PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME.
A Voice from the People.
O! Gather in the Old Yule Log.
Evening.
The Homeward-bound Passenger Ship.
"Raven Rock." [15]
"Lovers' Leap." [25]
A Welcome to Alexandra.
A West-Countryman's Visit to London.
England's Hope.
Christening the Prince. [61]
The Astronomer.
On Shakespeare.
The Banquet. [65]
Thought.
Sheep.
A School Festival. [73]
An Autumnal Day. [76]
Our Little Brother. [78]
The Coming of the Belgians. [79]
A Song: "Willy" and Anne.
A Song: The Lost Merchantman.
Friend Charles . [81]
The Fallen Leaf.
The Gout.
The Fox's Lair.
The Petrified Nest. [89]
The Kingly Oak [91] of Bagot's Park. [92]
SONG. Up, up my Brave Comrades! [99]
A Letter to His Lordship.
My dear friend John. [102]
Christmas Eve. (1864. [103] )
The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus.
Jane Hollybrand; or, Virtue Rewarded.
IN CONCLUSION.
THE
ORIGINAL POEMS
OF
EDWARD EDWIN FOOT,
OF HER MAJESTY’S CUSTOMS, LONDON.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1867.
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, LUDGATE HILL,
LONDON, E.C.
THE POEMS
OF
EDWARD EDWIN FOOT,
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO
HENRY WILLIAM DOBELL, ESQ.,
Comptroller-General of Her Majesty’s Customs, London,
BY
HIS MOST OBEDIENT AND OBLIGED SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.
