BALLADS AND SONGS.
BYBESSIE RAYNER PARKES.
LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
1863.DEDICATION.
- THOSE whom these Poems may concern
- Will each their own true portion know;
- No cause that other eyes should learn
- The reason why I penned them so.
- But if—I think there is—there be
- One thread of thought that runs throughout,
- One heart remembered tenderly,
- One echo caught from strains devout;—
- If through the busy Week of Years,
- To which these scattered thoughts belong,
- One constant image still appears,
- Reflected in my casual song;—
- Dear critic, for whose eyes I wrote the greater part,
- Take to thyself the book I give, with all my heart.
CONTENTS.
- THE Palace and the Colliery 1
- The Fate of Sir John Franklin 5
- The Soldier's Return 11
- The City of Refuge 15
- The Black Death 19
- The Ballad of the King's Daughter 22
- Robin Hood 27
- New Year's Wishes 30
- Up the River 34
- Farmhouse Gardens 46
- Carisbrooke Chimes 49
- St. Laurence, Undercliff 53
- The Wind amid the Trees 55
- A Midsummer Night's Dream 58
- At First 61
- A Dropped Trinket 64
- In an Album 66
- The Old Chateau 68
- Robert Burns 70
- Peace 77
- Prayer 79
- Magic Rings 81
- The Mersey and the Irwell 84
- The World of Art 88
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- Voluntaries 99
- The Cloud-Face 106
- The First Primrose 108
- Autumn Violets 111
- The Little Bird 114
- Symbols 116
- Fate 120
- Unspoken 122
- To-morrow 125
- King Arthur 127
- Firelight 130
- Absence 136
- The Dead Love 138
- Two Artists 142
- The Cathedral 145
- On a Group of Justice and Charity 149
- “What Distance parteth Thee and Me?” 151
- For Adelaide 154
ITALY.
- Rome 159
- St. John Lateran 164
- The Lateran Cloisters 166
- The Cœlian Hill 169
- The Appian Way 172
- The Desolation of Veii 175
- Gibson's Studio 179
- Minerva Medica 182
- Two Graves 185
ALGIERS.
