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Poems

By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston

Quillinan, Edward (1791-1851)

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WILD-FLOWERS OF WESTMORELAND.

A FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD.

THE HELIOTROPE AND THE SNOWDROP.

THE NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK.

THE BIRCH OF SILVER-HOW.

CHESNUT TREES NEAR BRAGA.

THE CANARY GOLDFINCH.

WANSFELL.

RYDAL-BECK, WESTMORELAND.

DALEGARTH FORCE.

A SEA LYRIC.

A MOST RICH AND PERFECTLY DEFINED RAINBOW ON THE OCEAN.

A PARTING BENISON TO THE MEDEA STEAMSHIP.

CLOUDS.

ON A PORTRAIT BY COMERFORD.

THE MAGDALEN.

“WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN WICKLOW?”

[SONNETS.]

TO C. S. H.

EMMA.

THE AMERICAN SHIP PAULINA.

II.

II.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. I.

II.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. II.

III.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. III.

IV.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. IV.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. II.

III.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. III.

FIELD-FOOT. I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT. II.

CAVE OF MEDITATION, FIELD-FOOT.

TO ANGUS FLETCHER.

SUSPIRIA.

I. WORDSWORTH'S HOME.

II.

II. HER HOME.

III. “JESUS WEPT.” (St. John xi. 35.)

TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.

LINES TO MRS. DUNLOP, FOR ROTHA.

TO MISS ------.

TO MARY, DANCING.

MAY LUTTRELL.

TO A LADY OF SUPERCILIOUS AIR.

WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH MAY SOUTHEY, WHO FORBADE COMPLIMENT.

IN A LADY'S ALBUM.

IN AN ALBUM.

IN THE ALBUM OF MARGARET ---

IN AN ALBUM

SONG.—AMBLESIDE VALE.

SONG ALTERED FROM MOORE.

LOW WOOD, WINANDERMERE.

MELANCHOLY.

NEPTUNE AND MEDUSA.

STANZAS. IN ALLUSION TO SOME WORLDLY ADVICE IN CLEVER VERSE BY A LADY TO HER YOUNGER FRIEND, THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN:—

TENSES.

THE TWO RINGS.

“HIC JACET MALLEUS SCOTORUM.”

ADDRESS TO A PONY.

ON THE REPORTED VISIT OF QUEEN ADELAIDE TO WORDSWORTH.

MORALS FROM THE STARS.

THE SPELL.

INTERIOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, AS SEEN BY MOONLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841.

VERY UNFINISHED VERSES SUGGESTED BY THE SERRA OF GERÉS.

“N'EVEILLEZ PAS LE CHAT QUI DORT.”

THE ROSE-WREATHED HOUR-GLASS.

THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTERS.

THE LEGEND OF SAINT MEINRAD.

VAL DE LUZ.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOOR OF GRANADA AND HIS SPANISH PRISONER.

ZELINDA.

THE DUKE OF ALBA.

THE GROVES OF ENTRE QUINTAS.

EPITAPH ON COLONEL GEORGE HOLMES, C.B.

EPITAPH ON J. K. E. HOLMES.

FUNERAL OF ROBERT SOUTHEY.

ELEGY ON G. M. B.

ELEGY ON E. W. G. B.

SHORT POEMS

II.

II. Near Lauffenberg.

III.

III. Near Schaffhausen.

IV.

IV. SOCIETY. BERNE.

V. SCHWYTZ.

VI.

VI. THE LAKE OF LAUWERTZ.

VII.

VII. BERNE.

VIII.

VIII. LAUSANNE.

ELEGY ON THE SAME, WRITTEN TWELVE YEARS LATER.

ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED AT TORQUAY, FEB. 2, 1833.

TO THE CITY OF FLORENCE.

LINES COMPOSED IN THE ENGLISH BURIAL-GROUND AT OPORTO.

DIALOGUE WITH THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF A FRIEND'S CHILD.

A DREAM OF DEATH AT SEA.

STANZAS.

ALONE.

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VIII. LAUSANNE.

Time slowly knits the strongest ties,
No ardent heat at first I felt;
But slowly did her tender eyes
To love the snow of friendship melt.

I play'd no wild enthusiast's part;
Her outward beauty scarce address'd;
She charm'd me by the noble heart
That beat beneath her modest breast.

In after years of wedded life
Her virtues taught me all their claim;
'Twas not the mistress, but the wife
Of whom the lover I became.

Yet—shall remorse the truth avow?
Her form is now but mouldering earth;
And now, alas! and only now,
I know Jemima's utmost worth.

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So when the sacred light of Heaven
Has first illumined infant eyes,
The child enjoys the blessing given,
Unconscious how divine a prize.

As reason wins by slow degrees
Dominion o'er the ductile mind,
Delighted more the more he sees,
He blesses God he is not blind.

But, if the curse of blindness seals
His orbs, and blots the world from sight,
O then the victim fully feels
The value of the blessed light.