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By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston

Quillinan, Edward (1791-1851)

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WILD-FLOWERS OF WESTMORELAND.

A FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD.

THE HELIOTROPE AND THE SNOWDROP.

THE NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK.

THE BIRCH OF SILVER-HOW.

CHESNUT TREES NEAR BRAGA.

THE CANARY GOLDFINCH.

WANSFELL.

RYDAL-BECK, WESTMORELAND.

DALEGARTH FORCE.

A SEA LYRIC.

A MOST RICH AND PERFECTLY DEFINED RAINBOW ON THE OCEAN.

A PARTING BENISON TO THE MEDEA STEAMSHIP.

CLOUDS.

ON A PORTRAIT BY COMERFORD.

THE MAGDALEN.

“WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN WICKLOW?”

[SONNETS.]

TO C. S. H.

EMMA.

THE AMERICAN SHIP PAULINA.

II.

II.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. I.

II.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. II.

III.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. III.

IV.

THE GAULS AT ROME. A.D. 1849. IV.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. II.

III.

FIELD-FOOT CEDAR. III.

FIELD-FOOT. I.

II.

FIELD-FOOT. II.

CAVE OF MEDITATION, FIELD-FOOT.

TO ANGUS FLETCHER.

SUSPIRIA.

I. WORDSWORTH'S HOME.

II.

II. HER HOME.

III. “JESUS WEPT.” (St. John xi. 35.)

TO A YOUNG LADY, WHO RESIDED BETWEEN THE RIVERS LEE AND BRIDE, NEAR CORK.

LINES TO MRS. DUNLOP, FOR ROTHA.

TO MISS ------.

TO MARY, DANCING.

MAY LUTTRELL.

TO A LADY OF SUPERCILIOUS AIR.

WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH MAY SOUTHEY, WHO FORBADE COMPLIMENT.

IN A LADY'S ALBUM.

IN AN ALBUM.

IN THE ALBUM OF MARGARET ---

IN AN ALBUM

SONG.—AMBLESIDE VALE.

SONG ALTERED FROM MOORE.

LOW WOOD, WINANDERMERE.

MELANCHOLY.

NEPTUNE AND MEDUSA.

STANZAS. IN ALLUSION TO SOME WORLDLY ADVICE IN CLEVER VERSE BY A LADY TO HER YOUNGER FRIEND, THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN:—

TENSES.

THE TWO RINGS.

“HIC JACET MALLEUS SCOTORUM.”

ADDRESS TO A PONY.

ON THE REPORTED VISIT OF QUEEN ADELAIDE TO WORDSWORTH.

MORALS FROM THE STARS.

THE SPELL.

INTERIOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, AS SEEN BY MOONLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841.

VERY UNFINISHED VERSES SUGGESTED BY THE SERRA OF GERÉS.

“N'EVEILLEZ PAS LE CHAT QUI DORT.”

THE ROSE-WREATHED HOUR-GLASS.

THE OLD MAN AND HIS DAUGHTERS.

THE LEGEND OF SAINT MEINRAD.

VAL DE LUZ.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOOR OF GRANADA AND HIS SPANISH PRISONER.

ZELINDA.

THE DUKE OF ALBA.

THE GROVES OF ENTRE QUINTAS.

EPITAPH ON COLONEL GEORGE HOLMES, C.B.

EPITAPH ON J. K. E. HOLMES.

FUNERAL OF ROBERT SOUTHEY.

ELEGY ON G. M. B.

ELEGY ON E. W. G. B.

SHORT POEMS

II.

II. Near Lauffenberg.

III.

III. Near Schaffhausen.

IV.

IV. SOCIETY. BERNE.

V. SCHWYTZ.

VI.

VI. THE LAKE OF LAUWERTZ.

VII.

VII. BERNE.

VIII.

VIII. LAUSANNE.

ELEGY ON THE SAME, WRITTEN TWELVE YEARS LATER.

ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED AT TORQUAY, FEB. 2, 1833.

TO THE CITY OF FLORENCE.

LINES COMPOSED IN THE ENGLISH BURIAL-GROUND AT OPORTO.

DIALOGUE WITH THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF A FRIEND'S CHILD.

A DREAM OF DEATH AT SEA.

STANZAS.

ALONE.

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III. Near Schaffhausen.

HER FAVOURITE FLOWERS.

I cannot bear those brilliant flowers
So blue among the corn,
With which she used in festal hours
Her tresses to adorn.

I cannot bear that they should still
Be beautiful and gay,
When she who loved their bloom so well
Has past in hers away.