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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (1804-1891)

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ON THE BOWMEETING AND FANCY FAIR

THE PAPER KNIFE.

ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE.

ON PRESENTING A MIRROR

THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL

CHIMONANTHUS FRAGRANS.

THE SCATTERED ROSE.

MODERN CHIVALRY.

THE BOAR AND THE SINGINGBIRD.

THE SQUIRE OF DAMES; OR, A TOUR IN SPAIN.

THE SPANISH BARBER.

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ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOK-SHELF Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen.

CARVING AND GILDING.

A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS.

A NEW DENOMINATION.

ON A NEW CHURCH, ERECTED A.D. 1842.

ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT.

ON SEEING SOME NAMES CUT ON A PANE OF GLASS.

EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY.

APPROPRIATE NAMES.

A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

STRIKING BEAUTY.

A BOTTLE OF THE OLD.

A SCENE IN THE HIGHLANDS.

JONES ENLIGHTENED.

SO MUCH FOR SENTIMENT.

[Of old, when the church-building coffer was full]

A LAWYER'S BILL.

PROCRASTINATION.

A PROMISE TO PAY.

CAUTION AND ECONOMY.

THE LITTLE I DRINK.

PADDY'S REMONSTRANCE.

TWO OF A TRADE.

MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL.—1864.

SPIRIT-TAPPING.

HIS LORDSHIP'S INVITATION.

LENGTH AND DEPTH.

ON THE FIGURE OF A NEGRO SUPPORTING A DIAL.

ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY.

CROSS-QUESTIONING.

THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER.

[Stone ox! if we were hungry you would satisfy but little us]

RAILWAY DIALOGUE.

ARGUMENT OF A DISSENTER

THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES.

FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876.

FROM THE ITALIAN.

TO A STATUE OF CUPID BEARING A BOW AND QUIVER.

ON AN ILL-NATURED PARASITE.

[Through life the poor dolt who lies buried below]

[A martyr to verse, writing rhymes without number]

[The Duke lieth here; and in sorrow I bend]

[To paint some charms, as poets feign]

ON AN ILL-NATURED BEAUTY.

[Not prettier hands the Queen of Beauty grace]

[Licander in life has one object alone—]

[“Why were prudence and valour to women denied?”]

[“Love! beauteous boy!” Aminta cries]

FROM THE FRENCH.

THE WATERLESS BRIDGE.

CURE FOR TOOTHACHE.

ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE,

THE BARBER ABROAD.

THE LEY OF THE LANDLORD.

THE MAID OF THE INN.

PAST AND PRESENT.

SONNET BY A SAXON.

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“IL SONNETTO.”

I.

I. ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE.

III.

III. THE CHAPEL BELL.

IV.

IV. ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A Village School.

V.

V. ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON.

VI.

VI. NAPLES AT SUNSET.

VII.

VII. ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR Lausanne, now used as a Stable.

VIII.

VIII. ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.

IX.

IX. ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION

X.

X. ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH of Gruyère in Switzerland.

XI.

XI. ON THE RIVER TEPL,

XII.

XII. ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, Carlsbad.

XIII.

XIII. THE LILY.

XXIV.

XXIV. IL GELOSO.

XV.

XV. THE TWO ROSES.

XVI.

XVI. ADDRESSED TO A LADY

XVII.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM.

XIX.

XIX. THE PENITENT.

XX.

XX. ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID.

XXI.

XXI. ON THE LOSS OF THE “AVENGER.” 1847.

XXII.

XXII.ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE.

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V. ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON.

O'er the bleak pass huge Alps their shadows throw,
With lingering steps I climb the mountain way,
While, lessening to their view, mine eyes survey
With fond regret the sunlit vale below;—
There, 'neath Italian skies ripe vineyards glow,
Here scathèd pines a leafless grove display—
There living streams through fruitful meadows stray,
On barren crags here sleeps eternal snow.
Alas! e'en thus the path of life we tread,
Where pleasure lures us to the flower-strew'd plain,
While virtue points the rough ascent we dread.
O! that my soul unto my God were given,
Cleans'd by His mercy from all earthly stain,
Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of Heaven!