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Ballads and other verses

Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881)

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THE OWL-CRITIC.

CÆSAR'S QUIET LUNCH WITH CICERO.

THE LUCKY HORSESHOE.

PATIENT MERCY JONES.

BALLAD OF THE WICKED NEPHEW.

THE TURTLE AND FLAMINGO.

A NEW AND TRUE GHOST STORY.

MABEL, IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

DON.

THE SEARCH.

ON A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR OF “RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.”

BALLAD OF THE TEMPEST.

YOUTH'S SONG.

WITH WORDSWORTH AT RYDAL.

ON RECEIVING A LOCK OF KEATS'S HAIR.

ON A BOOK OF SEA-MOSSES,

AFTER HEARING MRS. KEMBLE READ “THE TEMPEST.”

ON A VILLAGE CHURCH IN ENGLAND.

ON A PORTRAIT OF CROMWELL.

THE KING AND THE POET.

AN INVITATION.

FOR THE INAUGURATION OF FRANKLIN'S STATUE IN HIS NATIVE CITY.

PERDITA.

“THE STORMY PETREL.”

MOONRISE AT SEA.

SPRING, AMONG THE HILLS.

THE MEMORY OF MOORE.

MIDNIGHT SONG BY THE SHORE.

ON A PAIR OF ANTLERS,

LAST WORDS IN A STRANGE LAND.

THE SONG-QUEEN.

THE ALPINE CROSS.

CANZONET.

A POOR MAN'S EPITAPH.

THE LOVER'S PERIL.

VESPERS.

FIRESIDE EVENING-HYMN.

HONORIA.

RELICS.

A SOLDIER'S ANCESTRY.

DIRGE FOR A YOUNG GIRL.

EVENTIDE IN THE COUNTRY.

A CHARACTER.

THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW.

A VALENTINE.

IN SPRING-TIME.

SUMMER-EVENING MELODY.

IN THE FOREST.

THE PERPETUITY OF SONG.

THE FLAME-BEARER.

IN EXTREMIS.

MORNING AND EVENING BY THE SEA.

THE OLD YEAR.

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MIDNIGHT SONG BY THE SHORE.

I.

Alone among the rocks I stand
And watch the flaming path expand
From far horizon to the strand,—
And ask this question o'er and o'er:—

II.

“Tell me, thou Moon that mocks the night
With such effulgence of delight
Along the ocean in thy flight,—
When will thy myriad wanderings cease?”

III.

In vain! there comes no answering cry
From the illumined midnight sky,—
Only the deep calm waves reply,
“Pilgrim of earth! be dumb and wait!”