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Poems by Bernard Barton

Fourth Edition, with Additions
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
 
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INTRODUCTORY VERSES TO MARIA HACK
 
[There is a fame which owes its spell]
 
VERSES,
 
THE VALLEY OF FERN.
 
STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. P---, OF THE R. A.
 
TO The Memory OF SAMUEL WHITBREAD, ESQ.
 
VERSES,
 
STANZAS, TO M. P.
 
AUTUMN,
 
VERSES, WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF Tighe's Psyche.
 
STANZAS, Selected from the PAINS OF MEMORY.
 
STANZAS ON THE Death of Sir Samuel Romilly.
 
VERSES TO AN INFANT.
 
TO The Memory OF H--- M---.
 
STANZAS ON THE Death of a Child.
 
STANZAS ADDRESSED TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY.
 
HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL.
 
VERSES To the Memory of SARAH CANDLER.
 
SILENT WORSHIP.
 
VERSES To the Memory of MARY FLETCHER.
 
TO LYDIA.
 
MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD.
 
VERSES TO A FRIEND,
 
WINTER.
 
STANZAS TO A FRIEND.
 
SONNET
 
TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH;
 
VERSES,
 
TO THE GALLIC EAGLE.
 
STANZAS
 
STANZAS
 
STANZAS
 
THE IVY.
 
VERSES To the Memory of P. Burgess,
 
STANZAS TO HELEN M--- M---.
 
FANCY AND IMAGINATION.
 
PLAYFORD,
 
VERSES
 
TO THE MOON.
 
RECOLLECTIONS
 
STANZAS
 
“THE HEAVEN WAS CLOUDLESS.”
 
VERSES
 
A POSTSCRIPT.
 
STANZAS,
 
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
 
THE ADIEU,
 
THE MOTHER'S LAMENT.
 
STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
 
SLEEP.
 
STANZAS TO WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ.
 
A DREAM.
 
STANZAS
 
TO A FATHER, On the Death of his only Child,
 
VERSES
 
TO MARY,
 
SONNET, TO CHARLOTTE M---.
 
“ALL IS VANITY.”
 
TO A FRIEND,
 
THE SOLITARY TOMB.
 
SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.
 
VERSES,
 
“THOU ART GONE TO THE LAND OF THE LEAL.”
 
THE SEA.
 
TO A PROFILE.
 
SONNET TO A FRIEND.
 
TO--- ---.
 
SONNET TO W--- P---.
 
VERSES
 
A POSTSCRIPT.
 
LINES TO HANNAH AND PHŒBE.
 
THE AUTHOR'S PARTING ADDRESS TO THE MUSE .
 
TO JOANNA,
 
VERSES TO --- ---,
 
LEISTON ABBEY.
 
TO A CHILD
 
THE QUAKER POET:
 
STANZAS
 
TO THE WINDS.
 
AN ASPIRATION.
 
“WHO THAT HAS SEEN THE SPEAKING EYE.”
 
WRITTEN ON A STORMY EVENING.
 
VERSES
 
SEA-SIDE THOUGHTS.
 
STANZAS.
 
TO MARY.
 
THE WITHER'D LEAF.
 
HYMN.
 
TO MY DAUGHTER,
 
A SONG OF PRAISE.
 
STANZAS
 
TO THE LAURUSTINUS.
 
THE DESERTED MANSION.
 
ON THE SAME.
 
THE DYING AMAZON.
 
A WINTER EVENING DITTY,
 
STANZAS.
 
STANZAS,
 
TO THE SKY-LARK.
 
THE CYPRESS TREE.
 
A CHRISTIAN'S DIRGE.
 
STANZAS
 
SONNET
 
TO THE EVENING STAR.
 
VERSES
 
BOW HILL .
 
KINGLEY BOTTOM,
 
ON The Death of Samuel Alexander,
 
HYMN.
 
CONCLUDING VERSES,

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TO THE GALLIC EAGLE.

Fame's favourite minion!
The theme of her story;
How quail'd is thy pinion,
How sullied its glory:
Where blood flow'd like water,
Exulting it bore thee!
Destruction and slaughter
Behind and before thee.
Where glory was blushing,
Thy flight was the fleetest;
Where death's sleep was hushing,
Thy slumber was sweetest.
When broad-swords were clashing,
Thy cry was the loudest;
When deep they were gashing,
Thy plume was the proudest.
But, triumph is over;
No longer victorious,
No more shalt thou hover,
Destructively glorious!
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Far from the battle's shock,
Fate hath fast bound thee;
Chain'd to the rugged rock,
Waves warring round thee.
Instead of the trumpet's sound,
Sea-birds are shrieking;
Hoarse on thy rampart's bound,
Billows are breaking.
The standards which led thee
Are trampled and torn now;
The flatteries which fed thee
Are turn'd into scorn now.
For ensigns unfurling,
Like sunbeams in brightness;
Are crested waves curling,
Like snow-wreaths in whiteness.
No sycophants mock thee
With dreams of dominion;
But rude tempests rock thee,
And ruffle thy pinion.
Thy last flight is taken,
Hope leaves thee for ever:
And victory shall waken
Thy proud spirit never!
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