LEGENDS
AND
RECOLLECTIONS
OF
MONA

 

WITH OTHER POEMS FROM A FAMILY PORTFOLIO

"We, Poor. unfledg'd,
Have neser wing'd (rora view u' th' nest ; nor know
What air's from home."

GUERNSEY

PRINTED BY H. BROUARD, BORDAGE-STREET.

1849.

 

Contents

 

Page.

The Queen's Visit to Guernsey

1

Introduction to Legend I

5

The Spectre Hound

8

Introduction to Legend II

12

The Mermaid's Vow

15

The changing Deep

20

Ballaugh Glen

21

" This is not your rest "

24

The first of May

-

The Cholera; a Tale

26

Easter Monday

32

Song

35

Tradition of the Calf of Man

-

To Poesy

40

On reading a Complaint that we look with indifference on the varying beauty of the skies

41

Written on hearing of the late Revolution in France soon after the death of the Princess Adelaide

43

Beauty

44

Written after reading the account of the late Revolution in France.

46

" Weep not for the Dead "

-

The Island Funeral

47

On seeing a Gleam of Sunshine on the brow of a mountain

49

On the departure of a beloved Sister

50

To an absent Sister on her birthday

-

Addressed to a Friend in trouble

51

Lines

52

On seeing a young Cripple at ******* Church

53

On seeing a Rose-tree stript of its leaves by an autumnal wind

55

God is near

-

The Christian's Hope

58

Written in a Churchyard

59

Light

60

Darkness

.61

Spring flowers; to Emma

.62

The Sabbath Bells

65

Written on Sunday evening

66

Autumn

68

A Hymn

6g

The Infants' Graves

70

Night

.71

Spring

-

Song

..2

Stanzas

73

To my absent Mother on her birthday

-

To Louisa

74

Answer to the above

75

" Passing away "

76

A Sister's Love

77

On seeing Fort George, Guernsey, covered with Primroses...

78

Stanzas

.80

On seeing some Ivy torn from the trees ..

83

Hope

.-

On seeing a white Rose in bloom in October ..

84

Written in an Album under a bunch of Anemones

85

To Autumn

-

Song

.86

To my Sister, on hearing her remark the beauty of two Roses which bloomed on one stem

-

On the death of a lovely but unfortunate Friend.

87

On reading a Poetical Complaint on the word " Last "

88

Friendship

89

On the Miseries of War

90

To Emma, on her birthday

95

Our Island Home . .. ..

97

On seeing a young Party dancing and singing by moonlight ..

98

To Mrs. Cooper, on being requested by her to write ..

100

Isabel to her blind Sister

-

The blind Girl's reply

.102

Stanzas

104

Slander; a Tale

105

On the death of a young Friend ... ..

109

Laura; a Ballad

..-

Smiles

.111

 


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