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Poems
By W. C. Bennett: New ed
Bennett, W. C. (1820-1895)
[dedication]
[section]
[Forms beyond my vision fleeting]
BABY MAY AND OTHER POEMS.
BABY MAY
BABY'S SHOES.
TODDLING MAY.
CRADLE SONGS.
TO A LADY I KNOW, AGED ONE.
THE SEASONS.
TO A LOCKET.
CRADLE SONGS.
EPITAPHS FOR INFANTS.
TO OUR BABY KATE.
ON A DEAD INFANT.
CRADLE SONGS.
THE WISH.
TO W. G. B.
CRADLE SONGS.
THE STORY OF A MOTHER.
CRADLE SONGS.
MOTHERS' SONGS.
THE FIRST SHOES.
MOTHERS' SONGS.
THE WORN WEDDING-RING AND OTHER HOME POEMS.
THE WORN WEDDING-RING.
MY OWN EASY CHAIR.
OUR FAIRIES.
BY A GRAVE IN LEE CHURCHYARD.
DREAM!
WEDDING WORDS.
ON A MINIATURE OF MY WIFE.
MY NATIVE TOWN.
TO A. E. B.
THE NEW PARIS.
THE QUEEN.
MY PICTURE GALLERY.
[My hair is gathering gray apace]
[And say you that my Spring has fled]
NARRATIVE POEMS AND BALLADS.
SKETCHES FROM A PAINTER'S STUDIO.
A DIRGE.
THE TEARFUL CORNET.
FROM INDIA.
THE STAR OF THE BALLET.
A NEW GRISELDA.
THE BOAT-RACE.
PYGMALION.
A CHARACTER.
I.
Scene I.—
II.
Scene II.
IN PARIS.
ARIADNE.
A VILLAGE TALE.
THE EXECUTION,
THE MATE'S RETURN.
THE TRIUMPH FOR SALAMIS.
THE SEMPSTRESS TO HER MIGNONETTE.
THE JUDGMENT OF MIDAS.
HER JESSAMINE.
CHORUSES FROM AN UNFINISHED TRAGEDY ON THE FALL OF MESSENIA.
MOTHER AND SON.
THE TREASURE-FINDER.
CASSANDRA SPEAKS!
THE ROBIN.
SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS.
DREAMS.
A SAILOR'S SONG.
A KISS—A SMILE—A SIGH.
THE CAVALIER'S WHISPER.
O MIGHT I BE THE HAPPY GLOVE!
O BUT TO SEE HER FACE AGAIN.
A KISS FOR YOUR THOUGHT.
UNCHANGED.
ELLEN, YOU'RE MY ROSE.
THIS HEART, ONCE A BEE.
GOOD-BYE.
O SUMMER, PAINT ME HER SWEET LIPS.
DIE, DAY!
HOW LIGHTLY SLEEPING CUPID LIES.
A WIFE'S SONG.
A SPRING SONG.
FROM A GARRET.
YE ROSES, WITH HER BLUSHES, BLOW.
FOR YOU.
TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BURNS.
PRITHEE TELL ME WHERE LOVE DWELLS.
A WINTER SONG.
A SMILE—IT WAS BUT A SMILE.
THE WRECKED HOPE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
I'VE WATCHED YOU FROM THE SHORE.
OVER THE SEA.
OPE, FOLDED ROSE!
WISHES.
A SUMMER INVOCATION.
MARY! MARY!
THE FORSAKEN.
THE HOMEWARD WATCH.
NO MORE!
PRITHEE WHAT HATH SNARED THEE, HEART?
O WEARY THOUGHTS, BE STILL!
MAY-DAY SONG.
THE TORCH-RACE.
THE WIFE'S APPEAL.
DRAW DOWN YOUR VEIL.
LISETTE IN AUSTRALIA.
PIERRE JEAN DE BÉRANGER.
NO—NO—MY LOVE IS NO ROSE.
GOD'S BEST GIFT.
SONG.
WHY?
FOR MUSIC.
THE CRY OF THE LAWFUL LANTERNS.
FROM SEA
FAREWELL! FAREWELL!
BE MINE, AND I WILL GIVE THY NAME.
THE DAISY.
A SEA SONG.
AFTER BÉRANGER.
IN DREAMS I CLASP YOU ONCE AGAIN.
RING, HAPPY BELLS!
SPRING SONG.
THE DRESSMAKER'S THRUSH.
RAVEN-BLACK ARE AMY'S TANGLING TRESSES.
A SONG OF THE SEA.
THE SOWING OF THE DRAGON'S TEETH.
NO GAS! NO GAS!
WHEN JOVE THIS EARTH CREATED.
LOOK INTO THESE FOND EYES.
GOOD-NIGHT!
AFTER BÉRANGER.
OF GIPSY BLOOD YOU SURELY CAME.
