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Minor Poems, including Napoleon

By Bernard Barton. Second Edition, with Additions

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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MINOR POEMS, INCLUDING NAPOLEON.

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TO JOHN BOWRING, ESQ. ON HIS TRANSLATION OF THE RUSSIAN ANTHOLOGY.

TO C. H. TOWNSEND, ON HIS VERSES TO THE SETTING SUN, INCLUDED IN THE VOLUME OF HIS POEMS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

STANZAS ON THE APPROACH OF WINTER.

SONNET, WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A VOLUME OF CHARLES LLOYD'S POETRY.

TO --- ---, ESQ.

TO THE AUTHOR OF “MAY YOU LIKE IT.”

TO MRS. HEMANS.

VERSES ON THE GATEWAY

THE RECANTATION; TO --- ---.

VERSES TO A CHILD TWO YEARS OLD.

DAYS OF DARKNESS.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA.

TO THE MEMORY OF EMMA FULLER.

EARLY RISING AND PRAYER.

THE TWELVE MONTHS OF HUMAN LIFE.

TO A DILATORY CORRESPONDENT.

TO A FRIEND, ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR ROME.

THE WALL-FLOWER.

ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR'S FATHER.

TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM HEY.

ON THE RETURN OF SUMMER BIRDS.

ON A PORTRAIT OF BEATRICE CENCI:

TO A BUTTERFLY.

SMILES AND TEARS.

THE CONCLUSION.

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SONNET, WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A VOLUME OF CHARLES LLOYD'S POETRY.

Reader! if thou wouldst know the genuine worth
Of the rich treasures that await thee here,
Thou first must have thy mental eye and ear
Anointed, and unseal'd; must know the birth
Of better feelings than belong to earth,
And breathe in thought's sublimer atmosphere:
Be such thy mood, and thou wilt find no dearth
Of pure delight, thy heart may long hold dear.
But if thou art a worldling, and hast never
Felt joys and sorrows, which are not of time,
But born of feelings that must be for ever!
Betake thee to some more amusing rhyme,
Which has no shadowy clouds for light to sever,
Nor holds high colloquy with thoughts sublime!