Poems (Toke)

by Emma Toke

For works with similar titles, see Poems.

POEMS

 

BY

EMMA TOKE

 

 

FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY

1866

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. AND W. RIDER,

BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

Contents (not listed in original)

• Nicolas Toke (Beloved! on this festal morn)
• Balaam
• Sunset
• Lines (Oh! when on yonder moon I gaze)
• Lines (My days on earth as yet are few)
• Lines (See yonder Star! that brilliant orb of light)
• Lines (Oh! come and view these scenes so fair)
• The aurora borealis
• Lines (Oh yes! 'tis sweet indeed to gaze)
• The skylark
• The last
• Acrostic
• Lines (Oh! when some lone familiar strain)
• Peter weeping
• Lines (Though many a joy with sunny glow)
• Farewell
• Lines (Ah, no! thou shalt not be forgot)
• The keepsake
• A dream
• The lilies of the field
• The stars
• Sunset in autumn
• To the redbreast
• E. J.
• Lines (And now accept once more from me)
• Lines (Oh, nature! beautiful to me art thou)
• The burial of the dead at sea
• Christmas eve
• Lines (It is the birth-morn of another year)
• Thekla's song
• Lines (I am here in thine own old home again)
• Stanzas
• Flowers
• Night
• An equinoctial day
• Autumn
• The meeting ships
• To the dying year
• Lines (And now my task is done! The last pale flower)
• Lines for music
• Lines (And didst thou, then, unchanged, unmoved)
• The family burying-place
• Lines (Time hurries on)
• A wintry scene
• An April snow storm
• Lines (Tis almost midnight's hour, and bright on high)
• Lines (My firstborn! strange and sweet it seems)
• Acrostic (Grey walls! where now for ages passed and gone)
• Lines (Strange, strange! what rushing memories come)
• To my child in illness
• Spring
• Lines (Once more, mine own beloved, the ray)
• Lines (Thou moon, that now with melancholy grace)
• To my sleeping children
• Birthday verses
• To my boy
• The two portraits
• The harvest moon
• Lines (It is a morn in Autumn time)
• Song (Oh! tell me, beloved one, dost thou think of me)
• Song (Rose! thou art the fairest flower)
• New years sonnet
• Evening hymn
• Sonnet (The earliest flower that comes the Spring to cheer)
• Sonnet (Ye bring your portion to the world with ye)
• Sonnet (As from her grassy nest the skylark springs)
• Morning hymn
• Birthday sonnet
• Christmas hymn
• Planting the tree
• Sonnet (My children! as I watch from year to year)
• Good Friday hymn
• Easter hymn
• Sonnet (Mine own beloved, on this auspicious day)
• Lines (We have looked our last on the well-known walls)
• The absent group
• The troubled dream
• Lines (Husband, dear husband! since I first for thee)
• The reply of the shunammite woman
• Sonnet (Our wedding day! how swift that sound can bring)
• To Emma Laura
• Sonnet (Another birthday! oh, how fast each year)
• Daily service at st Paul's
• Lines (My children, for whom first these simple lays)
• Lines (Dost thou not feel, dear Love, how every day)
• The year's farewell
• Lines for music (Trough distant lands I've wandered far)
• Sonnet (The holiest name to woman's lot can fall)
• Sonnet (In health, or when beneath the feebleness)
• To Eleanor Margaret
• Song (Oh, lady! sing that song again)
• And can I better close these pages, fraught
• Psalm I
• Psalm II
• Psalm III
• Psalm VI
• Psalm VIII
• Psalm XIII
• Psalm XX
• Psalm XVI
• Psalm XXVII
• Psalm XXVIII
• Psalm XXXIX
• Psalm XLII
• Psalm XLIII
• Psalm XLVI
• Psalm LVII
• Psalm LX
• Psalm LXVII
• Psalm LXXVII
• Psalm LXXIX
• Psalm XCI
• Psalm XCIII
• Psalm XCVI
• Psalm XCVII
• Psalm XCVIII
• Psalm CXII
• Psalm CXXIII
• Psalm CXXVI
• Psalm CXXX
• Psalm CXXXVII
• Psalm CXXXIX
• Psalm CXLIII
• Nicolas Toke (Fair spreads the unstained page before me now)
• Lines (Oh! would that thou wert here, my love)
• Lines (The noon of Autumn now with chastened mirth)
• Sonnet (Oh! doubly hallowed was thy natal morn)
• Sonnet (Oh! gently breathe upon my languid brow)
• Sonnet (Thou enviest the gift of poesy)
• Lines (Bright shine the dewdrops at the dawning hour)
• Sonnet (Welcome, grave Autumn! though thy fading flowers)
• Christmas
• Lines (My love, I brought no wreath of song)
• Birthday hymn
• Lines (Once more, my love, once more)
• Florence, sweet Florence! sainted, suffering child
• Upon this very day, ten years ago
• Once again the day is dawning
• When o'er my weary eyes at last
• Once more, my love, once more, though faint
• Vainly, beloved, have I tried to meet
• Time hurries on, years pass us like the wind
• Look on the yellow leaves, the drooping flowers
• As when the sunbeams, their bright noontide past
• Our wedding morn! and thou art far away
• The broken flower
• Fourth Sunday after epiphany
• The ascension day
• First Sunday after trinity
• Seventh Sunday after trinity
• Saint Andrew's day
• Saint Thomas's day
• Saint Stephen's day
• Saint john the evangelist's day
• Holy innocents day
• Saint Paul's day
• The purification
• Saint Matthias's day
• The annunciation
• Saint Mark's day
• Saint Philip and saint James's day
• Saint Barnabas's day

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