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The bard, and minor poems

By John Walker Ord ... Collected and edited by John Lodge
Ord, John Walker (1811-1853)
  
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THE BARD.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
A VISION OF THE MOON.
  
TO THE EAGLE.
  
MARY.
  
WRITTEN ON ARTHUR'S SEAT.
  
FRAGMENT. FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM.
  
DEDICATORY LINES, TO ------.
  
NATURE.
  
EMMELINE.
  
HANNIBAL AT THE ALTAR.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MOON.
  
THE WINDS.
  
LINES WRITTEN NEAR A WATERFALL.
  
SKETCH OF AN EVENING.
  
LINES TO A PIECE OF WHITE HEATH.
  
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO AN EAGLE.
  
LINES TO A GLED-HAWK,
  
BURNS.
  
POLAND.
  
LINES TO A LADY OF NINETEEN.
  
LINES TO THE SAME.
  
SUMMER DEPARTED.
  
FIRST AND LAST LOVE.
  
POLAND
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO THE LADY EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF LORD VISCOUNT MILTON.
  
THE CONSTITUTION-CITADEL!
  
THE GIANT HILLS OF ENGLAND!
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PASQUIN'S PILLAR.
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PART I. THE DEVIL AND THE POPE.
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PART II. THE SUPPER.
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PART III. THE SUPPER (CONCLUDED.)
  
ADDRESS TO THE PRINCESS VICTORIA,
  
QUEEN VICTORIA AT WINDSOR.
  
CARMEN TRIUMPHALE.
  
EPITHALAMIUM FOR QUEEN VICTORIA I.
  
LINES WRITTEN BESIDE THE TWO OLD RUINED TOWERS OF DOVER CASTLE.
  
HOME REVISITED.
  
SPRING.
  
THE CRUSADER'S LAMENT.
  
FIRST SONG OF SPRING.
  
ODE TO MARSDEN ROCK.
  
THE TRYSTING-PLACE REVISITED.
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CHARTIST ECLOGUE.
  
THE WRECK OF THE SYRIA,
  
LINES.
  
A REMEMBRANCE.
  
VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF DURHAM.
  
BOMBARDMENT OF ST JEAN D'ACRE.
  
TO THE CUCKOO.
  
NAPOLEON.
  
TYNEMOUTH PRIORY.
  
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE LATE APPALLING ACCIDENT AT SOUTH SHIELDS.
  
GUISBOROUGH ABBEY.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “LOCKWOOD.”
  
LINES TO A LITTLE GIRL.
  
“WHAT IS LOVE?”
  
TO A GIRL OF FIFTEEN.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF MARY CHAPMAN,
  
LINES TO A SNOW-DROP.
  
TO THE COUNTESS B---.
  
THE BELOVED.
  
LAURA.
  
“DO YOU REMEMBER?”
  
SONG OF MIRIAM.
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THE BELIEVER AND THE SOCIALIST.
  
LINES, WRITTEN IN NEWCASTLE THEATRE, TO MISS F. B---.
  
LINES DESCRIPTIVE OF A DAY'S ANGLING AMONG THE HILLS.
  
LINES ON SEEING PORTION OF A WRECK ON THE SEA-SHORE.
  
LINES.
  
MARY'S EYE.
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SONNETS.

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THE SYCAMORE.

“This sycamore, oft musical with bees,
Such tents the patriarchs loved.”
Coleridge.

Bright is the scene, and lovely!—not a cloud
Darkens the heavens, nor wind disturbs the air;
Only I hear the blackbird piping loud,
Or throstle carol in his leafy lair:
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Peace sits enthroned, the ruler everywhere.
And thou, huge sycamore, hast summer bowers
Of ease and plenty. There the yellow bee
Revels at will, and wantons 'midst thy flowers,
With fragrance, and the wild birds' minstrelsy.
Thy gifts are heavenly, and to heaven ascend—
Earth's hostage to the sunlight and the breeze;
A richer burthen do the seasons lend
Than silks of monarchs from the Indian seas—
And life and love are thine, queen of the forest trees.
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