W. J. Linton: 'Claribel And Other Poems'.

Claribel and Other Poems.

BY

W. J. LINTON
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LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.
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1865.

To

WILLIAM BELL SCOTT

(PAINTER AND POET)

I dedicate this selection from an Artist's Poems (published and unpublished) of which some of the earliest were written nearly as far back as the beginning of our friendship, twenty five years ago.

W. J. LINTON

Brantwood

December, 1864.

CONTENTS
	PAGE
CLARIBEL	1
THREE ENGLISHMEN
King Alfred	53
Grenville's Last Fight	60
Harry Marten's Dungeon Thoughts	67
THE BATTLE OF NEWBURY	75
THE OLD LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR	81
THRENODY	89
EURYDICE	95
QUEEN LIBUSSA	104
THE BRAVE WOMEN OF TANN	109
LOVE'S SHADOW	113
THE CAPTIVE ARAB	120
THE RUINED CITY	125
FIVE SERMONS FROM ONE TEXT
Eve	129
The Indian Widow	130
Vesta's Priest	131
Jephthah's Daughter	133
Iphigenia at Aulis	134
THE HUNCHBACK	135
GOD WISH	139
SONG OF THE STREAMS	143
CHORUSES	148
DEFINITIONS	152

REAL AND TRUE	165
SHADOWS	166
DEATH	168
A FUNERAL HYMN	170
A DIRGE	172
NIGHT-MUSIC	173
OLD FRIENDS	174
THE DIRGE OF LOVE	175
NOUGHT	176
HOPE	177
GONE	178
TO THE WEST WIND	179
LITERAE SCRIPTTÆ	180
FALSE HOPE	181
VAIN COUNSEL	182
FOOT-PRINTS	183
TO HIS LOVE	184
BEGINNINGS	185
LOVE'S TALISMAN	185
THE WOUNDED KNIGHT	186
TEARS	188
WATCHING	189
A ROMANCE	190
PARTING	191
VALENTINE'S DAY	192
MIND YOUR KNITTING	193
TWO FABLES	195
MAIDEN WISDOM	196
WINE SONG	198
WHAT I HATE	199
TRIADS	200
SWEET GALE	201
AN HOUR OF ROBIN HOOD	202
EMIGRANTS	204
THE SONG OF THE PAUPER	206
RICH AND POOR	208
UNSEEN WORTH	209
GOD'S MARTYRS	210
THE PALACE	211
NATURE'S GENTLEMAN	212
THE HAPPY LAND	215
PRAYER	217
TRIUMPH	218
AFTER A DEFEAT	220
TRY AGAIN	221
COURAGE	222
THE PEARL	223
SAD QUESTIONING	224
MIDWINTER	225
GAUDIAMUS IGITUR	226
TIME'S GIFTS	227
CHANGE	228
SELF-JUSTIFICATION	229
THE ADVENT OF PEACE	229
NARROWNESS	230
LOVE	231
TWO STORIES OF ONE FATE	234
A HOMILY	238
WHAT LOVE IS	240
LOVE'S TRINITY	241
MARRIED	242
POETS	244
THE POET-PROPHET	246
THE POET'S MISSION	248
LABOUR IN VAIN	250
PRINCIPLE AND OPINION	251
THOUGHT AND DEED	252
WORD AND DEED	253
JUNE--1849	254
OUR COUNTRY	256
BE THYSELF	257
1854	260
HEART AND WILL	262
A NATIONAL HYMN	263
PRAYER FOR ENGLAND	265
A PRAYER FOR TRUTH	266
PRINTED BY JOHN HAMER LEEDS