JAMES AVIS BARTLEY,

OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

RICHMOND: J.W. RANDOLPH, PUBLISHER

1855

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, BY J.A. BARTLEY, In the Clerk's Office of the Eastern District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia.

G.S. ALLEN & CO., PRINTERS, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

TO MY FATHER, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS SON,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFATORY LETTER TO THE PUBLIC.

Dear Public:

These Poems were written with pleasure; if they be read with pleasure, I shall be requited amply. How often the Guardian Angel of the Father of Virginia in surpassing loveliness rose before my imagining eyes! Like the spirit of a dream, she glided through the foliage, verdant and shadowy. Enchanted myself, the desire to enchant others seized me. The "Poet's Enchanted Life" is a gallery of poetic pictures of nature. Most of the minor and miscellaneous pieces, breathe the spirit of virtuous affection. If critics censure me unjustly or intemperately, I will fight them—but I hope to find them, as well as you, dear Public, very kind friends of a loving Author.

J.A. BARTLEY.

POCAHONTAS.

[A] Jamestown.

[B] Whip-poor-will.

THE PRINCESS OF PERU.

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO MISS MARY T. ROBERTSON OF ABINGDON, VA.

THE LOVER.

Scene I.—A Wooded Mountain in bloom—Time sunrise—Enter Lover Solus.

Enter Odora in the Dress of a Woodnymph.

Scene II.—Lover in a gorgeous Saloon in a great City—Evening—Enter Odora—Lover speaks.

Odora Sings.

Odora Sings.

Scene III. An Evening in Summer. A Garden.—Lover alone, and reading a book.

He goes—then Odora and he re-enter the garden.

Scene IV.—Odora and Lover in a field under a perfect Rainbow. (Lover Speaks.)

She Sings.

Scene V. The Banks of a romantic river, flowing among mountains, and viewed by moonlight.

Lover Sings.

THE PROPHECY OF COLUMBIA.

[C] The National Capital at Washington.

[D] The Tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon.

POET'S ENCHANTED LIFE.

The Angel-Child.

BENEATH THOSE STARS OF SUMMER.

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MISS ——.

BLANNERHASSETT'S ISLAND.

[E] Transcriber's note: Spelling is different in the title of the poem; both have been kept as in the original.

CRITICUS.

[F] 16 lines above were written by Prof. E. Longley.