Poems and Songs by E. H. B. [i.e. E. H. Bickersteth]

Bickersteth, Edward Henry (1825-1906)

[dedication]

LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING MY DAUGHTER SING MRS. NORTON'S “THERE IS NO TRACE OF THEE AROUND.”

A LAMENT FOR PERSIA.

OH! BRING MY LUTE.

STANZAS TO ---.

TO THE MEMORY OF MALIBRAN.

BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL SEA.

WRITTEN ON SEEING THE QUEEN PASS THROUGH THE ROYAL GALLERY TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS,

ON SLEEP.

STONEHENGE.

THE FUTURE.

DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.

DESTINY.

SONNET.

TO MY DAUGHTER'S BIRD.

GUIDO'S MAGDALENE.

LINES WRITTEN ON LEAVING THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MY DAUGHTER ON LEAVING HER SCHOOL GARDEN AT---

THAT MOCKING LIP.

“HEARTS-EASE.”

SONG.

LINES ADDRESSED TO --- ON ATTAINING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.

SONG.

ACROSTIC.

TO THE BIRD OF PARADISE.

OH! CEASE THOSE BELLS.

FAREWELL TO THE YEAR.

TO FLOWERS.

STANZAS TO---

ON BEING ASKED BY MY CHILDREN TO JOIN IN THEIR PASTIMES

TWILIGHT.

THE FLOWER GIRL'S SONG.

OH! WEEP NOT FOR THE DEAD.

IMPROMPTU

THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY.

THE SNOWDROP.

STANZAS.

THE FLOWERS ARE ALL FADING.

TO A YOUNG FRIEND,

THE BRIDAL.

WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE CITY OF LONDON,

STANZAS.

AUTUMN.

ON THE DEATH OF A NEPHEW.

IMPROMPTU

SONG.

A MOTHER TO HER SLEEPING CHILD.

STANZAS TO SPRING.

A HYMN,

IMPROMPTU ON A BLADE OF GRASS.

WHY WAKE THE LONG FORGOTTEN LAY?

WHAT IS THE SUNSHINE OF THE HEART?

ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,

WRITTEN ON VISITING BLACK GANG CHINE,

INVOCATION TO MY MUSE.

VENUS AND CUPID.

THE BRANCH OF THE ALMOND TREE.

TO HOPE.

SONG.

A MOTHER TO HER SON ON HIS BIRTHDAY.

TO A FAVORITE POET.

TO A YOUTH ON THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER.

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.

CLEOPATRA TO MARC ANTHONY.

TO THE MEMORY OF ------.

ASPASIA TO PERICLES.

A SICK PARENT'S BEDSIDE.

SONG.

TO OBLIVION.

FRAGMENT.

FAREWELL TO THE YEAR WHICH IS PAST.

SONG.

TO THOUGHT.

FAREWELL TO GUERNSEY.

HIS NAME.

SONG.

“OH! HEED NOT THOSE BEAMS.”

TO MY LYRE.

REBECCA.

ELEGIAC STANZAS ON A DEPARTED PARENT.

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SONG.

[List! to old Ocean's voice, oh list]

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List! to old Ocean's voice, oh list,
Proudly he bounds along,
Flinging on high a briny mist,—
List! listen to his song.

II

“I come from many a far-off coast,
From where the diamonds shine;
From golden sands, the trav'lers' boast,
And em'ralds all are mine.

III

“I rock the pearls within their shells,
I haunt the coral groves;
I watch the Nereides weave their spells,
And guard their bright alcoves.

IV

“I bear upon my changeful breast
Full many a gallant sail;
I hush the seaman to his rest
When night-winds loudly wail.

V

“I wait around fair Albion's Isle,
And keep her from her foes;
And guard her fleet from rocks the while
The sterner Wind-God blows.

VI

“The loving heart—the aching head
Are pillowed on the sea,
And none may dare disturb the dead
Who ride and sleep with me.

VII

“Their winding-sheet—a thousand waves,
A world of waters hide
From man their bright untrodden graves
Beneath th' o'erwhelming tide.”

VIII

Then listen, Britons, to his voice!
Proudly he bounds along,
While sunbeams mid his waves rejoice—
List! listen to his song.

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