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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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BY

JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE,

AUTHOR OF

"HOURS WITH THE MUSES;" "DREAMS AND REALITIES;"
"THE POETIC ROSARY;" "AUTUMN LEAVES;"
ETC. ETC.


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MANCHESTER:
JOHN HEYWOOD, 143, DEANSGATE.

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO.—HOULSTON & WRIGHT.
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DEDICATORY SONNET
TO MR. JOHN HEYWOOD, THE PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
OF THIS LITTLE BOOK.

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HEYWOOD, to thee, friend I have not yet seen,
    I dedicate these lastlings of my muse,
    Because that then hast laboured to diffuse
Free knowledge, pure, refining, and serene.
Not unsuccessful have thy efforts been,
    Among the striving spirits of thy town;
    For then hast won a calm and fair renown,
And worldly triumphs, neither few nor mean.
A true exemplar of the toiling crowd,
    Thou hast, by honest energy and skill,
    Made circumstance subservient to thy will,
Using the chances Providence allowed.
Simple, is this my song, but let it he
My recognition of thy worth and thee.

J. C. PRINCE.

HYDE,
             July, 1861.

 

CONTENTS.

 

PAGE

The Coming of the May

1.

The Saving Angel

3.

The Holy Land

7.

Sonnet on Wordsworth

11.

The Mariner of Life

12.

The Beggar Boy

14.

Birthday Sonnet

16.

The Mountain Tarn

17.

Canzonette

18.

Spring Sonnets

19.

Sunshine: (a Statue)

20.

The Palace of Art

21.

The Benefactress

24.

Now and Then

25.

The Power of Pleasant Memories

28.

Weeds and Flowers

30.

The Star of the Household

32.

The Darkest Hour

34.

A Good Man gone

36.

Family Feuds

40.

One Angel more

42.

Hope and Trust

44.

The Young Mariner

46.

Lines to the People of Ashton, on the Inauguration of
                    their Infirmary

48.

A Fault Confessed

51.

A Widower's Lament

52.

Christmastide

54.

Address spoken at a New Religious and Literary Institute,
                    Ashton

56.

Kindly Words

59.

Abjuration

60.

A Pastoral

62.

The Soldier of Progress

64.

Sonnet to a Friend

66.

Poetry; an Acrostic

66.

A Flower of the Household

67.

Autumnal Days

70.

The Soul of the Land is awake

71.

The Lover's Call

73.

My Birthday

74.

Italy Awakened

76.

A Night Thought

77.

The Mountains

78.

A Wife's Evening Prayer

80.

Lilly and her Newfoundland Dog

81.

Hymn to the Creator

84.

Winter Thoughts

88.

The Merchant and the Mourner

93.

Christmas

99.

Sonnet to the Old Year

102.

Midnight Imaginings

103.

The Temple of Nature

108.

Legendary Fragment

110.

The Pauper's Grave

112.

Vindicatory Stanzas

114.

Retrospection

117.

Supplication

118.

 



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