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The poetical works of James Montgomery

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Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

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THE WANDERER OF SWITZERLAND:

THE WEST INDIES:

THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD:

THE CLIMBING BOY'S SOLILOQUIES.

NARRATIVES.

SONGS ON THE ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, August 1. 1834.

Verses to the Memory OF THE LATE RICHARD REYNOLDS, OF BRISTOL.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

THE GRAVE.

THE LYRE.

REMONSTRANCE TO WINTER.

SONG.

LINES WRITTEN UNDER A DRAWING OF YARDLEY OAK,

SONG

RELIGION.

“THE JOY OF GRIEF.”

THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA.

THE PILLOW.

VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JOSEPH BROWNE, OF LOTHERSDALE,

THE THUNDER-STORM.

ODE TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF BRITAIN

THE SWISS COWHERD'S SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND.

AN EPITAPH.

M. S. TO THE MEMORY OF “A FEMALE WHOM SICKNESS HAD RECONCILED TO THE NOTES OF SORROW,”

THE PEAK MOUNTAINS. IN TWO PARTS.

TO ANN AND JANE.

OCCASIONAL ODE.

A DAUGHTER (C. M.) TO HER MOTHER.

CHATTERTON.

THE WILD ROSE.

ON FINDING THE FEATHERS OF A LINNET

SONNET.

DEPARTED DAYS: A RHAPSODY,

HOPE.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

THE TIME-PIECE.

STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. THOMAS SPENCER, OF LIVERPOOL,

HUMAN LIFE.

THE VISIBLE CREATION.

SONNET.

THE BIBLE.

INSTRUCTION.

THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

YOUTH RENEWED.

THE BRIDAL AND THE BURIAL.

FRIENDS.

A MOTHER'S LAMENT

THE WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS.

VIA CRUCIS, VIA LUCIS.

ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH.

A HERMITAGE.

THE FALLING LEAF.

ON PLANTING A TULIP-ROOT.

INSCRIPTION UNDER THE PICTURE OF AN AGED NEGRO-WOMAN.

THOUGHTS AND IMAGES.

A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

BIRDS.

TIME:

TO A FRIEND, WITH A COPY OF THE FOREGOING LUCUBRATION.

A RECOLLECTION OF MARY F.,

THE CHOLERA MOUNT.

THE TOMBS OF THE FATHERS.

A CRY FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

TO MY FRIEND, GEORGE BENNET, ESQ., OF SHEFFIELD

STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE REV. JAMES HARVEY,

ON THE FIRST LEAF OF MISS J.'s ALBUM.

MOTTO TO “A POET'S PORTFOLIO.”

THE VALENTINE WREATH.

TO MR. AND MRS. T., OF YORK:

FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.

THE LOT OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

A BENEDICTION FOR A BABY.

“OCCUPY TILL I COME.”

A MESSAGE FROM THE MOON.

CORONATION ODE FOR QUEEN VICTORIA.

“A CERTAIN DISCIPLE.”

STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE REV. THOMAS RAWSON TAYLOR, OF BRADFORD, IN YORKSHIRE

STANZAS IN MEMORY OF ROWLAND HODGSON, ESQ., OF SHEFFIELD

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AN EPITAPH.

Art thou a man of honest mould,
With fervent heart, and soul sincere?
A husband, father, friend?—Behold,
Thy brother slumbers here.

The sun that wakes yon violet's bloom,
Once cheer'd his eye, now dark in death;
The wind that wanders o'er his tomb
Was once his vital breath.

The roving wind shall pass away,
The warming sun forsake the sky;
Thy brother, in that dreadful day,
Shall live and never die.