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MEMORIAL EDITION

1870

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THE POEMS

OF

GEORGE HEATH,

THE MOORLAND POET.

 

Selected and Arranged by

THE REV. JAMES BADNALL, B.A.,

VICAR OF ENDON

 

Memoir

BY FRANCIS REDFERN,

AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF UTTOXETER."

 

Portrait and Illustrations

BY HERBERT WILSON FOSTER.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE by the Rev. James Badnall, B.A.

MEMOIR by Francis Redfern

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THE POEMS OF GEORGE HEATH

 

Songs Of The Shadows

THE OLD BLIND MAN

EDITH

HOW IS CELIA TO-DAY?

THE SINGLE GRAVE

THE SHADOW OF DEATH

THE MISSED BUTT

ASSOCIATION

TO A THUNDER-CLOUD

A COUNTRYWOMAN’S TALE

THE DOOM OF BABYLON

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Simple Poems

RUDYARD

THE PAUPER CHILD

“HALLOWED BE THY NAME”

SPRING

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Heart Strains      

THE DISCARDED

WAITING FOR DEATH  

THE PEASANT POET’S DESPAIR

TO MY MOTHER    

GOOD NIGHT     

THE POET’S GRAVE

MINNIE, EDITH, AND LIZZIE

SONNET     

SUNRISE

MAN O’ MOW

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Icarus

ICARUS; OR, THE SINGER’S TALE

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Miscellaneous Poems

A BUNCH OF SNOWDROPS

YOUNG AMBITION  

OCTOBER

NEW YEAR’S RESOLVES

OVER A FEW WITHERED SNOWDROPS

LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

IDA

REST IN THE EVENTIDE

STANZAS TO -----------

AUTUMNAL           

SEPTEMBER

NOW THOU ART GONE        

A CHANT OF PRAISE      

A PRAYER

EPITAPH ON A BELOVED FRIEND

TO HARRIET, IN HEAVEN

TO HANNAH   

A LOCAL HISTORY

THE BELLS ON WATCH-NIGHT

THE POET’S MONUMENT

A VALENTINE

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

TO THE OCEAN

IMPROMPTU TO “DICKEY”

THE SAGACITY OF DUCKS

APRIL FOOLS

ISN’T IT SO?     

MELANCHOLY MOMENTS     

BISSEXTILE

FAREWELL TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

ALL ALONE

THE MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER INFANT CHILD

SONNETS

DECEMBER    

TIRED OUT       

A FRAGMENT

 

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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PORTRAIT OF GEORGE HEATH, FROM A SKETCH FROM LIFE

HIS HOME, AT GRATTON

ENDON CHURCH, THE BURIAL PLACE OF HIS BELOVED SISTER HANNAH, AND HER CHILD, REFERRED TO IN HIS POEM, "WAITING FOR DEATH," AND OTHERS

HIS MONUMENT, IN HORTON CHURCHYARD, RAISED BY SUBSCRIPTION

 

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LONDON:

BEMROSE AND SONS, 21, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND IRONGATE, DERBY.

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MDCCCLXX.

 

 

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