Perception
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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A Likeness in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- The vagrant eye t’impede,
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The Black Seal in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- “Welcome post!” the lover sings, / “A billet from my love he brings / My soul shall feast on pleasant things, / Can I my joys conceal?”
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The Fair Emigrant’s Fate in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- She scan’s the first approaching boat,— / Then hopes the next succeeding, / Brings him she loves; yet she knows not / He died the day preceding.
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Reflections over a Lark’s Nest in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- I look’d around with careful scanning eye,
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- The coral worm, / A feeble thing for man to look upon, / Is yet a means, and one that will not err, / Or turn rebellious from the task imposed / As being one impossible to do! / By such an agency minute, He works / In rearing rock like structures from the depths
- By what might hap, to man’s short sighted views / With judgment much awry, yet deeds are done / By agents strange t’effect some purpose good / Which to another could not trusted be: / And when such act, as their commission runs / So to the letter is the task fulfilled, / Though mountains must be levelled, or the plains
- 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
- various kinds of shells first rais’d to light, / To sparkle divers beauties in the sun!
- So the volcanic mountain, as with joy, / At being raised high ’bove the briny floods, / Would now send up its volumes of red flame, / Oft burnishing around the face of heaven; / While squirting high its jets of liquid fire, / With stones, which fly like meteor’s through the air, / Sublimely dreadful all to be beheld!
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- So Nature’s loveliness—her first debut— / Has also got its time glass, where the sands / In constant running order soon may cease, / And shew her liable to other change! / The change, no matter when it may occur— / To-morrow—or, may hap, a thousand years— / Yet still ’twill come, and so perform its work, / Inductive to some future good, although / Its aspect ruinous might such deny!
- For such a confirmation must we search / The ancient archives of the river’s bank / For records that might sceptics well confute! / There, the remains of trees, and other wreck, / Borne hither by the floods are buried deep / In gravel beds which once have formed a beach / Cast up by Neptune’s forces, upon which
- So see this valley, as it now exists / In all its native grandeur, cov’ring much / Of elemental rudeness with the garb / Of vernal beauty; it can tell its tale / (Ev’n so of others may the same be said) / Of mighty revolutions undergone, / As marvellous as when above the waves / Yon mountain summits rose and stood on high.
- When “Scrutiny” begins to look around / Contemplative, he fails not to descry, / How the appointed agencies of change / Have had their mystic fingers in the work / Of revolutions great!
- This scene, as much enchanting to the eye, / When well considered, may reflections stir, / Which would sensations sweet send through the mind / And prove to grieving hearts a soothing balm!
- Now turning from the valley, let us view / Another scene behind us, worthy note: / This swamp of Mungaroa
- So here creative power has been at work / Developing that law which is impressed / On nature and its agencies ordained,— / Though human wisdom scarcely such perceives; / The want was visible and must obtain / Its measure full!—The naked must be clothed! / Let not the purblind soul attribute more / To simple agency than what is due. / If such a law’s established, (it is seen / In the effects of light and heat upon / Organic things, inactive,) and that law / By some one agent, upon whom devolves / A certain duty, is performed aright; / Still He, who formed that “law” and such imposed / Upon the proper “actor,” must be wise, / And worthy the first homage of our hearts, / When we the wonders of His power survey, / As seen in Nature’s vast productiveness!
- So whence the origin of those that be, / Replacing those of yore? but through that power / Invested in the laws of nature, which / Fills up the void, where needed, of a kind, / And in such power proclaim “a Great Supreme!” / Whose wisdom in the working of such laws / May well be traced, when truth is duly sought / T’impart instruction without erring aim, / Or such rebuke, as silence would “Conceit;” / Or prove some vain philosopher “a fool!”
- 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.
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In Memorium in The New Zealand Survey
- the boy / Much wrapt in admiration of the flowers / He gather’d, while considering them with care! / Such things before he scarce had ever seen, / As nurtured had he been ’mid barrack squares; / To him they were a novelty, so sweet,
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An Ode on Manawatu in The New Zealand Survey
- The country’s extent gives an impulse, which makes / His heart beat with freedom; while forth he must view / Thy great spreading plains, he prospective partakes / Much pleasure
- Such pleasures in prospect, for joy unsurpassed, / When future’s in contrast with all he has known;
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- those feelings which are apt to preside in the breast of the admirer of Nature’s loveliness, as seen in her pristine solitudes.
