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A New Year's Eve, and Other Poems

By Bernard Barton

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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A NEW YEAR'S EVE.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

A WINTER THOUGHT.

ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER.

THE NORTH COUNTRIE.

A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN.

A CHILD'S MORNING HYMN.

POWER AND GENTLENESS;

[I saw a ruin, mossed and grey]

LADY RACHEL RUSSELL;

A SPRING DIRGE.

WILLIAM COWPER.

JOHN WILLIAM FLETCHER, OF MADELY.

THE NIGHTINGALE FLOWER.

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHICHESTER.

THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS.

ON A PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD.

THE BATTLE OF GIBEON.

A POET'S APPEAL.

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD.

TO A CHILD TWO YEARS OLD.

TO AN ELEPHANT.

THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH.

“OH! FOR THAT CITY, FAIR AND BRIGHT.”

ON SIR PHILIP SYDNEY'S BIRTH-DAY.

THE RESURRECTION.

TO JOHN MARTIN.

ON HEARING THE WAITS.

FIRESIDE QUATRAINS,

AN EVENING THOUGHT.

THE DEATH OF RUFUS.

PRAISE AND PRAYER.

“I KNOW THY PATH.”

“IF A LIVELIER MEASURE.”

TO SIR SAMUEL FLUDYER,

SUMMER MUSINGS.

HYMN FOR EASTER.

A VETERAN'S MEMORIAL;

THE MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD.

“OH! HAD I THE WINGS OF A DOVE.”

THE BANKS OF SWALE.

TO MY DAUGHTER.

CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA.

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PRAISE AND PRAYER.

Can words alone the first display?
Prove we the last by bended knee?
The right to praise, the power to pray,
Must both be given us, Lord, by Thee.

Thy Spirit must the heart prepare,
And faith in thy dear Son be known,
Before the voice of praise or prayer
Can rise like incense to Thy throne.

Then give the power Thy grace imparts,
The love by Jesus shown of yore;
That praiseless lives and prayerless hearts
May prove our guilt and shame no more.