Sadness
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
- 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!
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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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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 / An endless day with endless joy, / With nought thereto relating / To be withdrawn!—Let such employ / All energies in waiting.
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The Lonely Man.—A Song in The New Zealand Survey
- See each has his partner, a kind bosom friend, / Who with all his sorrows her soothings can blend; / But me, I’m forsaken—affection’s sweet tie / Assunder is broken—how sad, sad am I! / My fate must I mourn till this life ebbs its tide, / Since she whom I loved has forsaken my side; / So farewell to pleasures while thus made to sigh— / How cheerful is nature while sad, sad am I.
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- While many shoals / Of various kinds of fish, all more inclined / To be gregarious, like some beastial tribes / Of terra-firma, o’er the length and breadth / Of space now occupied with these whole isles, / Pleased with their ample scope, would journey on / As sent the prey of others in their need, / Whose whole employment seem but to devour! / Which are by others preyed upon in turn— / An intermingling constant ruthless war, / One ’gainst the other—strong against the weak, / The weak content to feast upon the dead / Of those that had devoured their ancient sires!
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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 Second in The New Zealand Survey
- How varied other works around display’d / Of ornament, whose elegance bespeak / Much cultivated taste of those who such / Devised, or patronised, as others would / Man’s sternness for utility; thus Art, / Like a sweet sister Grace, as handmaid to / Broad shoulder’d Industry of rougher mould, / Her trust fulfils, endeavoring to smooth / Th’ asperities still left our nature’s face; / And clothes that nakedness which oft appears / As the result of man’s primeval sin!— / While multiplying much of beauty left, / As worthy admiration, tending all / To cheer from melancholy’s painful glooms!
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The Two Guides in The New Zealand Survey
- ’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
- 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!
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- 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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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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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- There is, which well may termed be “a vile slough,” / Where nought of vegetation can exist;— / A semblance good of dire despondency / When no sweet thoughts occur the mind to cheer!
- 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!
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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
- 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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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 hope, blessed hope in the future, that cheers / The heart in its sadness, and keeps it above / Whelming waves of affliction, from sinking in fears; / Aye, even when quench’d are the motives of love. / Oh! hard it is truly to be victimised, / As having one’s feelings the prey of despair: / Kind Heaven, look on such; let be realized / That hope in some change which their joy might declare!
- 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!”
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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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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Sadness":
- 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.