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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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A POET'S MEMORIAL

OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.

The modest violet, half concealed from sight,
But scattering odours round it—lovelier seems:
The spotless lily, by the moon's pale light,
Shows yet more beauteous in its silvery beams:
The skylark, viewless in heaven's arch above,
Appears unearthly music to impart:—
Each grace and blessing worthiest of our love
Eludes the eye—but more to touch the heart.
And such the charm of thy retiring worth,
Which shunned display, nor ever sought to roam
Beyond the spot to which it owed its birth,
“True to the kindred points of heaven and home!”
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Oh! may the memory of that worth yet give
To its late earthly home a hallowing leaven;
There in the spirits of survivors live,
And whisper comfort from thy home in heaven!
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