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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.
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FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

“And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity!”

Still abide the heaven-born three,
Faith, and Hope, and Charity!
Faith—to point our heaven-ward goal,
Hope—an anchor to the soul:
Faith and Hope must pass away;
Charity endure for aye!
Hope must in possession die;
Faith—in blissful certainty:
These to gladden earth were given;
Love, or Charity—for heaven!
For, in brighter realms above,
Charity survives—as Love.
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Love to Him, the great I AM!
Love to Him, the incarnate Lamb!
Love unto the Holy Ghost!
Love to all the heavenly host!
Love to all the human race,
Sanctified by saving grace!
In that pure and perfect love,
Treasured up for heaven above,
Christian! may thy grateful heart
Have its everlasting part;
And, when Faith and Hope are mute,
Find in endless Love their fruit!
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