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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;

SONNET

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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SONNET

ON THE PYRAMID IN THE GROUNDS OF MAJOR MOOR, GREAT BEALINGS.

Old Cheops, or Cephrenes might erect,
On Egypt's plains, a loftier, prouder pile,
Of more ambitious and elaborate style,
To save his name and memory from neglect.
Thou, happier far than either architect,
Hast reared a humbler edifice the while,
Which neither captives' blood nor tears defile,
Nor thoughts of tyranny's stern yoke infect.
Hence in an English landscape thine but seems
An object with its beauties meet to blend;
The graceful birch beside it loves to bend:—
And if its crest tri-une, inmoonlight's beams,
Recall to fancy Hindu's wilder dreams,
These should not Christian charity offend.

This “crest tri-une” was dug out of the ruins of a Hindoo temple at Malabar Point, on the island of Bombay. It is a model of the celebrated colossal bust in the cavern temple of Elephanta.