- after a sojourn among the valleys, where the eye is circumscribed to narrow limits; then coming into such an open space where the eye can find an abundant scope for its roving
- to look across an extensive tract of country—extensive when compared to the valleys which run in among the hills—like that of the Wairarapa, where level plains extend far away like a bowling green, skirted here and there with belts of forests; while through openings far beyond, the assisted vision may discover other districts lying in a state of wildness. At such a view a loneliness is apt to seize upon the spirits while musing on such solitudes in all their pristine wildness!
- lifting the eye towards the opposite horizon and seeing forest-clad hills overtopping others, and beyond these the snow crested summits of a loftier range rising before an azure sky, the mind begins to feel as overwhelmed in a sort of inexpressible delight.
- New Zealand is the land for scenery; such that contains a vast amount of grandeur and picturesque beauty; not only so, but it also contains much that prompts enquiring wonder, when first is seen its lofty ridges covered with evergreen forests, and its deep ravines from which issue its many purling brooks, all beckoning and inviting the reflective mind to go far into the past of time, there to witness scenic phenomina which language almost fails to describe.
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Canto I in The New Zealand Survey
- Again, in summer floods, which generally took place about the approach of Christmas, at the time when people begin hay-making. The season looking propitious, the sun shining brightly in an azure sky betoken nothing but prosperity, and so the labours of the season proceed. Fields of hay are cut down, hay-makers are busy tossing about the hay to the influence of the sun, while preparations are being made for stacking, the husbandman dreaming of nothing but that all appearances are in his favor. Some may have succeeded so far well, but with many it has been otherwise,—when a seemingly sunny shower of rain has come on, thickly gathering clouds would add their disheartening signs in regard to the state of the weather; rain pouring
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- Although such / Desires may be but embryo—scarcely form’d / To thought upon their minds, yet these may grow, / By more reflection cherish’d, to the seeds / Of wond’rous revolutions; yet a work, / Though each should in himself the task begin, / Which future generations must complete;— / When in their country’s history must arise / Another era worthy to be known / Through time, recorded as another birth;— / A fresh advancement to’ard perfection’s height!— / A hast’ning of that time “when shall rejoice / The wilderness, and blossom as the rose!”
- they long had been deceived / By their wild fancies, when they thought themselves / Reposit’ries of wisdom; and they knew / All worthy to be known! Thus prejudice / Like a huge serpent of volum’nous length / Around its devotees had twined itself / In strangling folds, and long withstood th’ attempt / By philanthropic aid, to be expell’d / As riddance much desired—while they themselves, / As slaves would hug their chains, in ignorance / Of freedom’s blessings,—
- barb’rous powers, who scarce have gained a name / Among the various princes of the earth, / Who on a brother’s welcome scarce presume— / They’ve come as fond to see and learn what they / Could ne’er conceive, while in old habits pent / Beyond improvement’s reach!
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- Though these surrounding scenes, where’er the eye / Of observation turns, have undergone / Great revolutions buried in the past: / Another of importance yet awaits; / Nay, is it not in progress even now?— / It is not always revolutions come / With sudden change, as of an earthquake’s shock; / Or, as in politics, when discontent, / Through insurrection, long in secret hatched, / Bursts forth in civil war, o’erturning all
- 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!
- He found upon this island a wild race / “From all the world disjoined!” His visit then, / To them was like the earliest, faintest break / Of greyish dawn, upon the coming day; / And long before the sun, with upward rays, / The eastern sky paints in vermilion hue! / It told them (if such tidings they perceived) / There were elsewhere another race of men / Of more extensive knowledge;—that themselves / Were not the only people of the world;— / That they themselves, compared with what they saw / In all their wonted pride, degraded were!— / For nothing dreamed they of more cultured state, / Or civilization; (if to them such phrase / Intelligible were;) nor could conceive / Such state of mind, so as to feel debased / With that degraded state in which they lived, / When seeing something of a nobler kind; / No more than when they could their great canoes / Compare with that great ship the stranger own’d! / This visit must have given their stagnant thoughts / A quite unwonted stir! another theme / Of converse, of unfathomable depth, / When conjuring fresh conjectures oft,—
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- 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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Paikakariki.—A Sonnet in The New Zealand Survey
- a beautiful view / Opes up to the traveller, inviting to rest, / The scene to enjoy, ere he’d farther pursue / His journey—thus feasting on pleasures the best:—
- While the sun, shining free, / Paints all with bright glories most charming to see!
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- ’Tis well should we with sense of the sublime, / Endeavor information to increase / From Nature and her works! ’Tis well though we / Should excavate our knowledge from earth’s depths, / Or glean it from the surface, where such signs / Protrude themselves, as ’twere unwittingly, / To prompt th’ enquiring mind t’ interrogate / Appearances around!
- with an eye, / Quick sighted, looking down in quest of prey!
