Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'. Christopher Stokes W.
Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Edited by
Christopher Stokes
Anthem Press
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CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1812–19: Anonymous Beginnings
My Lucy
Stanzas on the Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Ode to an Æolian Harp
A Guess at the Contents of Lalla Rookh
Stanzas (“The Heaven was Cloudless”)
The Convict’s Appeal [Stanzas 1–15]
On Silent Worship
Playford. A Descriptive Fragment.—1817
Written in a Lady’s Album
Stanzas, Addressed to Some Friends Going to the Sea-Side
Sonnet to the Deben [‘Thou hast thrown aside thy summer loveliness’]
Stanzas, to Helen M— M—
Haunts of Childhood
Sonnets to Charlotte M— [1818 and 1828]
Drab Bonnets
1820–25: Emergence of the ‘Quaker Poet’
The Ivy, Addressed to a Young Friend
The Valley of Fern
Verses, Supposed to be Written in a Burial-Ground Belonging to the Society of Friends
Leiston Abbey
Stanzas, Addressed to Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Lydia
Winter
A Dream
A Day in Autumn [Invocation]
A Day in Autumn [The River Orwell]
The Quaker Poet. Verses on Seeing Myself So Designated
To L.E.L.
Napoleon [Stanzas 28–90]
The Contrast
To a Robin
Verses on the Death of Bloomfield, the Suffolk Poet
Bishop Hubert
Pity for Poor Little Sweeps
A Memorial of John Woolman; a Minister of the Gospel, Among the Quakers
A Memorial of James Nayler, the Reproach and Glory of Quakerism
A Memorial of Mary Dyer, One of the Early Worthies and Martyrs in the Society of Quakers
Verses on the Approach of Spring, Addressed to my Little Play-Fellow
Bealings House
To a Butterfly. Translated from the French
On a Portrait of Beatrice Cenci
On the Death of Samuel Alexander, of Needham-Market
Bow Hill
1826–29: Literary Fame
A Grandsire’s Tale
Stanzas, Composed During a Tempest
A Prophet’s Old Age
Ruth’s Love
The Vanity of Human Knowledge
A Soliloquy
A Reflection
Tears
Walking in the Light
Which Things Are a Shadow
Prefatory Sonnet [to A Widow’s Tale, and Other Poems]
Caractacus
Sonnet; to a Grandmother
Stanzas, Written for a Blank Leaf in Sewell’s History of the Quakers
The Vale of Tears
Concluding Verses, to a Child Seven Years Old
Sonnet to William and Mary Howitt
Sonnet to the Same
The Daughter of Herodias
Godiva
On a Portrait by Spagnoletto
Fireside Quatrains, to Charles Lamb
England’s Oak
Summer Musings
Epistle to the Editor of Friendship’s Offering
1830–49: Late Barton
The Coronation of Ines de Castro
To the White Jasmine