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Old Year Leaves

Being Old Verses Revised: By H. T. Mackenzie Bell ... New Edition
Bell, Mackenzie (1856-1930)

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[The leaves which in the autumn of the years]
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
THE RIVER OF THOUGHT.
  
WHISPERING WINDS.
  
HELPFULNESS.
  
THE SOURCE OF SONG.
  
A STORM SONG.
  
A SONG FOR POLAND IN 1878.
  
WHAT ALL MAY DO.
  
REWARD OF PARLIAMENTARY DOCILITY.
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SONNETS ON THE POWER OF THOUGHT.
  
In Converse.
  
In Writing.
  
In Art.
  
In Proverbs, &c.
  
IN MEMORY OF The gallant men who fell fighting at Isandhlwana, South Africa, in a surprise by the Zulus, 23d January 1879.
  
VIOLET.
  
HEART ECHOES.
  
THE POET'S POWERLESSNESS.
  
THE OMNIPRESENCE OF POETRY.
  
FRAGMENT FOR MUSIC.
  
AN EVENING LANDSCAPE.
  
THE GUERDON OF TRIBULATION NOT INCURRED BY GUILT.
  
THE TRUE TREASURE.
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EDGAR VANNING:
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
 V. 
SCENE V.
 VI. 
SCENE VI.
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VERSES OF TRAVEL.
  
A BISCAYAN SUNSET.
  
AFTER SUNSET OFF PAUILLAC, FRANCE.
  
ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF THE PYRENEES.
  
A DIRGE OF DECAY.
  
LINES ON LOOKING UP THE VALE OF BARÉGES FROM ST. SAUVEUR, HAUTES PYRÉNÉES, FRANCE.
  
FROM LA RAILLÈRE TO PONT D'ESPAGNE AND LAC DE GAUBE.
  
AT ORTHEZ
  
THE ESCORIAL, 1879.
  
LINES ON PASSING IN AN EXPRESS TRAIN THROUGH BADAJOZ,
  
CINTRA in 1879.
  
A LESTÉ SUNRISE IN MADEIRA.
  
MADEIRA—MOONLIGHT.
  
AT SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.
  
GIBRALTAR.
  
GRANADA.
  
THE CERTOSA OF PAVIA;
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SONGS AND LYRICS.
  
THE LATE AUTUMN IS DYING.
  
UNFULFILLED YEARNINGS.
  
GLAD DREAMS OF THE FUTURE COME O'ER US.
  
A SONG OF HOPE.
  
HOW OFT ARISE TO SOOTHE OUR WOE.
  
HAPPINESS HERE.
  
A SONG IN THE SOUTH.
  
TWILIGHT MEMORIES.
  
A WINTRY MOOR AT NIGHT.
  
A SEA SONG.
  
WHY DO I TRACE.
  
A PRACTICAL THEORY OF LIFE.
  
EVENING THOUGHTS.
  
THOUGHT-LINKS.
  
JOY AND GRIEF.
  
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
  
MATERNAL LOVE.
  
PARTING WORDS.
  
HOMEWARD.
  
AN OCEAN GLOAMING.
  
A SUMMER SCENE.
  
SUMMER SORROW.
  
A SUMMER EVENING IN THE WOODS.
  
TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.
  
A LESSON IN THE GLOAMING.
  
MEADOW MUSINGS.
  
FLOWER-GATHERING.
  
GARDEN MUSINGS.
  
A COMPARISON.
  
IN TENEBRIS LUX.
  
A MORNING MEDITATION.
  
THE WARBLERS' MISSION.
  
MIDNIGHT MUSINGS.
  
“'TIS GONE.”
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ACROSTICS.
  
BURNS.
  
COWPER.
  
THE ELDER HOOD.
  
KIRKE WHITE.
  
A LIFE-CHRONICLE.
  
A DREAM OF LONG AGO.
  
IMAGINATION'S HARVEST.
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HISTORICAL PIECES.
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HUBERT.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
  
THE BATTLE OF LOUDONHILL.
  
AN EPISODE IN THE BATTLE OF FUENTES D'HONORE.
  
DEVOTION OF PRINCE PONIATOWSKI.
  
DUTY STRONGER THAN PAIN.
  
A SEA ENCOUNTER.

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BURNS.

Born of the people with a dower of song;—
Unlearnt in academic lore, yet strong;
Ranging each chord of lyric minstrelsy
'Neath genius-tutored fingers grandly free;
Still sweet and clear thy tones for Time eterne shall be.
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