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The Reliquary

By Bernard and Lucy Barton. With A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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“KNOW THINE OWN WORTH, AND REVERENCE THE LYRE .”

[Dews that nourish fairest flow'rs]

ELIJAH ON MOUNT HOREB.

RESIGNATION.

“WHAT IS OUR BEING'S AIM AND END?”

THE SEA SHELL.

ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE.

TO A SKYLARK.

A THOUGHT.

SEA-SIDE MUSINGS.

AN APOLOGUE FROM AN EASTERN POET.

“THIS IS NOT YOUR REST; BECAUSE IT IS POLLUTED .”

SONNET. I.

II.

SONNET. II.

“THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT .”

TO THE WHITE JASMINE.

“THE LAND WHICH NO MORTAL MAY KNOW.”

THE METEOR.

“BUT GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN .”

“FOR LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH.”

ON A PICTURE BY PAUL VERONESE OF THE WISE MEN'S OFFERING.

“WE MEET AGAIN.”

TO A STUFFED EAGLE.

[Around an oak, an ivy grew]

THE MISSIONARY.

[At the first dawn of morning light]

TO A ROBIN IN AUTUMN.

TOWN AND COUNTRY;

AN AFFECTING AND TOO TRUE INCIDENT.

TO THE REV. WILLIAM KIRBY,

A CHRISTIAN HEROINE.

SABBATHS AT SEA.

MARY AT THE SEPULCHRE.

WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

A BALLAD.

[Like the frail insect eagerly pursuing]

SONNET. ON A VIEW NEAR WOODBRIDGE.

HYMN.

THE CORONATION OF INEZ DE CASTRO.

“FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY .”

RECOLLECTIONS OF A DAY AT “BARHAM .”

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings .”

“THE MEEK WILL HE TEACH HIS WAY .”

TO THE SWALLOW.

“HE WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES .”

“Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence ?”

THE TRAVELLER'S DIRGE.

MORNING.

For the opening Leaf of my Friend E.J.M.'s copy of “A Manual for the Parish Priest.”

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away .”

SONNET TO A PORTRAIT OF MILTON,

“IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY, IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY .”

TO S. S. L.

FOR THE OPENING LEAF OF AN ALBUM.

TO A LADY, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON.

THE ROSE, THE SHAMROCK, AND THISTLE.

SONNET, ON VISITING HELMINGHAM HALL.

SONNET, ON THE PORTRAIT OF LADY DYSART IN THE HALL AT HELMINGHAM.

WRITTEN AT FELIXSTOW,

“BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN, FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED .”

A MEMORIAL OF DECEMBER 19th, 1835.

THE SPIRIT'S AIM

THE STARTING-POST;

THE GOAL;

SONNET. ON THE DEATH OF JOHN WILSON SHEPPARD, ESQ.

ASH HIGH HOUSE,

HUMAN LIFE.

TO E. H.

THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.

“GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES .”

SONNET, TO THE REV. J. J. REYNOLDS, CURATE OF WOODBRIDGE.

INVOCATION TO SPRING.

“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you .” —Isaiah lix. 2.

TO MY DAUGHTER.

TO A FRIEND.

“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven .”

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“THIS IS NOT YOUR REST; BECAUSE IT IS POLLUTED .”

The exile on a foreign strand
Where'er his footsteps roam,
Remembers that his father's land
Is still his cherished home.

Tho' brighter skies may shine above,
Around him flowers as fair,
His heart's best hopes and fondest love
Find no firm footing there.

Still to the spot that gave him birth
His cherished wishes turn,
And elsewhere own throughout the earth,
A stranger's brief sojourn.

Oh, thus should man's immortal soul
Its destiny revere,
And mindful of its heavenly goal
Seem as an exile here.

Mid fleeting joys of sense and time
Still free from earthly leaven,
Its purest hopes thro' faith sublime
Should own no home but heaven!

Micah ii. 10.