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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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“THOU ART GONE TO THE LAND OF THE LEAL.”

Thou art gone to the land of the leal, and the bell
Is mournfully tolling thy funeral knell;
Within the dark coffin is pillow'd thy head,
And without it the pall for a covering spread;
From the home which thy presence so long has endear'd,
Where thy smiles were belov'd, and thy worth was rever'd,
To the last earthly home, where thy reliques shall rest,
Thou art journeying in peace!—Be thy memory blest!
And blest it shall be: for thou dost not descend
To the cold grave unhonour'd; the grief of each friend,
The sigh of the poor, and the sorrow of those
Who have known thee the longest, attended thy close.
Oh! often before me thy image shall pass,
Like a shadow reflected from memory's glass;
With thy time-silver'd locks, and those spirits, whose play
Seem'd fresh from the fount of life's earliest day;
And the vision, thus brought, to my bosom shall be
Ever welcome, if bearing the semblance of thee!
2d Mo. 6th, 1818.
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