- However much of pleasure we conceive / In those appearances, which meet the eye, / Like one’s sweet smile, that would a fellow greet / Yet clothing some strange workings of the mind / All outwardly unseen, a secret kept, / While planning alterations in affairs / Which no one else must know, until that time / Arrives such to develope; or perhaps / Hide some strange doings hitherto concealed / From public view, and not to be divulged,— / Save what some little foible might disclose
- So here, though clothed in Nature’s vernal robes / This scene delightful, calling forth our praise, / And admiration, still, all speak of change / And revolutions buried in the past; / But which oblivion fails such things to veil, / Though such might ’scape the less enquiring eye / That doats on beauty, willing to admire!
- And there, the seagull would its way pursue, / In search of prey; now soaring up on high, / As on a watch tower raised, a greater field / Of vision downwards it obtains, to gain / More success in its search, than skimming low, / And with precision, mark the destined prey;
- Now looking round contemplating the scene / As it before me lies—combined with what / Is farther known, more than is here discerned:— / All speak of revolutions in the past!
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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
- Unlike to many a false philosopher / Who feign to search out knowledge in behalf / Of merely framing up some abject proof / That man can claim no more than the brutes’ share / Of immortality, condemning safe / Himself to the position of base degradations lair! / As through inverting optic’s they would view / The works of great Jehovah, ever good; / So moral darkness o’er such minds would brood!—
- He now must know, what oft he long’d to know— / “Whether our souls, amid the joys of heaven, / Would have to them a kind permission given, / To scan more perfectly God’s works below;* / Or range th’ extended universe, t’enliven / Extatic praise to love divine, for aye to overflow!”
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- They form a prospect charming to behold, / As seen before the distant azure sky, / And gilded by the sun’s enliv’ning beams; / Such, ev’ry other thought, save to admire, / Absorbs, and fills the mind with calm delight!
- to the painter’s muse unfolds / A scenery richly picturesque and grand / Apart from ought of tameness, as to need / Some fancy touches of his penciling art / T’ attractth’ observer’s wonder loving eye!
- How pleasant ’tis, when all appears serene, / Beneath the sunshine and an azure sky; / When the green forest, in its various shades / Of vernal livery, much delights the eye / With variegated beauties; and effects / A soothing influence on reflective minds, / Though ruffled much by life’s distracting cares!—
- In all, the hand of Providence he sees, / As trying how one’s energies may meet / The magnitude of great emergencies; / Or training him to fortitude, to cope / With greater trials should they e’er occur, / As something yet unseen, held in reserve!— / Or prove that worldly gains are shadows all, / After the struggling one has such t’ obtain! / A means by which great lessons are us taught / If such we are inclined to understand.
- Nature’s interpreters, if Poets be, / While on their souls, as clearly photographed / Her features are,—a real image fair / Reflected, as if in a mirror’s sheen / Men see their likeness chastely shewn, and true,—
- fondly view / Surrounding scenery of the grandest kind / In native splendour, unadorned by man; / And of variety, that makes one feel / Spell-bound in admiration of the whole!—
- each wild scene’s progression to that state / It now assumes; or what was once obscure, / Made plain, by what appearances declare!
- Their reclamation from their prestine state; / As such would be like sacrificing means / And energies in vain; while let alone / In all their savage grandeur, to the eye / Those hills would seem like ocean’s mighty waves / O’er either rising, when by tempest tossed;
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A Dinner Hour Reverie in The New Zealand Survey
- Oh! all is charming to behold; / What beauties round are now display’d / To cheerfnl minds; while those of gloom / See things, though bright, as deep in shade;
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Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
- “Some honest folks will whiles gaewrang, / When dim grows moral sight;— / Weel, gie their een an extra rub / Tae let in better light!” —Reason.
- How clashing int’rests are at war, / As each his neighbour would debar / From all those precious liberties, / Fancied or real, said t’ arise / From this our new born Constitution, / With quite as firm a resolution
- they rather / Display their genius in the wrong, / Browbeating justice, ’gainst a long
- Thus, much concern’d, my thoughts I task,
- when long / Debates upon each side succeed, / As to destroy each others creed; / Or from your mind have yours erased, / Until you’re made to look amazed
- “Oh! for an honest man, whose aim / Is simply for the public good, / Apart from selfish views!”—Embued / They’re so with innate self-esteem— / Though all most honorable seem / And complaisant,—(ah! that’s their care), / ’Tis question, Sir, if such they are / When put to test? Now in this age, / Ye well may act the ancient sage, / Who lit his candle in broad day, / And staff in hand went on his way; / With full intent the world to scan, / To try and find an honest man! / ’Tis thus, dear Brother, I’d advise / To save from glamour your weak eyes,
- Or if “Dear Spec” will glasses use / When forth he goes in quest of news; / If so, what optics he might have, / Whether of convex or concave; / Because, cries boasting liberal, / Concave will make great things look small; / And convex lenses have renown / For shewing objects upside down! / If Independent would become / Servility itself, as some / Have ventured to prognosticate?— / Nay, some will swear upon their fate, / That “such he has become already!”
