PREFACE. GEBIR was written in my twentieth year. Many parts were first composed in Latin; and I doubted in which language to complete it. I had lost the manuscript: finding it four years after in a box of letters, I reduced it nearly to half, inserting a few verses in some places to give it its proportions. Count Julian is rather a dialogue than a drama, and never was offered to the stage. The Poems on the Dead occupy but little of the reader's time, and are placed here to gratify my feelings. There are many things in this volume of |