Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'. Christopher Stokes W.

      Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’

      Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’

      Edited by

      Christopher Stokes

      Anthem Press

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      This edition first published in UK and USA 2020

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940390

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-440-4 (Hbk)

      ISBN-10: 1-78527-440-6 (Hbk)

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      CONTENTS

       List of Figures

       Acknowledgements

       List of Abbreviations

      Introduction

A Note on Quakerism

       1812–19: Anonymous Beginnings

      My Lucy

      Stanzas on the Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Ode to an Æolian Harp

A Guess at the Contents of Lalla Rookh

Stanzas (“The Heaven was Cloudless”)

The Convict’s Appeal [Stanzas 1–15]

On Silent Worship

Playford. A Descriptive Fragment.—1817

Written in a Lady’s Album

Stanzas, Addressed to Some Friends Going to the Sea-Side

Sonnet to the Deben [‘Thou hast thrown aside thy summer loveliness’]

Stanzas, to Helen M— M—

Haunts of Childhood

Sonnets to Charlotte M— [1818 and 1828]

Drab Bonnets

1820–25: Emergence of the ‘Quaker Poet’

The Ivy, Addressed to a Young Friend

The Valley of Fern

Verses, Supposed to be Written in a Burial-Ground Belonging to the Society of Friends

Leiston Abbey

Stanzas, Addressed to Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Lydia

Winter

       A Dream

       A Day in Autumn [Invocation]

       A Day in Autumn [The River Orwell]

       The Quaker Poet. Verses on Seeing Myself So Designated

       To L.E.L.

       Napoleon [Stanzas 28–90]

       The Contrast

       To a Robin

       Verses on the Death of Bloomfield, the Suffolk Poet

       Bishop Hubert

       Pity for Poor Little Sweeps

       A Memorial of John Woolman; a Minister of the Gospel, Among the Quakers

       A Memorial of James Nayler, the Reproach and Glory of Quakerism

       A Memorial of Mary Dyer, One of the Early Worthies and Martyrs in the Society of Quakers

       Verses on the Approach of Spring, Addressed to my Little Play-Fellow

       Bealings House

       To a Butterfly. Translated from the French

       On a Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

       On the Death of Samuel Alexander, of Needham-Market

       Bow Hill

       1826–29: Literary Fame

       A Grandsire’s Tale

       Stanzas, Composed During a Tempest

       A Prophet’s Old Age

       Ruth’s Love

       The Vanity of Human Knowledge

       A Soliloquy

       A Reflection

       Tears

       Walking in the Light

       Which Things Are a Shadow

       Prefatory Sonnet [to A Widow’s Tale, and Other Poems]

       Caractacus

       Sonnet; to a Grandmother

       Stanzas, Written for a Blank Leaf in Sewell’s History of the Quakers

      The Vale of Tears

      Concluding Verses, to a Child Seven Years Old

      Sonnet to William and Mary Howitt

       Sonnet to the Same

      The Daughter of Herodias

      Godiva

      On a Portrait by Spagnoletto

      Fireside Quatrains, to Charles Lamb

       England’s Oak

       Summer Musings

       Epistle to the Editor of Friendship’s Offering

       1830–49: Late Barton

       The Coronation of Ines de Castro

       To the White Jasmine