BY
JAMES MIDDLETON SUTHERLAND.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
"Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation."-Bacon."Go, little book, from this my solitude !
I cast thee on the waters-go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The world will find thee after many days." SOUTBEY.
DOUGLAS:
BROWN & SON, "TIMES" BUILDINGS, ATHOL-ST.
OCCASIONAL POEMS:- |
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Summer Longings, . |
28 |
Manxiana . |
33 |
To the Sea, |
38 |
Lines on an Infant Sleeping, |
41 |
The Lost Loved One, . |
43 |
Night, . |
46 |
I would I were, Sweet Maiden Mine ! |
48 |
Sir Bedivere.-A Romance, |
50 |
Sweets, |
53 |
Deep, Deep, Deep, . |
54 |
A" Lover's Rhapsody, . |
55 |
The Lover.-A Dramatic Sketch, |
56 |
Spring-An Invocation, . |
59 |
The Farloln Maiden, . |
61 |
To Myrill&, |
64 |
Ah ! Think not because I am Absent from Thee, |
65 |
The Blighted Bud, |
66 |
Heliotrope, . |
68 |
Prologue, . |
69 |
The Old Churchyard: Kirk Braddan, |
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To a Lady, . |
73 |
Stray Cuttings- |
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Love, . |
75 |
Perfection in Woman, |
75 |
A Lover's Description of His Idol, |
76 |
In Love, . |
76 |
Love-A Madness, |
77 |
A Summer's Night, |
77 |
Woman, |
78 |
Address Poetry, |
80 |
Love, . |
83 |
My Own Sweet Phyllis, Take My Heart, . |
84 |
On the Bridge, |
85 |
Believe Me, Love, They're Right Who Say, . |
87 |
Sweets to the Sweet, . |
89 |
The Departure of Summer, |
92 |
94 |
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Childhood, |
96 |
Birthday Verses, |
99 |
Dreams, |
101 |
Mona's Isle.-An Acrostic, |
104 |
Loving-Kindness, |
105 |
A Lover's Vow, . |
107 |
Sunrise, . |
108 |
Summer, . |
109 |
The Angel of Death, |
111 |
The Ideal, . |
114 |
To a Young Lady on Her Birthday, |
116 |
Spring is Coming, |
118 |
Stanzas to * * * . |
120 |
April, |
121 |
Sweet Lady Mine ! This Verse Accept, |
123 |
Shakspere, |
125 |
The Power of Virtue, . |
131 |
The Lake of Como.-Morning, |
132 |
A Description of a Beauty, |
134 |
On the Skates, |
135 |
Mona's Isle, |
137 |
Poet's Farewell to the Muses, |
140 |
Sweet Girl! I Often Think How Blest, |
143 |
Love-Tokens, |
145 |
A Bouquet, |
148 |
The Reveille, |
150 |
The Maiden'g Confession, . |
152 |
The Bachelors Soliloquy, . |
154 |
Sonnet.-Evening, . |
156 |
A Maiden Poet, |
157 |
To My Valentine, . |
160 |
A Persian Lover to His Mistress, |
162 |
To a Lady, With some Flowers |
164 |
On a Similar Occasion, |
164 |
Leander to Hero, . |
165 |
Ellan Vannin, |
166 |
POEMS-IN MEMORIAM:- |
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Alfred Buckingham Curphey, |
167 |
Eliza Ann Turner; |
172 |
Frederick William Johnson, . |
174 |
John Frederick Sutherland, . |
176 |
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, E.G., |
179 |
LEGENDS OF ELLAN VANNIN:- |
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The Enchanted Island, |
180 |
The Mauthe Dhoo, |
188 |
SACRED POEMS:- |
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Missionary Hymn, |
193 |
Domine Protege Nos. |
195 |
Hymn on the Passion, |
197 |
Hymn for Easter Sunday, |
199 |
Venite, Exultemus Domino, |
201 |
Tutus in Undis, |
203 |
Christian Warfare |
205 |
Belshazzar's Feast |
207 |
There is a Home Above, |
211 |
Eventide, . |
213 |
POEMS FOR CEIRISTMAS AND THE OLD YEAR:- |
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An Honest Christmas Carol, |
215 |
Christmas Bells, . |
218 |
Christmas Stars, . |
220 |
Christmas Eve, . |
222 |
Christmas, . |
224 |
A Happy Christmas |
226 |
Welcome to Christmas, |
228 |
The Dying Year, |
229 |
EARLIER POEMS:- |
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Sonnet: Morning, . |
231 |
Evening, |
232 |
Life Compared to a Flower, |
233 |
Spring |
235 |
The Beauties of Nature, . |
237 |
Leaves of Trees, |
239 |
The Sabbath Morn in May, |
242 |
Evening. |
243 |
The Wanderer's Lament, . |
245 |
Spring Morning, . |
247 |
Sie Vita, |
249 |
Woman, |
251 |
To a Lark, |
253 |
Partings, |
255 |
Lovely Mona, |
257 |
Sunrise, |
259 |
Requiescant in Pace, |
261 |
Pleasures, . |
264 |
Serenade, . |
266 |
Summer, . |
267 |
The Maiden to the Sea, |
269 |
The Rest in the (brave, |
271 |
Love, |
273 |
Woman's Love, . |
275 |
Flowers, . |
277 |
Lines to . |
279 |
The Queen of Flowers, |
280 |
The Reveille . |
281 |
I Think, Love, of Thee |
282 |
The Dying Hour, |
284 |
Homeward, |
286 |
[Note only two of the many poems in the collections are given]
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