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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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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

A VISION OF THE MOON.

WRITTEN ON ARTHUR'S SEAT.

FRAGMENT. FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM.

DEDICATORY LINES, TO ------.

HANNIBAL AT THE ALTAR.

ADDRESS TO THE MOON.

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,

LINES TO A LADY OF NINETEEN.

LINES TO THE SAME.

SUMMER DEPARTED.

FIRST AND LAST LOVE.

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.

I.

PART I. THE DEVIL AND THE POPE.

II.

PART II. THE SUPPER.

III.

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.

THE CRUSADER'S LAMENT.

FIRST SONG OF SPRING.

ODE TO MARSDEN ROCK.

THE TRYSTING-PLACE REVISITED.

CHARTIST ECLOGUE.

THE WRECK OF THE SYRIA,

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.

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---.

“DO YOU REMEMBER?”

SONG OF MIRIAM.

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.

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THE ALUM ROCKS.

These rocks, now shrouded o'er with oak and pine,
Fern, bramble, flowering furze,—each rugged plant
Once shook with heavy toil through every mine,
And labour struggled for a nation's want.
The aspiring Chaloner, from hills of Rome,
Brought the rare art, and fixed it here—his home;

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(For this the dread anathema was hurl'd
And Rome's imperious oriflamme unfurl'd:)
Stately they rise, firm, steadfast and serene,
Nor Winter harms them, nor the Autumn rains,
Yon fir-trees are their coronals of green,
And still they tower majestic o'er the plains;
Alas! the noble peasants are no more,
But nature reigns, and shall for evermore!

The anathema is the same quoted by Sterne as the curse of Ernulphus, and is published at length in the Notes to the first volume of “England,” an historical Poem.