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The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker

Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis

Hawker, Robert Stephen (1803?-1875)

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THE DEDICATION. TO CHARLOTTE.

THE SONG OF THE WESTERN MEN.

CLOVELLY.

INSCRIPTION FOR THE WATERFALL AT HAYNE.

POMPEII.

MAWGAN OF MELHUACH.

FEATHERSTONE'S DOOM.

THE SILENT TOWER OF BOTTREAUX.

THE MONK ROCK.

THE SPELL OF ST. PENNAH.

“DOWN WITH THE CHURCH.”

THE LADY OF THE MOUNT.

THE DEATH-SONG OF HAROLD,

THE BURIAL OF HAROLD.

THE SISTERS OF GLEN NECTAN.

A RAPTURE ON THE CORNISH HILLS.

TREBARROW.

“PATER VESTER PASCIT ILLA.”

DEATH SONG.

THE SEA-BIRD'S CRY.

MINSTER CHURCH AND THE CONFIRMATION DAY

MODRYB MARYA—AUNT MARY.

MORWENNA STATIO.

THE SAINTLY NAMES.

THE VINE.

THE WELL OF ST MORWENNA.

“I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE? SAITH THE LORD!”

THE WESTERN SHORE.

THE EXILE'S TEXT

HOME ONCE MORE!

THE POOR MAN AND HIS PARISH CHURCH.

THE SONG OF THE SCHOOL:

ON THE GRAVE OF A CHILD IN MORWENSTOW CHURCHYARD.

THE WAIL OF THE CORNISH MOTHER.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA.

THE SECOND BIRTH OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND—VICTORIA ADELAIDE MARY LOUISA.

DUTY DONE.

THE TOKEN STREAM OF TIDNA COMBE.

THE BUTTERFLY.

CONFIRMATION

“ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS?”

THE FONT.

THE NUN OF CARMEL'S LAMENT

THE RINGERS OF LANCELL'S TOWERS.

THE KISS OF JUDAS.

THE LOST SHIP: “THE PRESIDENT.”

THE FIRST PRINCE OF WALES. A.D. 1284.

THE FIGURE-HEAD OF THE CALEDONIA AT HER CAPTAIN'S GRAVE.

QUEEN GUENNIVAR'S ROUND.

ISHA CHERIOTH.

A BALLAD FOR A COTTAGE WALL.

A LEGEND OF THE HIVE.

THE BAPTISM OF THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE.

THE WOLF.

HYMN FOR HOLY INNOCENTS' DAY.

THE WELL OF ST. JOHN.

THE OBLATION.

ABSALOM'S PILLAR.

A CHRIST-CROSS RHYME.

ONE IS NOT.

A VOICE FROM THE PLACE OF ST. MORWENNA IN THE ROCKY LAND;

NOTES.

“BE OF GOOD CHEER!”

BAAL ZEPHON.

THE DOOM-WELL OF ST. MADRON.

THE CORNISH BOY IN ITALY.

ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT.

THE LEGEND OF SAINT CECILY.

THE LEGEND OF SAINT THEKLA.

MIRIAM: STAR OF THE SEA.

THE BIER OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD.

LINES OF DEDICATION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES,

TO ALFRED TENNYSON, LAUREATE, D.C.L.

AISHAH SCHECHINAH.

THE SOUTHERN CROSS.

KING ARTHUR'S WAES-HAEL.

SIR BEVILLE.—THE GATE SONG OF STOWE.

THE COMET OF 1861.

A CROON ON HENNACLIFF.

THE QUEST OF THE SANGRAAL.

TO EVA VALENTINE,

TO MATILDA VALENTINE,

“BLUE EYES MELT; DARK EYES BURN.”

WRITTEN IN MY LADY'S DANTE.

TO SOPHIE GRANVILLE THYNNE,

ICHABOD.

SIR RALPH DE BLANC-MINSTER, OF BIEN-AIME.

PARAPHRASE ON THE INSCRIPTION UPON THE STATUE OF SIR T. D. ACLAND, BART.

ON READING LORD DERBY'S TRANSLATION OF HOMER.

THE CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG.

AURORA.

A FRAGMENT.

THE CAROL OF THE PRUSS.

IMPROMPTU LINES

A CANTICLE FOR CHRISTMAS, 1874.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

A DOXOLOGY.

TENDRILS.

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FEATHERSTONE'S DOOM.

Twist thou and twine! in light and gloom
A spell is on thine hand;
The wind shall be thy changeful loom,
Thy web the shifting sand.

Twine from this hour, in ceaseless toil,
On Blackrock's sullen shore;
Till cordage of the sand shall coil
Where crested surges roar.

'Tis for that hour, when, from the wave,
Near voices wildly cried;
When thy stern hand no succour gave,
The cable at thy side.

Twist thou and twine! in light and gloom
The spell is on thine hand;
The wind shall be thy changeful loom,
Thy web the shifting sand.

1831.

The Blackrock is a bold, dark, pillared mass of schist, which rises midway on the shore of Widemouth Bay, near Bude, and is held to be the lair of the troubled spirit of Featherstone the wrecker, imprisoned therein until he shall have accomplished his doom.