Chapter I: Front Matter

EIDOLON,
OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL;
AND OTHER POEMS,

BY WALTER R. CASSELS

LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1850

TO
CHARLES PEEL,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY
HIS FRIEND,

W. R. CASSELS.

CONTENTS.

Page
Eidolon 1
Alceste 93
Pygmalion 136

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Ode to Fancy 159
What is a sigh? 165
Ione 167
Reality 169
Retrospection 172
The Stormy Petrel 181
To ---- 183
The Mermaid 185
The Spirit of the Air 190
Why do I love thee? 195
Lady Annabel 196
To Jenny Lind 201
The Gold Seekers 204
To Woman 209
The Poet 212
Evening 224
Life 226
Sorrow 229

SONNETS.
I. Written at Ulleswater 233
II. "There is a spell by which the panting soul" 234
III. "We wander on through life as pilgrims do" 235
IV. "Sweet spirits of the Beautiful! where'er ye dwell," 236
V. "We are ambitious overmuch in life," 237
VI. "Mountains! and huge hills! wrap your mighty forms" 238
VII. To Ella 239
VIII. "I traverse oft in thought the battle-plain" 240