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A New Year's Eve, and Other Poems

By Bernard Barton

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER.

SONNET

THE NORTH COUNTRIE.

A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN.

A CHILD'S MORNING HYMN.

POWER AND GENTLENESS;

HEATH SCENERY.

VENICE.

COUNSELS.

[I saw a ruin, mossed and grey]

JOHN WILLIAM FLETCHER, OF MADELY.

THE NIGHTINGALE FLOWER.

A THOUGHT.

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHICHESTER.

STANZAS

THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS.

ON A PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD.

THE RECTORY.

THE BATTLE OF GIBEON.

A POET'S APPEAL.

IN AN ALBUM.

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD.

GODIVA.

TO A CHILD TWO YEARS OLD.

TO AN ELEPHANT.

ON A PORTRAIT

THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH.

IN AN ALBUM.

“OH! FOR THAT CITY, FAIR AND BRIGHT.”

ON SIR PHILIP SYDNEY'S BIRTH-DAY.

ON HEARING THE WAITS.

“IF A LIVELIER MEASURE.”

TO SIR SAMUEL FLUDYER,

SUMMER MUSINGS.

LINES

HYMN FOR EASTER.

A VETERAN'S MEMORIAL;

THE MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD.

“OH! HAD I THE WINGS OF A DOVE.”

CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA.

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[I saw a ruin, mossed and grey]

I saw a ruin, mossed and grey,
A desolate and time-worn pile:
With ivy-wreaths and wall-flowers gay,
In morning's cloudless sunbeams smile.

I saw a dark and gloomy cloud:
It drifted towards the glowing west;
Tinged by the setting sunshine proud,
It seemed in more than beauty drest.

I could but think to age were given
Charms which might lapse of years defy;
To darkest sorrow light from Heaven,
And hope of immortality.