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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.]
  
TO C. S. H.
  
EMMA.
  
THE AMERICAN SHIP PAULINA.
 I. 
HERO-WORSHIP. I.
 II. 
HERO-WORSHIP. II.
 I. 
MEDUSA. I.
 II. 
MEDUSA. II.
 I. 
THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. I.
 II. 
THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. II.
 III. 
THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. III.
 IV. 
THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. IV.
 I. 
FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. I.
 II. 
FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. II.
 III. 
FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. III.
 I. 
FIELD-FOOT. I.
 II. 
FIELD-FOOT. II.
  
CAVE OF MEDITATION, FIELD-FOOT.
  
TO ANGUS FLETCHER.
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SUSPIRIA.
 I. 
I. WORDSWORTH'S HOME.
 II. 
II. HER HOME.
  
III. “JESUS WEPT.” (St. John xi. 35.)
  
IV. A REQUEST.
  
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
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I.
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II. Near Lauffenberg.
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III. Near Schaffhausen.
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IV. SOCIETY. BERNE.
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V. SCHWYTZ.
 VI. 
VI. THE LAKE OF LAUWERTZ.
 VII. 
VII. BERNE.
 VIII. 
VIII. LAUSANNE.
  
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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MORALS FROM THE STARS.

How few, on life's vain stage, enjoy their part!
With her own torch pale Envy burns her heart.
The low would rise; the high would soar; and still
Dwarf Fortune lags behind the giant Will.
Go, wiser thou,—however small thy state,—
Peruse the stars, and then forgive the great.
The stars in glory differ as in place:
Some show a dim, and some a dazzling face;
Some shine in groups, where each, by union strong,
Appropriates splendours that to all belong;
Myriads, too crowded for a separate sway,
Merge in a lucid stream,—a Milky Way.
Some, wandering, seem to dance from sphere to sphere,
But timed by laws of harmony severe.
Others in clusters interweave their rays,
Trembling in air like floating wreaths of haze.
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Some fix'd in power, and jealous neighbours, dart
Their rival beams; while others rule apart.
Of these, One reigns superior and alone,
A keen-eyed lustre on the polar throne,
Lord of the magnet that compels the steel
To guide o'er trackless seas th' adventurous keel.
Yon azure wall, with starry sentries mann'd,
Hides worlds, perhaps more wonderfully plann'd.
Could sight prevail, with Galileo's glass,
Athwart that flaming boundary to pass,
Man might descry, beyond his prison bars,
On every side a paradise of stars;
Yet nowhere find exact proportion given:
'Tis not in earth, or sea, or air, or heaven.
Read thou the earth in heaven, and things below
By those above, in their unequal show.
Look on the scatter'd difference of things,
Content that few are nobles, fewer kings;
That most are fated homely garb to wear,
And mean the livery that thyself must bear;
Content to live obscure, unknown to die,
And in the poor man's grave forgotten lie;
No mourner's love engraven o'er thy head,
But starlike daisies on the turf instead.
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Stars of the grave, to hope and daylight true,
Those flowers at nightfall shroud themselves from view;
At dawn unclose their lids, and all day's space
Look up to heaven with bright undoubting face:
Simple expounders of a text sublime
O'er sleeping dust that sleeps the night of time,
They shut their eyes against the charnel gloom,
And preach the Resurrection from the tomb.
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