The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical |
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... hath been ; And every form , that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion , glows divinely there . What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heavenly power , The pledge ...
... hath been ; And every form , that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion , glows divinely there . What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heavenly power , The pledge ...
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... hath learned to claim A mother's ear by that endearing name ; Soon as the playful innocent can prove A tear of pity or a smile of love , Or cons his murmuring task beneath her care , Or lisps with holy look his evening prayer , Or ...
... hath learned to claim A mother's ear by that endearing name ; Soon as the playful innocent can prove A tear of pity or a smile of love , Or cons his murmuring task beneath her care , Or lisps with holy look his evening prayer , Or ...
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... hath yet a soul - and dare be free ! A little while , along thy saddening plains , The starless night of Desolation reigns ; Truth shall restore the light by Nature given , And , like Prometheus , bring the fire of Heaven ! Prone to the ...
... hath yet a soul - and dare be free ! A little while , along thy saddening plains , The starless night of Desolation reigns ; Truth shall restore the light by Nature given , And , like Prometheus , bring the fire of Heaven ! Prone to the ...
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... Hath Valour left the world - to live no more ? No more shall Brutus bid a tyrant die , And sternly smile with vengeance in his eye ? Hampden no more , when suffering Freedom calls , Encounter Fate , and triumph as he falls ? Nor Tell ...
... Hath Valour left the world - to live no more ? No more shall Brutus bid a tyrant die , And sternly smile with vengeance in his eye ? Hampden no more , when suffering Freedom calls , Encounter Fate , and triumph as he falls ? Nor Tell ...
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... hath resigned The fiery grandeur of a generous mind ! Poor fettered man ! I hear thee whispering low Unhallowed vows to Guilt , the child of Woe ! Friendless thy heart ; and can'st thou harbour there A wish but death - a passion but ...
... hath resigned The fiery grandeur of a generous mind ! Poor fettered man ! I hear thee whispering low Unhallowed vows to Guilt , the child of Woe ! Friendless thy heart ; and can'st thou harbour there A wish but death - a passion but ...
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Page 107 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Page 109 - Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn! Say, rushed the bold eagle exultingly forth From his home in the dark-rolling clouds of the north? Lo! the death-shot of foemen out-speeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! Ah! home let him speed, for the spoiler is nigh.
Page 169 - I'll forgive your Highland chief: My daughter! — O my daughter!
Page 91 - Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe, And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 98 - THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the nightcloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
Page 119 - Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save: So peace instead of death let us bring: But yield, proud foe, thy fleet With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.
Page 64 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! — Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name, we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! — with her to die...
Page 108 - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Page 97 - Erin, my country ! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore ; But, alas ! in a far foreign land I awaken, And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more ! Oh cruel fate ! wilt thou never replace me In a mansion of peace — where no perils can chase me?
Page 188 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws...