Joy
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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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.
- Fondly we our joys express’d; / “Vowing true love to each other,
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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!
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The Thrashing Floor in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- His toils give him pleasure when nought else can please, / His heart, of independence is proud, still scorning ease,
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Reflections over a Lark’s Nest in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Truly they excite, / To sympathetic feelings of delight!
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Wairau:—or Col. W—’s Dirge to the Memory of His Brother in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- pleasing, around thee, thy scenes, Waiarau!
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A Bushranging in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- The morning delights us, all nature invites us, / To taste her enjoyments wherever we rove;
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The Black Seal in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- She says, “for me she’ll cross the sea.” / Oh blest!—my heart bounds full of glee; / May Heaven bring her safe to me!
- “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 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 during the Egress of 1833, and the Ingress of1834 in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- How fair’s the aspect which receives our joy, / Aye me! who knows what follows in the train; / ’Tis myst’ry all, conceal’d from human pry, / Which time alone is able to explain. / How blind is man! futurity to know, / Though all with fondness hail the risen year; / For who can tell how fortune’s tide may flow, / Or what perplexing cares may rise severe.
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A Dinner Hour Reverie in The New Zealand Survey
- Why thus should fretful thoughts annoy / A rational mind, may one enquire? / When all around, as ready, wait / Our hearts with pleasure to inspire. / ’Tis worldly pride, that peace destroys, / And kindles there each baneful strife; / Envenoming the purest joys / That might attach to human life. / The wants of nature are but few, / And eas’ly to be satisfied; / While those created ever grow / More and more complex when allied / Unto vain glory!—Such would shake / O’er one the tyrants vengeful rod, / Enslaving best affectious still / That should be rendered to his God.
- 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.
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On a Meeting of Friends in The New Zealand Survey
- Such meeting of friends with a glow of affection / So warmly responded, I’ve felt on my heart / Like sweet music echoed, or sunbeam reflection, / Which gladness would into one’s nature impart!
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In Memorium in The New Zealand Survey
- Besides expressing admiration oft, / Of all they saw of beauty that delights / The heart and fancy—happiness the end!
- Among the many promenading there / In groups, a cordial sympathy is felt; / For where joy reigns, companionship is sought / Such feeling to reciprocate, and join / In converse sweet, while drawing friendship’s tie / More close, each other’s confidence to share!
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- These woodland heights in summer garb, / And verdant flowery leas forthspreading; / And sunny slopes where cottage bowers, / Amid their orchard shades, and flowers, / Look beautiful, an influence shedding,
- ’Twas here I once made my debut / As teacher in this little village, / Where first my energies were prized, / And many pleasures realized, / While being bent on mental tillage.
- My heart rejoices in the thought / That all are active in progression!—
- 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.
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- As ’mid the revolution of events, / Old Nature’s aspect wild must be transformed, / And fresh resources be developed, where / Such seemingly once no existence had! / So now we see the work of bliss begun, / Appearances display a wonderous change
- 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;
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- So here displayed / Are num’rous products of the human mind, / All proving immortality in man! / In such an active principle evolves / A struggling strife to rise to something great! / Thus stern endeavours to achieve a name / Cause many works to be produced, ordained / By providence to benefit the race / Of man, in his progression from a low / To higher state of being, upon earth. / Such works, results of lab’ring thoughts, while hands
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On Passing Two Ladies in Deep Mourning in The New Zealand Survey
- When pride adopts the garb of woe, / Such mournings seem mere empty show, / And grief as but a jest!
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A Fine Morning in The New Zealand Survey
- While from the dark cloud the bright sun will assume / The smiles of sweet promise the day to sustain; / As lighting up glooms that would brood o’er the mind, / That we in sweet union with Nature may share / In happiest feelings, if pleasure inclined.
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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:—
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- And in the nature of His bounteous grace, / He called these islands forth, as to prepare / New scenes of active life, and stud this field / Of emptiness with other scenes of bliss, / In fruitful lands, as might outvie the north / With all its bulk of continental shores!
- where such form’d / In particles, or nuggets of some note;
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- 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.
- 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
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Stanzas — On hearing of the Sudden Demise of Mr. G. Copeland, on May 22, 1866, Aged 65 Years in The New Zealand Survey
- Ye friends bereft, ’mid tears rejoice / At his advancement—’tis his joy! / His footsteps follow—hear his voice, / “Be sure to meet me ’bove the sky.”
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To a Mountain Daisy in The New Zealand Survey
- For He who cares for thee, sweet flower, / And paints thee with the choicest hue; / Can cherish all in hapless hour, / Who in Him trust, as shewn by you. / As on you shines the light of day, / That makes ye look with joyous smile; / So may His countenance alway / Shine on my soul, all glooms to foil! / How good from thee such lessons pure / To draw, that might dull ignorance teach, / Inspiring hopes, which bliss ensure, / More than dogmatic doctors preach!
