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Poems

By Richard Chenevix Trench: New ed
Trench, Richard Chenevix (1807-1886)

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VOL. I.
  
THE STORY OF JUSTIN MARTYR.
  
THE MONK AND BIRD.
  
TO A CHILD PLAYING.
  
A WALK IN A CHURCHYARD.
  
TO---
  
TO MY GODCHILD,
  
TO AN INFANT SLEEPING.
  
TO A FRIEND
  
ANTI-GNOSTICUS.
  
LOVE.
  
‘REJOICE EVERMORE.’
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
THE HERRING-FISHERS OF LOCHFYNE.
  
IN THE ISLE OF MULL.
  
THE SAME.
  
AT SEA.
  
AN EVENING IN FRANCE.
  
THE DESCENT OF THE RHONE.
  
LINES
  
TO ENGLAND.
  
SORRENTO.
  
VESUVIUS.
  
THE SAME.
  
THE SAME.
  
ON THE PERSEUS AND MEDUSA
  
LINES
  
A VISIT TO TUSCULUM.
  
GIBRALTAR.
  
ON A PICTURE AT MADRID.
  
A LEGEND OF ALHAMBRA.
  
SONNET.
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF BURGOS.
  
A LEGEND OF TOLEDO.
  
AN INCIDENT VERSIFIED.
  
SONNET.
  
ON LEAVING ROME.
  
RETURNING HOME.
  
LINES
  
TO SILVIO PELLICO.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TASSO'S DUNGEON, FERRARA.
  
IN THE TYROL.
  
AT BRUNECKEN, IN THE TYROL.
  
TO THE TYROLESE.
  
A RECOLLECTION OF THE TYROL.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A LADY SINGING.
  
[Not Thou from us, O Lord, but we]
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET,
  
ENGLAND.
  
THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA.
  
POLAND, 1831.
  
TO NICHOLAS, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
  
FRANCE, 1834.
  
ODE TO SLEEP.
  
SONNET.
  
ATLANTIS.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
THE CONSTITUTIONAL EXILES OF 1823.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
DESPONDENCY.
  
SAIS.
  
THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY.
  
YOUNG POETS.
  
THE HEALING OF THE WATERS.
  
SONNET.
  
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
  
[Some murmur, when their sky is clear]
  
ON AN EARLY DEATH.
  
SABBATION.
  
TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
HONOR NEALE.
  
A CENTURY OF COUPLETS.
  
SONNET.
  
A BALLAD.
  
XERXES AT THE HELLESPONT.
  
CHARLES V. BEFORE THE CONVENT OF YUSTE, 1556.
  
ON A YEW-TREE
  
TO A ROBIN REDBREAST,
  
RETRIBUTION.
  
EVENING HYMN.
  
TO---
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO THE SAME.
  
TO MY CHILD.
  
SONNET.
  
NEW YEAR'S EVE.
  
ON THE CONSECRATION OF A NEW CHURCHYARD.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
THE TEMPTATION.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
ST. CHRYSOSTOM.
  
[Lord, weary of a painful way]
  
[Weep not for broad lands lost]
  
[This did not once so trouble me]
  
COMPENSATION.
  
[Lord, many times I am aweary quite]
  
[If that in sight of God is great]
  
THE DAY OF DEATH.
  
THE LAW OF LOVE.
  
[A genial moment oft has given]
  
[If there had anywhere appeared in space]
  
‘DUST TO DUST.’
  
FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
A PASSAGE FROM ST. AUGUSTINE.
  
TO POETRY.
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GENOVEVA.
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VIII
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THE STEADFAST PRINCE.
  
THE CROSS.
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VOL. II.
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ORPHEUS AND THE SIRENS.
  
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.
  
NATURAL MYTHOLOGY.
  
[Oh thou of dark forebodings drear]
  
THE OIL OF MERCY.
  
THE TREE OF LIFE.
  
THE TREE OF LIFE.
  
PARADISE.
  
THE HOLY EUCHARIST.
  
