Lays of ancient Virginia, and other poems
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, BY J.A. BARTLEY, In the Clerk's Office of the Eastern District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia.
TO MY FATHER, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS SON,
THE AUTHOR.
Dear Public:
These Poems were written with pleasure; if they be read with pleasure, I shall be requited amply. How often the Guardian Angel of the Father of Virginia in surpassing loveliness rose before my imagining eyes! Like the spirit of a dream, she glided through the foliage, verdant and shadowy. Enchanted myself, the desire to enchant others seized me. The Poet's Enchanted Life is a gallery of poetic pictures of nature. Most of the minor and miscellaneous pieces, breathe the spirit of virtuous affection. If critics censure me unjustly or intemperately, I will fight them—but I hope to find them, as well as you, dear Public, very kind friends of a loving Author.
J.A. BARTLEY.
Which from the James, the Pilgrim may survey,
Stretch alway forth its old, forsaken hands
As if to beg some friend its fall to stay,
And now the wild vine flaunts in greenness gay;
James Avis Bartley
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LAYS
OF
ANCIENT VIRGINIA,
POEMS:
JAMES AVIS BARTLEY,
PREFATORY LETTER TO THE PUBLIC.
CONTENTS
SUNSET.
IMAGINATION.
MILLY.
THE WINTRY DAYS.
SPRING.
AN INCIDENT.
THE LETTER.
THE LOST PLEIAD.
THE SLEEPER.
DWELLING IN HEAVEN.
THE FACE I SEE IN DREAMS.
TO ELOQUENCE.
NEAR YONDER BANKS AT EVEN.
AN HYMN.
TO P.S. WHITE.
MONTPELIER, ORANGE COUNTY, VA.
THE HEAVENLY FLOWER.
LILLY MAY.
TO ELEANOR.
THE VOW OF LOVE.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
THE DREAM OF LOVE.
SABBATH.
THE THUNDER STORM.
THE LIFE-LAND.
TO MISS ——.
THE WIFE TO THE ABSENT HUSBAND.
OH, BLUE-EYED MAID, I SIGH FOR THEE.
TO MARY.
THOUGH THOU WAST PASSING FAIR.
THE LADY'S SOLILOQUY.
LOVE WITHOUT HOPE.
TO MARY.
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
THE DEAD EAGLE.
LAMENT.
OH, LOVE! THE DEW LIES ON THE FLOWER.
RED ROSE.
ELLEN.
THE SABBATH WORSHIPPER.
TO ——.
WHERE IS OUR BROTHER?
STAR OF REST.
MELANCHOLY.
FOR MARY.
LINES.
THE FLOWERS.
THE ENCHANTED REALM OF JOY.
TO MISS M.T.R.
BENEATH THOSE STARS OF SUMMER.
TO FANNIE.
A STROLL DOWN QUALITY ROW.
THERE IS A GOD.
TO THE BELOVED.
TO LORA GORDON BOON.
MONTICELLO.
TO MARIAN.
THE SPIRIT OF POESY.
THE WATER.
BLANNERHASSETT'S ISLAND.
TO BETTIE.
EPITAPH FOR AN INFANT.
THE MILLENNIUM.
TO A POET'S WIFE.
LILLY LANE.
A SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME.
FAREWELL TO ALBEMARLE.
SHE WOULD HAVE IT SO.
TO FANNIE.
ON HEARING THAT MY LOVE WAS ANGRY.
TO A POET.
THE CHILD'S PRAYER.
CRITICUS.
TO MARY.
SONG OF THE CONVERTED HEATHEN.
SIN OF THE CHORAL SINGER.
A PORTRAIT.
HALLOWED GROUND.
TO SPRING.
ON HEARING THAT MY LOVE WAS PROUD.
TO LIZZIE.
MONTICELLO.
YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU LOVED ME.
THE SONG OF THE SLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF TICONDEROGA.
TO MY COPY OF SHAKSPEARE WHICH HAD BEEN LOST.
I LOVE THEE.
ON ——.
THE OLD MILL WHEEL.
SERENADE.
VIRGINIA HOME OF HONOR.
HYMN TO THE FATHER.
O BIRDIE! SPEAK TO ME.
TO ONE.
THE WANDERER.
TO BETTIE.
BABY SONG.
MY OLD VIRGINIA HOME.
TAKE THOSE PLEDGES BACK.
SONG.—UNDYING AFFECTION.
FREEDOM'S HOME.
NATIVE MOUNTAINS.
THE TRAIN IS COMING.
LINES.
LOVE SONG.
PARTING SONG.
THE SONG OF MAY.
TO MY LYRE.
YOU ASK WHY I AM LONELY NOW.
OLD HOMESTEAD.
LOVE SONG.
SUSIE.
LINES ON PARTING WITH ——.
BLUE-EYED ELLA.
ACROSTIC.
TO THE MUSE. L'ENVOI.
J.W. RANDOLPH,