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Poems

by T. Westwood

Westwood, T. (1814?-1888)

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THE DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN.

CREATION'S HYMN OF PRAISE.

STANZAS ADDRESSED TO A LADY WHO AFFECTED A DISLIKE FOR POETRY.

THE LONELY HEART.

THE VOICE OF WINTER,

THE PRAYER OF THE CAPTIVE.

LIFE AND ETERNITY.

THE SISTER'S FAREWELL.

THE MINSTREL'S LAMENT.

INTRODUCTION TO AN ALBUM.

THE SPANISH KNIGHT'S FAREWELL.

LINES SUGGESTED BY A PORTRAIT.

AWAY, MAIDEN, AWAY!

THE UNION OF PAINTING WITH POETRY.

SING, LADY, SING!

EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH OF PIRON.

THE VICTOR'S DIRGE.

AN EXPOSTULATION TO SUMMER ON HER PREMATURE DEPARTURE.

THE CALL TO ARMS.

THEMES OF SADNESS.

LINES TO A FRIEND.

NATURE'S EVIDENCE.

THE EXILE'S SORROW.

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THOUGHTS ON FLOWERS.

[Flowers are the lov'd of all]

[Look at yon lily, how without a blush]

[The snowdrop is the herald of the flowers]

[Wild flowers, that in the wood's deep solitudes]

[Here is the violet, the fragrant type]

[Trust not to outward seeming; health doth oft]

[I saw a flower in a pathless wood]

THE RETURN OF THE SWISS CRUSADERS.

CUPID AND THE BEE.

THE EXILE'S FAREWELL.

EPITAPH FROM THE FRENCH OF PIRON.

LINES SUGGESTED BY A DRAWING OF TURNBERRY CASTLE.

PAST AND PRESENT.

A SONG OF SPRING.

“I MAY NOT LINGER HERE.”

THE EMIGRANT'S BRIDE.

SONG OF TRIUMPH.

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[Trust not to outward seeming; health doth oft]

Trust not to outward seeming; health doth oft
Assume the mask of sickness, and thou knowest
That when its deepest blushes deck the rose,

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The canker-worm is sometimes found within,
Eating its life away.