The Daughters of King Daher: A Story of the Mohammedan Invasion of Scinde and Other Poems

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The

Daughters of King Daher, and Other Poems.

The

DAUGHTERS OF KING DAHER. A Story

of the

Mohammedan

Invajion

of Scinde.

BY THOMAS HOOD.

L ondon

:

SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO., 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE, W. 1861.

F

Shoberl, Printer, 37,

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Street, Sobo.

700 H-T7 QCLMs

IVbl

TO

MRS.

MY

HALL.

C.

S.

DEAR MRS. HALL, If you will not allow that a recolledtion of your

friendfhip, dated as far fufficient I

back

reafon for

muft afk you

to

my let me

can remember,

as I

infcribing this

do

fo,

book

is

a

to you,

on the ground that

in

January, 1853 vou i n fe f ted in Sharpens Magazine the firft

poem of mine which

thus introduced

been

fo

me

ever appeared in print

to the public

who

and

have ever fmce

kindly difpofed to me.

Believe me,

My

dear Mrs. Hall,

Yours very

truly,

TOM

928

HOOD.

Preftace. The Jlory upon which the following poem

I

papers

to

which I have had no caufe

At

period.

this diftance

of time I

to

am

from what fource I obtained them^ but I

down

the plot

ftruck with

from a

its

founded

of brief memoranda among

the Jhape

difcovered in

is

note in

adaptability

to

an

refer for

unable

feme

to

fay

believe

I jotted

old review

being

verfe. to

a

metrical chronicle or the writings of a native poet^ but

I

It

is

pojffible

that the note in queftion related

have not met with either

;

attempted before in Englijh

The minor poems at mijjion

from

millan's

nor has the fubjeft ever been to

my

knowledge.

the end are republijhed by per-

the St. James' s^ the Cornhill^

and Mac-

Magazines.

THOMAS HOOD.

Brompton^ September , 1861.

Contents.

THE DAUGHTERS

OF

Praecentoria

The

Story.

Termanatus

KING DAHER. .

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57

MINOR POEMS.

The Song

Home

A

at

of the Lark in the City

Laft

Shell

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.61 .65

Lines on the Death of Catherine (Hayes) Bufhnell

To

Goldenhair

The

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Loft Expedition

Spring

.

.

-74 -77 79

.81

Prcecentoria. fome chance

S

traveller,

journeying through

the wilds

Of ancient

lands

whofe exploits

page

Of bygone

now

hiftory

defolate

And

haunted by the bittern in the day,

And

nightly by the owl and flitting wolf,

Finds a rare jewel lying

Mayhap

Of Antony's Of Caefar's

in the

burning breath

love-whifpers

ring

That looped

or the ftone

the brilliant in the pin

the cloak of Alcibiades,

taught the ftole of Lais

The

:

the drop that trembled at the ear

Of Cleopatra

Or

in the grafs

how

to

fhow

gleaming ankle and the {lender

foot.

fill

the

Pr