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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.
  
THE STEADFAST PRINCE.
  
THE CROSS.
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VOL. II.

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL EXILES OF 1823.

Wise are ye in a wisdom vainly sought
Through all the records of the historic page;
It is not to be learned by lengthened age,
Scarce by deep musings of unaided thought.
By suffering and endurance ye have bought
A knowledge of the thousand links that bind
The highest with the lowest of our kind,
And how the indissoluble chain is wrought.
Ye fell by your own mercy once:—beware,
When your lots leap again from fortune's urn,
A heavier error—to be pardoned less:
Yours be it to the nations to declare
That years of pain and disappointment turn
Weak hearts to gall, but wise to gentleness.
1829.
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