YES, MY HEART IS LIKE TINDER.
WHERE, O POLAND, ARE THY LANCES?
THE HORRID METAMORPHOSIS.
SPRING SONG.
AN AUTUMN SONG.
THANK HEAVEN! I'M STILL A BOY.
THE WORD.
GOD SPARE MY BOY AT SEA!
THE SEA-BOY'S DREAM.
THE CURFEW.
THE SLAVERS' WRECK.
SHE'S DEAD!
O THE WILD, WILD WINDS HAVE VOICES.
CHILD, PURSUE THY BUTTERFLY!
LIZ, YOU'VE A TEASING HEART.
TO THE CONGRESS OF PARIS.
NO MORE GREAT LOVE MY HEART BEGUILES.
THE SONG OF DEATH.
IMAGES! IMAGES!
HAD I A POET'S MIGHTY POWER.
WHILE THE CHAMPAGNE FOAMS.
COUNSEL TO KINGS.
“SEIZE,” I SAID, “O ART, THY PENCIL.”
TO THE COMING COMET.
DEAD.
MY ROSES BLOSSOM THE WHOLE YEAR ROUND.
THE RIGHT ABOVE THE WRONG.
L’ENVOI.
THE GREEN HILLS OF SURREY.
O BONNY IS MY HUSBAND'S SHIP.
HOME AGAIN.
A THOUSAND LEAGUES AWAY.
HOW PLEASANT IS THE FARMER'S LIFE.
BALLAD.
A SOLDIER AM I.
THE PLEASANT FIELDS OF KENT.
THE GLORIES OF OUR THAMES.
A LAMENT.
JUANNA.
A SUMMER THOUGHT.
A SPRING SONG.
WHY IS SORROW?
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
COLUMBUS.
SONG.
MOVE ON.
WERE I A KING! WERE I A KING!
THE SMILE.
THE PORTRAIT.
A LAMENT.
A VALENTINE.
A SONG
LOVE IN THE NORTH.
ALCÆUS TO SAPPHO.
FOR MUSIC.
THE REPLY.
A DIRGE.
SONG.
WON AND LOST.
SONG.
LILIAN'S EPITAPH.
SONG.
SONG.
DEATH'S LESSON.
A VALENTINE.
WHAT'S WITHIN THIS GLASS OF MINE?
HENCE, FELL WINE!
SONG.
THE SICK MAN'S PRAYER.
SONG.
THE RECONCILIATION.
SONG.
SONG.
NO WAR! NO WAR!
AN OLD MAN'S SONG.
THE VAIN DREAM.
SONG.
TO THE GONE.
DIRGE.
YOU ARE A PREACHER, BEE.
TO MY WATCH.
TO A CHILD SWINGING.
THE ROSE.
A SUMMMER SONG.
NELLY.
A LAMENT.
UPON THY STREAM, SWIFT-FLOWING.
HAUNTED.
BEWARE!
AFTER A PLEASANT EVENING.
FLOWERS IN THE CITY.
TELL ME, MY HEART.
MORNING, MORNING, GIVE TO ME.
“GOD AND THE RIGHT!”
NIGHT AND DAY ARE FROM HER NEVER.
BEWITCHED.
FOR MUSIC.
FOR MUSIC.
WAR SONGS.
TO THE BESIEGERS OF SEBASTOPOL.
TAKE, FLAGS, ONE GLORY MORE.
THE FRENCH INVASION.
THE SCORE IS—FOUR.
THE ALMA.
OUR TRIUMPH FOR SINOPE.
BEWARE, O CZAR, BEWARE!
THE PEACE.
POEMS OF THOUGHT.
GARIBALDI.
ADORATION.
ENGLAND.
TO MY FUTURE.
ON THIS VERY BED HAS DEATH.
CAVOUR.
“ERNST IST DAS LEBEN.”
A CRY FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION.
A THOUGHT.
THE PRAYERS.
BY THE SEA.
TO THE AUTHORESS OF “ART-LIFE IN MUNICH.”
RESURGET.
THE SHADOW-HUNTED.
THE CRY OF THE DOUBTER.
GOD IS LOVE.
STILL GOD TALKS TO MAN.
POEMS OF FANCY AND FEELING.
KITTY PALMER.
THE MISTAKE OF THE LOVES.
MY SAINT.
HOW MUCH YOUR BEAUTIES OWE.
TO A SKYLARK.
IN A SCHOOL-ROOM.
AN AUTUMN CONCEIT IN GREENWICH PARK.
TO A CRICKET.
TO THE CHRYSANTHEMUM.
TO FIELD-PATHS.
ELLA'S ROSES.
SHE'S DEAD.
FAREWELL!
THOUGHTS AND FANCIES.
LINES WRITTEN IN MISS MITFORD'S GARDEN.
THE LIME BEFORE MY WINDOW.
