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Madmoments: or First Verseattempts

By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison

Ellison, Henry

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

POWER OF IMAGINATION

ON PLEASURESEEKING.

ON SELFISHNESS.

BLESSINGS, HOW EARNED?

THE GREATEST POET.

THE WISEMAN CANNOT BE IMPOVERISHED.

AFTER READING WORDSWORTH'S LAODOMIA.

ON BEING TOLD I COULD NOT LIVE LONG.

TO THE OVERGODLY.

MAN AND NATURE.

WEALTH'S NOTHINGNESS.

FOLLY AND WISDOM.

TO THE ANTINOUS IN THE FLORENCE FINEARTSGALLERY, AN ODE.

ON THE TRUE SOURCES OF BEING.

ON THE NEEDFUL.

ON THE WELLDOERS OF MANKIND.

THE DRYAD'S CURSE.

AN ODE TO THE STATUE OF THE PRIESTESS IN THE FLORENCE SCULPTURECOLLECTION.

THE MISER'S VISION.

GOD IN THE WORLD.

THE ONE TRUE TEMPLE OF GOD.

ON NOT LIVING MERELY IN THE PASSING HOUR.

WE HAVE ALL WE CAN HAVE IF WE PLEASE.

ON NARROW UNBIBLESANCTIONED PRIESTPREJUDICES.

THE SEEMINGBEGGAR.

ON SEEING A GRAVESTONE.

WINTERFIRESIDE.

TRUE VICTORIES.

NATURE AND MAN.

ON NOT HATEING.

THOUGHTS ON PAST YOUTH.

A CHURCHYARDSPORTING CHILD.

SONG TO FREEDOM.

THE MORAL LESSONS TO BE LEARNT FROM NATURE.

ON USING THE PRESENT.

ODE ON A GREEK-VASE.

TO MY FATHERLAND.

REVOLUTIONISTS.

ON THE SPIRIT OF REFLECTIVE HUMANITY.

MAKE NO LIFEPLAN.

ALL GOOD SELFDERIVED.

FAINTHEARTEDNESS.

ON SELFLIMITING.

THE PASSINGBELL.

THE STRANGERSBURIALCORNER.

THE BEST MEANS FOR WORKING OUT GREAT BLESSINGS.

ON FAVOURTAKING.

THE MIND'S ALLSELFSUFFICIENCY.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

MOONLITCHURCHYARD.

THE VILLAGEGREEN.

FOREIGN CATHEDRALTHOUGHTS.

ASPIRATIONS AFTER THE IMPOSSIBLE.

NECESSARY LINKING OF GOOD WITH GOD.

ON GHIBERTI'S GATES TO THE BAPTISTERY AT FLOBENCE.

THE CHURCHYARD.

OCCASIONS OF GREATNESS.

TRUE STRENGTH WHAT? LATIMER.

ON SELFSEEKINGNESS.

ON WESTMINSTERABBEY.

ON ESTEEMING THE ETERNAL ONLY.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

ON LOWAIMED PEOPLE.

EFFECT OF EVENINGSTILLNESS.

TRUE POSSESSIONTAKING.

EARTHSBENEFACTORS.

THE UNUTTERABLE.

THE MAIDEN AND THE ROSE.

A MAYDAYWALK INTO THE COUNTRY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

ON THE ANTINOUS IN THE FLORENCE FINEARTSGALLERY.

CHILDHOODREMINISCENCES.

SUGGESTED BY THE LITTLE STATUE OF LOVE SLEEPING ON A LION, WITH HIS TORCH BESIDE HIM, IN THE UFFIZI GALLERY AT FLORENCE.

WEALTHSNOTHINGNESS IN ITSELF.

EVENINGTHOUGHTS.

ON ILLLUCKBEARING.

ALL GOES WELL WITH US WHEN WE GO WELL.

NOTHING THAT INVOLVES A RIGHT OR A PRINCIPLE UNIMPORTANT.

THE GRAVEHAUNTER.

ON FEELING IMMORTAL.

THE WOODWALK IN THE SOUTH.

VERSEOFFERINGS.

ON IMAGINATIONUSING.

ON HIGHER APPLICATIONS OF MACHINERY

ON MONEYSEEKERS.

REAL GOODS HOW EARNED?

WHAT SHOULD BE MOVEABLE AND WHAT IMMOVEABLE.

ON A FRIEND ASKING IF HE DISTURBED ME WHEN WRITIN.

HOW TO MAKE BEING COMPACT.

THE POET'S LAMP.

ON USING THE PRENENT.

RAPTURESTEARS.

NONE need BE POOR.

TO WONDERSEEKERS.

WORLDWEARINESS.

ON MINGLING WITH LOW NATURES.

THE EVENINGSTAR.

HEAVEN'S VISITATIONS.

ON A LYREBEARING APOLLO.

RHINEFALLS BY SUN-AND-MOONLIGHT.

FREEDOM: ON THE FIRST FRENCH REVOLUTION.

TO AN OLD HOMESONG.

MOUNTAINTORRENT.

AGAINST ABSURD AND UNJUST PREJUDICES.

KIRKSTEAD-ABBEY.

ON A WATERFALL, SEEN FROM A GLENSTREAM, BORN OF THE SAME.

HEARTKNOWLEDGE.

THE FLEETINGNESS OF EARTHLY THINGS.

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RAPTURESTEARS.

Oh! blessed Tears, come once more to may Eyes,
That, glittering thro' you, I may see all Things

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As beautiful as tho' an Angel's Wings
Had dropped the Heavensdew, fresh from the Skies,
Upon them once again; the Glory dies
Which Youth and Hope breathed on the Earth: the Strings,
By Time too rudely touched, their Minist 'rings
Unto Hope's Hand refuse! in vain it tries
The wonted Chords, it can call forth at best
But Chimes of jangled Music, which too well,
By what they are not, to the sad Heart tell
How much is wanting; but when from your Rest,
Ye Tears, ye start, at Joy, th' Enchanter's, Spell,
Seen thro' ye Earth as erst seems fair and blest!