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Preface in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- It is true, the idea of love, in many minds of a reprehensible nature, is often associated with notions, which has no affinity whatever with love in its true character! The affections of the heart, which are as an impress of God’s likeness on the soul, can surely not be deserving of that degraded sort of esteem, with which some would regard them.
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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
- Yon beetling cliffs of clay declare / Thou hast not always been as now; / These banks of scoria deep, would bear / There testimony strong, t’avow
- Each scene’s reflected beauty, round / Upon thy wave, inverted shewn, / Might lovely be; but not was found / The fond admirer such to own! / The sun would from meridian heights / Behold his gleamings on thy wave; / But none else there could take delight / In sparkling beauties shewn, or crave / The blessings thou couldst give to toil; / For all was Solitude around!— / How cheerless Nature’s brightest smile / Where no inhabitant is found! / Such, who might have enhanced the charms / Around, and made thee lovelier still;—
- By Wanganui’s stream I strayed. / Contemplating the scenes around, / Where much of interest seem’d display’d / And Nature’s beauties would abound, / All to the eye, and to the mind / Contemplative, a tale would tell / Of yore, while promises combined / For future, they’d declare as well!
- Aye then what grand improvements due, / Will on thine aspect be impress’d: / Thy present worthiness, most true, / Shall thus in future be confess’d!
- So see the flocks and herds around, / They tell of pastures most abundant, / And every homestead seem t’ abound / In industry’s rewards redundant! / No longer like a wilderness / Are spacious plains, as bleak and bare: / Now, ornamental trees express / Most cheering truths of culture there. / The parcel’d fields—the garden ground, / Improvement’s onward march reveal; / The country’s face adorn’d, is found / To promise much for future weal!
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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
- What struggles rise twixt love and wounded pride! / —Now, which to gain the mast’ry o’er his mind / Becomes the theme of mental arguement, / While inclination strongly would oppose / Pride’s vile suggestion, “no more to return!”— / Yes, warm affections paint the picture true, / And shew most vividly unto his mind, / What would be the result of hearing Pride:—
- Hard is his lot, whose loving heart would bode / On future joys, as seeing the bright scene
- How sweet the distant prospect to behold!— / Love-fancy’s ever bright with golden dreams; / How like you sunny landscape glowing ’neath / A summer sky, in all its beauteous charms, / Where woodland hills, ’gainst the horizon’s blue, / Stand forth in all varieties of green; / While hedge-environ’d fields display a vast / Of flowery beauties, in their mingling hues, / Bespangling the green pastures, where the kine / ’Mid sweet luxuriance graze:—all to the eye / Of observation charming—fit to cheer / The care-beclouded mind, or grieving heart:— / But all such pleasures subject are to change; / For, while enraptured with the lovely scene, / Foreboding clouds pass over the bright sun, / And buries the fair landscape in deep shade; / Which casts a reflex influence on the mind!
- At length the time arrived, when home return’d, / Her Arthur made appearance, not aware / Of aught that had transpired. The family all / Came forth to welcome; and congratulate / His safe arrival: but his scanning eye / One absent soon observed, when sudden fears / His mind impress’d surmising something wrong:
- Anticipation will as much enhance / Life’s joys in value, as when realized!— / Anticipation of expected bliss, / How like the bright sun shining in one’s face, / The eyesight dazzling with its glory, so / That pitfalls, or obstructions, which waylay / One’s progress, are unseen—all quite unknown, / Until he gets entangled to his woe!—
- But,—(Oh! that cruel “BUT”,’tis like the thrust
- even at the worst, / Interprating sad symptoms to the best
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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
- In her own estimation, this was quite / A virtuous act: and his for gallantry, / Was not to be surpass’d; however much / For prudence, or discretion, both were void.— / How self-esteem would prompt the mind to think / Its self-will’d actions are of virtue’s class, / And worthy admiration; howe’er much / They’re reprehensive,—quite to be condemn’d! / The fond romancing lovers thought themselves / Most virtuous ones; their deed, a true-love’s act: / While others look’d upen it with disgust!
