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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (1804-1891)

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“IL SONNETTO.”

I.

I. ON VISITING PETRARCH'S HOUSE.

III.

III. THE CHAPEL BELL.

IV.

IV. ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A Village School.

V.

V. ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON.

VI.

VI. NAPLES AT SUNSET.

VII.

VII. ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR Lausanne, now used as a Stable.

VIII.

VIII. ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.

IX.

IX. ON A DRAWING OF THE CRUCIFIXION

X.

X. ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH of Gruyère in Switzerland.

XI.

XI. ON THE RIVER TEPL,

XII.

XII. ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, Carlsbad.

XIII.

XIII. THE LILY.

XXIV.

XXIV. IL GELOSO.

XV.

XV. THE TWO ROSES.

XVI.

XVI. ADDRESSED TO A LADY

XVII.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM.

XIX.

XIX. THE PENITENT.

XX.

XX. ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID.

XXI.

XXI. ON THE LOSS OF THE “AVENGER.” 1847.

XXII.

XXII.ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE.

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X. ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH of Gruyère in Switzerland.

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The author gladly acknowledges that England is now no longer liable to the reproach which suggested this Sonnet, some twelve years ago. 1847.

Where Gruyère's castle, rearing still on high
Its silent halls and its untrodden stair,
Looks down upon a village rude and bare,
The cheerless home of hungering penury,
Paining the heart of him who passeth by;
A costly church, enrich'd with pious care,
Amid those dwellings, echoing praise and prayer,
Tells him that faith can poverty defy.
Sadly I thought on many a lordly pile,
Whose gilded walls unbounded wealth display,
Uprear'd conspicuous in my native isle;
The village church—its altar's mean array,
Its font, its floor, which filth and damp defile,
Alone uncared for, crumbling to decay.