Bessie Rayner Belloc
Poems
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About the print version:
Poems
by B. R. Parkes [Bessie Rayner Belloc]
94 p.
John Chapman,
London
1852
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(printer)
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.
(dedication)
Dedicated TO BARBARA LEIGH SMITH.
Page v
(contents)
CONTENTS.
WARNING 1
DEATH THE ENCIRCLER 2
MYSTERIES 4
THE MOORS 6
A BALLAD OF SMUGGLING DAYS 11
A CAROL FOR WILLIE 15
CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A-YEAR 18
NEW-YEAR'S EVE AND NEW-YEAR'S DAY 20
SUMMER'S SONG 22
HASTINGS IN APRIL 24
STONELEIGH 26
KENILWORTH 28
MARSH FLOWERS 30
SONG 31
REMINISCENCES 32
SONG 34
WITH PRIMROSES 35
THE OLD WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITION 36
THE ALPS. THUSIS 37
CHIAVENNA ON A SEPTEMBER EVENING 38
THE PLAINS OF LOMBARDY 40
GIOTTO, DA VINCI, TITIAN 42
HOME TO ENGLAND 43
THE HIGHLANDS 44
THE CATHEDRAL 45
TWO SKETCHES FOR PICTURES 48
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THE DESERTED VILLAGE 50
TO AN AUTHOR WHO LOVED TRUTH MORE THAN FAME 51
LONDON FROM HAMPSTEAD HEATH 52
THE WAYFARER 56
THE WATCH IN HEAVEN 58
THE CLOUD-FACE 60
REST 61
LIFE'S RIVER 62
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN 64
"LIFE IS OUR DICTIONARY."--Emerson 66
MUSIC 68
THE EXPERIENCE OF ALL MEN 69
ENGLAND AND HUNGARY IN 1849 70
THE LAST HOME 72
MARY 73
TWO SCENES OF INFANCY 74
GIORGIONE AND VIOLANTE 76
THE MEETING OF PLATO AND HORACE IN THE ELYSIAN FIELDS 78
MY OLD HOUSE 81
EARTH'S QUESTION 84
THE REPLY OF THE FAIRIES 86
THE TEACHING OF CORNELIUS 88
LITTLE SARAH 89
THE OLD PALACE GARDEN 90
TO BIRMINGHAM 92
To * * * * * 93
TO E.B. 94
POEMS.
WARNING.
TIME, rushing past me with the noise of wings,
Woke up my sleeping spirit, and I wept
At his receding pinions moving on
Into eternity ...
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