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Poems by John Howard Bryant

Bryant, John Howard (1807-1902)
  
TO THE READER.

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POEMS.
  
MY NATIVE VILLAGE.
  
THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN.
  
THE BLIND RESTORED TO SIGHT.
  
THE MOUNTAIN GRAVE-YARD.
  
SONNET.
  
THE WANDERER'S LAMENT.
  
A NIGHT SCENE.
  
HYMN.
  
THE BLUEBIRD.
  
THE EMIGRANT.
  
INDIAN SUMMER.
  
THE NEW ENGLAND PILGRIM'S FUNERAL.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
LAMENT OF THE CORSAIR'S WIFE.
  
SONNET TO ---
  
SONG OF THE CHAMOIS HUNTERS.
  
WINTER.
  
THE BROOK WALK.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET—October.
  
ON LEAVING THE PLACE OF MY NATIVITY.
  
ROGER CRANE.
  
THE BETTER PART.
  
SENATCHWINE'S GRAVE.
  
THE ANCIENT OAK.
  
A DAY IN AUTUMN.
  
LINES ON FINDING A FOUNTAIN IN A SECLUDED PART OF A FOREST.
  
THE EMIGRANT'S SONG.
  
ODE.
  
AFTER DEATH.
  
THE LITTLE CLOUD.
  
THE VALLEY BROOK.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
THE MAPLES.
  
A RECOLLECTION.
  
BORDER COURTSHIP—A REMINISCENCE.
  
JOHN SMITH'S EPISTLE TO KATE.
  
A SUMMER MORNING SCENE.
  
WRITTEN AT CUMMINGTON, 1870.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON VISITING MY BIRTHPLACE, MAY 1866.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
UNCERTAINTY.
  
SONNET.
  
THE OUTCAST.
  
THE APPROACH OF AGE.
  
SONG OF LABOR.
  
THE HILLS OF PARADISE.
  
HYMN.
  
DEATH OF LINCOLN.
  
DROUGHT.
  
WRITTEN AT NASSAU, N. P., FEBRUARY, 1872.
  
AUTUMN.
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THREE SONNETS.
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[I. I walk bewildered in the shadows here]
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[II. 'Twas thus my friend, in earnest accents said]
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[III. Friends weep around, believing she is dead]
  
AUTUMNAL EVENINGS.
  
LINES WITHOUT NAME.
  
TO H.—1831.
  
UPWARD, ONWARD.
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POEMS WRITTEN FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
  
WELCOME TO THE RETURNED VETERANS. 1863.
  
WELCOME TO THE RETURN SOLDIERS, 1865.
  
LINES READ AT A GOLDEN WEDDING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1863.
  
LINES READ AT A GOLDEN WEDDING, FEBRUARY 24, 1862.
  
LINES READ AT A GOLDEN WEDDING, JUNE 6, 1872.
  
LINES READ AT THE OLD SETTLERS' MEETING.—1864.
  
LINES READ BEFORE THE PRINCETON, (BUREAU COUNTY,) WASHINGTONIAN SOCIETY.
  
IN MEMORIAM.
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. M.
  
FAREWELL HYMN,
  
INSTALLATION HYMN.
  
ON THE DEATH OF ICHABOD CODDING.
  
HYMN SUNG AT THE DEDICATION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
  
HYMN,
  
DEDICATION HYMN.
  
HYMN, WRITTEN FOR THE CUMMINGTON CENTENNIAL.
  
POEM FOR DECEMBER 22D.
  
POEM READ AT THE CUMMINGTON CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, JUNE, 26th, 1879.
  
LINES WRITTEN FOR DECORATION DAY, MAY 30TH, 1879.
  
AT THE TOMB OF LINCOLN.
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ADDENDA.
  
IN MEMORIAM.
  
HYMN.
  
WAR.
  
SONNET.

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SONNET.

I saw a preacher in the house of God,
With frantic gestures and in accents loud,
And words profane he spread his hands abroad
And dealt damnation to the gathered crowd!
His speech was set with many a phrase uncouth,
And frivolous remark and common jest;
A mixture strange of folly and of truth,
With fierce denunciation for the rest.
Is this, I thought while listening to his strains,
A follower of the meek and lowly One?
Are these the accents heard on Bethlehem's plains,
When angels hailed the birth of Mary's Son?
Is this the Gospel sent us from above
Whose words are peace and charity and love?
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