Preface | vii |
Scenes and Hymns of Life | |
The English Martyrs | 1 |
Flowers and Music in a Room of Sickness | 19 |
Cathedral Hymn | 33 |
Wood Walk and Hymn | 41 |
Prayer of the Lonely Student | 52 |
The Traveller's Evening Song | 59 |
Burial of an Emigrant's Child in the Forests | 63 |
Easter-Day in a Mountain Church-Yard | 74 |
The Child Reading the Bible | 82 |
A Poet's Dying Hymn | 88 |
The Funeral of Sir Walter Scott | 95 |
The Prayer in the Wilderness | 103 |
Prisoner's Evening Service | 107 |
Hymn of the Vandois Mountaineers in Times of Persecution 117 | |
The Indian's Revenge | 121 |
Prayer at Sea after Victory | 134 |
Evening Song of the Weary | 138 |
The Day of Flowers | 140 |
Hymn of the Traveller's Household on his Return | 151 |
A Prayer of Affection | 155 |
The Painter's Last Work | 157 |
Mother's Litany by the Sick-Bed of a Child | 165 |
Night Hymn at Sea | 167 |
Miscellaneous Poems | |
Female Characters of the Scripture—a Series of Sonnets— | |
I. Invocation | 170 |
II. Invocation Continued | 171 |
III. The Song of Miriam | 172 |
IV. Ruth | 173 |
V. The Vigil of Rizpah | 174 |
VI. The Reply of the Shunamite Woman | 175 |
VII. The Annunciation | 176 |
VIII. The Song of the Virgin | 177 |
IX. The Penitent Anointing Christ's Feet | 178 |
X. Mary at the Feet of Christ | 179 |
XI. The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus 180 | |
XII. The Memorial of Mary | 181 |
XIII. The Women of Jerusalem at the Cross | 182 |
XIV. Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre | 183 |
XV. Mary Magdalene Bearing Tidings of the Resurrection | 184 |
Two Monuments | 185 |
The Memory of the Dead | 190 |
Angel Visits | 193 |
A Penitent's Return | 197 |
A Thought of Paradise | 201 |
Let us Depart | 205 |
On a Picture of Christ Bearing the Cross | 209 |
Communings with Thought | 211 |
Sonnets, Devotional and Memorial | |
I. The Sacred Harp | 215 |
II. To a Family Bible | 216 |
III. Repose of a Holy Family | 217 |
IV. Picture of the Infant Christ with Flowers | 218 |
V. On a Remembered Picture of Christ | 219 |
VI. The Children whom Jesus blest | 220 |
VII. Mountain Sanctuaries | 221 |
VIII. The Lilies of the Field | 222 |
IX. The Birds of the Air | 223 |
X. The Raisings of the Widow's Son | 224 |
XI. The Olive Tree | 225 |
XII. The Darkness of the Crucifixion | 226 |
XIII. Places of Worship | 227 |
XIV. Old Church in an English Park | 228 |
XV. A Church in North Wales | 229 |
XVI. Louise Schepler | 230 |
XVII. To the Same | 231 |
Lines to a Butterfly Resting on a Skull | 232 |
The Palmer | 234 |
The Water-Lily | 237 |
Thought from an Italian Poet | 240 |
Elysium | 241 |
