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reading as I have taken in writing it, and that the result to myself will
be a justification for having published the work, to be found only in
that public appreciation which I hope to obtain,
SWANSEA.----J. C. MANNING.
CONTENTS.
To the Public
Preface
Dedication
The Wrexham Eisteddfod and
the "Death of Saul"
Historical Note
DEATH OF SAUL
Episode
the First
Episode the Second
Episode the Third
Episode the
Fourth
Palm Sunday in Wales
Elegy on the late Crawshay Bailey,
Esq.
Nash Vaughan Edwardes Vaughan; a Monody
Monody on the
Death of Mrs. Nicholl Carne
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Mrs.
Grenfell
In Dreams
Mewn Cof Anwyl: on the Death of John Johnes,
Esq., of Dolaucothy Elegiac
In Memoriam
To Clara
E.H.R.
A.R.

Venus and Astery
To a Royal Mourner
Beautiful Wales
Gwalia
Deg
The Welsh Language: to Caradawc, of Abergavenny
Englyn i'r
Iath Gymraeg
A Foolish Bird
I'd Choose to be a Nightingale: to
Mary (Llandovery)
True Philanthropy: to J. D. Llewellyn, Esq.,
Penllergare
Disraeli
Down in the Dark: the Ferndale Explosion

DAISY MAY:--Part the First
Part the Second
Part the Third
Lines, accompanying a Purse
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
Griefs Untold
I Will


Dawn and Death
Castles in the Air
The Withered Rose
Wrecks of
Life
Eleanor
New Year's Bells
The Vase and the Weed
A
Riddle
To a Fly Burned by a Gaslight
To a Friend
Retribution

The Three Graces
The Last Rose of Summer
The Starling and the
Goose
The Heroes of Alma
A Kind Word, a Smile, or a Kiss
Dear
Mother, I'm Thinking of Thee
The Heron and the Weather-Vane

The Three Mirrors
The Two Clocks
Sacrifical: on the Execution of
Two Greek Sailors at Swansea Wales to "Punch"
Welcome!

Change
False as Fair
Heads and Hearts
Fall of Sebastopol
To
Lord Derby
Unrequited
The Household Spirit
Had I a Heart
A
Bridal Simile
Song
I would my Love
Death in Life
Song of the
Strike
Nature's Heroes: the Rhondda Valley Disaster
Elegy on the
Death of a Little Child
Magdalene
Love Walks with Humanity Yet

The Two Trees
Stanzas
Verses, written after Reading a
Biography of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort
A Simile
The Two
Sparrows
Floating Away

A Floral Fable
Ring Down the Curtain

The Telegraph Post
Breaking on the Shore
Hurrah! for the Rifle
Corps
Be Careful when you Find a Friend
Brotherly Love

England and France
Against the Stream
Wrecked in Sight of Home

Sonnet
Sebastopol is Won
Hold Your Tongue
My Mother's
Portrait
Never More
Lines on the Death of the Rev. Canon Jenkins,
Vicar of Aberdare Filial Ingratitude
The Vine and the Sunflower

POETIC PROVERBS:
I.--Danger in Surety
II.--A Wise Son
III.--Hope Deferred

IV.--Virtue's Crown
V.--Sorrow in Mirth
Christmas Anticipations

Golden Tresses
Hope for the Best
Gone Before
Henry Bath:
Died October 14th, 1864
Song of the Worker
The Brooklet's
Ambition
St. Valentine's Eve
Lost
Lilybell
Gone
Life Dreams

Aeolus and Aurora; or, the Music of the Gods
Sonnet
Sleeping in
the Snow
With the Rain
Ode, on the Death of a Friend
Lines: to a
Young Lady who had jilted her Lover
Vicarious Martyrs: to a
Hen-pecked Schoolmaster
Stanzas: on seeing Lady Noel Byron
To

Louisa
The Orator and the Cask
The Maid of the War
Impromptu:
on being asked by a Lady to write a Verse in her Album Mary: a
Monody
On the Marriage of Miss Nicholl Carne
Impromptu: on the
Death of Mr. Thomas Kneath, a well-known Teacher of Navigation, at
Swansea
EXTRACTS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT:

Humility Oppressed
Upward Strivings
Truthfulness
Love's
Influence
Value of Adversity
Misguiding Appearances
Virgin
Purity
Man's Destiny
Love's Incongruities
Retribution
Love's
Mutability
A Mother's Advice
Sunrise in the Country
Faith in
Love
Unrequited Affection
The Poet's Troubles
Echoes from the
City
Love's Wiles
Hazard in Love
A Mother's Love
"The
Shadow of the Cross"
Curates and Colliers: on reading in a Comic
Paper absurd
comparisons between the wages of Curates and Colliers

Wanted--a Wife: a Voice from the Ladies
Sympathy
A Fragment

Law versus Theology: on an Eminent County Court Judge
The
Broken Model
Impromptu: on an Inveterate Spouter
A Character

Couplet
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
a First Prize Poem
TO THE
MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUESS OF BUTE:

WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF HIS LORDSHIP'S
GENEROUS AND
OTHERWISE DISINTERESTED DESIRE,
IN ACCEPTING THE DEDICATION OF THE WORK,
TO ALONE FURTHER THE VIEWS AND ENCOURAGE THE
LITERARY
ASPIRATIONS OF THE WRITER,

THIS VOLUME,
BY HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION,
IS DEDICATED,
WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECTFUL ADMIRATION
OF HIS
TALENT AND WORTH,
BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.
DEATH OF SAUL.
PRIZE POEM.
WREXHAM NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1876.
"The Vicar of Wrexham delivered his award on the 28 poems in
English or Welsh, on 'The Death of Saul' ('_Marwolaeth Saul_'). The
prize 5 pounds 5s. was given by Dr. Williams, Chairman of the
Committee, and a gold medal was given by the Committee. The Vicar
said the best composition was an English poem, signed 'David.' It was
written in a style well adapted to the subject, in language dignified and
sonorous, with not a little of the rhythmic cadence of Paradise Lost. It
was real poetry; suggestive, and at times deeply impressive--the poetry
of thought and culture, not of mere figure and fancy, and it was well
calculated to do honour to its author, and