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The Two Guides in The New Zealand Survey
- But ah! to be recall’d the past / Can never, to reverse old choosings! / There’s where the misery lies, to last / Eternally, with painful musings!— / (Unless we can obtain in time, / That aid which cancels all past errors, / And to the soul gives peace sublime, / With heav’n-like joys displacing terrors)—
- ’Tis thus we Reason should prefer— / ’Tis wisdom, worthy all painstaking!— / And so her guidance seek with care, / While Fancy’s ’lurements false forsaking! / As Wisdom’s ways are pleasant ways, / So Reason with them harmonizes; / There true enjoyment’s found, as says / That “Truth” which ev’ry truth comprises
- On some life’s problem to be solved, / Oft Passion’s side’s by Fancy brighten’d; / While that of Reason is involved / In much obscureness, unenlightened! / Thus, some are lured, and in their choice, / Are drawn by Fancy’s fascinations; / The while they dream of reaping joys, / Which fill their hearts with pride’s inflations, / Until some other days advance, / When Reason’s part becomes enlightened; / The soul awakes as from a trance / Amazed, at being so benighten’d! / Ah! then she grieves o’er what before / She doated on with fondest pleasure; / When Fancy’s light expires, no more / To cheer; of joys, no more her measure!
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Ode to the Rising Sun in The New Zealand Survey
- So sure as when the sun shall rise, / With shadowy glooms receding, / Shall prospects bright beyond the skies / Earth’s trials be succeeding. / An endless day with endless joy, / With nought thereto relating / To be withdrawn!—Let such employ / All energies in waiting.
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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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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;
- A place attractive for sequestered life, / As from the world apart, but yet within / The reach of social fellowship, when such / Is felt desirable! Here, fancy might / Depict a scene of happiness and ease
- 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.
- when a law / Of nature is transgressed, it has a power / To render punishment, in which the weal / Of the delinquent is impaired, or lost / By the transgression made! Or when that law / Is duly well observed, it brings its gift
- As well set music sung which charms the ear, / And thrilling harmony sends through the soul,
- For since the time / The naked hills rose from the briny deep— / A mass, unsightly in their nakedness!—
- 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!
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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
- His garden and his book, familiar friends! / With him, no other could their place supplant; / As these his sources were, whence ev’ry want
- 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!”
- Though ye may mourn his loss, ye must approve / Of his advancement to a brighter sphere! / Although such loss is worthy of a tear, / Yet his removal to those realms above / Where bliss prevails, your friendship, as sincere, / Will give congratulations due, as proof of social love.
- The page of Nature with revealed Truth, / To a relationship he well could bring, / As from one Author both at first did spring, / That one the other might expound forsooth; / While thus their harmonies his soul could sing, / Anticipating bliss above, he bore his heavenward growth!
- Here let me close this poor imperfect strain— / Poor, when compared with his attainments high; / Imperfect, when contrasted to that joy / His friendship gave;—though late I such did gain, / And shortlived, yet it was worthy:—social tie! / That grateful feelings ne’er can sleight, but steadfast such retain!
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On Self Misery.—An Epigram in The New Zealand Survey
- While, how to escape from himself, is a querry; / Oft making him rush into woe!— / Or dreaming ’tis “life” to be thoughtlessly merry, / The pleasures of peace to forego; / How fatal such dreaming!—a snare, the invention / Of foes the most cruel, though sly; / False joys they would offer with blandest pretension, / Whose aim is the soul to destroy!
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- 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!—
- 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!
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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
- with Him / MyLove goes forth—His nature’s Love itself! / And, Him will I uphold in all My Love!”
- For thee, / My darling Isha, my heart’s wellings flow, / To overflowing:—an exhaustless source / To me, thou art, of everlasting praise!
- his devotion’s all composed of love, / Yes love intense,—intense in all its Truth, / As ’twould reflect the Image of his God / Upon his soul;—the sum of perfect bliss!
- God’s works around were subjects to his muse, / Oft raising most delightful thoughts, which burst / In utter’d tones of love-expressive praise; / Yes, love expressive,—full of ecstacy,— / Prolonging oft the song of heart felt joy!
- At such a sight, who can declare the joy / That took possession of him? Wonder-rapt / At such display of beauty, and of grace; / Love fired his heart more ardently, which made / Him bound t’ embrace the object he admired, / His counterpart,—Companion of his life! / Th’ emotions he sustain’d from Nature’s charms / Were now so vastly multiplied, he felt / As Paradise itself had got renew’d, / And former loves intensified become! / His heart beat high within him; his whole soul / Was full of rapture, and ecstatic praise!
