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Household Verses

By Bernard Barton

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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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 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 STRANGER'S MEMORIAL.

STANZAS.

SONNET,

TO THE DEAD IN CHRIST.

A POET'S MITE TO A BAZAAR.

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.

SONNETS, WRITTEN AT BURSTAL.

INTRODUCTORY VERSES.

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.

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.

“JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER!”

A COLLOQUY WITH MYSELF.

ORFORD.

ORFORD CASTLE.

THE DEPARTED.

ON A DRAWING OF NORWICH MARKET-PLACE

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;

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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“JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER!”

The firmest friends may change,
The best beloved may leave us,
Familiar ones—grow strange,
Or death of all bereave us.

Where is the love undying?
The Friend who never fails?
In whom the heart, relying,
May trust—when grief assails!

Behold the Lamb! who beareth
Believers' sins away:
For such He ever careth—
And now! as yesterday!