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Robert Stephen Hawker

1803–1875

Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an English clergyman, poet and antiquary of an old Cornish family, born at Plymouth, who was vicar of the remote Cornish parish of Morwenstow from 1834 until his death. His best-known book is Cornish Ballads (1869).

Lyra Celtica prints two of his poems, 'Featherstone's Doom' and 'Trebarrow'; this file also holds 'The Doom-Well of St Madron' from Popular British Ballads (1894).

Major Works (1)

  1. The Quest of the Sangraal — Narrative poem, 1864

Poems (152)

  1. Featherstone’s Doom
  2. The Doom-Well of St Madron
  3. The Dedication
  4. The Song of the Western Men
  5. Clovelly
  6. Inscription for the Waterfall at Hayne
  7. Pompeii
  8. Mawgan of Melhuach
  9. The Silent Tower of Bottreaux
  10. The Monk Rock
  11. The Spell of St. Pennah
  12. Down with the Church
  13. The Lady of the Mount
  14. The Death-Song of Harold
  15. The Burial of Harold
  16. The Sisters of Glen Nectan
  17. Tetcott, 1831
  18. An Election Song
  19. Annot of Benallay
  20. Dupath Well
  21. The Death Race
  22. Datur Hora Quieti
  23. A Rapture on the Cornish Hills
  24. Trebarrow
  25. Pater vester Pascit illa
  26. Death Song
  27. The Sea-bird's Cry
  28. Minster Church
  29. Modryb Marya
  30. Morwenna Statio
  31. The Saintly Names
  32. The Vine
  33. The Well of St. Morwenna
  34. "I am the Resurrection and the Life !"
  35. The Western Shore
  36. The Exile's Text
  37. Home Once More
  38. The Poor Man and his Parish Church
  39. The Song of the School
  40. On the Grave of a Child in Morwenstow Churchyard
  41. The Tamar Spring
  42. The Storm
  43. Ephphatha
  44. The Signals of Levi
  45. The Child Jesus
  46. The Wail of the Cornish Mother
  47. A Welcome to Prince Albert
  48. The Second Birth of the Princess Royal
  49. Duty Done
  50. The Token Stream of Tidna Combe
  51. The Butterfly
  52. Confirmation
  53. Are They Not All Ministering Spirits
  54. The Font
  55. The Nun of Carmel's Lament
  56. The Ringers of Lancell's Tower
  57. The Kiss of Judas
  58. The Lost Ship
  59. The First Prince of Wales
  60. The Figure-head of the Caledonia at her Captain's Grave
  61. Queen Guennivar's Round
  62. Isha Cherioth
  63. A Ballad for a Cottage Wall
  64. A Legend of the Hive
  65. Genoveva
  66. The Lady's Well
  67. Words by the Waters
  68. The Twain
  69. The Night Cometh
  70. The Dirge
  71. A Thought at Matins
  72. The Baptism of the Peasant and the Prince
  73. The Wolf
  74. Hymn for Holy Innocents' Day
  75. The Oblation
  76. Absalom's Pillar
  77. A Christ-Cross Rhyme
  78. One Is Not
  79. A Voice from the Place of St. Morwenna
  80. "Be of Good Cheer!"
  81. Baal Zephon
  82. The Cornish Boy in Italy
  83. Arscott of Tetcott
  84. The Legend of Saint Cecily
  85. The Legend of Saint Thekla
  86. Miriam: Star of the Sea
  87. The Bier of Mary, Mother of God
  88. Lines of Dedication to the Prince of Wales
  89. To Alfred Tennyson
  90. Aishah Schechinah
  91. The Southern Cross
  92. King Arthur's Waes-Hael
  93. Sir Beville: The Gate-Song of Stowe
  94. The Comet of 1861
  95. A Croon on Hennacliff
  96. To Eva Valentine
  97. To Matilda Valentine
  98. Blue Eyes Melt; Dark Eyes Burn
  99. Written in my Lady's Dante
  100. To Sophie Granville Thynne
  101. Ichabod
  102. A Thought Suggested by Genesis xviii. 1–3
  103. A Cornish Folk-song
  104. The Smuggler's Song
  105. The Fatal Ship
  106. Paraphrase upon the Inscription on the Statue of Sir T. D. Acland, Bart.
  107. On reading Lord Derby's Translation of Homer
  108. The Cornish Emigrant's Song
  109. Aurora
  110. A Fragment
  111. The Carol of the Pruss
  112. Impromptu Lines
  113. A Canticle for Christmas, 1874
  114. The Christmas Tree
  115. A Doxology
  116. The Fisher
  117. To Spring
  118. To Emma
  119. The Alpine Hunter
  120. Pompeii: A Fragment from Schiller
  121. "Lord, whither goest Thou?"
  122. Sonnet I
  123. The Fairy Vision
  124. Home: A Fragment
  125. Night
  126. On Leaving Home
  127. A Tribute
  128. On a Wild Violet
  129. Lucretia
  130. Sonnet II
  131. On the Pleasures of Memory
  132. The Sea: A Fragment
  133. A Night Sketch
  134. The Cossack's Adieu
  135. The Faded Rose
  136. A Remembrance
  137. The Rose of the Valley
  138. A Dream
  139. Memory
  140. Shakespeare: A Fragment
  141. To Nature
  142. An Inscription for an Aged Oak
  143. Diana
  144. To Ama
  145. An Epitaph on a Young Lady
  146. What Lovest Thou?
  147. Introductory and Farewell Addresses
  148. "The Axe is laid at the Root of the Tree"
  149. David's Lament
  150. "Is Nature come to this?"
  151. Deborah's Song
  152. Translation of an Epitaph on Rosa, Countess of Warwick

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