Includes bibliographical references (pages [611]-620) and indexes.
Introduction: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 -- Works -- The Statue of the Dying Gladiator -- The Domestic Affections -- Epitaph on Mr. W - , a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16) -- The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816) -- Modern Greece, A Poem (1817) -- The Widow of Crescentius -- The Abencerrage -- The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra -- Alaric in Italy -- The Wife of Asdrubal -- Heliodorus in the Temple -- Night-Scene in Genoa -- The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion -- The Death of Conradin -- Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821) -- Elysium -- The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem -- Songs of the Cid -- England's Dead -- The Suliote Mother -- The Treasures of the Deep -- Bring Flowers -- The Sound of the Sea -- Arabella Stuart -- The Bride of the Greek Isle -- The Switzer's Wife -- Properzia Rossi -- Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death -- Imelda -- Edith, a Tale of the Woods -- The Indian City -- The Peasant Girl of the Rhone -- Indian Woman's Death-Song -- Joan of Arc, in Rheims -- Pauline -- Juana -- The American Forest-Girl -- Costanza -- Madeline, a Domestic Tale -- The Queen of Prussia's Tomb -- The Memorial Pillar -- The Grave of a poetess -- The Homes of England -- The Sicilian Captive -- The Lady of the Castle -- Tasso and his Sister -- To Wordsworth -- The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England -- The Palm-Tree -- The Illuminated City -- The Spells of Home -- The Graves of a Household -- The Image in Lava -- A Parting Song -- The Traveller at the Source of the Nile -- Casabianca -- Our Daily Paths -- The Lost Pleiad -- The Dying Improvisatore -- Evening Prayer at a Girls' School -- The Cliffs of Dover -- Night-Blowing Flowers -- The Broken Chain -- Woman and Fame -- The Mirror in the Deserted hall -- A Spirit's Return -- The Two Homes -- The Land of Dreams -- Woman on the Field of Battle -- Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray -- The Deserted House -- Corinne at the Capitol -- The Diver -- The Last Song of Sappho -- To My Own Portrait -- The Lyre and Flower -- Design and Performance -- Sabbath Sonnet -- Letters -- To her aunt, 19 December 1808 -- To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811 -- Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812 -- To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812 -- To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813 -- To John Murray, 26 February 1817 -- To John Murray, November 1817 -- To James Simpson, 22 October 1819 -- To B. P. Wagner, November 1819 -- To Harriett Browne, October 1820 -- To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821 -- To ?, 1822 -- To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822 -- To William Jacob, 1 May 1823 -- To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823 -- To Miss?, 15 May 1823 -- To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823 -- To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826 -- To an old friend, January 1827 -- To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827 -- To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827 -- To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828 -- To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828 -- To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828 -- To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828 -- To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828 -- To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828 -- To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828 -- To a friend, early 1829 -- To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830 -- To ?, 22 June 1830 -- To John Lodge, 24 June 1830 -- To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830 -- To ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830 -- To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830 -- To "Mr. - ," 2 July 1830 -- To Thomas Cadell, 5 July ?1830 -- To ?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830 -- To ?H. F. Chorley's sister, mid-July 1830 -- To John Lodge, 20 July 1830 -- To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830 -- To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830 -- To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831 -- To ?, after 12 February 1831 -- To John Lodge, July 1831 -- To Clara Graves, July 1831 -- To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831 -- William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831 -- To ?Harriett Hughes, May 1832 -- To ?H. F. Chorley, August 1832 -- To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833 -- To Wordsworth, before April 1834 -- To?, 28 June 1834 -- To a friend, ?28 June 1834 -- To a friend, early July 1834 -- To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834 -- To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835 -- To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835 -- Reception -- Lifetime -- Death -- Nineteenth-Century Retrospects