THE PRODIGAL.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE FIRST TIDINGS OF THE CABUL MASSACRES.
  
MOOLTAN.
  
THE LOREY-LEY.
  
HYMN TO OCEAN.
  
SUNSET.
  
CONFIDENCES.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
IN MEMORIAM, G. P. C.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
[Man, the pomp and pride of earth]
  
THE CURSE OF CORN-HOARDERS.
  
THE CORREGAN.
  
THE ETRURIAN KING.
  
THE PRIZE OF SONG.
  
TIMOLEON.
  
ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
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POEMS FROM EASTERN SOURCES
  
ALEXANDER AT THE GATES OF PARADISE.
  
FROM THE PERSIAN.
  
CHIDHER'S WELL.
  
LIFE AND DEATH.
  
LOVE.
  
THE FALCON.
  
THE BREAKER OF IDOLS.
  
FROM THE PERSIAN.
  
THE BANISHED KINGS.
  
SOLOMON.
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THE BALLADS OF HAROUN AL RASCHID.
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I THE SPILT PEARLS.
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II. THE BARMECIDES.
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III. THE FESTIVAL.
  
THE TALENTS.
  
THE EASTERN NARCISSUS.
  
THE SEASONS.
  
[By Grecian annals it remained untold]
  
MOSES AND JETHRO.
  
GHAZEL.
  
PROVERBS.
  
HARMOSAN.
  
GERTRUDE OF SAXONY.
  
LIFE THROUGH DEATH.
  
THE WORLD.
  
THE SUPPLIANT.
  
THE MONK AND SINNER.
  
THE GLOW-WORM.
  
THE CERTAINTIES OF FAITH.
  
THE PANTHEIST;
  
THE RIGHTEOUS OF THE WORLD.
  
PRAYER.
  
THE FALCON'S REWARD.
  
THE CONVERSION OF ABRAHAM.
  
THE TRUE PILGRIM.
  
AN EASTERN VERSION OF THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS.
  
THE VASE OF HONEY.
  
EASTERN MORALITIES.
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POEMS WRITTEN DURING THE RUSSIAN WAR 1854, 1855
  
‘WHAT THOUGH YET THE SPIRIT SLUMBERS.’
  
ALMA.
  
SONNET.
  
AFTER THE BATTLE.
  
SONNET.
  
BALAKLAVA.
  
SONNET.
  
Η ΤΑΝ, Η ΕΠΙ ΤΑΝ.
  
INKERMAN.
  
THE UNFORGOTTEN.
  
ON THE BREAKING OFF OF THE CONFERENCES AT VIENNA, JUNE, 1855.
  
TO ---
  
THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS.
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ELEGIAC POEMS
  
TO ---
  
[What, many times I musing asked, is man]
  
TO M ---
  
[No mother's eye beside thee wakes to-night]
  
MORAVIAN HYMN.
  
[What was thy life? a pearl cast up awhile]
  
[This chest, a homely cabinet, although]
  
TO ---
  
[Hers was a mother's heart]
  
TO ---
  
[Yonder on that wall displayed]
  
NO MORE.
  
[Men will be light of heart and glad]
  
[O happy days, O months, O years]
  
[That name! how often every day]
  
TO ---
  
[Many times the morning laughs in light]
  
[Half unbelieving doth my heart remain]
  
SONNET.
  
[Where thou hast touched, O wondrous Death!]
  
[When its higher faith this heart denies]
  
[Who that a watcher doth remain]
  
[If our high debt of holy glee]
  
THE LENT JEWELS.
  
[O life, O death, O world, O time]
  
FROM THE ARABIC.
  
ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
  
A JEWISH APOLOGUE.
  
ON REVISITING THE SEINE.
  
[This winter eve how soft! how mild!]
  
TO ---
  
[O friend, it seems when first our lives begin]

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[That name! how often every day]

That name! how often every day
We spake it and we heard;
It was to us, 'mid tasks or play,
A common household word.
'Tis breathëd yet, that name—but oh!
How solemn now the sound!
One of the sanctities which throw
Such awe our homes around.
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