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Poems and Songs by E. H. B. [i.e. E. H. Bickersteth]

Bickersteth, Edward Henry (1825-1906)
 
[dedication]

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POMPEII.
 
CEASE TO WEEP.
 
THE WREATH.
 
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING MY DAUGHTER SING MRS. NORTON'S “THERE IS NO TRACE OF THEE AROUND.”
 
A LAMENT FOR PERSIA.
 
OH! BRING MY LUTE.
 
STANZAS TO ---.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF MALIBRAN.
 
DECEMBER.
 
TO THE GILLY-FLOWER.
 
SONNET.
 
TO THE SNOWDROP.
 
BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL SEA.
 
WRITTEN ON SEEING THE QUEEN PASS THROUGH THE ROYAL GALLERY TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS,
 
ON SLEEP.
 
STONEHENGE.
 
THE FUTURE.
 
DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
 
LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE PAINTED ON AN INDIAN TABLE.
 
DESTINY.
 
SONNET.
 
TO MY DAUGHTER'S BIRD.
 
GUIDO'S MAGDALENE.
 
LINES WRITTEN ON LEAVING THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
 
ELEGY TO L. E. L.
 
TO SPRING.
 
PARAPHRASE.
 
SONG.
 
THE SILENT LUTE.
 
TO JULIET.
 
TO THE NEW YEAR.
 
LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MY DAUGHTER ON LEAVING HER SCHOOL GARDEN AT---
 
THAT MOCKING LIP.
 
“HEARTS-EASE.”
 
SONG.
 
LINES ADDRESSED TO --- ON ATTAINING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE.
 
SONG.
 
ACROSTIC.
 
ACROSTIC.
 
TO THE BIRD OF PARADISE.
 
OH! CEASE THOSE BELLS.
 
TO THE OCEAN.
 
THE SONG OF FINGAL.
 
SONG.
 
WOMAN'S HEART.
 
THE POET'S WREATH.
 
SONNET.
 
LIFE.
 
FAREWELL TO THE YEAR.
 
TO FLOWERS.
 
STANZAS TO---
 
ON BEING ASKED BY MY CHILDREN TO JOIN IN THEIR PASTIMES
 
TWILIGHT.
 
THE FLOWER GIRL'S SONG.
 
OH! WEEP NOT FOR THE DEAD.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY.
 
THE SNOWDROP.
 
STANZAS.
 
THE FLOWERS ARE ALL FADING.
 
TO A YOUNG FRIEND,
 
THE BRIDAL.
 
WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE CITY OF LONDON,
 
STANZAS.
 
AUTUMN.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A NEPHEW.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
SONG.
 
A MOTHER TO HER SLEEPING CHILD.
 
STANZAS TO SPRING.
 
A HYMN,
 
IMPROMPTU ON A BLADE OF GRASS.
 
THE BIBLE.
 
STANZAS.
 
TO-MORROW.
 
SONG.
 
WHY WAKE THE LONG FORGOTTEN LAY?
 
FLOWERS.
 
TO ------.
 
IMPROMPTU
 
TO DEATH.
 
CONRAD TO MEDORA.
 
MEDORA TO CONRAD.
 
WHAT IS THE SUNSHINE OF THE HEART?
 
ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,
 
WRITTEN ON VISITING BLACK GANG CHINE,
 
FRAGMENT.
 
SPRING.
 
LA GIROFLEE.
 
TO THE MOON.
 
THE WISH.
 
TO ---
 
INVOCATION TO MY MUSE.
 
VENUS AND CUPID.
 
THE BRANCH OF THE ALMOND TREE.
 
TO HOPE.
 
SONG.
 
A MOTHER TO HER SON ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
 
TO A FAVORITE POET.
 
TO A YOUTH ON THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER.
 
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY.
 
CLEOPATRA TO MARC ANTHONY.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF ------.
 
ASPASIA TO PERICLES.
 
A SICK PARENT'S BEDSIDE.
 
SONG.
 
TO OBLIVION.
 
FRAGMENT.
 
FAREWELL TO THE YEAR WHICH IS PAST.
 
SONG.
 
TO THOUGHT.
 
FAREWELL TO GUERNSEY.
 
HIS NAME.
 
SONG.
 
“OH! HEED NOT THOSE BEAMS.”
 
TO MY LYRE.
 
REBECCA.
 
ELEGIAC STANZAS ON A DEPARTED PARENT.
 
SONG.
 
MY SUMMER-HOUSE.
 
TO MARY.
 
YES, WE WILL MEET.
 
TO---.
 
HE COMES NOT YET.
 
HAMPTON COURT.

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TO A FAVORITE POET.

Thy plaintive muse responds to mine,
And bids me speak no more of pain;
Ah! could I sweep some chords of mirth,
And bid the laughing hours have birth,
Thou hadst not all awoke thy lyre in vain.
Yet in the treasury of my heart
Shall some short years for ever dwell,
And sounds and tones engraved shall lie,
Unheard save in a swelling sigh—
Fond woman's language, joys or griefs to tell.
The moon shall gleam—but not for me;
Her paly light shall find my grave—
Ah! there shall cease my hopes—my fears—
My faintest sighs—my latest tears—
Remembrance only all the boon I crave!
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