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Metrical Effusions

or Verses on Various Occasions [by Bernard Barton]

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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Dedicatory Sonnet.

THE PAINS OF MEMORY.

A POETICAL EPISTLE TO A--- L---

SONNET. TO------ ------

TO W.ROSCOE, ESQ

THE CALEDONIAN ADIEU.

THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE.

WEEL TIMED DAFFIN.

STANZAS ON PERUSING Psyche, A POEM, BY THE LATE MRS. TIGHE.

RESPONSE TO THE THREE VALEDICTORY STANZAS SUBJOINED TO The Lady of the Lake.

SONNET TO G.D.L---,

THE EXILE'S RETURN.

JANE ASHFORD, A TALE IN HUMBLE LIFE.

TO THE EVENING STAR.

STANZAS ADDRESSED TO AN INFANT.

HYMN TO THE DEITY.

A FULL BLOWN ROSE.

THE FLIGHTS OF FANCY

“NEAR YONDER BOWER.”

TO LUCY IN HEAVEN.

STANZAS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

THE HARMONY OF THE CREATION.

IMITATION OF BURNS.

SONNET TO------

WHIGS & TORIES.

SONNET TO------

TO MARIA ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING.

TO PATRIOTISM, AN ODE.

THE BUTTERFLY'S DEATH.

STANZAS TO A FRIEND.

RETROSPECTIVE STANZAS.

PRINCE HOEL'S SONG, FROM Southey's Mador.

STANZAS ON WOMAN.

STANZAS IN ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING.

TO WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. ON READING HIS Lady of the Lake.

VALEDICTORY STANZAS.

VERSES ON READING HAYLEY'S LIFE OF COWPER.

THE THISTLE, ADDRESS'D TO THE AUTHOUR OF CALEDONIE, By a Scotch Lady.

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Dedicatory Sonnet.

Roscoe! wilt thou forgive me, when I claim
Thus publicly thy friendship, and aspire
After attention to my humble lyre
Beneath the shelter of thy honour'd name?
Pleas'd to encourage, and averse to blame
The meanest votary of the tuneful choir,
Thou wilt not bid me in despair retire,
Though slow my progress in the road to fame.
Whether the simple wreath thus idly twin'd
Shall fade neglected, or regarded bloom
I leave to taste like thine; and if the mind
Which genius and the muses all illume
Deride me not, no puny critic's dart
Shall change my course, or ever reach my heart.