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POEMS


BY


CURRER, ELLIS, AND ACTON BELL.



LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1846.

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CONTENTS.



PAGE
Pilate's Wife's Dream 1
Faith and Despondency 8
A Reminiscence 10
Mementos 11
Stars 21
The Philosopher 23
The Arbour 26
Home 27
The Wife's Will 28
Remembrance 31
Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas 33
The Wood 35
A Death Scene 40
Song 43
The Penitent 44
Music on Christmas Morning 45
Frances 46
Anticipation 56
Stanzas 59
Gilbert 60
The Prisoner 76
If this be all 80
Life 81
Hope 82
Memory 83
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The Letter 86
A Day-Dream 89
To Cowper 92
Regret 94
To Imagination 96
The Doubter's Prayer 97
Presentiment 100
How clear she shines 103
A Word to the Elect 104
The Teacher's Monologue 107
Sympathy 110
Past Days 111
Passion 112
Preference 115
Plead for Me 118
The Consolation 120
Evening Solace 121
Self-Interrogation 123
Lines composed in a Wood on a Windy Day 125
Stanzas 126
Death 128
Views of Life 129
Parting 137
Stanzas to —— 138
Appeal 140
Honour's Martyr 148
The Student's Life 140
Apostasy 145
Stanzas 148
The Captive Dove 149
Winter Stores 151
My Comforter 153
Self-Congratulation 155
The Missionary 157
The Old Stoic 163
Fluctuations 164
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