Memory
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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The Love Letter in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- I remember still / Her parting pledge so free; / Nor will forget the fervent wish / She breathed to Heav’n for me.
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Erratonga in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- “Ever may ye flow, sweet river, / Bliss diffusing round,” he cried; / “Ye remind me of those pleasures / I with my true love enjoyed.
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Stanzas, extemporaneously written during the Egress of 1833, and the Ingress of1834 in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- From childhood, nought could break that genial tie, / By which our hearts in fellowship were join’d; / But Death has made a breach, which makes me sigh, / As still thy memory’s cherish’d in my mind.
- A few short minutes more, and then is past / The lingering year, as it had never been; / With all its joys and cares;— it hastens fast / T’escape, and launch us to another scene. / Ah! now’t has fled; no more to be recall’d, / ’Tis mingling with the years beyond the flood; / To be forgot;—so thence have thousands roll’d, / With loads of crime much crimson’d o’er with blood!
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Stanzas, Extemporaneously Written on a Stormy Night, Dalserf, November 4, 1833 in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- In nights as this, still retrospection calls / To mind,
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Evening Industry in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- The thoughts of home, and former joys, / Insensibly stole o’er his mind; / And fond remembrance drew a sigh / For friends, endear’d, he left behind.
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Preface in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- may we not endeavour to hand down to our posterity some familiar remembrance
- a tribute to the memory of the early settlers of our Colony
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Wairau:—or Col. W—’s Dirge to the Memory of His Brother in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Thy mem’ry shall live,
- As long as thy mem’ry my bosom retains.
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- And blest be such beginnings, as they tend / To realize great things in other days! / Such works, in truth, a monument of praise / Should be regarded by each rising race; / Such ought in due remembrance to be held / In memory of their fathers, as they reap / The fruits of former labours, while they build / Their fortunes on the broad foundation,
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- Such fancied pleasures, as embodied here / In all reality, would one remind / Of paradizian joys found in that vale / Where Rassless lived, in ancient story famed! / Descending now from fancy’s Pisgah height / The scene t’ examine;—it declares itself / The former basin of an inland lake, / Connected once with briny tides, which laved / These mountain steeps.
- Recalling now our thoughts to other scenes, / That speak of progress, be it e’er so slow, / From rude beginnings, to developments / Of great acheivements, Nature in her aims / Effected have along the course of time.
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To a Mountain Daisy in The New Zealand Survey
- Yes! ye from adverse fortune’s strife, / Recall my pensive thoughts, in brief, / To muse on former scenes of life, / Affording something of relief!
- But ye remind me when a youth, / How I felt grieved, with careless feet / To tread such beauties down! In truth / I felt so charmed with flowers so sweet! / And ye remind, when I would pore, / And ponder over nature’s page; / No other scenes then pleased me more / Than flow’ry fields, so as t’ engage / My fancy for the while!—But ah! / How like a dream those days have passed! / Yet recollections fond can draw / From those, some comfort, when downcast.
- ’Tis well to look upon the past, / Recounting trials triumphed over; / Dispelling glooms that would o’ercast / The mind, and thus its peace recover!
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- One shock may do its part, though little more / Than prove a warning note, as to prepare / For other elevation; first t’ effect / A loosening of joints! Though ages pass / Until from all remembrance ’tis extinct, / ’Twill yet return to say—“I must complete / The orders first received!”—if not at once / Yet in such intervals, as He, who gave
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- I hail the news from Hamilton, / And all the little towns surrounding; / How it recalls to memory / Old friendships, and old scenes of joy, / With happy interests abounding.
- The mind, which fondly would be winging / Back to old haunts, as to enjoy / Again those scenes thus long forsaken:— / Now glad to learn of changes fair / Which time has wrought, with tasteful care / Upon them, if I’m not mistaken.
- No!—still retentive mem’ry serves / A solace oft, to painful musing:— / Oh friendship! thou most sacred boon, / How throbbed my bosom to thy tune!— / Thou still hast potency, infusing / Such charms that soothe all cares!
- My heart rejoices in the thought / That all are active in progression!—
- Rosebank, your scenes are photographed / Upon my heart; in retrospection, / These, oft enjoy’d, make cares a void, / As Milton, Maulslee, Haughs of Clyde, / Rise beautiful in each reflection; / As when in placid lake is seen / Bright mirror’d—scenes,—although inverted— / Of azure skies, lawns, woods, and bowers, / Above which, gleaming mansion towers, / All, beauty’s duplicate, asserted!—
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- What though your names by some ungrateful race / Should be forgot, your works shall testify / Of your brave hardihood, and never be / Obliterated, while the earth endures / As your memorial, which may still condemn / The idly foolish, who might scorn your toils / As useless; while such will declare how much / Ye should in due rememb’rance be esteemed!
- Ah poor degraded race! Thus exiled far / From ancient relatives and friendship’s joys, / So long, till true remembrance have been lost / Of such they may have had; from sires forlorn / They’ve sprung a num’rous progeny; and now, / How much through foul distrust and variance strange, / They have asunder parted, and become / To either aliens, reft to separate tribes, / With every tie of brotherhood annulled! / Of common comforts, such that cheer the poor / Of other lands, how much they’ve been devoid!
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Canto V in The New Zealand Survey
- Looking back upon the history of the past, in so far as it regards that of the colony; and taking into consideration the hard beginnings of many a worthy old colonist, and how they faced hardship and privations with spirits of bravery; and having through arduous perseverance and toil got, as it were, through the hardest of the struggle, and coming out, so to speak, to the prospect of a time of rest and enjoyment; then, at that time,
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Canto Third in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Hard, hard is such a case: adversity / Would seize him as the victim of its sport,
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To my Auld Trews in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Though former freenships fail—’tis sad!— / Like the fine gloss my trews ance had; / Yet may remembrances still shed / Aroon’ this heart / (Like holes weel patch’d,) an influence glad, / Joys to impart! / ’Tis thus we may some wisdom gain / Frae common things, whilk aye contain / Gude halsome truths; whilk to attain, / The eydent Muse / Wad, moralizin’ sing this strain / To my auld Trews!
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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
- To have no one to love, or no good deed / To do; or have no influence for good, / Can leave no mark behind, when thou art gone / Beyond life’s bourn, to tell that virtue lived / In such a sphere; thy life will only shew / The image of a desert, amid which
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A Retropective Ditty in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- To youth’s old joyous scenes / Still one’s thoughts are apt to wander; / Such oft the mind serenes, / As on former things he,d ponder: / Thus as I muse on home / In the town of ancient Straven; / In fancy would I roam / On the thymy banks of Aven!
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Canto First in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Truth’s lustre gone, / What clouds of gloom envelope would the world, / But for such rays Love, still glimmering through, / To cheer one’s pilgrim path of life, and prove / A motive to advance in virtue’s cause, / While keeping in remembrance former bliss!
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A Lay on Wanganui in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Reverting yet to ages past, / When upland plains around were clad / With prestine forests, dense and vast; / All not in man’s remembrance had. / Of which, appearances around / Are silent; as the tales of yore / Held secret,—mystery profound,— / As none were privileged such t’ explore! / But plougmen now, those lands who, till, / Find oft their plough-shares stick upon / Some vestage tree-roots left, whieh still / Would testify of forests gone!
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New Year Salutations, for 1863 in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- ’Tis well to glance back on the paths we have travell’d, / To see where we’ve err’d, or have faild to take heed; / That future enigmas may soon get unrevall’d, / Which puzzling may seem; and so aid to succeed!
Searching
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Memory":
- 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.