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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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SONNET III. THE SAME SCENE, CONTINUED.

It were, methinks, no very daring flight
Unto a poet's fond imagination,
To make this tent a prouder habitation;
Where Nature's worshipper and votary might,
With each appropriate and simple rite,
Bow to her charms, in quiet adoration
Of Him who meant his visible creation
Should minister to more than sense or sight!
Oh, then, this tent-like seat might well become
A temple—more befitting prayer or praise,
Than the mere listless loiterer's idle gaze;
And if it struck the sordid worldling dumb,
Proving of Nature's charms the countless sum,
'Twere not less worthy of the poet's lays!
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