HOUSEHOLD VERSES. BY BERNARD BARTON. "True to the kindred points of heaven and home!" WORDSWORTH. PHILADELPHIA: J. W. MOORE, 138 CHESTNUT STREET. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by J. W. MOORE, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. I HERE put forth my eighth volume of Verse, after a silence of nine years, in trustful reliance on its indulgent reception by a Public from whom I have never met with aught but courtesy and kindness. The Poems contained in the following pages will be found, I believe, very similar, in their tone and tendency, to those published in the seven volumes which have preceded them: and the unpretending title I have given them may, I hope, serve to show that I challenge for them no higher praise than has been awarded to their predecessors. Woodbridge, 7th MONTH 5th, 1845. B. B. |