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The bard, and minor poems

By John Walker Ord ... Collected and edited by John Lodge
Ord, John Walker (1811-1853)
  
[dedication]

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THE BARD.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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PART V.
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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.
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PART I. THE DEVIL AND THE POPE.
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PART II. THE SUPPER.
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PART III. THE SUPPER (CONCLUDED.)
  
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 DREAM.
  
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.
  
CONCLUSION.
  
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.
  
THE WELL.
  
THE SPA.
  
THE SYCAMORE.
  
THE RETURN.
  
TO ROSEBERY.
  
THE ALUM ROCKS.
  
WRITTEN ON NEW-YEAR'S-DAY.
  
HIGH CLIFF.

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“WHAT IS LOVE?”

“What is Love?”—an idle pleasure,
Full of labour, full of leisure,
Without limit, without measure—
Never understood.
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“What is Love?—now pray declare.”
Neither earth, nor sea, nor air;
Rain nor sunshine, dark nor fair,
Fashion, shape, nor form.
Like chameleon's hues it is—
On its lips an angel's kiss—
Full of balm, and peace, and bliss—
Full of hope and truth.
Fragrant as a wild-flower's breast,
Beauteous as the sunlit West,
Gentle as an infant's rest
In the hush of sleep.
Heavenly seraphs guide its feet,
Winds of ether not more sweet;
Cold, yet warm'd with summer's heat—
Chaste, and pure, and free.
Guard the portal! watch the pyre!
For the breath of rude desire
Quenches quite its sacred fire,
Lambent and serene.
“What is Love?”—The soul of good!
Earth, ere stain'd with Abel's blood—
Charm and grace of womanhood—
Long may it be thine.
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