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Poems

By Henry Nutcombe Oxenham. Third Edition
Oxenham, Henry Nutcombe (1829-1888)
  
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 I. 
I. THE SENTENCE OF KAÏRES.
 II. 
II. THE FATE OF COLUMBUS.
 III. 
III. STANZAS FOR MUSIC.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V. THE POET AND THE SAINT.
 VI. 
VI. THE LIFE-DIRGE OF EGYPT'S DEAD.
 VII. 
VII. FRIENDSHIP.
 VIII. 
VIII. THE PILGRIM BOAT ON THE RHINE.
 IX. 
IX. MAYENCE AT SUNSET.
 X. 
X. MECHLIN.
 XI. 
XI. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE DOG.
 XII. 
XII. STRIFE AND PEACE.
 XIII. 
XIII. SOLITUDE.
 XIV. 
XIV. THE LEGEND OF ST. CATHARINE.
 XV. 
XV. THE VIRGIN MOTHER.
 XVI. 
XVI. THE VESPER-BELL.
 XVII. 
XVII. THE FUNERAL OF THE LAST OF THE STUARTS.
 XVIII. 
XVIII.
 XIX. 
XIX. TO MY BROTHER ON HIS FIFTH BIRTHDAY.
 XX. 
XX.
 XXI. 
XXI. TO MY SISTER.
 XXII. 
XXII. BEREAVEMENT.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. TRIAL.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. SEPARATION.
 XXV. 
XXV. DINAS EMLYN.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. THE THREE PEALS OF THE ANGELUS.
 XXVII. 
XXVII. TO A FRIEND LEAVING OXFORD.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. THE HEAVENLY STRANGER .
 XXIX. 
XXIX. THE HOLY ANGELS.
 XXX. 
XXX. IN TEMPORE VESPERI ERIT LUX.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. A CHANCE MEETING.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. THE MIDNIGHT MASS OF THE NATIVITY.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. THE MANGER OF THE HOLY NIGHT.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. THE CHILDREN'S HYMN.
 XXXV. 
XXXV. AN EASTER GREETING.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. THE END OF MAN.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. TO L. H. D.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. A CHARACTER.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. WAR PIECES, 1855.
 XL. 
XL. THE MARTYR BOY .
 XLI. 
XLI. THE CHILD-CHRIST ON THE CROSS.
 XLII. 
XLII. SNOWDONIA.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. EUCHARISTICA.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. MATER DOLOROSA.
 XLV. 
XLV. MATER CORONATA.
 XLVI. 
XLVI. BEATUS SIS, CARISSIME!
 XLVII. 
XLVII. THE MARTYRDOM AT CANTERBURY.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. FAREWELL TO HARROW.
 XLIX. 
XLIX. REQUIEM ÆTERNAM.
 L. 
L. MEDIÆVAL INFLUENCES.
 LI. 
LI. IN MEMORIAM C. H. C.

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XXXVII. TO L. H. D.

Thou ne'er hast learnt in this world's specious school
To sneer at friendship, and relinquish truth;
Thy heart, untaught to love and hate by rule,
Beats with the freshness and the fire of youth,
While thy gay spirit's artless constancy
Glows in the blue depths of thy speaking eye.
Would my affection could impart to thee,
Dearest, one half so much as I have caught
In the unconscious interchange of thought
From gazing on thy soul's nobility!
Through the wide world I sought, and found not one
Whose love could do for me what thine hath done.
O blest in life, O doubly blest in death,
To whom is given thy keen unwavering faith!
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