ISLAND MINSTRELSY;

COMPRISING

OLD KING DEATH,
AND OTHER POEMS.

BY

ESTHER NELSON.

"---What is writ, is writ:
Would it were worthier! But--"

BYRON.

" I leave the summer rose ;
For younger, blyther brows
Tell me of change and death!"

LONDON:

G. B. WHITTAKER & CO, AVE MARIA LANE.
W. GRAPEL, LIVERPOOL.

Contents

 

  PAGE.
Dedications  

Old King Death

1

The Fallen Shrine

12

The Guerilla's Tale

17

The Novice of St. Germaine's

32

The Rival Minstrels

55

A Legend of The Isle

73

Ballafreer

84

The Eastern Grave

92

The Festal Hour

96

The Beloved One

107

The Suicide

112

Dreams

116

The Island Penitent

119

My Childhood's Prayer

123

Lines Written In A Church-Yard

128

My Island Home

135

The Young Consumptive

137

My Brother's Grave

141

To Willie -

144

The Coronation

118

Dreams Or The Past

156

To My Sister

159

The Wandering Bee

161

The Broken Spell

164

Eliza

168

Desolation

171

The Braid

174

The Fowler

176

That Mild Blue Eye.

178

Weariness

181

Night

184

Despondency

187

The Lost One

190

Childhood

193

The Worshipped One

195

The Changed -

198

The Bride

201

The Young Mother -

204

The Widow

207

The Young Mourner -

210

Consumption .

214

The Dying Girl

217

To The Dead .

221

The Returned Missionaries

224

A Merry New Year.

229

 


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