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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?”

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.

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.

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.

SHORT POEMS

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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THE ROSE-WREATHED HOUR-GLASS.

Poets while away their leisure,
Culling flowers of rhyme;
Thus they twine the wreath of pleasure
Round the glass of Time,
Culling flowers of rhyme.

Fancy's children, ever heedless,
Why thus bribe the hours?
Death to prove the trouble needless
Withers all your flowers;
Why then bribe the hours?

Like the sand so fast retreating,
Thus your hopes shall fall;
Life and fame are just as fleeting;
Poets, flowers, and all:—
So your fancies fall.