A MAY-DAY SONG.
A LEAF FROM MY SKETCH-BOOK.
SONNETS.
WRITTEN IN WINDSOR CASTLE.
[Friends, could I live a life of art alone]
[You shall be thought of with the scents of Spring]
[You cross my dusty path with dreams divine]
[Nor, Alchemists, turning to gold the lead]
[With you, too, comes the Shakespeare of all sound]
[Of poet-homes was our delightful talk]
[Nor were those, breathing not your Boston air]
[And as the glory of the still May moon]
[So you have been with Severn, and have heard]
[What pleasant talk you bear across the sea]
[And you have paced the streets that Cæsar trod]
On being told that Charles Dickens had said that “the bust of Clytie must have been modelled from a real Greek girl, or it could not have been so beautiful.”
“Should not the truest Art interpret rather than daguerreotype?”
IN THE DULWICH GALLERY—BEFORE GUIDO'S “ST. SEBASTIAN.”
IN LONDON—AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY—BEFORE MURILLO'S “HOLY FAMILY.”
ON A VIOLET-STAND.
AT ROME—FROM THE HILL OF THE CAPITOL.
ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE COLISEUM.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
ROBERT BROWNING.
BEFORE WILKIE'S “COLUMBUS.”
AT SOUTH KENSINGTON—IN THE TURNER GALLERY.
AT DULWICH.
IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL—BEFORE MICHAEL ANGELO'S “LAST JUDGMENT.”
AT DULWICH.
AT ANTWERP—BEFORE RUBENS' “DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.”
[Venice! Dear friends, how comes she to your eyes?]
[On the Rialto, too, your steps have been]
[Ah, those Italian lakes! My town-dull'd eyes]
[When the laburnum droops its golden rain]
BEFORE THE DULWICH GALLERY.
IN THE CAPITOL—BEFORE THE FAUN OF “PRAXITELES,”
IN THE VATICAN—BEFORE THE APOLLO BELVEDERE.
AT THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM—BEFORE “THE TURNERS.”
AT FLORENCE—BEFORE THE “VENUS DE MEDICI.”
IN THE VATICAN—BEFORE THE FRESCOES OF THE “STANZE DI RAFFAELLO.”
IN ITALY—1860.
[So this is yours, our Wordsworth's pictured face]
[What! Gad's Hill's haunted greenness you have seen.]
IN THE DULWICH GALLERY—BEFORE MURILLO'S “FLOWER-GIRL.”
THACKERAY.
ITALY.
MRS. BROWNING.
AT MILAN—IN THE CONVENT OF THE MADONNA DELLE GRAZIE.
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
AT ALFRED TENNYSON'S.
AT ROME—IN THE FORUM.
IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
WRITTEN IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S “TRANSFORMATION.”
I.
I.
II.
II.
III.
III.
JOHN RUSKIN.
I.
I.
II.
II.
III.
III.
IN PARIS—AT THE LOUVRE—BEFORE MURILLO'S “IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.”
IN LONDON—BEFORE HOLMAN HUNT'S “FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE.”
[And of our great ones, him you should have known]
AT ROME—BEFORE ST. PETER'S.
AT ROME—IN ST. PETER'S.
IN LONDON—BEFORE ST. PAUL'S.
IN LONDON—IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE—BEFORE THE STATUE OF GENERAL SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER.
GARIBALDI.
AT FLORENCE—IN FRA ANGELICO'S CELL IN THE CONVENT OF ST. MARK.
AT ROME—IN THE FORUM.
ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF TASSO.
FLORENCE.
ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF DANTE.
AT FLORENCE—IN SANTA CROCE—BY THE TOMB OF MACHIAVELLI.
AT PISA—IN THE CAMPO SANTO—BEFORE THE FRESCOES AND TOMB OF BENOZZO GOZZOLI.
MILAN, 1860.
IN LONDON—BEFORE MR. CROPSEY'S “AUTUMN ON THE HUDSON.”
TO MARY HOWITT.
TO MARY RUSSELL MITFORD.
TO KEATS.
TO LEIGH HUNT.
A RECOLLECTION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF “ION.”
WRITTEN IN MACAULAY'S “LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME.”
MOTHERWELL'S GRAVE.
AT ROME—ON THE PINCIAN HILL.
[Would God had homed me near your fireside, friends]
[Yours be a life of pleasure, lapp'd in ease]
BEFORE MR. JOHN RUSKIN'S “TURNERS,” AT DENMARK HILL.
WRITTEN IN DR. HOLMES'S “ELSIE VENNER.”
WRITTEN IN “EMERSON'S ESSAYS.”
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II.
III.
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To WILLIAM FREDERICK ROCK, THIS VOLUME Is Inscribed, WITH THE WARMEST ESTEEM AND REGARD, BY HIS FRIEND, W. C. BENNETT.
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