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By the Rev. Charles Turner [i.e. Charles Tennyson]

Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879)

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MY FIRST AND LAST STROPHE.

THE GOLD-CRESTED WREN.

THE HOLY EMERALD

ST. AUGUSTINE AND MONICA.

NEHEMIAH'S NIGHT RIDE.

[SALOME.] Continued.

CHARLOTTE CORDAY,

WÖLF AND THE CASKET,

ON AN OLD ROMAN SHIELD FOUND IN THE THAMES.

THE BIER OF THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER.

THE ILLUMINATION OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH.

ON A PICTURE OF ARMIDA AND RINALDO, WITH THE DECOY-NYMPH.

MARY—A REMINISCENCE.

[MARY—A REMINISCENCE.] Continued.

MORNING SORROWS.

MINNIE AND HER DOVE.

EUSTACE AND EDITH,

MAKE-BELIEVE HUNTING.

THE SCHOOL-BOY'S DREAM ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS.

THE ROGUE'S NIGHTMARE.

ALICE WADE VERSUS SMALL-POX.

ANNIE AND AMBROSE,

THE HALF-RAINBOW.

THE PARTING-GATE.

HERO AND LEANDER,

DROWNED IN THE TROPICS.

THE SEA-FAIRIES' ANSWER.

VIENNA AND IN MEMORIAM.

TO A LITTLE CHILD WHO ASKED FOR A LAUREL CROWN.

To the same little Child. A RECANTATION.

A BRILLIANT DAY.

NO NIGHTINGALES, OR COMPENSATION.

THE HOME-FIELD. EVENING.

A SUMMER NIGHT IN THE BEEHIVE.

THE FLY'S LECTURE.

ON A VASE OF GOLD-FISH.

THE PLEA OF THE SHOT SWALLOW.

THE LAST SWEEP OF THE SCYTHE.

THE STORM—A HARVEST MEMORY.

THE FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER.

FROM HARVEST TO JANUARY.

LAST YEAR'S HARVEST.

THE STEAM THRESHING MACHINE

[THE STEAM THRESHING MACHINE.] Continued.

NOVEMBER SUNSHINE AND THE HOUSE-FLIES.

THE DRUNKARD'S LAST MARKET.

THE LATE PASTOR OF WOLDSBY EBRIORUM.

ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON OF OCTOBER 1865.

ON AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN A STORM.

THE MOON AND SIN, AN ILLUSTRATION.

FANATICISM, A NIGHT-SCENE IN THE OPEN AIR.

MISSING THE METEORS, 1866.

A LOOK-OUT FOR THIRTY YEARS.

THE MOORLAND TREE IN THE GARDEN.

IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD.

A FOREST SUNSET.

WRITTEN AT THE WOOD-SALE OF MESSRS. BLANK AND CO. NON-RESIDENT PROPRIETORS.

THE NEEDLES' LIGHTHOUSE FROM KEYHAVEN, HAMPSHIRE.

DANGER—A PERSONIFICATION.

A FAREWELL TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY.

A PHOTOGRAPH ON THE RED GOLD.

ON BOARD A JERSEY STEAMER.

POOR HODGE AND THE REV. SANS FOY.

PRAY, THINK, AND STRIVE!

THE ÆOLIAN HARP.

A SUMMER TWILIGHT.

THE KISS OF BETROTHAL.

AN ENGLISH CHURCH.

JOY CAME FROM HEAVEN.

COLLISION OF THE AYR AND COMET STEAMBOATS.

SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS.

MARTIAL ARDOUR IN AGE.

A CALM EVENING.

ON A GENIUS OF LOWLY ESTATE.

ON STARTLING SOME PIGEONS.

ON A PICTURE OF THE FATES.

DECADENCE OF GREECE, 1830.

ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE.

O GOD, IMPART THY BLESSING TO MY CRIES.

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SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS.

The worm long fosters his transforming sleep,
But claims th' inalienable life again,
Which, tho' it be but one, yet seemeth twain,
The trance between is all so deadly deep;
The careful spider spreads before his lair
The web he gathers near his filmy heart,
Without the throe of any vital smart,
And of his entrails makes a useful snare:
In both a mighty mystery resides,
A truth, on whose development they thrive;
One for the cravings of his life provides,
One weaves himself another way to live;
To search the secret is beyond our lore,
And we must rest, till God shall tell us more.