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Household Verses

By Bernard Barton
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
  
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HOUSEHOLD VERSES.
  
TO THE QUEEN.
  
BIRTH-DAY VERSES.
  
THE STATUE OF MEMNON.
  
SONNET,
  
HYMN,
  
VERSES,
  
TO A PROFESSIONAL FRIEND,
  
ON THE PRAYER OF THE POOR PUBLICAN.
  
SONNET, IN MEMORY OF MARY JESUP, OF HALSTEAD.
  
A REQUIEM,
  
NEW-YEAR VERSES, 1841.
  
SONNET.
  
THE YELLOW-HAMMER;
  
TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH HODGKIN.
  
A CHARADE SONNET.
  
STANZAS,
  
FARNHAM CASTLE.
  
SELBORNE.
  
TO E. F.
  
“A CHRISTIAN IS THE HIGHEST STYLE OF MAN.”
  
SONNET,
  
ON THE GOING OUT OF THE OLD YEAR.
  
THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN.
  
HOPE FOR THE MOURNER.
  
SONNET,
  
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.
  
THE BIBLE.
  
SONNET,
  
A SLIGHT MEMORIAL
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF A VISIT TO AMWELL
  
STANZAS,
  
TO THE B. B. SCHOONER,
  
TO EDITH LUCY S.
  
FIRE-SIDE VERSES.
  
THE POOL OF BETHESDA.
  
SONNET,
  
A WORD FOR PEACE.
  
TO A FRIEND ON HER BIRTH-DAY
  
STANZAS,
  
TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTH-DAY,
  
A LAMENT.
  
STANZAS,
  
SONNET.
  
A SEA-SIDE SONNET.
  
ONE MORE TRIBUTE
  
A STRANGER'S MEMORIAL.
  
STANZAS.
  
SONNET,
  
TO THE DEAD IN CHRIST.
  
A POET'S MITE TO A BAZAAR.
  
SONNET,
  
SONNET,
  
WHAT IS SLAVERY?
  
EGYPT AND THE NILE.
  
STANZAS,
  
TRIPLETS,
  
TO THE PENATES.
  
SUNSET.
  
A THOUGHT.
  
VERSES,
  
SCOTTISH SCENERY;
  
EMMA:
  
TO------.
  
ON A DRAWING OF THE COTTAGE AT ALDBOROUGH,
  
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.
  
ON A PORTRAIT OF JOHN BUNYAN.
  
SPRING FLOWERS.
  
A POET'S MEMORIAL
  
FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.
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SONNETS, WRITTEN AT BURSTAL.
  
INTRODUCTORY VERSES.
 I. 
SONNET I. BERRY'S HILL.
 II. 
SONNET II. THE SEAT AT BERRY'S HILL.
 III. 
SONNET III. THE SAME SCENE, CONTINUED.
 IV. 
SONNET IV. IN THE SHRUBBERY, NEAR THE COTTAGE.
 V. 
SONNET V. THE BURSTAL LAKELET.
 VI. 
SONNET VI. THE TWO OAKS.
 VII. 
SONNET VII. EVENING EFFECT ON THE VALLEY.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII. BURSTAL, IN THE FOUR SEASONS.
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TO I. AND G. H.
  
FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE.
  
HELMINGHAM HALL.
  
MARY'S DIRGE.
  
A POET'S MEMORIAL
  
“JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER!”
  
TO ANNA---.
  
A POSTSCRIPT;
  
STANZAS.
  
A CHILD'S DREAM.
  
JOHN EVELYN.
  
A COLLOQUY WITH MYSELF.
  
ORFORD.
  
ORFORD CASTLE.
  
THE DEPARTED.
  
ON A DRAWING OF NORWICH MARKET-PLACE
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FOR THE QUEEN'S ALBUM.
  
Introductory Note to the two following Album Verses.
  
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TO THE DEBEN.
  
TO A VERY YOUNG HOUSE-WIFE.
  
SONNET, TO THE MEMORY OF GAINSBOROUGH;
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SILENT OR QUAKER GRACES.
  
[To these Thy gifts, and all to Thee we owe]
  
[Father, we thank Thee! from Thy bounteous store]
  
[Whether we eat, or drink, or whatsoever]
  
IN PROSPERITY.
  
IN ADVERSITY—OF GOD'S APPOINTING.

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51

HOPE FOR THE MOURNER.

“But it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”—Zech. xiv. 7.

We journey through a vale of tears,
By many a cloud o'ercast;
And worldly cares, and worldly fears,
Go with us to the last!
Not to the last! Thy word hath said,
Could we but read aright;
Poor pilgrim! lift in hope thy head,
At eve there shall be light!
Though earth-born shadows now may shroud
Thy thorny path, awhile,
God's blessed word can part each cloud,
And bid the sunshine smile.
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Only believe, in living faith,
His love and power Divine;
And ere thy sun shall set in death,
His light shall round thee shine!
When tempest-clouds are dark on high,
His bow of love and peace
Shines sweetly in the vaulted sky,
Betokening storms shall cease!
Hold on thy way, with hope unchilled,
By faith and not by sight;
And thou shalt own His word fulfilled—
At eve it shall be light!
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