POEMS
ByThe Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” etc.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields.
1866.PREFACE.
MANY of these Poems, extending over a period of several years, have appeared anonymously in Chamber’s Journal and elsewhere. The frequent reprinting of them, here and in America, has induced the author to collect, select, revise, and claim her errant children.
Whether they were worth collecting, and are really “Poems,” public opinion must decide.
The present edition in the “Blue and Gold” series contains many pieces not heretofore collected.
CONTENTS.
- PHILIP my King 1
- Thoughts in a Wheat‐Field 3
- Immutable 5
- Four Years 7
- The Dead Czar 9
- The Wind at Night 11
- A Fable 14
- Labor is Prayer 16
- A Silly Song 18
- In Memoriam 19
- An Honest Valentine 20
- Looking Death in the Face 24
- By the Alma River 28
- Rothesay Bay 30
- Living: after a Death 32
- In our Boat 34
- The River Shore 35
- A Flower of a Day 36
- The Night before the Mowing 38
- Passion Past 39
- October 41
- Moon‐Struck. A Fantasy 42
- A Stream’s Singing 46
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- A Rejected Lover 48
- A Living Picture 49
- Leonora 52
- Plighted 55
- Mortality 56
- Life Returning. After War‐Time 58
- My Friend 59
- A Valentine 61
- Grace of Clydeside 64
- To a Beautiful Woman 65
- Mary’s Wedding 67
- Between Two Worlds 69
- Cousin Robert 72
- At Last 75
- The Aurora on the Clyde 76
- An Aurora Borealis. Roslin Castle 79
- At the Linn‐Side. Roslin 80
- A Hymn for Christmas Morning 82
- A Psalm for New Year’s Eve 84
- Faithful in Vanity‐Fair. I. And II. 86
- Her Likeness 89
- Only a Dream 90
- To my Godchild Alice 92
- SONNETS.
- Resigning 94
- Saint Elizabeth of Bohemia. I. and II. 95
- A Marriage‐Table 97
- Michael the Archangel. I. and II. 98
- Beatrice to Dante 100
- Dante to Beatrice 101
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- A Question. I. and II. 102
- Angel Faces. I. and II. 104
- Sunday Morning Bells 106
- Cœur de Lion. I. and II. 107
- Guns of Peace 109
- David’s Child 110
- A Word in Season 111
- The Path through the Snow 112
- The Path through the Corn 113
- The Good of it. A Cynic’s Song 115
- Mine 117
- A Ghost at the Dancing 118
- My Christian Name 120
- A Dead Baby 122
- For Music 124
- The Canary in his Cage 125
- Constancy in Inconstancy 127
- Buried To‐day 130
- The Mill 131
- North Wind 132
- Now and Afterwards 133
- A Sketch 134
- The Unknown Country 136
- A Child’s Smile 137
- Violets 139
- Edenland 141
- The House of Clay 142
- Winter Moonlight 143
- The Planting 145
- Sitting on the Shore 148
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- Eudoxia. First Picture 149
- Eudoxia. Second Picture 151
- Eudoxia. Third Picture 153
- Benedetta Minelli. The Novice 155
- Benedetta Minelli. The Sister of Mercy 157
- A Dream of Death 160
- A Dream of Resurrection 162
- On the Cliff‐Top 164
- An Evening Guest 165
- After Sunset 167
- The Garden‐Chair. Two Portraits 169
- An Old Idea 170
- Parables 171
- Lettice 173
- A Spirit Present 174
- A Winter Walk 176
- “Will sail To‐morrow” 178
- At Even‐tide 180
- A Dead Sea‐Gull. Near Liverpool 181
- Looking East. In January, 1858 183
- Over the Hills and Far Away 185
- Too Late 186
- Lost in the Mist 187
- Semper Fidelis 191
- One Summer Morning 193
- My Love Annie 194
- Summer Gone 195
- The Voice calling 198
- The Wren’s Nest 200
- A Christmas Carol 202
- The Mother’s Visits. From the French 203
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- A German Student’s Funeral Hymn 204
- Westward ho! 205
- POEMS SINCE 1860.
- Our Father’s Business 209
- An Autumn Psalm for 1860 212
- In the June Twilight 214
- A Man’s Wooing 216
- The Cathedral Tombs 221
- When Green Leaves come again 223
- The First Waits 225
- Day by Day 226
- Only a Woman 228
- A “Mercenary” Marriage 232
- Over the Hillside 234
- The Unfinished Book 236
- Twilight in the North 238
- Cathair Fhargus 240
- A True Hero 244
- At the Seaside 245
- Fishermen—not of Galilee 248
- The Golden Island: Arran from Ayr 249
- Fallen in the Night! 251
- A Lancashire Doxology 253
- Year after Year 255
- “Until her Death” 256
- The Lost Piece of Silver 258
- Outward Bound 259
