SWANSEA: J. C. MANNING, 9, CASTLE STREET. AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. PRICE SIX SHILLINGS.
DEATH OF SAUL AND OTHER POEMS.
THE EISTEDDFOD COMMITTEE AND THE "DEATH OF SAUL."
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
TO THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUESS OF BUTE: WITH A GRATEFUL
DEATH OF SAUL. PRIZE POEM. WREXHAM NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1876.
HISTORICAL NOTE.
PALM SUNDAY IN WALES. FLOWERING SUNDAY. PRIZE POEM. WREXHAM NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1876.
ELEGY ON THE LATE CRAWSHAY BAILEY, ESQ., "THE IRON KING." PRIZE POEM: ABERGAVENNY EISTEDDFOD, 1874.
ELEGIES NASH VAUGHAN EDWARDES VAUGHAN. (OF RHEOLA.)
MONODY.
IN DREAMS. I.
ELEGIAC.
IN MEMORIAM.
TO CLARA.
E. H. R. DIED NOVEMBER 30TH, 1867.
A. R. DIED APRIL 21ST, 1865.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. VENUS AND ASTERY
TO A ROYAL MOURNER.
BEAUTIFUL WALES.
BEAUTIFUL WALES. (2)
GWALIA DEG.
THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
A FOOLISH BIRD.
"I'D CHOOSE TO BE A NIGHTINGALE."
TRUE PHILANTHROPY.
DISRAELI.
DOWN IN THE DARK. A RECOLLECTION OF THE FERNDALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. NOVEMBER, 1867.
DAISY MAY. A STORY OF CHRISTMASTIDE LONG AGO. PART THE FIRST.
LINES: ACCOMPANYING A PURSE GIVEN TO A FRIEND ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
FORSAKEN.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
HEART LINKS.
THE OAK TO THE IVY.
EPIGRAM ON A WELSHWOMAN'S HAT.
SHADOWS IN THE FIRE.
THE BELFRY OLD.
BEAUTIFUL BARBARA.
SONG OF THE SILKEN SHROUD.
A UNIVERSITY FOR WALES. WRITTEN IN 1867, AND INSCRIBED TO THOSE
GRIEFS UNTOLD.
"I WILL."
DAWN AND DEATH.
CASTLES IN THE AIR.
THE WITHERED ROSE.
WRECKS OF LIFE.
ELEANOR: DIED ON HER WEDDING DAY.
NEW YEAR'S BELLS.
THE VASE AND THE WEED: A PLEA FOR THE BIBLE.
A RIDDLE.
TO A FLY: BURNED BY A GAS-LIGHT.
TO A FRIEND.
RETRIBUTION.
THE THREE GRACES. I.
THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER.
THE STARLING AND THE GOOSE. A FABLE.
THE HEROES OF ALMA. OCTOBER, 1854.
A KIND WORD, A SMILE, OR A KISS.
DEAR MOTHER I'M THINKING OF THEE. NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1855.
THE HERON AND THE WEATHER-VANE. A FABLE.
THE THREE MIRRORS. A FABLE.
THE TWO CLOCKS. A FABLE.
SACRIFICIAL. WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING THE EXECUTION OF TWO GREEK SAILORS AT SWANSEA, MARCH, 1859.
WALES TO "PUNCH."
WELCOME!
CHANGE.
FALSE AS FAIR.
HEADS AND HEARTS.
FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.
TO LORD DERBY.
UNREQUITED.
THE HOUSEHOLD SPIRIT.
A BRIDAL SIMILE.
SONG.
I WOULD MY LOVE.
DEATH IN LIFE: A TRUE STORY.
SONG OF THE STRIKE.
NATURE'S HEROES. DEDICATED TO THE WELSH MINERS WHO BRAVELY
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD.
MAGDALENE.
LOVE WALKS WITH HUMANITY YET.
THE TWO TREES. A FABLE.
STANZAS: WRITTEN IN THE SHADOW OF A VERY DARK CLOUD.
VERSES: WRITTEN AFTER READING A BIOGRAPHY OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE
A SIMILE.
THE TWO SPARROWS. A FABLE.
FLOATING AWAY.
A FLORAL FABLE.
"RING DOWN THE CURTAIN."
