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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (1804-1891)

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“IL SONNETTO.”

I.

I. ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE.

III.

III. THE CHAPEL BELL.

IV.

IV. ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A Village School.

V.

V. ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON.

VI.

VI. NAPLES AT SUNSET.

VII.

VII. ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR Lausanne, now used as a Stable.

VIII.

VIII. ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.

IX.

IX. ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION

X.

X. ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH of Gruyère in Switzerland.

XI.

XI. ON THE RIVER TEPL,

XII.

XII. ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, Carlsbad.

XIII.

XIII. THE LILY.

XXIV.

XXIV. IL GELOSO.

XV.

XV. THE TWO ROSES.

XVI.

XVI. ADDRESSED TO A LADY

XVII.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM.

XIX.

XIX. THE PENITENT.

XX.

XX. ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID.

XXI.

XXI. ON THE LOSS OF THE “AVENGER.” 1847.

XXII.

XXII.ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE.

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A MYSTERY.

Thus a young wife, alighting from the train,
Rebuk'd her husband in the gentlest strain,
“When we in darkness through a tunnel glide,
You should not kiss me, dearest, though your bride.”
“Kiss you! Not I! I kissed you not.” The pair
In mute amazement at each other stare.