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Sonnets, Lyrics and Translations

By the Rev. Charles Turner [i.e. Charles Tennyson]
Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879)
 
[dedication]

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SONNETS.
 
LITTLE SOPHY BY THE SEASIDE.
 
THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE.
 
NAUSICAA.
 
THE DYING SCULPTOR.
 
FREE GREECE.
 
THE SEASIDE,
 
THE BARMOUTH SEA-BRIDGE.
 
ON A CHILD'S EYES.
 
LITTLE NORA;
 
OUR MARY AND THE CHILD-MUMMY.
 
CALLED FROM BED;
 
EMMELINE.
 
A BLUSH AT FAREWELL.
 
THE HYDRAULIC RAM;
 
ON THE MONUMENT OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH STUART IN NEWPORT CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT.
 
THE SICK ORPHAN;
 
THE MISSING BRIDE.
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THE FIR GROVE,
 
THE FIR GROVE Continued
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ENGLAND'S HONOUR.
 
ENGLAND'S HONOUR Continued
 
ENGLAND'S HONOUR Continued
 
ARMS OLD AND NEW.
 
THE BOMB AND THE ORGAN.
 
TO A FRENCH POET AND REFUGEE.
 
THE ASCENT OF SNOWDON.
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THE CATTLE TRAIN.
 
THE CATTLE TRAIN Continued
 
THE ARTIST ON PENMAENMAWR.
 
CADER IDRIS AT SUNSET.
 
THE OLD HILLS'-MAN AND HIS TRUCK.
 
WELSH LUCY,
 
THE LITTLE HEIR OF SHAME.
 
THE HARVEST MOON.
 
OLD RURALITIES.
 
TO A RED-WHEAT FIELD.
 
TO A SCARECROW, OR MALKIN, LEFT LONG AFTER HARVEST.
 
THE WILLOW;
 
THE OLD FOX-HUNTER.
 
TO THE GOSSAMER-LIGHT.
 
ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK.
 
THE EAGLE AND THE SONNET.
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GOUT AND WINGS.
 
GOUT AND WINGS Continued
 
A COLONY OF NIGHTINGALES.
 
THE SPARROW AND THE DEW-DROP.
 
TO A CUCKOO IN A HIGHWAY HEDGE.
 
THE SWAN AND THE PEACOCK.
 
MY TIMEPIECE.
 
OUR NEW CHURCH.
 
OUR NEW CHURCH CLOCK.
 
TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON.
 
THE AFTERNOTE OF THE HOUR.
 
AFTER THE SCHOOL-FEAST.
 
THE MURDER OF BISHOP PATTESON.
 
THE PASTOR'S PRAYER.
 
TO THE HOLY VIRGIN.
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THE PALM-WILLOW.
 
THE PALM-WILLOW. Continued
 
TO MY SISTER MARY.
 
LOVE OF HOME.
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SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ONE ON WHOM THE DEATH OF AN EXCELLENT WOMAN HAS FORCED THE CONVICTION OF A FUTURE STATE.
 
Continued
 
A PERVERSE LOVER.
 
A MOURNING LOVER.
 
TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
 
ON SOME HUMMING-BIRDS IN A GLASS CASE.
 
THE PRISONER.
 
THE “CANNON FEVER.”
 
THE EARTHQUAKE.
 
TO A YOUNG KING.
 
GREECE: AN ASPIRATION.
 
DEATH AND ITS ANTIDOTE.
 
SCIENCE AND FAITH.
 
TO ---
 
THE PORTRAIT PAINTER.
 
TO ---
 
THE TRAVELLER AND HIS WIFE'S RINGLET.
 
THE ALTAR, AS CONNECTED WITH MARRIAGE.
 
A BRIDAL FAREWELL.
 
WRITTEN FOR THE MADINGLEY SCHOOL, ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE MANOR HOUSE, IN 1861.
 
A LEGEND FROM DE LAMARTINE'S TRAVELS IN THE EAST, VERSIFIED.
 
AN INCIDENT ON THE DEE.
 
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
 
A FATHER TO HIS SICK CHILD ASLEEP.
 
BY A DEATH-BED.

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5

FREE GREECE.

AN ASPIRATION ON THE ACCESSION OF PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK.

Now are we free to range thee, hill and plain,
O Greece! for thou thyself art also free;
To muse at Athens, near the Maiden's fane,
Or land on Argos from the morning sea,
And spread our sails about thee lovingly:
What joy thy pupils of the West shall feel
To dream the old war-notes, or the softer peal
Of pastoral sound from folds of Arcady!
Whence oft the gadding Faunus, tired of home,
In later times went off in sudden haste
From old Lycæus to fair Lucretil,
To fend the Sabine farm from sun or blast,
And lent himself to that sweet lyric will,
Which led the Gods and Muses off to Rome.
 

“Singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.” Virgil's Georgics.

“Velox amænum sæpe Lucretilem,
Mutat Lycæo Faunus et igneam
Defendit æstatem capellis
Usque meis, pluviosque ventos.”

Horace, Od.

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