The Death of Saul | Page 2

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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 to the National Eisteddfod of Wales. 'David' was among his fellow-competitors as Saul was amongst his brethren, higher than any of them from his shoulders upwards, and to him he awarded the prize which his poem well deserved."
HISTORICAL NOTE.
The design followed out in the succeeding poem has been to touch upon the leading historical incidents of Saul's career that lead up to