The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a MemoirLittle, Brown, & Company, 1866 - 427 pages |
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Page iii
... Flower of Love lies Bleeding " .83 Lochiel's Warning ... Ye Mariners of England : a Naval Ode . Battle of the Baltic .... Hohenlinden . Glenara Exile of Erin . .101 .105 107 110 Lord Ullin's Daughter . 113 Ode to the Memory of Burns ...
... Flower of Love lies Bleeding " .83 Lochiel's Warning ... Ye Mariners of England : a Naval Ode . Battle of the Baltic .... Hohenlinden . Glenara Exile of Erin . .101 .105 107 110 Lord Ullin's Daughter . 113 Ode to the Memory of Burns ...
Page iv
... Flowers ... 244 Song " To the Evening Star " .246 Stanzas to Painting . 247 The Maid's Remonstrance . .250 • 251 Absence , ... Lines inscribed on the Monument erected by the Widow of Admiral Sir G. Campbell , K.C.B. , to the memory of ...
... Flowers ... 244 Song " To the Evening Star " .246 Stanzas to Painting . 247 The Maid's Remonstrance . .250 • 251 Absence , ... Lines inscribed on the Monument erected by the Widow of Admiral Sir G. Campbell , K.C.B. , to the memory of ...
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... flowers on the opposite side of the burn which I could not approach to pull , and wishing in my very soul to get at them , still I could not cross the burn . There were trouts , too , in the stream , and what a glorious event was the ...
... flowers on the opposite side of the burn which I could not approach to pull , and wishing in my very soul to get at them , still I could not cross the burn . There were trouts , too , in the stream , and what a glorious event was the ...
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... flowers . In a very few weeks the change worked wonders , and on his return home he seemed altogether another creature ; his coun- tenance was radiant with health and beauty , and to the latest period of his life , he was wont to refer ...
... flowers . In a very few weeks the change worked wonders , and on his return home he seemed altogether another creature ; his coun- tenance was radiant with health and beauty , and to the latest period of his life , he was wont to refer ...
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... flowers of that month . It will be an amusement to me to instruct her mind whenever she chooses . But assure her , from me , that she need not fear being set to learn more than she really wishes ; and she must not greet at parting from ...
... flowers of that month . It will be an amusement to me to instruct her mind whenever she chooses . But assure her , from me , that she need not fear being set to learn more than she really wishes ; and she must not greet at parting from ...
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arms Ascog battle beauty beauty's beneath bleeding blood bosom bower brave breath bright brow burst of joy Campbell Campbell's charm child clime cried Culdee dear death deep delight dread dream Dugald Stewart earth England ev'n fair fame fate father fire flower Gertrude GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Glencoe glow grief hand hath heart Heaven Highland honour hour Indian Innisfail isles land life's light living Lochawe Lochiel lonely look'd Lord Loxian Madame de Staėl mind monody morn mountain Nature's ne'er never night o'er pale partition of Poland peace Pleasures of Hope poem poet pride sacred scene scorn Scotland shade shore sigh sight sire smile song soul spirit star storm sweet sword tears thee THEODRIC thine THOMAS CAMPBELL Thomas Telford thou thought Twas wampum waves weep Whilst wild winds youth
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Page 98 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow...
Page 115 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Page 99 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 17 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 105 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page x - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 3 - Heav'n's aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 3 Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 126 - O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.
Page 99 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 94 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning ; no rider is there ; But its bridle is- red with the sign of despair. Weep Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead : For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave.