POEMS

FOR YOUTH.

BY A FAMILY CIRCLE.

PART I.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND CO.,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1821.

J. M'Creery, Printer, Tooks Court, London.

CONTENTS.

Morning Hymn

Verses, written on a Sunday in Autumn

To a Robin Redbreast

To an early Swallow

Lines on planting a young Oak

Sonnet on Winter

The Myrtle

Sonnet

Lines written during Sickness

Elegy on the Death of a Greyhound

Sonnet

On the Death of a Canary Bird

Epitaph

The Daisy

A Sunday Thought.

Elegy on a favorite Crown-Bird

The Butterfly's Birth-Day

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POEMS,
&c.

MORNING HYMN.

ALMIGHTY GOD! by thy great power, I hail again the morning hour;

How fair the green fields meet my eyes,
How sweet the birds sing in the skies!
How fresh appear the hills and trees,
And oh! how pure the morning breeze!
I bless thy love in all I see,

For were not these things made for me?
And was it not to meet my sight
Was hung aloft that globe of light?
Nor mine alone-for thou hast given
Thy good to all beneath the heaven;