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Poems and Songs by E. H. B. [i.e. E. H. Bickersteth]

Bickersteth, Edward Henry (1825-1906)
 
[dedication]

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POMPEII.
 
CEASE TO WEEP.
 
THE WREATH.
 
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING MY DAUGHTER SING MRS. NORTON'S “THERE IS NO TRACE OF THEE AROUND.”
 
A LAMENT FOR PERSIA.
 
OH! BRING MY LUTE.
 
STANZAS TO ---.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF MALIBRAN.
 
DECEMBER.
 
TO THE GILLY-FLOWER.
 
SONNET.
 
TO THE SNOWDROP.
 
BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL SEA.
 
WRITTEN ON SEEING THE QUEEN PASS THROUGH THE ROYAL GALLERY TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS,
 
ON SLEEP.
 
STONEHENGE.
 
THE FUTURE.
 
DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
 
LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE PAINTED ON AN INDIAN TABLE.
 
DESTINY.
 
SONNET.
 
TO MY DAUGHTER'S BIRD.
 
GUIDO'S MAGDALENE.
 
LINES WRITTEN ON LEAVING THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
 
ELEGY TO L. E. L.
 
TO SPRING.
 
PARAPHRASE.
 
SONG.
 
THE SILENT LUTE.
 
TO JULIET.
 
TO THE NEW YEAR.
 
LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MY DAUGHTER ON LEAVING HER SCHOOL GARDEN AT---
 
THAT MOCKING LIP.
 
“HEARTS-EASE.”
 
SONG.
 
LINES ADDRESSED TO --- ON ATTAINING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
 
SONG.
 
ACROSTIC.
 
ACROSTIC.
 
TO THE BIRD OF PARADISE.
 
OH! CEASE THOSE BELLS.
 
TO THE OCEAN.
 
THE SONG OF FINGAL.
 
SONG.
 
WOMAN'S HEART.
 
THE POET'S WREATH.
 
SONNET.
 
LIFE.
 
FAREWELL TO THE YEAR.
 
TO FLOWERS.
 
STANZAS TO---
 
ON BEING ASKED BY MY CHILDREN TO JOIN IN THEIR PASTIMES
 
TWILIGHT.
 
THE FLOWER GIRL'S SONG.
 
OH! WEEP NOT FOR THE DEAD.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY.
 
THE SNOWDROP.
 
STANZAS.
 
THE FLOWERS ARE ALL FADING.
 
TO A YOUNG FRIEND,
 
THE BRIDAL.
 
WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE CITY OF LONDON,
 
STANZAS.
 
AUTUMN.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A NEPHEW.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
SONG.
 
A MOTHER TO HER SLEEPING CHILD.
 
STANZAS TO SPRING.
 
A HYMN,
 
IMPROMPTU ON A BLADE OF GRASS.
 
THE BIBLE.
 
STANZAS.
 
TO-MORROW.
 
SONG.
 
WHY WAKE THE LONG FORGOTTEN LAY?
 
FLOWERS.
 
TO ------.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
TO DEATH.
 
CONRAD TO MEDORA.
 
MEDORA TO CONRAD.
 
WHAT IS THE SUNSHINE OF THE HEART?
 
ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,
 
WRITTEN ON VISITING BLACK GANG CHINE,
 
FRAGMENT.
 
SPRING.
 
LA GIROFLEE.
 
TO THE MOON.
 
THE WISH.
 
TO ---
 
INVOCATION TO MY MUSE.
 
VENUS AND CUPID.
 
THE BRANCH OF THE ALMOND TREE.
 
TO HOPE.
 
SONG.
 
A MOTHER TO HER SON ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
 
TO A FAVORITE POET.
 
TO A YOUTH ON THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER.
 
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
 
CLEOPATRA TO MARC ANTHONY.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF ------.
 
ASPASIA TO PERICLES.
 
A SICK PARENT'S BEDSIDE.
 
SONG.
 
TO OBLIVION.
 
FRAGMENT.
 
FAREWELL TO THE YEAR WHICH IS PAST.
 
SONG.
 
TO THOUGHT.
 
FAREWELL TO GUERNSEY.
 
HIS NAME.
 
SONG.
 
“OH! HEED NOT THOSE BEAMS.”
 
TO MY LYRE.
 
REBECCA.
 
ELEGIAC STANZAS ON A DEPARTED PARENT.
 
SONG.
 
MY SUMMER-HOUSE.
 
TO MARY.
 
YES, WE WILL MEET.
 
TO---.
 
HE COMES NOT YET.
 
HAMPTON COURT.

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FRAGMENT.

DESCRIPTION OF A THUNDER STORM.

Hark, how the thunder roars!—along the sky
Shivers the ghastly bolt from east to west;
A burning canopy o'er all is hung;
No quiet star is seen with sober light,—
But from the dome and quarters of high Heaven
Blaze after blaze, and peal on peal succeed—
The light and converse of the elements.
But nature is too stern for gentle tears,
And the forked flash from out the sullen clouds
More deadly fierce cleaves through the stagnant air;
The streets are hushed and void, a fearful doom
Seems to deliver the huge city up
To the storm's wrath,—while ever and anon
The lightnings pause, and shake and quivering
Threaten destruction—but an angel waits,
And bids them vanish to their gloomy tents.—
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