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Title: Enthusiasm and Other Poems

Author: Susanna Moodie

Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26611]

Language: English

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ENTHUSIASM;
AND
OTHER POEMS,

BY
SUSANNA STRICKLAND,
(NOW MRS. MOODIE.)

LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO. 65, CORNHILL.
MDCCCXXXI.

POEMS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

ENTHUSIASM 1

Fame 25

The Deluge 37

The Avenger of Blood 44

The Overthrow of Zebah and Zalmunna 49

Paraphrase, (Psalm XLIV.) 57

Paraphrase, (Isaiah XL.) 59

The Vision of Dry Bones 61

The Destruction of Babylon 65

To the Memory of Mrs. Ewing 70

To the Memory of R. R. Jun. 74

An Appeal to the Free 77

War 80

The Earthquake 85

Lines, written amidst the ruins of a
church on the coast of Suffolk 89

The Old Ash Tree 94

The Nameless Grave 97

The Pause 98

Uncertainty 100

The Warning 104

Lines on a new-born Infant 106

The Christian Mother's Lament 108

The Child's first Grief 110

The Lament of the Disappointed 113

Hymn of the Convalescent 116

Youth and Age 120

Mary Hume 123

The Spirit of Motion