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A book of Bristol sonnets

By H. D. Rawnsley
Rawnsley, H. D. (1851-1920)

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A DREAM OF ANCIENT BRISTOL.
 
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT
 
BRISTOL CASTLE AND THE TRAMCARS.
 
ST. JOHN'S GATE.
 
ST. JOHN'S CONDUIT, NELSON STREET.
 
THE FORT, BRISTOL.
 
BRISTOL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.
 
MOTHER PUGSLEY'S FIELD,
 
ON NOTICING THAT THE ONLY LIME TREE NOT IN BUD, AT COLLEGE GREEN, FRONTED THE CATHEDRAL PORCH.
 
ON HEARING THE ORGAN IN THE CATHEDRAL, WHILE THE WORK IN THE NAVE WAS SUSPENDED.
 
ST. MARY REDCLIFFE.
 
CHATTERTON.
 
“TEMPORA MUTANTUR.” JEFFERIES' BOOK-SHOP.
 
THE OAK-CHAMBER AT JEFFERIES', REDCLIFFE STREET.
 
ST. STEPHEN'S TOWER,
 
ST. WERBURGH'S TOWER.
 
ST. JAMES' CHURCHYARD.
 
ON HEARING ST. MATTHEW'S PEAL.
 
CLIFTON HILL. CLIFTON PARISH CHURCH.
 
CLIFTON COLLEGE CHAPEL.
 
SERMON IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL.
 
JENKINS V. FLAVEL COOK.
 
JENKINS V. FLAVEL COOK.
 
SUNDAY IN BRISTOL.
 
ON HEARING THE BIRDS SING,
 
GOOD FRIDAY IN BRISTOL.
 
ON HEARING BELLS ON EASTER MORNING.
 
WHIT MONDAY, FROM ASHLEY HILL.
 
HARVEST THANKSGIVING AT ST. BARNABAS.
 
SITE OF THE ANCIENT HIGH CROSS,
 
RICHARD SAVAGE; OR, IN FRONT OF ST. PETER'S HOSPITAL.
 
ARNO'S VALE CEMETERY.
 
THE CRIPPLES' HOME,
 
“LITTLE JOHNNY,”
 
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL,
 
IN MEMORIAM.
 
BRISTOL SMOKE IN EARLY MORNING.
 
A CALM EVENING, FROM ASHLEY HILL.
 
BRISTOL BY GASLIGHT,
 
A MARCH DAY,
 
MÜLLER'S ORPHANAGE,
 
PLUCKING DAISIES;
 
THE RED MAIDS' SCHOOL.
 
MRS. FRY VISITING NEWGATE.
 
A VIEW OF BRISTOL EARLY IN THE MORNING, FROM PUR-DOWN.
 
THE HOOTER, OR STEAM-HORN,
 
A SERVICE OF SONG IN DUCHESS' PARK,
 
THE MONUMENT AT DUCHESS' WOODS,
 
DEATH OF A PARISHIONER.
 
ASHTON CLUMP AND LANSDOWN.
 
ASHTON COURT.
 
THE BLAST-FURNACE AT ASHTON IRON WORKS.
 
DUNDRY TOWER.
 
THE KNOTTED ELM, AT ABBOT'S LEIGH.
 
THE CHURCHYARD GATE,
 
SUNSET AT ABBOT'S LEIGH.
 
HAM GREEN;
 
EARLY MORN AND EVENTIDE,
 
ON FINDING THE WILD STRAWBERRY IN NIGHTINGALE VALLEY,
 
THE NIGHTINGALE IN NIGHTINGALE VALLEY.
 
BOWER-WALL AND STOKESLEIGH CAMPS.
 
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
 
TO A THRUSH, HEARD ON CLIFTON DOWN IN A JANUARY MIST.
 
THE POWER OF SPRING;
 
PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION;
 
DANDELIONS AND DAISIES ON THE DOWNS;
 
CLEMATIS IN LEAF ON THE DOWNS.
 
MAY DAY,
 
THE SEA-WALL;
 
GOSSAMERS ON THE DOWN.
 
