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Reflections over a Lark’s Nest in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- For, see! what care / She has bestow’d upon her little brood / to make them happy. Lo! how well is made / Her small, neat, grounded nest. Were we to scan / Its structure with minuteness, and the plan, / In which it is so carefully contrived, / Then would we ask, From whom has she derived, / Such art and knowledge? Was it e’er from man? / Or was she taught by any artizan / To build her nest? No! Nature is her guide, / From whom she wisdom learns,—how to provide / For this her progeny. And what’s designed, / Is neatly done! How softly it is lined, / For comfort to her young, her only care, / That are, as yet, of Nature’s clothing bare. / And, lo! the outward bulwarks of its form, / How well ’tis built ’gainst the usurping worm, / To save her eggs, and tender brood from harm. / What wisdom’s this? What mother could do more! / To shield her infant charge, Sing, ye that soar / Aloft! With loudest carols make the air / Resound, to cheer your mates in their domestic care.
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The South-East Storm in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Cold! cold! is each blast,—and the cottager mourns / All labour now stay’d till fair weather returns;— / But make the hearth blaze, and let shut be the door; / Keep comfort within though the tempest should roar.
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The Lover’s Invitation in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- So make my place thy home, nor let me cheerless roam,
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The Bushman’s Harvest Home in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- With homely cheer / His board is quickly spread, / His partner dear / Delights to make him glad. / From circle gay, and blazing hearth / No wish has he to roam; / Content and happy, he enjoys / His humble harvest home.
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Stanzas, Extemporaneously Written on a Stormy Night, Dalserf, November 4, 1833 in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Let Heav’n be praised! who me from such preserved, / And in His providence has kindly bless’d / Me with a home,—thus cabin’d from the storm, / Provided with a couch, on which to rest.
- Loud roars the wind; while round the chimney top, / The midnight spirits breathe with dol’rous groan; / And furies round the rattling windows yell, / As me to startle musing here alone. / Thus, in my cabin by the fireside set, / Where glimm’ring embers lend their little light, / I listen to the sound of tempests strong / Loud raging—vexing sore the ear of night.
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Evening Industry in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- But from his humble cottage, lone, / His wife’s sweet strains fell on his ear,
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A Dinner Hour Reverie in The New Zealand Survey
- How sad when one so far is left / As to despondency a prey, / To fall, as some have tempted been / Deranged, to cast themselves away! / Like him we lately from the waves / Drew lifeless—a sad wreck, o’ercome / By wayward fortunes; thus forlorn / Of hope, he fled his earthly home. / Alas, temptations such as this / Are apt to rise in minds of gloom, / Oh spare kind Heaven such victims frail; / ’Middark’ning cares their minds illume!
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Stanzas — To the Memory of Wm. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S. &c., — Departed hence, December 7, 1855 in The New Zealand Survey
- Thus made he earth agreeable, while he / But waited on until such time would come, / When he’d receive his welcomed summons home, / And be from earth’s absorbing cares set free; / When thus, exultingly beyond the tomb, / He’d reap fruitions of his hopes in immortality.
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On a Meeting of Friends in The New Zealand Survey
- How pleasant ’tis truly to witness friends meeting, / Who long have been parted and strangers become, / When hands are extended and grasped, either greeting / With smiling sweet welcomes—each bosom’s a home! / Yes, truly, ’tis pleasant; ’tis like the sun beaming / On nature, who joyous exults in her sway, / Displaying her beauties, with summer flowers gleaming / In all their bright colors, a gorgeous display!
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- And some, like me, have wandered far, / As led by Fancy’s guiding star, / And homely scenes of youth deserted.
