Suffering
(Golder Project subject term)

Represented in

• Evening Industry in New Zealand Minstrelsy
  • At once his crosses, toils, and cares, / From first endured, in bold array, / Upon him sprung in unawares, / As better feelings fain to sway;
• The Fair Emigrant’s Fate in New Zealand Minstrelsy
  • Who would not, o’er her hapless fate, / Breathe one deep sigh of sorrow? / Last night she dream’d of wedded love,— / How changed th’ eventful morrow!
• Stanzas, To a Young Poet in New Zealand Minstrelsy
  • A dire arousement! waking in despair, / When all thy hopes and prospects with the wind, / Are fled, and not a wreck of fame is left behind.
• Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
  • Ye pioneers! who thus have ventured on / A life of hardihood, and ample toil, / “Have courage!” be not flagging in your aims; / Though much there is before you, that bespeaks / Hard labor without end, as fain to mar / One’s perseverance; yet, before you lie / Rewards to be obtained! Fresh courage take! / ’Tis manly still to cope with trials; and / To overcome them with true energy, / Is victory worthy praise, in which much joy / May be experienced with exalted mind;
• The Two Guides in The New Zealand Survey
  • How blest when Reason gains to rule, / She’s sure to keep her charge with honor, / As her endeavors ne’er befool / That precious truth, of which she’s owner! / But oh! when Passion bears the sway, / What troubles oft come rolling o’er us; / For when constrain’d his powers t’ obey, / We but assent to painful sorrows!
• 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!
  • To have this faith within my heart, / And nature’s charms before mine eye, / May these still buoy my spirits up, / And cares convert to inward joy.
• Stanzas — To the Memory of Wm. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S. &c., — Departed hence, December 7, 1855 in The New Zealand Survey
  • His garden and his book, familiar friends! / With him, no other could their place supplant; / As these his sources were, whence ev’ry want
• Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
  • But much of time, in all external things / Concerning nature, or regarding man, / Must speak of change; as pleasures fresh arise, / They’ve but their space allotted to give joy; / Beyond that space are weariness and cares!
  • As well set music sung which charms the ear, / And thrilling harmony sends through the soul,
• 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,
• 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!
• Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
  • So, such the mode to gain us plann’d, / Their compensations large of land! / Those lordships great, who reap the gains / Of poor men’s sufferings, and pains, / Must now in gratitude bestow / The highest honor they can shew / Upon their “man;” with equal cheer / Would add some mighty sum per year, / Which, to be raised, may add to tax / Laid slyly on your slavish backs!
  • Just think yourself in such distress / From hunger, and from nakedness, / Brought on thee through no fault of thine, / Which fain ye tried t’ escape;—combine / With that, a helpless offspring train / Crying to thee for bread. What pain / Of soul must such thee yield, to know / You have it not, while double woe / Would tear thy feelings, when ye tried / To gain it, and have been denied!— / Next, think of such-an-one, who loud / Would make thy sorrows known abroad, / As help he craved for thee;—but when / Such calls were heard and answer’d,—then / He to himself retain’d, with pride, / Such benefits, and left thee void!
• 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
  • Beauty and Truth are his trine sisters fair, / As with him born, to glad his heart when care / Assails him, as he through the world must fare,
  • Love?—Yes, its raptures greatly swell his heart, / Yea, ev’ry thing of Beauty’s counterpart, / Can there a sweet response obtain, as part / And parcel of his being; / It is his joy, / To feel its impulse, him from sorrows freeing, / Which th’ world inflicts; oft to surprise, / Sweet inly music will arise / Griefs painful to destroy!
• 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,
  • What can try more affection’s truth, than when / A change of fortune, unforeseen, occurrs, / To blight once happy prospetcs? or when comes
  • Recovering slowly from her sore disease, / Though sad was the infliction, yet in time, / A christian resignation to the will / Of Providence, caused sorrows to depart, / And leave her mind in cheerful happy trim, / By calling in the aid of other powers, / Or faculties, not hitherto required / To take the place of sight, now wholly lost; / While with enlighten’d mind, well store with truth,
• Canto Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
  • As sails the barque upon a tranquil sea, / ’Neath summer’s sky, and with a steady breeze / Moved gently on; then, all would pleasure seem: / But then, there’s nothing to commend its worth, / Its strength of build, and how it braves the storm, / When striving with head winds and adverse tides; / As storms, and tempests best its virtues try! / So will cross fortunes in the cause of love, / Well try the spirit and the faith of those, / Who may the victims of such fate become!
• Canto Fourth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
  • Meanwhile, she felt it duty to exert / Some energy of mind, her griefs to quell:— / Thus, would she bring, by mental argument, / Opposing thoughts, as face to face, to prove / The right, or wrong, each boldly would prefer, / In causing such events that have transpired:— / As, “Was it right to charge him with such fault?” / Or, “Why could love not overlook that freak?
• Canto Fifth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
  • Love is the source / Whence many blessings spring, and flow along / One’s pilgrim path of life; as when the stream, / Which from the flinty rock flow’d at the call / Of Moses, at the mount, in Sinai’s wild, / And follow’d close, with an unfailing flow / By Israel’s journey’ngs to the “promised land,” / For their refreshment, comfort, and delight:--- / So do those blessings, which from mutual love / Still take their rise, refresh the heart when faint / With worldly trials;—or, when sorrows come, / As sent, to make us feel “we’re not our own;” / Us bringing to our duty, when we’ve been / Neglectful, or have err’d; then comfort flows / From love’s exhaustless fountain, to rejoice / The heart, which else had been involved in woe!