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Minor Poems, including Napoleon

By Bernard Barton. Second Edition, with Additions

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

MINOR POEMS, INCLUDING NAPOLEON.

TO JOHN BOWRING, ESQ. ON HIS TRANSLATION OF THE RUSSIAN ANTHOLOGY.

TO C. B. T.

TO C. H. TOWNSEND, ON HIS VERSES TO THE SETTING SUN, INCLUDED IN THE VOLUME OF HIS POEMS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

STANZAS ON THE APPROACH OF WINTER.

SONNET, WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A VOLUME OF CHARLES LLOYD'S POETRY.

BENHALL.

SONNET.

TO --- ---, ESQ.

TO THE AUTHOR OF “MAY YOU LIKE IT.”

VERSES ON THE GATEWAY

THE CONTRAST.

STANZAS.

THE RECANTATION; TO --- ---.

VERSES TO A CHILD TWO YEARS OLD.

DAYS OF DARKNESS.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA.

TO THE MEMORY OF EMMA FULLER.

EARLY RISING AND PRAYER.

THE TWELVE MONTHS OF HUMAN LIFE.

TO A DILATORY CORRESPONDENT.

LOWESTOFT.

TO A FRIEND, ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR ROME.

THE WALL-FLOWER.

ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

TO THE CLOUDS.

DUNWICH.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR'S FATHER.

A PORTRAIT.

TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM HEY.

WHAT IS LIFE?

ON THE RETURN OF SUMMER BIRDS.

INFANCY.

BOYHOOD.

MANHOOD.

OLD AGE.

ON A PORTRAIT OF BEATRICE CENCI:

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MANHOOD.

I

The ripen'd corn which clothes in gold
The autumnal landscape round,
Is fair; as comely to behold
Is ripen'd Manhood found.

II

Hope to fruition now must yield,
The joy of harvest nigh,
In all its plenteousness reveal'd
Before the gazer's eye.

III

If cultureless that soil had laid,
What now could be its own,
Be what they might its light and shade,
But barrenness alone?

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IV

Nor can mere Manhood bring to view
Aught more to be enjoyed,
If the mind's spring and summer too
Have pass'd by unemployed.

V

Yet seed well sown, and ripe to reap,
May profit fail to win;
Prudence no jubilee will keep,
Unknown the gathering in.

VI

When safe into the garner brought,
The triumph is secure;
And then, alone, to grateful thought
The joy of harvest pure!