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The bard, and minor poems

By John Walker Ord ... Collected and edited by John Lodge
Ord, John Walker (1811-1853)
  
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THE BARD.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
A VISION OF THE MOON.
  
TO THE EAGLE.
  
MARY.
  
WRITTEN ON ARTHUR'S SEAT.
  
FRAGMENT. FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM.
  
DEDICATORY LINES, TO ------.
  
NATURE.
  
EMMELINE.
  
HANNIBAL AT THE ALTAR.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MOON.
  
THE WINDS.
  
LINES WRITTEN NEAR A WATERFALL.
  
SKETCH OF AN EVENING.
  
LINES TO A PIECE OF WHITE HEATH.
  
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO AN EAGLE.
  
LINES TO A GLED-HAWK,
  
BURNS.
  
POLAND.
  
LINES TO A LADY OF NINETEEN.
  
LINES TO THE SAME.
  
SUMMER DEPARTED.
  
FIRST AND LAST LOVE.
  
POLAND
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO THE LADY EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF LORD VISCOUNT MILTON.
  
THE CONSTITUTION-CITADEL!
  
THE GIANT HILLS OF ENGLAND!
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PASQUIN'S PILLAR.
  
ADDRESS TO THE PRINCESS VICTORIA,
  
QUEEN VICTORIA AT WINDSOR.
  
CARMEN TRIUMPHALE.
  
EPITHALAMIUM FOR QUEEN VICTORIA I.
  
LINES WRITTEN BESIDE THE TWO OLD RUINED TOWERS OF DOVER CASTLE.
  
HOME REVISITED.
  
SPRING.
  
THE CRUSADER'S LAMENT.
  
FIRST SONG OF SPRING.
  
ODE TO MARSDEN ROCK.
  
THE TRYSTING-PLACE REVISITED.
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CHARTIST ECLOGUE.
  
THE WRECK OF THE SYRIA,
  
LINES.
  
A REMEMBRANCE.
  
VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF THE EARL OF DURHAM.
  
BOMBARDMENT OF ST JEAN D'ACRE.
  
TO THE CUCKOO.
  
NAPOLEON.
  
TYNEMOUTH PRIORY.
  
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE LATE APPALLING ACCIDENT AT SOUTH SHIELDS.
  
GUISBOROUGH ABBEY.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “LOCKWOOD.”
  
LINES TO A LITTLE GIRL.
  
“WHAT IS LOVE?”
  
TO A GIRL OF FIFTEEN.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF MARY CHAPMAN,
  
LINES TO A SNOW-DROP.
  
TO THE COUNTESS B---.
  
THE BELOVED.
  
LAURA.
  
“DO YOU REMEMBER?”
  
SONG OF MIRIAM.
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THE BELIEVER AND THE SOCIALIST.
  
LINES, WRITTEN IN NEWCASTLE THEATRE, TO MISS F. B---.
  
LINES DESCRIPTIVE OF A DAY'S ANGLING AMONG THE HILLS.
  
LINES ON SEEING PORTION OF A WRECK ON THE SEA-SHORE.
  
LINES.
  
MARY'S EYE.
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SONNETS.

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TO THE CUCKOO.

Fairy of the mountains,
Spirit of the grove,
Charmer of the fountains—
Whence that voice of love?
From what secret dwelling
Sounds the changeful note—
Now from forest swelling,
Now from vale remote!
Not the lark of morning,
Nor the birds of night,
(All the groves adorning!)
Match thy voice of might:
Voice that floats through heaven
With its tale of mirth—
Glories of the even,
Melodies of earth.
Hues that fill the forest—
Freshest of the Spring;
Where the palm-tree soarest,
Where the wild-birds sing.
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Harbinger of glory,
Rapture and delight,
When the mountains hoary
Rise in verdure bright:
When the primrose springeth:
When the violets bloom;
When mute nature bringeth
Flowers for Winter's tomb.
Thus in boyhood-pleasure,
From some distant tree,
Came the solemn measure
Greeting unto me.
Thus the heavens were gladden'd,
Thus the earth was bright:—
Heart and soul unsadden'd;
Spirit calm and bright.
Thus in death's cold shadow,
Shall the echo near
Spread through field and meadow
Music o'er my bier.
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