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Madmoments: or First Verseattempts

By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison

Ellison, Henry

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

POWER OF IMAGINATION

ON PLEASURESEEKING.

ON SELFISHNESS.

BLESSINGS, HOW EARNED?

THE GREATEST POET.

THE WISEMAN CANNOT BE IMPOVERISHED.

AFTER READING WORDSWORTH'S LAODOMIA.

ON BEING TOLD I COULD NOT LIVE LONG.

TO THE OVERGODLY.

MAN AND NATURE.

WEALTH'S NOTHINGNESS.

FOLLY AND WISDOM.

TO THE ANTINOUS IN THE FLORENCE FINEARTSGALLERY, AN ODE.

ON THE TRUE SOURCES OF BEING.

ON THE NEEDFUL.

ON THE WELLDOERS OF MANKIND.

THE DRYAD'S CURSE.

AN ODE TO THE STATUE OF THE PRIESTESS IN THE FLORENCE SCULPTURECOLLECTION.

THE MISER'S VISION.

GOD IN THE WORLD.

THE ONE TRUE TEMPLE OF GOD.

ON NOT LIVING MERELY IN THE PASSING HOUR.

WE HAVE ALL WE CAN HAVE IF WE PLEASE.

ON NARROW UNBIBLESANCTIONED PRIESTPREJUDICES.

THE SEEMINGBEGGAR.

ON SEEING A GRAVESTONE.

WINTERFIRESIDE.

TRUE VICTORIES.

NATURE AND MAN.

ON NOT HATEING.

THOUGHTS ON PAST YOUTH.

A CHURCHYARDSPORTING CHILD.

SONG TO FREEDOM.

THE MORAL LESSONS TO BE LEARNT FROM NATURE.

ON USING THE PRESENT.

ODE ON A GREEK-VASE.

TO MY FATHERLAND.

REVOLUTIONISTS.

ON THE SPIRIT OF REFLECTIVE HUMANITY.

MAKE NO LIFEPLAN.

ALL GOOD SELFDERIVED.

FAINTHEARTEDNESS.

ON SELFLIMITING.

THE PASSINGBELL.

THE STRANGERSBURIALCORNER.

THE BEST MEANS FOR WORKING OUT GREAT BLESSINGS.

ON FAVOURTAKING.

THE MIND'S ALLSELFSUFFICIENCY.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

MOONLITCHURCHYARD.

THE VILLAGEGREEN.

FOREIGN CATHEDRALTHOUGHTS.

ASPIRATIONS AFTER THE IMPOSSIBLE.

NECESSARY LINKING OF GOOD WITH GOD.

ON GHIBERTI'S GATES TO THE BAPTISTERY AT FLOBENCE.

THE CHURCHYARD.

OCCASIONS OF GREATNESS.

TRUE STRENGTH WHAT? LATIMER.

ON SELFSEEKINGNESS.

ON WESTMINSTERABBEY.

ON ESTEEMING THE ETERNAL ONLY.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

ON LOWAIMED PEOPLE.

EFFECT OF EVENINGSTILLNESS.

TRUE POSSESSIONTAKING.

EARTHSBENEFACTORS.

THE UNUTTERABLE.

THE MAIDEN AND THE ROSE.

A MAYDAYWALK INTO THE COUNTRY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

ON THE ANTINOUS IN THE FLORENCE FINEARTSGALLERY.

CHILDHOODREMINISCENCES.

SUGGESTED BY THE LITTLE STATUE OF LOVE SLEEPING ON A LION, WITH HIS TORCH BESIDE HIM, IN THE UFFIZI GALLERY AT FLORENCE.

WEALTHSNOTHINGNESS IN ITSELF.

EVENINGTHOUGHTS.

ON ILLLUCKBEARING.

ALL GOES WELL WITH US WHEN WE GO WELL.

NOTHING THAT INVOLVES A RIGHT OR A PRINCIPLE UNIMPORTANT.

THE GRAVEHAUNTER.

ON FEELING IMMORTAL.

THE WOODWALK IN THE SOUTH.

VERSEOFFERINGS.

ON IMAGINATIONUSING.

ON HIGHER APPLICATIONS OF MACHINERY

ON MONEYSEEKERS.

REAL GOODS HOW EARNED?

WHAT SHOULD BE MOVEABLE AND WHAT IMMOVEABLE.

ON A FRIEND ASKING IF HE DISTURBED ME WHEN WRITIN.

HOW TO MAKE BEING COMPACT.

THE POET'S LAMP.

ON USING THE PRENENT.

NONE need BE POOR.

TO WONDERSEEKERS.

WORLDWEARINESS.

ON MINGLING WITH LOW NATURES.

THE EVENINGSTAR.

HEAVEN'S VISITATIONS.

ON A LYREBEARING APOLLO.

RHINEFALLS BY SUN-AND-MOONLIGHT.

FREEDOM: ON THE FIRST FRENCH REVOLUTION.

TO AN OLD HOMESONG.

MOUNTAINTORRENT.

AGAINST ABSURD AND UNJUST PREJUDICES.

KIRKSTEAD-ABBEY.

ON A WATERFALL, SEEN FROM A GLENSTREAM, BORN OF THE SAME.

HEARTKNOWLEDGE.

THE FLEETINGNESS OF EARTHLY THINGS.

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FOLLY AND WISDOM.

Thus may one know the Fool from the wise Man:
Give to the former all that Hope can crave,
All that between the Cradle and the Grave
The everbusy Fancy's Brain can plan,
The End will find him such as he began,
Unformed within, unchanged in all Things save
Grey Hairs and Wrinkles: let the other have
Of stern Reality the scantiest Span
With Means commensurate, yet therein he
Can fashion forth a World of Beauty, make
Mere earthly Things subserve Eternity:
He in sublime content Want's Bread will break
As 't were the Bread of Immortality,
Yea! Faith to that can change it for his Sake!