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Metrical Effusions

or Verses on Various Occasions [by Bernard Barton]

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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Dedicatory Sonnet.

THE PAINS OF MEMORY.

A POETICAL EPISTLE TO A--- L---

SONNET. TO------ ------

TO W.ROSCOE, ESQ

THE CALEDONIAN ADIEU.

THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE.

WEEL TIMED DAFFIN.

STANZAS ON PERUSING Psyche, A POEM, BY THE LATE MRS. TIGHE.

RESPONSE TO THE THREE VALEDICTORY STANZAS SUBJOINED TO The Lady of the Lake.

SONNET TO G.D.L---,

THE EXILE'S RETURN.

JANE ASHFORD, A TALE IN HUMBLE LIFE.

TO THE EVENING STAR.

STANZAS ADDRESSED TO AN INFANT.

HYMN TO THE DEITY.

SONNET

A FULL BLOWN ROSE.

THE FLIGHTS OF FANCY

“NEAR YONDER BOWER.”

TO LUCY IN HEAVEN.

STANZAS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

THE HARMONY OF THE CREATION.

IMITATION OF BURNS.

SONNET TO------

WHIGS & TORIES.

SONNET TO------

TO MARIA ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING.

TO PATRIOTISM, AN ODE.

THE BUTTERFLY'S DEATH.

STANZAS TO A FRIEND.

RETROSPECTIVE STANZAS.

PRINCE HOEL'S SONG, FROM Southey's Mador.

STANZAS ON WOMAN.

STANZAS IN ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING.

TO WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. ON READING HIS Lady of the Lake.

VALEDICTORY STANZAS.

VERSES ON READING HAYLEY'S LIFE OF COWPER.

THE THISTLE, ADDRESS'D TO THE AUTHOUR OF CALEDONIE, By a Scotch Lady.

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SONNET

To Lord Fingal.

Illustrious Peer! Hibernia's faithful son!
Thou firm assertor of her children's right!
Well has thy worth the Patriot's praises won,
And soon shall put intolerance to flight.
Unlike that orb in his meridian height,
Whose piercing radiance mocks the gazing eye,
Religion aids the intellectual sight,
That fondly searches for a purer sky.
No longer call'd by many a various name,
'Tis she that yet in every christian heart
Shall kindle charity's perennial flame,
And nothing but the waves hereafter part
The sons of freedom, in one fortune bless'd,
One law, one sovereign, and one God confess'd.