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Poetic Vigils

By Bernard Barton

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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[Had lengthen'd years been granted thee]

PREFATORY SONNET.

A POET'S THANKS.

TO CHARLOTTE---,

MAN'S LONG HOME.

AN ODE TO TIME.

STANZAS TO A YOUNG FRIEND

TO A YOUTHFUL PUPIL

SONNET TO ELIA.

THE ABBOT TURNED ANCHORITE.

TO THE MEMORY OF EDWIN PRICE,

TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE.

VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF BLOOMFIELD,

FAITH AND SCEPTICISM,

LANDGUARD FORT.

THE HEART'S MOTTO.

STANZAS TO A CLERICAL FRIEND,

FROM THE ITALIAN OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI.

A WINTER LANDSCAPE

TO A SPRIG OF MIGNONETTE,

DIVES AND LAZARUS.

A MEMORIAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN;

THE POET'S LOT.

TO SWITZERLAND.

TO JAMES MONTGOMERY.

TO NATHAN DRAKE, M.D.

ON THE ALIENATION OF FRIENDS

TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.

PITY FOR POOR LITTLE SWEEPS.

WINTER EVENINGS.

SONNET TO PATIENCE.

PRAYER FOR GOSPEL-LIGHT.

WRITTEN IN SICKNESS.

A POET'S NOBLEST THEME.

TEMPORALS AND SPIRITUALS.

A MEMORIAL OF JAMES NAYLER,

THE MOURNER'S HOPE.

A RELIQUE OF NAPOLEON,

A MEMORIAL OF MARY DYER,

IVE-GILL; A DAY DREAM.

TO MY HOME CIRCLE;

TO MY CARLISLE COUSINS;

TO A NAMELESS FRIEND.

VERSES ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING,

TO THE RIVER DEBEN.

TO A YOUNG LADY,

A POET TO HIS CANDLE.

TO A FRIEND IN SICKNESS.

TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY.

VIOLETS, A SONNET.

SONNET: WILLIAM COWPER.

TO MY DAUGHTER.

A SPRING THOUGHT.

BEALINGS HOUSE.

TO AN OLD DISCIPLE.

A LAST MEMORIAL.

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“Dear night! this world's defeat;
The stop to busie fools; cares' check and curb:
The day of Spirits; my soul's calm retreat
Which none disturb!”
Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans.