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Poems

By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston
Quillinan, Edward (1791-1851)

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WILD-FLOWERS OF WESTMORELAND.
  
A FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD.
  
THE HELIOTROPE AND THE SNOWDROP.
  
THE NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK.
  
THE BIRCH OF SILVER-HOW.
  
CHESNUT TREES NEAR BRAGA.
  
THE CANARY GOLDFINCH.
  
WANSFELL.
  
RYDAL-BECK, WESTMORELAND.
  
DALEGARTH FORCE.
  
A SEA LYRIC.
  
A MOST RICH AND PERFECTLY DEFINED RAINBOW ON THE OCEAN.
  
A PARTING BENISON TO THE MEDEA STEAMSHIP.
  
CLOUDS.
  
ON A PORTRAIT BY COMERFORD.
  
THE MAGDALEN.
  
“WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN WICKLOW?”
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[SONNETS.]
  
STANZAS
  
TO D---.
  
TO D. H.
  
TO MRS. HARRISON,
  
TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.
  
LINES TO MRS. DUNLOP, FOR ROTHA.
  
TO MISS ------.
  
TO MARY, DANCING.
  
MAY LUTTRELL.
  
TO A LADY OF SUPERCILIOUS AIR.
  
LADIES' EYES.
  
TO THE POET.
  
LEE PRIORY, IN MAY.
  
CHILD LOST.
  
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH MAY SOUTHEY, WHO FORBADE COMPLIMENT.
  
IN A LADY'S ALBUM.
  
IN AN ALBUM.
  
IN THE ALBUM OF MARGARET ---
  
IN AN ALBUM
  
SONG.—AMBLESIDE VALE.
  
SONG ALTERED FROM MOORE.
  
LOW WOOD, WINANDERMERE.
  
MELANCHOLY.
  
NEPTUNE AND MEDUSA.
  
STANZAS. IN ALLUSION TO SOME WORLDLY ADVICE IN CLEVER VERSE BY A LADY TO HER YOUNGER FRIEND, THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN:—
  
TENSES.
  
THE TWO RINGS.
  
“HIC JACET MALLEUS SCOTORUM.”
  
ADDRESS TO A PONY.
  
ON THE REPORTED VISIT OF QUEEN ADELAIDE TO WORDSWORTH.
  
MORALS FROM THE STARS.
  
THE SPELL.
  
INTERIOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, AS SEEN BY MOONLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841.
  
VERY UNFINISHED VERSES SUGGESTED BY THE SERRA OF GERÉS.
  
“N'EVEILLEZ PAS LE CHAT QUI DORT.”
  
THE ROSE-WREATHED HOUR-GLASS.
  
THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTERS.
  
FIRST LOVE.
  
AT A BALL.
  
AVONDALE.
  
AGNES OF HOLMGARD.
  
THE LEGEND OF SAINT MEINRAD.
  
VAL DE LUZ.
  
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOOR OF GRANADA AND HIS SPANISH PRISONER.
  
ZELINDA.
  
THE DUKE OF ALBA.
  
THE GROVES OF ENTRE QUINTAS.
  
EPITAPH ON COLONEL GEORGE HOLMES, C.B.
  
EPITAPH ON J. K. E. HOLMES.
  
FUNERAL OF ROBERT SOUTHEY.
  
ELEGY ON G. M. B.
  
ELEGY ON E. W. G. B.
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SHORT POEMS
  
ELEGY ON THE SAME, WRITTEN TWELVE YEARS LATER.
  
ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED AT TORQUAY, FEB. 2, 1833.
  
TO THE CITY OF FLORENCE.
  
LINES COMPOSED IN THE ENGLISH BURIAL-GROUND AT OPORTO.
  
DIALOGUE WITH THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF A FRIEND'S CHILD.
  
A DREAM OF DEATH AT SEA.
  
STANZAS.
  
ALONE.

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THE HELIOTROPE AND THE SNOWDROP.

That flower, in scented garments fine,
Came first from regions of the mine,
And soon its worth is told:—
Oppressive in its rich pretence,
Its very sweetness hath a sense
Analogous to gold.
A thing of luxury, worldly-wise!
A true sun-worshipper, whose eyes
Pursue the God of Day:—
But if a cloud deface his beam,
'Twill drop its cunning lids, and seem
A worshipper of clay.
Begone, thou type of summer friends!
The flower that winter's death-bed tends
Give me, in spite of scorn!
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Begone, Peruvian Heliotrope!
Give me the snow-born Flower of Hope,
The Flower of Hope forlorn.
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