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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.]
  
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
  
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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AVONDALE.

ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG FRIEND, AN ADMIRER OF AN ITALIAN LADY.

Boy! would'st thou have thy suit prevail?
Go lead thy heart's enchantress o'er
The woody steeps of Avondale,
That guard the stream of Avonmore.
Howe'er her partial mind pourtray
The graces of her bard's Vaucluse,
She'll there as charmèd haunts survey
As ever soothed the Tuscan muse.
For there from every zephyr's wing
A fairy spirit gently calls,
And there the waters wildly sing,
And there a mimic Sorga falls:
Though Arklow's woodlands proudly sweep,
And Aghrim boasts its golden ore;
Though wild is Cronroe's rocky steep,
And wilder yet is lone Glenmore;
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Though Vartrey lightly bounding goes,
As coy yet playful childhood strays;
Though sweet Avoca sweeter flows
Since young Catullus sung its praise;
Let lovers roam o'er hill and vale,
Yet never shall their eyes explore
A fairer glen than Avondale,
A lovelier stream than Avonmore.
Then warmly while thy lips repeat
The liquid verse she loves so well,
Be sure her heart will kindly beat,
Be sure her breast will softly swell:
Dull must the lover be to fail,
Or else a frozen nymph implore,
Among the groves of Avondale,
Beside the stream of Avonmore.
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