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Madmoments: or First Verseattempts

By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison
Ellison, Henry

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VOL. I.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
MOCKHEROICKS
  
DEDICATION TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
SUNSETTHOUGHT.
  
WHEREIN ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT.
  
ON OBTAINING THINGS BY GENTLE MEANS.
  
GREATNESS.
  
ON SEEING ALL THINGS IN THEIR TRUE LIGHT.
  
WONDERWORKING.
  
HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD PLEASANT.
  
WEEKDAY WONDERWORKING.
  
WEEKDAY WONDERS.
  
TRUE GREATNESS.
  
ON THE PLANET LUCIFER.
  
POVERTY.
  
ON FANCYDREAMERS WHO THINK REAL LIFE TOO COMMONPLACE FOR THEM.
  
NATURE.
  
TO CLARKSON, ON THE PASSING OF THE SLAVETRADEABOLITIONBILL.
  
THE STARS.
  
PRAYER.
  
NATURE.
  
ON BEING MUCH ALONE.
  
ON SIMPLE ENJOYMENTS.
  
SELFGREATNESS.
  
DAY-DREAMING.
  
WORLDGRATITUDE.
  
LIFE.
  
SUBMISSION TO PROVIDENCE.
  
STRONGFEELING.
  
TRUE GREATNESS.
  
SUNSETSCENE.
  
ON OVERSCRUPULOUS VIRTUE.
  
BLESSINGS.
  
ALL THINGS A HYMN TO GOD.
  
TRUE LIFEDEVELOPING.
  
ON INJURYBEARING.
  
ON USING IMAGINATION.
  
POVERTY, WHAT REALLY.
  
EVIL OF SUSPICIONS.
  
TRUE MIGHT.
  
MONEYTHIRST.
  
FREEDOM.
  
VILLAGEBELLS.
  
SEEMINGPOOR.
  
SUNSETTHOUGHT.
  
OVERSHARPSIGHTEDNESS.
  
SECONDTHOUGHTS ON THE ABOVE
  
TIME.
  
EVENINGTHOUGHT.
  
OBSERVE ALL THINGS CAREFULLY.
  
BOOKS.
  
ON A GRAVEBRINKSPORTING CHILD.
  
WISDOM
  
AGAINST PRIDE: ADDRESSED TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
TO MILTON.
  
TO VENICE.
  
LAWS.
  
ON NAPOLEON.
  
AN EVENINGSTORM.
  
HOW TO ENJOY THE WHOLE.
  
WESTMINSTERABBEY.
  
THE ALLHALLOWING POWER OF THE HEART.
  
CHURCHYARDTHOUGHTS.
  
TO DANTE.
  
CHILDREN.
  
WHAT MAKES US RICH.
  
TO COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
WISDOM.
  
ON HEARING AN ELDTIME SONG.
  
AN UNBRIDLED FANCYBURST, OR PRELUDE TO A DEATHTALE.
  
TO MILTON.
  
THE ALPROSE.
  
THE DAYSEYE.
  
ON THE ROADSIDESEATS IN PARTS OF GERMANY.
  
TO THE GENTIAN.
  
HOME.
  
A NIGHTSTORMSEASCENE!
  
SABBATHBELLS.
  
THE ART OF ENJOYMENT.
  
A PASSING THOUGHT.
  
TRUE REFORM.
  
THE POETSHARP.
  
THE HOUR OF HOMEPARTING TOLD BY A CHURCHCLOCK.
  
ON A FLOWERWORRED STONETABLE.
  
THOUGHT.
  
THE WISH.
  
AN ODE,
  
MONEYSTANDARDS.
  
ON THE APOLLO BELVEDERE.
  
ON READING TWO SONNETS ONE WRIT IN YOUTH, AND THE OTHER IN AGE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
  
MAN AND NATURE.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
THE RAINBOW.
  
SEASUNSETSCENE.
  
WEALTHCOVETERS.
  
SUGGESTED BY THE FIRST FRENCH REVOLUTION.
  
RAILROADTRAVELLING.
  
TO MILTON.
  
EVENINGTHOUGHTS.
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WEALTHCOVETERS.

Better to be a savage, than of these
Selfseeking, grovelling, moneymaking worms,
These Goldwebweavers, who in all their forms,
Are the same Earthgrubs still: the Savage sees
And owns a higher Power in the breeze
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That sweeps o'er his Turfcot, and to the storms
He hearks with holy awe: a soul informs
His breast, ethereal tenant! and sets free
His fancies from Earth's dust and darkness, by
The inborn Majesty of Mind, altho'
Untaught— he errs from ignorance; not so,
Ye Allinstructed, ye whose lives belie
Your proud Enlightenment; ye learn to know
Evil from Good, yet knowledge to worst ends apply!
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