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Sonnets by the Rev. Charles Strong

Second Edition
Strong, Charles (1784-1864)
  
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II. ON PRESENTING THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL WITH “SPECIMENS OF ITALIAN SONNETS WITH TRANSLATIONS.”
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XL. THE ROCK-WALK.
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XLIV. Psalm 119, v. 71.
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LIV. THE EVENING STAR.
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LV. BIRDIE.
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LVI. ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. HENRY ALFORD, M.A., FORMERLY FELLOW OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD.
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LVII. AFTER READING “EUSEBIUS,” B. V., CH. I.
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LVIII. TO L. L.
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LXI. TO THE REV. W. R. DAWES, F.R.A.S.
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LXII. THE TWO GARDENS.
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LXIII. BARON.
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LXVI. THE ARBOR VITÆ.
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LXVII. THE CLIMBING BOY AND PRIMROSES.
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LXX. THE FIRST LEAF OF THE ALBUM.
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LXXI. THE LAST LEAF OF THE ALBUM.
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LXXIV. MORETON CHURCH REPAIRED, 1847–8.
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LXXV. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON.
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LXXVIII. TO THE REVEREND CHARLES STRONG.
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LXXIX. BEATRICE CENCI AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
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LXXX. TO MY DEAD PAROQUET.
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LXXXIV. THOMAS DRUMMOND, ESQ., FORMERLY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR IRELAND.
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LXXXV. ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF “ARIOSTO.”
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LXXXVII. MISS HOLFORD, AUTHOR OF “WALLACE,” “MARGARET OF ANJOU,” AND OTHER POEMS.
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LXI. TO THE REV. W. R. DAWES, F.R.A.S.

Not better to the plain-encamp'd Chaldee,
Or him who from Mycenæ's palace-wall
Watch'd nightly for the news of Ilion's fall,
Were known the stars of heaven than, Dawes, to thee:
Awe-struck they view'd the glittering canopy;
Whilst thou, with Science, handmaid at thy call,
Turnest thy mind-illumined eye on all,
Descrying systems link'd in harmony.
Who first saw Saturn's dim mysterious ring?
Who, when huge spots darken'd the day-star's face,
Their changes mark'd, and mighty eddying?
Grateful the eager moment I retrace,
When we, as oped the Dome with upward spring,
Sounded the shining depths of boundless space.
Observatory, Haddenham, 1860.
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