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Shifting Scenes and Other Poems

By J. Stanyan Bigg

Bigg, J. Stanyan (1828-1865)

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HARTLEY PIT CATASTROPHE.

THE HUGUENOT'S DOOM.

AN IRISH PICTURE.

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SHIFTING SCENES.

Proem. TO MY WIFE.

I.

II.

II. ENEMIES AT COURT.

III.

III. THE WARRIOR'S BABES.

IV.

IV. IN THE FIELD.

V.

V. THE LONELY WIFE.

VI.

VI. AT COURT AGAIN.

VII.

VIII.

VIII. FRIENDSHIP.

IX.

IX. WHERE ARE THEY?

X.

X. THE CONSPIRATORS.

XI.

XII.

XII. VENGEANCE.

XIII.

XIV.

SPRING AND SUMMER.

THE TWO GRAVES.

AN INDIAN SUNSET.

THE HERO'S WIDOW.

THE SAME AND NOT THE SAME.

HERE AND THERE.

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ODE ON THE BIRTH OF BURNS.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

BIRTH-DAY STANZAS.

THE ISLAND PRINCE.

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URBAN THE MONK.

I.

PART I. THE LIBRARY.

II.

PART II. DOUBTING CASTLE.

III.

PART III. THE LITTLE BIRD.

IV.

PART IV. THE RETURN.

O LITTLE CHILD:

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I.

II.

ONLY A LITTLE HOUSE.

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YAN OR TWO LILE BITS I' T' FURNESS DIALECT.

I.

I. AULD GRANFADDER JONES.

II.

II. T' AULD MAN.

III.

III. LILE POLLY.

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TO THE RIGHT HON. JOSEPH NAPIER, (EX-LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND,) IN TESTIMONY OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM, AND IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MANY ACTS OF KINDNESS, AND OF THAT FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH HE HAS HONOURED THE AUTHOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS, This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.