[1] A native of Ashburton, Devonshire.

[2] To which he belongs.

[3] Sir F. H. Doyle, Bart., Receiver-General of Her Majesty’s Customs, &c.


The Poems of Edward Edwin Foot.

PUBLISHED 1867.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME.

PAGE
A Voice from the People (To Her Majesty the Queen)[9]
O! Gather in the Old Yule Log[11]
Evening[13]
The Homeward-Bound Passenger Ship[15]
“Raven Rock”[28]
“Lovers’ Leap”[36]
A Welcome to Alexandra[41]
A West-Countryman’s Visit to London[45]
England’s Hope[60]
Christening the Prince[62]
The Astronomer[64]
On Shakespeare[68]
The Banquet[71]
Thought[74]
Sheep[77]
A School Festival[81]
An Autumnal Day[84]
Our Little Brother[87]
The Coming of the Belgians (1867)[88]
A Song: “Willy” and Anne[91]
A Song: The Lost Merchantman[93]
Friend Charles[94]
The Fallen Leaf[95]
The Gout[97]
The Fox’s Lair[101]
The Petrified Nest[105]
The Kingly Oak of Bagot’s Park[106]
Song: Up, Up my Brave Comrades![109]
A Letter to His Lordship[111]
My dear Friend John[113]
Christmas Eve (1864)[114]
The End of Miscellaneous Poems.
The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus; or, The Fruits of Lasciviousness.—An Allegorical Poem, in Two Cantos[117]
Jane Hollybrand; or, Virtue Rewarded.—A Romance, in Six Chapters[161]
A Word for Gifford (In Conclusion)[263]