Contents.
| PAGE | |
| Dedication | [V.] |
| Preface | [VII.] |
| Christmas at the Hall | [1] |
| —— The Social Hearth | [45] |
| —— Passing Thoughts on Love | [49] |
| —— Lucy | [53] |
| —— Sonnet to the Master-Minds of Earth | [61] |
| —— Love of Spring | [63] |
| —— Fidelio and Lenore | [67] |
| —— —— Serenade | [70] |
| —— —— Troubadour’s Song | [74] |
| —— —— The Melody | [78] |
| —— —— Canzonet | [82] |
| —— Elegy on Edith | [86] |
| Christmas at the Hall, conclusion | [88] |
| The Hero’s Grave | [102] |
| Sonnet to Harriet Beecher Stowe | [107] |
| Night Musings | [108] |
| The Sailor’s Bride | [113] |
| Birth of the First-Born | [116] |
| Lines to a Great Philanthropist | [118] |
| Wye Dale, Buxton | [121] |
| Rydal Water—addressed to Wordsworth | [122] |
| Sonnet to Elfrida | [125] |
| The Mountain Height | [126] |
| Farewell to Elloughton | [127] |
| Killiney Bay | [131] |
| Descent of the Dove | [133] |
| Lines to a Butterfly | [135] |
| Stanzas | [136] |
| Dane’s Dyke, Flambro’ | [137] |
| A Sea-Side Wish | [138] |
| The Sea Bird | [140] |
| The Voice of the Sea | [141] |
| The Fisherman | [142] |
| The Head-Land | [144] |
| The Storm-King | [146] |
| Farewell to the Sea | [148] |
| Lines to the Sun | [150] |
| The Muse | [152] |
| Song—Young Spring | [153] |
| Autumn | [155] |
| The Reaper | [156] |
| The Widow | [158] |
| The Blind Musician | [159] |
| Hope | [160] |
| Lines to a Young Child | [161] |
| Ballad | [162] |
| The Old Man’s Smile | [164] |
| The Village Church | [166] |
| Elegy | [167] |
| “In Memoriam” | [169] |
| Lines for the Bazaar in Aid of St. James’ National Schools, Hull | [172] |
| A Poet’s Aspiration | [173] |
| Lines Suggested by a Review in the “Hull Packet” | [175] |
| Love of the Lyre | [176] |
| Christmas Bells | [177] |
| Christmas Carol | [178] |
| Angels Appearing to the Shepherds | [180] |
| Christmas Thoughts | [182] |
| New-Year Thoughts | [184] |
| Birth-Day Lines | [185] |
| Affliction | [187] |
| Hebrew Melody | [188] |
| The Starry Heavens | [189] |
| Omnipresent Power | [190] |
| Providence | [191] |
| Angelic Visits | [192] |
| Joy in God | [194] |
| The Great Object of Life | [195] |
| The Close of Life | [196] |
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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