- Oh Isha! my Beloved!—dear to my heart!— / Part of myself!—The darling of my soul! / Second to Deity! to me, thou art; / MyJoy! in thee, is happiness complete!— / My heart was lonely, notwithstanding all / Around would joy impart; but who was there / To whom I could communicate a thought? / Or would rejoice mine ears with speech, to shew / Intelligence of soul as kindred pure, / So as to prove mine equal, or take part
- The happiness of Heaven, who can conceive, / A part from love’s sweet influence? ’Tis the light / That beams in glory from th’ effulgent face / Of Deity, and sheds, through Heaven’s expanse, / An equal share of bliss, and brightness pure! / No diminution’s felt at farthest reach, / (If such there be) from centre, as its source; / For, Love gives glory unrestrain’d, and strong, / As magnified ten thousand fold, to all, / Convincing all alike that “God is Love!” / Yea, in whose soul such love exists, and proves / The emanation of God’s Love, there can / No darkness be: for light and life maintain, / To the exclusion of all shade of care.— / Such is the joy of Heaven.
- TLove is the never-ending theme of Heaven, / In everlasting praise! It is the zest / Of all enjoyment theirs, which never fails / T’ excite new raptures in each ardent soul, / Increasing, and enlarging the full flow / Of holy joy, which no decreasing knows.
- 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!
- Love was the magnet between God and man, / And still is, in regard to common weal, / Whether for present, or for future good; / It was man’s motive pow’r to duty’s work, / And made earth’s Eden Paradise below, / Akin to Heav’n above, for perfect bliss! / Blest is the power of Love;—of Love devine, / That parent of all human love;—in truth, / ’Tisthat, which fills man’s soul with moral worth, / And makes it conscious of superior caste, / ’Bove aught to being call’d; and makes him seek / Enjoyments of a nature like itself, / For immortality;
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An Admonition in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- “Weep not for me; I am not lost, / Though not in the old tenement I’m found; / But gone to where eternal joys abound;— / Time’s Jordan now is crossed! / “Weep not for me, no cares are mine; / My pains, and sorrows all, are left behind; / I triumph now o’er every ill combined; / And in full glory shine! / Your weeping never can avail / Me to recall from these bright scenes of bliss: / But rather seek ye untold happiness, / Which here can sole prevail!
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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
- Thus, devastations dire would prove / A prelude to some future bliss; / The soil enrich’d would now behove / The active settlers’ happiness:— / New, since old solitudes are past, / And day, with Nature, would arise / To scatter former glooms, She’d cast / Her lot in with bold enterprize: / And prove a handmaid good and true; / As crowning Industry with cheer; / And will as joyfully bestrew / Improvement’s path with blessings clear! / So, see around this truth proclaim’d / In mueh of largeness, still t’ encrease; / While more developments are aim’d / To know where her resources cease. / To fathom such would seem as vain / Where ample stores would overflow; / As merest effort makes each gain / A pledge, of what she’d yet bestow!
- How good to mark each distant scene, / Where yet may come improvement’s change; / The wilderness will then be seen / Its savage prestige to estrange; / And welcome civ’lisation’s bliss, / As Nature such a state had chose; / So, thus ’tis said “the wilderness / Shall bud and blossom as the rose!” / Now, still on Wanganui’s banks / May thriving herds, and flocks be seen / With fields of grain, as Heavenly thanks / For industry, which glads each scene!
- How Nature like some lowly maid, / Who long has borne a lonely state / With all her virtues cast in shade, / Yet bowing meekly to her fate, / Since she no better knew,—Now see, / Her head is raised, the cheering smile / Illumes her count’nance; as with glee, / New hopes inspire her, as to foil / All heart depressions! See, no more / She’s passive, void of pleasure; it / Seems now her lot, with hopes in store / Of great rejoicings,— bliss most fit!
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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 Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- ’Tis truly sad, when thus her heart is given, / And troth is pledged, unto a worthless one, / Then find herself deceived; and each fond hope, / Of future bliss, which once her heart inspired / Are blighted,—fled—and left, a painful void! / Thus feels she now her sad position; thus / She feels new energies, undream’d of once, / Arise within her heart, to cope with cares / Unthought of, ere such had her lot become!
- How good it is, when mutually agreed / Are either’s best affections, to unite
- 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,
- How good is love, reciprocated love: / When hearts are knit together, with that tie, / Which binds there closely to the throne of Heaven! / Such happy union Heaven can best approve; / Such happy pair can through life’s pilgrimage / Go hand in hand companions;—bosom friends / In every time of need; and ready be / To hold each other up, should adverse things / Their steps waylay: or cheer each other on, / Where aught, which tends to grieve, might them befall: / Such fellowship, how happy! ’Tis foretaste / Of bliss beyond the confines of this world!
- ’Twas all delight, and harmony, and peace; / With not a shade of trial to becloud / The happy days and hours of sinless love! / But when the Tempter came, to interfere / With primal joys, by tempting the glad pair / To break their cov’nant union with their God; / Ah! then they felt what ne’er before was known, / A change in all their mutual joy!
