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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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BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL SEA.

I

Bright and beautiful sea! I love thee well—
In sunshine, oh bear me away;
On thy bosom I'll ride, when the salt waves swell
'Neath the light of the moon's pale ray.

II

Still softly, oh! softly cradle my head,
And my sleep shall be sweet with thee,
For the planets keep watch o'er the dreamer's bed
On the bright and beautiful sea.

III

Earth is not thine, with her selfish decrees,
With her toils and her fading flow'rs;—
But the blue sky above—the sun—and the breeze,
And the bright and the laughing hours.
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IV

Bright and beautiful sea! Oh! let me glide,
Forgetting the sorrows of earth—
For glad is the music of thy sparkling tide,
Thou sea, in thy billowy mirth!

V

Bright and beautiful sea! I love thee well—
In sunshine, oh bear me away;
On thy bosom I'll ride, when the salt waves swell
'Neath the light of the moon's pale ray.
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