THE TELEGRAPH POST. A FABLE.
BREAKING ON THE SHORE.
HURRAH FOR THE RIFLE CORPS SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED IN 1856.
CAREFUL WHEN YOU FIND A FRIEND. SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED.
BROTHERLY LOVE. SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE. WRITTEN DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR. (FOR MUSIC.)
AGAINST THE STREAM. (FOR MUSIC.)
WRECKED IN SIGHT OF HOME. (FOR MUSIC.)
SONNET.
SEBASTOPOL IS WON.
HOLD YOUR TONGUE. SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED.
MY MOTHER'S PORTRAIT. SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED.
NEVER MORE. FOR MUSIC.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. CANON JENKINS, VICAR OF ABERDARE.
FILIAL INGRATITUDE. A FABLE.
THE VINE AND THE SUNFLOWER. A FABLE.
POETIC PROVERBS. I.
CHRISTMAS ANTICIPATIONS.
GOLDEN TRESSES.
HOPE FOR THE BEST.
GONE BEFORE.
HENRY BATH: DIED OCTOBER THE 14TH, 1864.
SONG OF THE WORKER. TO BE SUNG IN PRAISE OF THOSE WHO DESERVE IT, BY THOSE WHO THINK SO.
THE BROOKLET'S AMBITION.
ST. VALENTINE'S EVE.
LOST!
LILYBELL.
GONE! SUGGESTED ON HEARING OF THE DEATH, ONLY A FEW DAYS APART,
LIFE DREAMS.
AEOLUS AND AURORA:
SONNET: ON BEING ASKED MY OPINION UPON THE MATTER TO WHICH IT REFERS.
SLEEPING IN THE SNOW. (FOR MUSIC.)
WITH THE RAIN.
ODE: ON THE DEATH OF A VERY INTIMATE FRIEND, A YOUNG SURGEON,
ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
LINES: WRITTEN IN THE PRAYER BOOK OF A YOUNG LADY WHO HAD JILTED HER LOVER.
VICARIOUS MARTYRS: WRITTEN AND SENT AS A VALENTINE TO MY HEN-PECKED SCHOOLMASTER.
STANZAS: WRITTEN AT TUNBBRIDGE WELLS IN 1854, AFTER HAVING SEEN
TO LOUISA: WHEN A YEAR OLD.
THE ORATOR AND THE CASK A FABLE. INTRODUCING A CHARACTER FROM LIFE.
THE MAID OF THE WAR. SET TO MUSIC AND PUBLISHED ON THE
IMPROMPTU: ON BEING ASKED BY A LADY TO WRITE A VERSE IN HER ALBUM.
MARY: DIED MAY 30TH, 1860.
LINES: ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS ELIZABETH MARY NICHOLL CARNE, FEBRUARY 6TH, 1868.
IMPROMPTU: ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS KNEATH, A WELL-KNOWN TEACHER OF NAVIGATION, AT SWANSEA.
EXTRACTS FROM SOME UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. HUMILITY OPPRESSED.
CURATES AND COLLIERS. ON READING IN A COMIC PAPER VERY ABSURD
WANTED: A WIFE. A VOICE FROM THE LADIES.
FRAGMENTS AND TRIFLES. SYMPATHY.
A FRAGMENT.
LAW VERSUS THEOLOGY: ON AN EMINENT COUNTY COURT JUDGE.
THE BROKEN MODEL: TO ONE WHO WELL DESERVED THE STRICTURES WHICH THESE LINES CONTAIN.
IMPROMPTU: ON AN INVETERATE SPOUTER.
A CHARACTER.
COUPLET: ON A PAUPER WHOSE WEALTH GREW FASTER THAN HIS MANNERS.
PAUSE! ON THE HESITATION OF THE CZAR TO FORCE A PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE, JUNE, 1877.
THE TEST OF THE STICK.
NOTE: CONCERNING IUAN WYLLT, AN EISTEDDFOD AT NEATH, AND MY FIRST PRIZE POEM.
THE END.
Title: The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses
Author: J. C. Manning
Language: English
Produced by Al Haines
THE DEATH OF SAUL:
AND OTHER
EISTEDDFOD PRIZE POEMS
AND
MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.
BY
J. C. MANNING
(CARL MORGANWG.
