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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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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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TO A GIRL OF FIFTEEN.

Gentle, blooming spirit,
Creature of delight!
Whence dost thou inherit
Loveliness so bright?
Eyes as clear as morning,
Locks that mock the noon,
Cheeks like eve's adorning,
Forehead like the moon!
Naïad of the fountain,
Mermaid of the sea,
Fairy of the mountain,
Scarce can match with thee.
Not the snow-drop weeping,
Not the hare-bell blue,
Not the violet sleeping,
Are more pure than thou.
Virtue's every treasure,
Love and truth divine,
Blessings without measure,
Charming maid, are thine.
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All the world's before thee—
Dreams of thought and sense—
All bright things adore thee,
Shapes of innocence!
Fair thy path as Summer,
Or the azure way,
When the stars outnumber
All the blooms of May.
Thus, when storms are roaring,
And the Winter's near,
Thy spirit meekly soaring,
Shall reach its heavenly sphere!
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