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

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Volume 1
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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
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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