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The Reliquary

By Bernard and Lucy Barton. With A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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“KNOW THINE OWN WORTH, AND REVERENCE THE LYRE .”

[Dews that nourish fairest flow'rs]

ELIJAH ON MOUNT HOREB.

RESIGNATION.

“WHAT IS OUR BEING'S AIM AND END?”

THE SEA SHELL.

ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE.

TO A SKYLARK.

A THOUGHT.

SEA-SIDE MUSINGS.

AN APOLOGUE FROM AN EASTERN POET.

“THIS IS NOT YOUR REST; BECAUSE IT IS POLLUTED .”

SONNET. I.

II.

SONNET. II.

“THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT .”

TO THE WHITE JASMINE.

“THE LAND WHICH NO MORTAL MAY KNOW.”

THE METEOR.

“BUT GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN .”

“FOR LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH.”

ON A PICTURE BY PAUL VERONESE OF THE WISE MEN'S OFFERING.

“WE MEET AGAIN.”

TO A STUFFED EAGLE.

[Around an oak, an ivy grew]

THE MISSIONARY.

[At the first dawn of morning light]

TO A ROBIN IN AUTUMN.

TOWN AND COUNTRY;

AN AFFECTING AND TOO TRUE INCIDENT.

TO THE REV. WILLIAM KIRBY,

A CHRISTIAN HEROINE.

SABBATHS AT SEA.

MARY AT THE SEPULCHRE.

WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

A BALLAD.

[Like the frail insect eagerly pursuing]

SONNET. ON A VIEW NEAR WOODBRIDGE.

HYMN.

THE CORONATION OF INEZ DE CASTRO.

“FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY .”

RECOLLECTIONS OF A DAY AT “BARHAM .”

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings .”

“THE MEEK WILL HE TEACH HIS WAY .”

TO THE SWALLOW.

“HE WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES .”

“Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence ?”

THE TRAVELLER'S DIRGE.

MORNING.

For the opening Leaf of my Friend E.J.M.'s copy of “A Manual for the Parish Priest.”

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away .”

SONNET TO A PORTRAIT OF MILTON,

“IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY, IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY .”

TO S. S. L.

FOR THE OPENING LEAF OF AN ALBUM.

TO A LADY, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON.

THE ROSE, THE SHAMROCK, AND THISTLE.

SONNET, ON VISITING HELMINGHAM HALL.

SONNET, ON THE PORTRAIT OF LADY DYSART IN THE HALL AT HELMINGHAM.

WRITTEN AT FELIXSTOW,

“BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN, FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED .”

A MEMORIAL OF DECEMBER 19th, 1835.

THE SPIRIT'S AIM

THE STARTING-POST;

THE GOAL;

SONNET. ON THE DEATH OF JOHN WILSON SHEPPARD, ESQ.

ASH HIGH HOUSE,

HUMAN LIFE.

TO E. H.

THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.

“GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES .”

SONNET, TO THE REV. J. J. REYNOLDS, CURATE OF WOODBRIDGE.

INVOCATION TO SPRING.

“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you .” —Isaiah lix. 2.

TO MY DAUGHTER.

TO A FRIEND.

“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven .”

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MORNING.

Morning! thy touch with life and light
Each day awakens earth;
And gives for seeming death's dark night
To living beauty birth!

The flow'ret opes its dewy cup
To greet the gladsome ray;
The Lark on wings of joy soars up
To pour his heavenward lay.

The bee its straw-thatch'd hive forsakes,
To roam from flower to flower;
The flitting butterfly partakes
The freshness of that hour!

Yet balmy, blissful, bright and fair
As morning's prime may seem,
Dark clouds ere noon may tempests bear,
And vivid lightnings gleam.

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But when of endless day that morn
Shall bring the quick'ning breath,
Eternity of time be born—
And life of transient death:

Then cloudless light, and ceaseless joy
Shall evermore abound,
And songs of grateful praise employ
Those who the throne surround.

Prepare us Lord! by grace divine
Then to give praise to thee;
And as the power is only thine!
Thine shall the glory be!