Christmas at the hall
Christmas at the Hall, The Hero’s Grave; Night Musings, And other Poems,
BY T. J. TERRINGTON, Author of “WELTON DALE,” etc.
“And verses vain, but verses are not vain.”
SPENSER.
London: LONGMAN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN.
Hull: JOSEPH W. LENG.
To Samuel Wilderspin, Esq., The Founder of Infant Schools, The Promoter of General Education, And a Friend of Liberty and Truth: This little volume is affectionately inscribed by his Son-in-Law, The Author.
T. J. Terrington
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Preface.
Contents.
Christmas at the Hall.
The Social Hearth.
Passing Thoughts on Love.
Lucy.
A Sonnet To the Master-Minds of Earth.
Love of Spring.
Fidelio and Lenore.
An Elegy on Edith.
The Hero’s Grave.
Sonnet to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Night Musings.
The Sailor’s Bride.
Birth of the First-Born.
Lines to a Great Philanthropist.
Wye Dale, Buxton.
Rydal Water.
Sonnet to Elfrida.
The Mountain Height.
Farewell to Elloughton.
Killiney Bay.
Descent of the Dove.
Lines to a Butterfly.
Stanzas.
Dane’s Dyke, Flambro’.
A Sea-Side Wish.
The Sea-Bird.
The Voice of the Sea.
The Fisherman.
The Head-Land.
The Storm-King.
Farewell to the Sea.
Lines to the Sun.
The Muse.
Song—Young Spring.
Autumn.
The Reaper.
The Widow.
The Blind Musician.
Hope.
Lines to a Young Child.
Ballad.
The Old Man’s Smile.
The Village Church.
Elegy.
“In Memoriam.”
A Poet’s Aspiration.
Love of the Lyre.
The Christmas Bells.
Christmas Carol.
Angels Appearing to the Shepherds.
Christmas Thoughts.
New-Year Thoughts.
Birth-Day Lines.
Affliction.
Hebrew Melody.
The Starry Heavens.
Omnipresent Power.
Providence.
Angelic Visits.
Joy in God.
The Great Object of Life.
The Close of Life.