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In Cornwall and Across the Sea

With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen
Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1856-1947)

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TO THE COUNTESS OF PORTSMOUTH,
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PART I. IN CORNWALL.
  
ALICE OF THE LEA.
  
THF BELLS OF FORRABURY.
  
ST IVES, CORNWALL.
  
THE MERMAID OF ZENNOR—A BALLAD.
  
THE CAPTIVE RIVER.
  
SIR TRISTRAM AT TINTAGEL.
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CORNISH SONNETS.
  
CORNWALL.
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SONNETS OF THE CORNISH MOORS.
  
ON THE CORNISH MOORS.
  
CASTLE CHUN.
  
RIALOBRAN, THE SON OF CUNOVAL.
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SONNETS OF MOUNTS BAY.
  
PENZANCE.
  
MOUNT'S BAY.
  
MARAZION.
  
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT.
  
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT, CORNWALL, AT SUNSET.
  
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT BY MOONLIGHT.
  
TO A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN LADY E. M. S.
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SONNETS OF THE LAND'S END.
  
THE LAND'S END.
  
SENNEN—THE VILLAGE UPON THE LAND'S END.
  
VELLANDREATH—WHITESAND BAY.
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SONNETS OF THE LIZARD.
  
TO THE LIZARD.
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SONNETS OF ARTURIAN CORNWALL.
  
TINTAGEL.
  
[Not Camelot the towered—the goodly town]
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS WRITTEN IN CORNWALL.
  
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S SEAT, GULVAL CARN.
  
TO E. M. S. AFTER A TOUR IN CORNWALL.
  
MARGUERITES.
  
BEHIND THE SCENES.
  
THE CISTERCIANS.
  
THE HARVEST.
  
SYLVIA.
  
“CORN AND ACORN,”
  
THE LEGEND OF THE LILY AND THE ROSE.
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PART II. ACROSS THE SEA.
  
MELBOURNE. January 1880.
  
IN MEMORIAM.—SIR CHARLES SLADEN, K.C.M.G.
  
GORDON'S TOMB.
  
MELBOURNE.
  
THE SOUTH-SEA VOYAGER.
  
THE TROPICS.
  
GUARDAFUI.
  
ADEN.
  
AT SUEZ. May 1884.
  
THE DESERT.
  
THE CANAL.
  
FIANCEE.
  
MALTA.
  
CARTHAGE.
  
GIBRALTAR.
  
TARIFA.
  
TRAFALGAR.
  
UPON THE S.S. “BALLAARAT.”
  
AT PLYMOUTH.
  
ICHABOD.
  
TWO YEARS OLD TO-DAY.
  
AN OLD ROMANCE.
  
THE VALSE.
  
THE GENTLEMAN-DROVER'S GOOD-BYE.
  
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS.
  
THE SIGH OF THE SHOUTER.
  
TO G. E. MORRISON, Esq.,
  
AT WINDSOR, NEW SOUTH WALES, IN WINTER.
  
COOPER OF TUMUT,
  
A BALLAD OF WATTLE-BLOSSOM.
  
LIGHT AND SHADE.
  
THEMISTOCLES
  
WORDSWORTH'S “TWO VOICES.”
  
POETS.
  
THREE GRACES.
  
B. A.
  
THE BARBED ARROW.
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PART III. POEMS WRITTEN IN LONDON.
  
THE EXILE'S RETURN.
  
THE POET.
  
“MAMMON AND POESY;”
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PART IV. POEMS WRITTEN IN DEVONSHIRE CHIEFLY AT TORQUAY.
  
A BALLAD OF PLEASURE.
  
A BALLAD OF PAIN.
  
A BALLAD OF A GRAVEYARD.
  
MAIDENHOOD
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UNDER THE MISTLETOE.
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KING CHARLIE.
  
TO A LADY ON HER TWENTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY.
  
A TALE OF TWO COLLEGES.
  
SYMPATHY.
  
SEASONS.
  
THE TWO SPIRITS.
  
THE HOUR OF PRAYER.
  
A LEGEND OF THE SABBATH.
  
THE LOST POEM.
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PATRIOTIC POEMS.
  
A LETTER FROM GORDON.
  
PRAYING FOR GORDON.
  
GORDON IS DEAD.
  
“ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!”
  
WAITING FOR WAR.
  
GORDON OF KHARTOUM.
  
TO OUR CHILDREN.
  
ENGLAND AND ATHENS.
  
TO ENGLAND,
  
HEROUM FILII.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
  
PERICLES.
  
MARGARET OF SCOTLAND.
  
PLATONIC LOVE.
  
WIFE-LOVE.
  
INFANCY.
  
ON A DEAD INFANT.
  
BOB.
  
TOO LATE.
  
CATHEDRALS.
  
EXETER CATHEDRAL.
  
COCKINGTON LANES,
  
A WALK IN SPRING.
  
DEVONSHIRE.
  
BOWOOD.
  
TOR STEPS
  
THE HERB-ROBERT.
  
THE BEECH TREE.
  
THE SONNET'S SCANTY PLOT.
  
OXFORD, THE GRAND UNDOER.
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ADDENDA.
  
THE DEDICATION OF “A SUMMER CHRISTMAS.”
  
THE STARRY SISTERS.
  
FORSTER'S “MIDAS.”
  
TO SIR SAMUEL WILSON,
  
TO J. HENNIKER HEATON, Esq.
  
PRIMROSE DAY.
  
WAR.

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THE HOUR OF PRAYER.

Whenever the Poet heard the hour
Chimed from the neighbouring belfry tower,
He bowed his head to pray.
Held he that some mysterious power
In words then uttered they?
Or was it this that the striking chime
Reminded him of the flight of time,
And life that ebbed away,
Or church bells ringing at matin-prime,
And noon and close of day?
He did remember some legend old,
In which were mystical virtues told
Of pray'r at chime of hour,
And thought how swiftly life's current rolled,
When spoke each antique tower.
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And hearing hours from the belfry chime
Reminded him of the olden time,
When pious mass was sung
And bell for pray'r at each day's prime
And noon and close was rung.
Not often the Poet knelt to pray
In churches during the Sabbath day,
But while he heard the chime
Peal from the belfry, he turned alway
And gave to God the time.
Whether it was that the striking chime
Reminded him of the flight of time,
And life that ebbed away,
Or church bells ringing at matin-prime,
And noon and close of day.
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