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                                POEMS.




                                  THE
                        STORY OF JUSTIN MARTYR,
                                  AND
                             OTHER POEMS.

                                  BY
                       RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH,
             PERPETUAL CURATE OF CURDRIDGE CHAPEL, HANTS.

                                LONDON:
                      EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

                              MDCCCXXXV.




                                LONDON:
                     BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
                             WHITEFRIARS.




CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE

Dedicatory Lines                                                       1

The Story of Justin Martyr                                             9

Sonnet                                                                27

To ----                                                               28

To the same                                                           29

To the same                                                           30

To the same                                                           31

To the same                                                           32

A Legend of Alhambra                                                  33

England                                                               38

The Island of Madeira                                                 39

Gibraltar                                                             40

England                                                               41

Poland                                                                42

To Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, on his reported Conduct
towards the Poles                                                     43

On the Results of the last French Revolution                          44

To England                                                            45

Sonnet                                                                46

Sonnet to Silvio Pellico                                              47

To the Same                                                           48

From the Spanish                                                      49

Lines                                                                 52

To a Friend entering the Ministry                                     53

To a Child Playing                                                    57

The Herring-Fishers of Lochfyne                                       59

In the Isle of Mull                                                   60

The same                                                              61

At Sea                                                                62

An Evening in France                                                  63

Sonnet. To my Child, a Fellow-traveller                               68

The Descent of the Rhone                                              69

On the Perseus and Medusa of Benvenuto Cellini                        80

Lines written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene 81

Vesuvius, as seen from Capri                                          84

Vesuvius                                                              85

The same continued                                                    86

To England. Written after a visit to Sorrento                         87

Lines written after hearing some beautiful singing in a
Convent Church at Rome.                                               88

On a Picture of the Assumption by Murillo                             92

An Incident versified                                                 95

Address on leaving Rome to a Friend residing in that City             98

Tasso’s Dungeon, Ferrara                                             105

Sonnet                                                               106

At Brunecken, in the Tyrol                                           107

Sonnet                                                               108

Lines written in an Inn                                              109

To E ----                                                            114

To ----, on the Morning of her Baptism                               119

To a Lady singing                                                    122

The same continued                                                   123

The same continued                                                   124

The same continued                                                   125

The same continued                                                   126

Sonnet                                                               127

Sonnet                                                               128

Sonnet                                                               129

Despondency                                                          130

Ode to Sleep                                                         133

Atlantis                                                             139

Sais                                                                 143

Sonnet                                                               144

Recollections of Burgos                                              145

To a Friend                                                          148

To the Constitutional Exiles of 1823                                 151

To the same                                                          152

Sonnet                                                               153

On an early Death                                                    154

Sonnet                                                               160

Sonnet                                                               161

New Year’s Eve                                                       162

To my Child                                                          163

Sonnet                                                               164

Sonnet. In a Pass between the Walchen and the Waldensee              165

Sonnet                                                               166

Sonnet                                                               167

To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism                           168

The Monk and Bird                                                    172




ERRATA.

[Corrected in this etext]


Page   9, line 6, _for_ look _read_ looks.

...   26, ... 3, _for_ flonrish _read_ flourish.

...  137, ... 6, _for_ starerd _read_ starred.




DEDICATORY LINES.




         TO ----


    If, Lady, at thy bidding, I have strung
    As on one thread these few unvalued beads,
    I cannot ask the world to count them pearls,
    Or to esteem them better than they are:
    But thou, I know, wilt prize them, for by thee
    Solicited, I have beguiled with these
    The enforcèd leisure of the present time,
    And