- My heart rejoices in the thought / That all are active in progression!—
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Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
- You know, dear brother, when we left / Our comfortable homes, bereft / Of all th’ endearments home could yield / Through social bless; no other shield / Of fair protection had we, than / Mere promises!—Now to a man
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- so that virtue well might reign / The source of all prosperity and peace! / The ultimate design of providence / In peopling earth, subduing desert wilds, / Is now in progress; where a clearing’s formed, / A good beginning’s seen, prelusively / Of happier events to be brought forth, / Though still in future hid; as harvests good, / Of plenteous return, are the results / Of industry in spring; so future things / Indicative of great events to come / In the still further future, are results / Of small beginnings buried in the past! / Thus ev’ry humble effort that’s put forth / In such a wilderness, to make a home, / That effort bears its own proportion to
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- He, as imprisoned in his domicile, / Feels much akin to Noah in his ark, / And looks out on the waters rushing by / With anxious eye, yet hoping he’s above / The water’s reach, which otherwise might mar / The comfort of his dwelling, ev’n although / On piles ’tis seated high above the ground!
- Those pilgrim fathers, who have bravely left
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Auld Jamie Waft.—A Song in The New Zealand Survey
- Now laird of the land the auld man has become, / With plenty tae mak’ up the comforts of home;
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- As one returns from a protracted tour / ’Mid foreign climes, and hails his boyhood’s home, / Recounting many changes, all for good, / That has occurred since when he left, in truth, / Impressing much his heart with hallowed joy;
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- It must be clothed with all such requisites / That can be called attractive, and conduce / To welfare, in a future time ordained,— / (So far as elemental weal’s concerned / Consistent with the curse which hangs o’er earth, / With much of mercy, undeserved attached!)— / In genial clime, as capable to yield / Much paradisian cheer, when well prepared! / Since man, where’er he dwells, must earn by toil / His living—thus himself declaring far / Above the brute capacity of life, / And owning a dependence on the care / Of bounteous Providence—he must exert / Th’ endowments of his reason, and his skill, / As talents in his care to be improved; / Thus earning happiness, such as the earth / Has in its power to yield; though he must rove / To seek his welfare, or another home, / As prompted by his emigrating will; / Or love of acquisition in a part / Of Nature’s earth, that he can call his own!
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Canto Sixth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Love cultivated brings its own reward; / It yields like all good crops abundant joy! / A loveless life but ill becomes the soul / That claims to be immortal! Love is life, / And its chief essence, through the course of time, / And must upheld be: the reverse is Death / In all its small details; in which, such bears / No sweet regard for bliss! So in this world / Is man’s probation fix’d, as if to prove / His fitness for a higher state of bliss, / According as th’ affections of the heart / Have cultivated been, to gain the prize! / As Love to God, breeds love to bosom friends; / And Love to bosom friends will act as proof / Their tendency is upward; towards HOME!
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Canto Fifth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- One night as by the fire he sat, rejoiced / At conversation’s sweetness, she employ’d,— / Not such, of pest’ring questions, which some use
- that they / Should introduce God’s worship in their home. / At this, he first was silent; ’twas a theme / He had not yet consider’d; though in truth / He could not such condemn; but rather felt
- Where want of confidence prevails, and acts / The very poison of all social life?— / If civil war’s a curse to any land,
- Blest is the heart, in love, that’s satisfied; / And feels contented with the lot he owns:
- He had a virtuous Mother; and a home / Which seem’d as ’twere a type of Heav’n on earth; / He felt a share of all his Father’s joy, / And ne’er saw ought but unanimity / Exist between them! Judging women all
- Love uncherish’d frets / Itself to sad vexation;—ill at ease, / His heart feels pain’d, —has no enjoyment, where / It ought to feel at home: it is not blest / With that repose it craves, when press’d with cares. / Can there his mind have rest? ’Tis apt to rove / To seek elsewhere what is not found at home, / At risk of sacrifising moral worth! / Such want of reciprocity, and peace, / Will often lead to dissipation’s woes; / No matter how degraded, when is lost / That self-respect, home-love could have sustain’d
- In th’ humble cot, / Where dwell Contentment, Industry, and Peace, / Such, influenced by love, delight the heart, / More than the splendour which surrounds the great / Where love’s a stranger! Let the rich be proud / Of their surroundings; yet, such often prove / Mere trammels in enjoyment’s way; they give / But little consolation to the soul, / When press’d with cares; they rather much depress / Where sympathy’s required, and is not found;—
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Canto Fourth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- —Thus did she find employment, both at home, / And round the neighbourhood; such aptly fit / To smooth th’ asperities of her own lot;
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Home":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.