THE HOUSE OF DEATH. Ir is thy wife! sweet husband, open, quick! My very soul within me turneth sick, To find thy granite gates are shut so sure And I without!-I am thy weary wife,— Travelling hitherward with painful feet Thro' light and dark a woful half of life To seek thee HERE.-Thou said'st, We here should meet, Describing all this place, even as thou past From my cold arms into the colder night; And now, outweary and outworn at last, Fainting, with feeble cry and failing sight, Downfall'n my husband's marble house before; He hears me not, he sleeps,—then Death, undo the door! ANON. INDEX. SACRED POEMS. Temptation in the Wilderness. Abraham and Isaac. Seventh Plague of Egypt Six Songs from the Book of Ruth The Crucifixion Hymn for Palm Sunday The First Psalm The Rainbow The Anthem.. An Easter Scene The Sabbath Bell The Christian's Rest The Eleventh Hour Page 3 .KIRKE WHITE .R. MONTGOMERY 10 ..ANON 11 W. H. WILLS 16 20 DITTO.... 21 DITTO.... .MILMAN 22 24 LORD FRANCIS LEVESON GOWER 41 WORDSWORTH 32 SOUTHEY 33 WORDSWORTH 34 36 BURNS 37 ...CAMPBELL 38 U Death and the Bishop LYRICAL POEMS. Page .SOUTHEY 168 A Tear Coronach, or Funeral Song Chant of the Nuns "Telle Est la Vie." Such is Life.. ROGERS 185 SIR WALTER SCOTT 186 DITTO.... 189 .MRS. C. B. WILSON 192 HERRICK 195 MILTON 197 W. H. WILLS 201 WORDSWORTH 205 On Reading Izaac Walton's "Complete Angler"..ANON 209 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The Wanderer to his Sister Page ..LORD BYRON 239 ..MOORE 242 . LEIGH HUNT 244 ..LORD BYRON 249 ..BEATTIE 252 .SOUTHEY 254 ANON 255 LORD BYRON 256 T. HOOD 259 LORD JOHN RUSSELL 263 .SPENSER 264 THOMAS FRICKER 270 |