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Metrical Effusions

or Verses on Various Occasions [by Bernard Barton]
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
 
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Dedicatory Sonnet.
 
THE PAINS OF MEMORY.
 
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO A--- L---
 
SONNET. TO------ ------
 
TO MY LYRE.
 
TO W.ROSCOE, ESQ
 
THE CALEDONIAN ADIEU.
 
THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE.
 
WEEL TIMED DAFFIN.
 
TO JULIA.
 
A WINTER PIECE
 
STANZAS ON PERUSING Psyche, A POEM, BY THE LATE MRS. TIGHE.
 
RESPONSE TO THE THREE VALEDICTORY STANZAS SUBJOINED TO The Lady of the Lake.
 
SONNET TO G.D.L---,
 
THE EXILE'S RETURN.
 
JANE ASHFORD, A TALE IN HUMBLE LIFE.
 
TO THE EVENING STAR.
 
TO MARIA.
 
STANZAS ADDRESSED TO AN INFANT.
 
HYMN TO THE DEITY.
 
MY LUCY.
 
SONNET
 
STANZAS
 
A FULL BLOWN ROSE.
 
THE FLIGHTS OF FANCY
 
“NEAR YONDER BOWER.”
 
TO LUCY IN HEAVEN.
 
STANZAS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
 
THE HARMONY OF THE CREATION.
 
IMITATION OF BURNS.
 
SONNET TO------
 
WHIGS & TORIES.
 
SONNET TO------
 
TO MARIA ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING.
 
TO PATRIOTISM, AN ODE.
 
STANZAS
 
THE BUTTERFLY'S DEATH.
 
ODE
 
STANZAS TO A FRIEND.
 
AN ADDRESS
 
EPITAPH.
 
SONNET
 
RETROSPECTIVE STANZAS.
 
PRINCE HOEL'S SONG, FROM Southey's Mador.
 
DOVE DALE.
 
STANZAS ON WOMAN.
 
STANZAS IN ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING.
 
VERSES
 
STANZAS
 
SONNET.
 
AN ELEGY.
 
TO WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. ON READING HIS Lady of the Lake.
 
VALEDICTORY STANZAS.
 
VERSES ON READING HAYLEY'S LIFE OF COWPER.
 
CALEDONIE.
 
THE THISTLE, ADDRESS'D TO THE AUTHOUR OF CALEDONIE, By a Scotch Lady.

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THE SMILE OF HER I LOVE.

I could endure with steadfast mind
Relentless Fortune's frown severe;
If gentle Love were left behind,
My drooping anxious heart to cheer.
For ne'er should Fortune's stern decree
With doubts my tranquil bosom move,
If pitying heaven would leave to me
The soothing smile of Her I love.
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I could behold with silent scorn
Each fickle friend at once depart;
Could calmly bear the rankling thorn
Of cold neglect, though keen its smart.
And, should my doom extort one sigh,
I would not cruel fate reprove;
But every gloomy thought should fly
Before the smile of Her I love.
For brighter than that golden beam
Which ushers in the rising day;
From her dear lips resistless gleam
Those smiles which chase my griefs away.
And dearer to my throbbing heart,
And far the toys of wealth above,
The tears of sympathy that start
To hail the smile of Her I love.
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