- Ah! there was yet fault; a secret fault, / He had, which studiously he kept from view, / And which, she hitherto had not pereeived! / Indeed, had any one such fault devulged, / She would have met the tale with utter scorn, / And held its bearer as a spiteful wretch!— / But other demonstrations met her now! / Elated, somewhat, at the near approach / Of nuptial joy, forgetful of himself, / In an imprudent, or a thoughtless hour, / The first time e’er inebriate he came / Into her presence; thus he met her now!
- The neighbouring swains who some pretensions had / To her equalty in outward things, / Would all her worth acknowledge, fain would bow / Allegiance to her will: but her keen eye, / In them, decern’d what would not suit her aims: / Their habits could not be to hers conform’d; / And therefore could no favour with her gain! / But there was one, on whom she cast her eye, / A servant ploughman, active in his ways, / Sober, industrious, and of comely mein, / As manly, with an air of self-respect;
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Canto Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Truth ever must to falsehood be averse; / And counterfeited love is never pure: / ’Tis like the muddy pool, that ne’er reflects / In truth the beauty of the scenes around!
- True love, in man existing, will maintain / Truthful integrity towards the one, / It singles out, as worthy its regards, / Despite temptations; and rejoice to see / The image of his love reflected there, / In its entirely; — as undefiled / Unblemish’d, good, and comely to behold!— / Such is love’s nature: and its chief delight / Is to contemplate the intrinsic worth, / Of the sole being when it most esteems / As sum and centre of its happiness! / Yes, it is happiness, the most replete, / To be so pleased, the heart so much rejoiced,
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The Boaster.* in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- How greatly Bobby likes to boast / Of little things that he has done; / Great in his eye—and great the cost; / No project greater ’neath the sun; / Well, be they great to him, whose eyes / Are of a microscopic focus;
- how such greatness dwindles down / When seen by eyes of common sense; / For, lo! how little boasters own, / Compared with these of less pretence.
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Saturnalia Astray. — or, Christmass in the South in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- A “Merry Christmass!—What a salutation, / To be pronouced by any christian lips! / As if the Author of thy soul’s salvation, / Would honour take from such, or festive cups;— / Are thy perceptions blind, and cannot see / The vileness of such senuality, / And blasphemy in such a salutation?
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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
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The Picture of a Poet in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- But who can blind the poet’s marking eye? / To him, ’tis of an order, as t’ imply / His Maker’s special grace; in which descry / He must, a certain duty / To be perform’d. / So, ever is his soul in quest of beauty; / No matter, if on Nature’s face, / Or human works he such can trace, / Such make him feel as charm’d! / So that his bosom’s made to beat with joy / Nor can he other than his powers employ / To teach, the blinded, how they might descry / God’s goodness to the world, / And render praise: / That all around may gladly have unfurl’d / The banner of sweet brotherhood; / Averting ills, enhancing good, / Man’s nature prone to raise!
- When ruling falsehoods, ’mong his fellow-men, / Obtrude upon his observation, then / He feels impell’d to bring such to their ken / Who witless such may 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 must have some choice object upon which / To rest affections, as its nature craves / This gracious privilege, to exercise / Its calling, in good deeds; as if t’admire / The likeness of its Father, in itself / As in a mirror shewn, with purest grace.
- When looking o’er the lottery of life, / Those blanks, or prizes each would seem to draw, / Such, as to purblind man they would appear;— / Yes, man purblind, with all his thoughts awry, / Who can’t descern the hand of Providence / In the appointments giv’n; or make his will / Be in conformity with this, his prayer, / “Thy will be done on earth, as ’tis in Heaven!” / But would the lot, appointed him, ascribe / Unto some myth, call’d “Chanec, or ruling fate.”
- Thus far my song; now here the Muse may stay. / With weak and faltring wing she has pursueb / Thə subject more than first had been devised; / Yet, what has been attempted merely shews / The earthly outskirts of the holy theme. / Though step by step beyond her first essay, / Induced to venture thus, as fain to soar / To heights which loom afar; however high
- The mind, couvulsed by ardent passions, seems / Like a tempestuous hurricane, enraged, / Beyond control. Such aberration from / The calm composure of truth’s confidence / Tends sadly to turn reason upside down!— / Love changed to hatred, is, as the meek lamb
- Deep, deep regret took hold upon her heart, / And proved the very cancer of her life; / She saw her first in excellence and worth, / And so deseried the worthlessness of him / She own’d,—the “crooked lot” which she took up: / For, dissolute in habits now he proved. / And he at length for forgery was exiled / To penal servitude; there, much disgraced, / He closed his life in wretchedness and woe! / Thus, she a friendless sufferer had become; / While suffering for the deed which was not hers, / All through connection with a worthless one!
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