THE BLIND EAGLE,
 
HANNIBAL,
 
TUMBLER PIGEONS, OVER BRISTOL.
 
TRUE LOVE;
 
THE FIRST SWALLOW,
 
THE GREAT FIRE IN CHRISTMAS STREET.
 
ON THE DRAWBRIDGE
 
ONE OF THE TOLZEY TABLES,
 
THE DEMERARA'S FIGURE-HEAD.
 
GAMES FOR WORKING MEN.
 
REVIVAL OF THE SUGAR TRADE.
 
WILLS' MANUFACTORY, REDCLIFFE STREET, THE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF OLD SERVANTS IN.
 
ON THE QUAY:
 
THE LIGHTS AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH,
 
OUTWARD BOUND.
 
HOMEWARD BOUND.
 
AVONMOUTH DOCKS,
 
ON SEEING TWO VESSELS (CUTTER-RIGGED) PASS ONE ANOTHER AT AVONMOUTH.
 
“THE DYING GLADIATOR,”
 
EDWARD COLSTON.
 
COLSTON HONOURED;
 
ORPHEUS GLEE SOCIETY.
 
CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. THE STRIKES.
 
TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE ORCHESTRAL CONCERT IN COLSTON HALL.
 
SATURDAY ORGAN RECITAL IN THE COLSTON HALL.
 
CHORUS FROM “FALL OF BABYLON.”
 
MADLLE. ALBANI,
 
THE BLACK HELEBORE (CHRISTMAS ROSE),
 
TO A RED ROSE,
 
NAN'S WALK.
 
CARTER'S LANE,
 
RUMOUR OF WAR, JUNE, 1876.
 
GOBLIN COMBE.
 
SCENE FROM SKITTIM HILL, HENBURY.
 
INFANCY;
 
BOYHOOD;
 
MIDDLE AGE;
 
OLD AGE COMING ON;
 
DEATH;
 
CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
 
THE WYND-CLIFF,
 
THE MOSS COTTAGE,
 
ON DESCENDING THE WYND-CLIFF BY THE STEPS TO THE MOSS COTTAGE.
 
TINTERN ABBEY.
 
TYNDALE'S PILLAR,
 
BERKELEY CASTLE.
 
WARLEIGH,
 
THE BRISTOL MISSION OF 1877.
 
OLD CLEVEDON CHURCHYARD,
 
TENNYSON AT CLEVEDON.
 
THE THREE PICTURES OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST, IN THE BILLIARD ROOM AT LEIGH COURT.
 
THE OPENING OF THE AVONMOUTH DOCKS.

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REVIVAL OF THE SUGAR TRADE.

FINZEL'S MANUFACTORY.

Again with plumes the four great towers

The spectator is supposed to be standing on Bristol Bridge, looking up the river.

are decked;
And hotly glares the seething boiler's eye;
Magician fans their curious power apply;
And the brown whirls

The centrifugal process is the main feature of this Sugar Refinery. The hot, liquid, brown sugar is poured into a centrifugal machine, which makes more than five hundred revolutions a minute, and in two minutes re-appears as dry, white, shining crystals.

their crystal shapes expect!
With laughter lead the horses stoutly necked!
Let the sweet bales and sugar-canes go by!
The loud hive hums afresh with industry!
Past are the rocks whereon our hopes were wrecked!
When in their boat thy fathers crossed the main,

Conrad Finzel, the founder of the firm, was drawn as a conscript into the army of Napoleon I., then master of Germany; to escape the service, he fled to Hanover, thence with two companions took open boat on the stormy North Sea, reached Heligoland, from whence he took sail for England. From a poor worknan, in London, he became principal refiner in a Bristol house, and opened a small refinery, which was burnt down, on the same site where now stands the present magnificent factory.


Now shone the moon, now darkened every wave;
Each time the keelson dipped, new hope it gave
Of that fair land, whereto it might attain:
So when thy vessel dips for dull demand,
Have faith her keel is nearer fortune's strand!
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