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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (1804-1891)

ON THE BOWMEETING AND FANCY FAIR

THE PAPER KNIFE.

ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE.

ON PRESENTING A MIRROR

THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL

LORELEI.

CHIMONANTHUS FRAGRANS.

THE BOAR AND THE SINGINGBIRD.

THE SQUIRE OF DAMES; OR, A TOUR IN SPAIN.

THE SPANISH BARBER.

EPIGRAMS.

ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOK-SHELF Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen.

CARVING AND GILDING.

A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS.

A NEW DENOMINATION.

ON A NEW CHURCH, ERECTED A.D. 1842.

ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT.

ON SEEING SOME NAMES CUT ON A PANE OF GLASS.

EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY.

APPROPRIATE NAMES.

A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

STRIKING BEAUTY.

A BOTTLE OF THE OLD.

A SCENE IN THE HIGHLANDS.

JONES ENLIGHTENED.

SO MUCH FOR SENTIMENT.

SINK OR SWIM.

[Of old, when the church-building coffer was full]

PADDY'S REMONSTRANCE.

COMPLAISANCE.

TWO OF A TRADE.

MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL.—1864.

HIDDEN TALENT.

SPIRIT-TAPPING.

HIS LORDSHIP'S INVITATION.

LENGTH AND DEPTH.

LITTLE LOVE.

ON THE FIGURE OF A NEGRO SUPPORTING A DIAL.

ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY.

CROSS-QUESTIONING.

THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER.

[Stone ox! if we were hungry you would satisfy but little us]

RAILWAY DIALOGUE.

A MYSTERY.

A DIALOGUE

ARGUMENT OF A DISSENTER

THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES.

POINT LACE.

FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876.

FROM THE ITALIAN.

TO A STATUE OF CUPID BEARING A BOW AND QUIVER.

ON AN ILL-NATURED PARASITE.

MY NEIGHBOUR.

[Through life the poor dolt who lies buried below]

[A martyr to verse, writing rhymes without number]

[The Duke lieth here; and in sorrow I bend]

[To paint some charms, as poets feign]

ON AN ILL-NATURED BEAUTY.

[Not prettier hands the Queen of Beauty grace]

[Licander in life has one object alone—]

[“Why were prudence and valour to women denied?”]

[“Love! beauteous boy!” Aminta cries]

THE WATERLESS BRIDGE.

THE REBUKE.

CURE FOR TOOTHACHE.

ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE,

THE BARBER ABROAD.

THE LEY OF THE LANDLORD.

I. ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE.

III.

III. THE CHAPEL BELL.

IV.

IV. ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A Village School.

V. ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON.

VI.

VI. NAPLES AT SUNSET.

VII.

VII. ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR Lausanne, now used as a Stable.

VIII.

VIII. ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.

IX.

IX. ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION

X. ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH of Gruyère in Switzerland.

XI.

XI. ON THE RIVER TEPL,

XII.

XII. ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, Carlsbad.

XIII.

XIII. THE LILY.

XXIV.

XXIV. IL GELOSO.

XV.

XV. THE TWO ROSES.

XVI.

XVI. ADDRESSED TO A LADY

XVII.

XVII. HOME.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM.

XIX.

XIX. THE PENITENT.

XX.

XX. ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID.

XXI.

XXI. ON THE LOSS OF THE “AVENGER.” 1847.

XXII.

XXII.ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE.

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THE REBUKE.

Said Brown—“When I, myself to rid
Of pestering Arabs, fiercely chid
The swarm which throng'd the Pyramid,

—My false teeth as I loudly swore
By chance fell out,—then all was o'er,
And not a word could I say more!”

“You muff!” said Jones.—“Had you been quick
And seized that moment for the trick,
You might have talk'd Gum-Arabic!”