- Yes, but for Love; their hearts-uniting love; / Their lost condition had been barren ground, / Full worse than land, which brings forth noisome weeds; / On which no sweet enjoyment can exist.
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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
- A blank, in the affections of the heart, / Is painful to endure, especially / In souls, whose natures sensibly can feel / A strong capacity for bringing forth / The fruits of social love; such as to cheer / Where sorrows would invade; or much advance / The comforts of this life! Yet ’tis the lot / Of many, who seem worthy better cheer; / If aught of cheer can in a blank be found. / Who would not sympathize with loving hearts, / Whose lottery of life would seem a blank? / Who yet, through some fortuitous event / Are unattach’d, unsought-for, and who seem / Quite isolated from love’s social bliss. / That such there are, the world around can tell, / Of either sex, both amiable and wise; / Who seem as if no partners were for them, / As being overlook’d; so must be lone, / As when was Adam found, when he had none
- 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!
- A problem, grave, no doubt, which can be solved / More honourably, than by self-revenge! / Thus, Providence would teach, another course / Of duty is thy lot; and which is thine / To search out, and the task there found, fulfill! / The place, where thou successful search canst make / Is chiefly in thy nature,—not in ought, / Which leads to dissipation, or disgrace,— / Yes, chiefly in thy nature, like good gold / In store ’mid clay or rnbbish; to be had / As the reward for searching; so thou may’st / Have inwrought duties of some special kind, / Adapted to thy genius, which yet lie / Incognito, awaiting such a time / To be sought after; and, in being done, / Reward to good advantage, in the joy / Performance gives, in banishing thy woes! / Thus, vex’d affections, where they’ve been misplaced / May prove the prelude to thy future bliss!
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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
- 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!
- But Truth as beauty’s duplicate, when shewn; / Will make his heart with pleasures high / Beat gladly— fell an ecstacy, / Which no one else can know!
- How sad indeed, when his susceptive mind / Must aught endure, averse to beauty’s kind, / As, some deformity of soul to find, / Where joy he would expect;
- Things lovely makes him still rehearse / In song his feelings, and rejoice, / As hearing Heaven’s cheering voice,
- He puts himself in ev’ry body’s skin, / And with glad rapture sings their joys, / Or, mournfully their sorrows sighs, / As such were all his own!
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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
- But should I ne’er return / To those scenes, which once gave pleasure; / This bosom’s like an urn, / Where remembrance hoards its treasure: / Such treasure to forego, / On this heart so deeply graven, / I’ll never while ye flow / On your course sweet winding Aven
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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
- 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!—
- 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,
- Hard is his lot, whose loving heart would bode / On future joys, as seeing the bright scene
- Such leads to closer friendship, which results / In truth’s foreshaddow’d hymenial bliss! / What blest results! when confidential truth / Becomes the basis of sweet union’s joys; / ’Tis bliss to both, compared to those enjoy’d / In former state, of an expectant kind, / When little jealouses were apt to blight / The fondest hopes the heart could e’er maintain! / Now in each other’s company can each / Rewarded feel, as truly bosom-friends! / True Love and Prudence when together join’d / In social harmony, can never fail / To gain the best results.
- But oft it haps, ’midbouyant hopes of bliss, / View’d in the future, charming to behold, / Like telescopic scenes, for beauty’s sheen, / That wayward things will yet one’s path beset, / ’S ifProvidence had doom’d his lot, to be / Far otherwise, than what he for himself / Had chosen; or the one on whom his heart / Is fix’d, is not appointed as—“mine own!”
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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
- Thus, hand in hand / Good company are they, as they pursue / Their pilgramage with cheer. Such mutual love / Is joy abounding in itself;—the bond / Of unity, that best secures their weal / Upon the way, while gladdening their hearts / With prospects bright, of never ending joy!
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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
- A happy New Year may we bid to the world: / May Nations in friendship, and concord unite! / The Banners of brotherhood wide be unfurl’d, / When Princes no longer in war shall delight!
- We look on the future, but ’tis not defined; / A great bank of shaddows rests o’er the abyss; / And who can tell what underneath is design’d / To fall to our lots,—whether sorrow, or bliss? / How Fancy paints brightly things distant to reach! / Yet, what lies behind is in darkness conceal’d: / Thus, wisdom from all past experience would teach, / “Be prompt to embrace what is truly reveal’d!”
- Good things of the past, bespeak much for the future, / Though nought of self merit in them may claim: / For, ’tis all of grace; in the act, and its nature, / We’re only mere agents unworthy of fame! / What gift is conferr’d on us, may we improve it; / ’Twas not to lie idle, or put to abuse!— / Where energy’s roused, Heaven’s aid will approve it, / And joy shall result to our souls’ special use!
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- 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.