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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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A THOUGHT.

The stillest streams lend life and light
To fairest meads of Spring;
The bird that flutters least in sight
Is longest on the wing.

The sweetest flowers their odours shed
In silence, and alone;
And Wisdom's hidden fount is fed
By minds to fame unknown.

But soon or late the time will come,
Though long it seem deferred,
When loudest talkers shall be dumb,
And silent doers heard.

Then shall a meed surpassing fame
To lowly worth be given,
Whose toil hath sought with humble aim
To guide the soul to Heaven.

“Stillest streams
Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing.”

Cowper.