1872) Cawnpore Henry Lawrence Clive Benares WILLIAM HENRY ABBOTT, JR From Lyrics and Lays (1867) The Chee-Chee Ball The Boxwallah, or the Eastern Knight of Toggenburg The Bengalee ‘Boy Jones’ The Song Of Death WILLIAM WATERFIELD From Indian Ballads, and Other Poems (1868) The Song of Kālindī The Pilgrim’s Return from Haridwāra To the Kalkī Tree On the Christening of an Infant in India ROBERT CALDWELL From The Chutney Lyrics (1871) Sir R–ch–rd T–mpl–’s Ghost The Jollipore Ball Captain Brown of the Police GEORGE AUGUSTINE STACK From The Songs of Ind (1872) Lament of Jaffir Mahomed, Pedlar The Prizes, and the Dispossessed Zemindar The Secret Punchayet WALTER YELDHAM From Lays of Ind (1873) To a Griffin Arabella Green, or the Mercenary Spin From Lays of Ind (1879) Cardozo, the Half-Caste EDWIN ARNOLD From Indian Poetry (1881) The Rajpoot Wife From Lotus and Jewel (1887) The Snake and the Baby ALFRED COMYN LYALL From Verses Written in India (1882) The Old Pindaree Meditations of a Hindu, Prince and Sceptic From Verses Written in India (c. 1885) Retrospection WILLIAM TREGO WEBB From Indian Lyrics (1884) The Bearer The Ayah The Zemindar The Ryot The Bengali Babu The European Loafer Slaughter Ghaut, Cawnpore The Nautch Girl THOMAS FRANK BIGNOLD From Leviora (1888) The Successful Competitor: No. I Our Peers GEORGE HERBERT TREVOR From Rhymes of Rajputana (1894) Dixon Sahib The Suttee of Gorah’s Wife Famine in Rajputana ‘RAM BUX’ From Boojum Ballads (1895) Young India [‘There was a young man of Bengal’] The Bounding Babu: or, Young Bengal Young India Sati in 1887 ALEC MCMILLAN From Divers Ditties: Chiefly Written in India (1895) Anundorum Borooah Address to the Wallahs of 1869 Song of the Ancient Spin JOHN RENTON DENNING From Solderin’: A Few Military Ballads (1899) Enteric At the Front ‘S.’ From C. P. Pieces and other Verse (1899) The Famine Relief Officer (I) The Famine Relief Officer (II) The Thug’s Prayer Nicholson’s Grave The Kutub Minar Lachhmi Bai ADELA FLORENCE ('VIOLET') NICOLSON From The Garden of Kama and other Love Lyrics from India (1901) Story of Udaipore: Told by Lalla-ji, the Priest Famine Song The Garden of Kama: Kama the Indian Eros Lalila, to the Ferengi Lover Malaria This Month the Almonds Bloom at Kandahar From Stars of the Desert (1903) Lalla Radha and the Churel Trees of Wharncliffe House The Jungle Fear From Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love (1905) Lallji, my Desire ALICE MACDONALD KIPLING AND ALICE ('TRIX') MACDONALD From Hand in Hand: Verses by a Mother and Daughter (1902) At the Dawn Summer in the Indian Plains In Captivity Mine Enemy In Camp The Strength of the Hills When He Left Simla Where Hugli Flows Rose Aylmer’s Grave Editorial Notes Silent Corrections Index of First Lines This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century. Anglo-Indian,poetry,-,18th,century;,Anglo-Indian,poetry,-,19th,century;,India,-,Poetry;,Poésie,anglo-indienne,-,18e,siècle;,Poésie,anglo-indienne,-,19e,siècle;,Anglo-Indian,poetry;,India Anglo-Indian poetry - 18th century,Anglo-Indian poetry - 19th century,India - Poetry,Poésie anglo-indienne - 18e siècle,Poésie anglo-indienne - 19e siècle,Anglo-Indian poetry,India V.1. 1780-1833 -- V.2. 1834-1905. Editor, Máire Ní Fhlathúin Includes Bibliographical References And Index.