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Poems

By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston

Quillinan, Edward (1791-1851)

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WILD-FLOWERS OF WESTMORELAND.

A FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD.

THE HELIOTROPE AND THE SNOWDROP.

THE NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK.

THE BIRCH OF SILVER-HOW.

CHESNUT TREES NEAR BRAGA.

THE CANARY GOLDFINCH.

RYDAL-BECK, WESTMORELAND.

DALEGARTH FORCE.

A MOST RICH AND PERFECTLY DEFINED RAINBOW ON THE OCEAN.

A PARTING BENISON TO THE MEDEA STEAMSHIP.

ON A PORTRAIT BY COMERFORD.

“WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN WICKLOW?”

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THE AMERICAN SHIP PAULINA.

I.

HERO-WORSHIP. I.

II.

HERO-WORSHIP. II.

I.

II.

I.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. I.

II.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. II.

III.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. III.

IV.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. IV.

I.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. II.

III.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. III.

I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT. II.

CAVE OF MEDITATION, FIELD-FOOT.

TO ANGUS FLETCHER.

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I.

I. WORDSWORTH'S HOME.

II.

III. “JESUS WEPT.” (St. John xi. 35.)

TO MRS. HARRISON,

TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.

LINES TO MRS. DUNLOP, FOR ROTHA.

TO MISS ------.

TO MARY, DANCING.

TO A LADY OF SUPERCILIOUS AIR.

LEE PRIORY, IN MAY.

WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH MAY SOUTHEY, WHO FORBADE COMPLIMENT.

IN A LADY'S ALBUM.

IN THE ALBUM OF MARGARET ---

SONG.—AMBLESIDE VALE.

SONG ALTERED FROM MOORE.

LOW WOOD, WINANDERMERE.

NEPTUNE AND MEDUSA.

STANZAS. IN ALLUSION TO SOME WORLDLY ADVICE IN CLEVER VERSE BY A LADY TO HER YOUNGER FRIEND, THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN:—

“HIC JACET MALLEUS SCOTORUM.”

ADDRESS TO A PONY.

ON THE REPORTED VISIT OF QUEEN ADELAIDE TO WORDSWORTH.

MORALS FROM THE STARS.

INTERIOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, AS SEEN BY MOONLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841.

VERY UNFINISHED VERSES SUGGESTED BY THE SERRA OF GERÉS.

“N'EVEILLEZ PAS LE CHAT QUI DORT.”

THE ROSE-WREATHED HOUR-GLASS.

THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTERS.

AGNES OF HOLMGARD.

THE LEGEND OF SAINT MEINRAD.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOOR OF GRANADA AND HIS SPANISH PRISONER.

THE DUKE OF ALBA.

THE GROVES OF ENTRE QUINTAS.

EPITAPH ON COLONEL GEORGE HOLMES, C.B.

EPITAPH ON J. K. E. HOLMES.

FUNERAL OF ROBERT SOUTHEY.

ELEGY ON G. M. B.

ELEGY ON E. W. G. B.

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I.

II.

II. Near Lauffenberg.

III.

III. Near Schaffhausen.

IV.

IV. SOCIETY. BERNE.

V.

VI.

VI. THE LAKE OF LAUWERTZ.

VII.

VIII.

VIII. LAUSANNE.

ELEGY ON THE SAME, WRITTEN TWELVE YEARS LATER.

ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED AT TORQUAY, FEB. 2, 1833.

TO THE CITY OF FLORENCE.

LINES COMPOSED IN THE ENGLISH BURIAL-GROUND AT OPORTO.

DIALOGUE WITH THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF A FRIEND'S CHILD.

A DREAM OF DEATH AT SEA.

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FIELD-FOOT. II.

A human instinct, breathed into the soul
By Him who out of chaos Eden made,
Has work'd unseen behind yon leafy shade.—
The sense of beauty, stealthy as the mole
But like the lynx keen-vision'd, upward stole
Along the frowning walls, and there essay'd
The more than wizard power of axe and spade,
To lift the aspirant to a lofty goal.
The bird-like spirit of hope from bough to bough,
From rock to rock, incited labour on:
Reluctant nature smooth'd her angry brow,
For not a line of savage grace was gone,
From lowly Field-foot to the crowning Fell;
So shrewdly work'd the Master of the Spell!

Rydal, July 18, 1849.