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Sonnets by the Rev. Charles Strong

Second Edition
Strong, Charles (1784-1864)
  
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II. ON PRESENTING THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL WITH “SPECIMENS OF ITALIAN SONNETS WITH TRANSLATIONS.”
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XL. THE ROCK-WALK.
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XLIV. Psalm 119, v. 71.
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LIV. THE EVENING STAR.
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LV. BIRDIE.
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LVI. ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. HENRY ALFORD, M.A., FORMERLY FELLOW OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD.
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LVII. AFTER READING “EUSEBIUS,” B. V., CH. I.
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LVIII. TO L. L.
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LXI. TO THE REV. W. R. DAWES, F.R.A.S.
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LXII. THE TWO GARDENS.
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LXIII. BARON.
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LXVI. THE ARBOR VITÆ.
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LXVII. THE CLIMBING BOY AND PRIMROSES.
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LXX. THE FIRST LEAF OF THE ALBUM.
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LXXI. THE LAST LEAF OF THE ALBUM.
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LXXIV. MORETON CHURCH REPAIRED, 1847–8.
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LXXV. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON.
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LXXVIII. TO THE REVEREND CHARLES STRONG.
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LXXIX. BEATRICE CENCI AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
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LXXX. TO MY DEAD PAROQUET.
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LXXXIV. THOMAS DRUMMOND, ESQ., FORMERLY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR IRELAND.
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LXXXV. ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF “ARIOSTO.”
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LXXXVII. MISS HOLFORD, AUTHOR OF “WALLACE,” “MARGARET OF ANJOU,” AND OTHER POEMS.
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LXIV.

Man in the image of Jehovah made,
Man, born to love his kind, yet bred to hate,—
Is Man become a burthen to the state,
Toil-spent to sink and wither in the shade?
What? has the earth withholden the green blade?
Falls there no more the early rain and late?
Hath the brown fallow ceased to vegetate,
And flocks to bring forth thousands in the glade?
Ah no,—boon Nature, liberal as of old,
From her full bosom yields increase of food,
Herds without number, corn a hundred-fold.
'Tis Man alone that hath her aim withstood,
To the low lust of gain insatiate sold,
And dead to every sense of brotherhood.
1844.
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