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Miscellaneous Poems

By the Revd John Mitford

Mitford, John (1781-1859)

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CARMINA SEPULCHRALIA.

LINES TO BE ENGRAVED ON A STONE IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ------

LINES WRITTEN IN THE GARDEN OF THE RECTORY AT WELWYN, ONCE THE RESIDENCE OF YOUNG THE POET.

AT DOVER CASTLE.

LINES WRITTEN AT LINTON, DEVONSHIRE.

TO CHARLES LAMB,

TO CHARLES, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

TO UGO FOSCOLO.

ON THE STATUE OF LORENZO DUKE OF URBINO,

SONNET WRITTEN IN HOLWOOD PARK, FORMERLY THE SEAT OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT,

THE MOTHER AND CHILD.

HEVER CASTLE, KENT.

MATER DOLOROSA.

LINES SUGGESTED BY A REQUEST TO WRITE AN INSCRIPTION FOR THE MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED ON THE TERRACE OF RICHMOND HILL,

RECORDATIO RIVORUM.

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE.

THE PARISH GIRL.

CUPID AND PSYCHE.

BURNHAM BEECHES.

ON A PORTRAIT BY TITIAN.

TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.

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LINES WRITTEN AT LINTON, DEVONSHIRE.

Impatient of his sojourn on the hills,
The Lin comes thundering down his mountain way
From rock to rock, 'mid clouds of gathering spray,
And with stern voice the tributary rills
Calls to his course impetuous;—then he fills
The hollow concave of the vale; delay
Is none from silent cove, or root-bound bay,
That with the whirling current ceaseless thrills—
Yet safe beside each dripping stone its bells
The fox-glove hangs; the green fern smiles to see
The headlong surges in their anarchy
Bathing its feet; and 'mid their mossy cells,
Each sweet and solitary flow'ret dwells
As in the bosom of tranquillity.