(1802)
#English #Romanticism #XIXCentury #XVIIICentury
YES! hope may with my strong desi… And I be undeluded, unbetrayed; For if of our affections none find… In sight of Heaven, then, wherefo… The world which we inhabit? Bette…
CLOUDS, lingering yet, extend i… Through the grey west; and lo! the… By breezeless air to smoothest pol… A vivid repetition of the stars; Jove, Venus, and the ruddy crest…
HIS simple truths did Andrew gle… Beside the babbling rills; A careful student he had been Among the woods and hills. One winter’s night, when through t…
When first, descending from the mo… I saw the Stream of Yarrow glide Along a bare and open valley, The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide… When last along its banks I wande…
The dew was falling fast, the star… I heard a voice; it said, “Drink,… And, looking o’er the hedge, befor… A snow—white mountain—lamb with a… Nor sheep nor kine were near; the…
I marvel how Nature could ever fi… For so many strange contrasts in o… There’s thought and no thought, an… And bustle and sluggishness, pleas… There’s weakness, and strength bot…
'MID crowded obelisks and urns I sought the untimely grave of Bu… Sons of the Bard, my heart still… With sorrow true; And more would grieve, but that it…
—HAST thou then survived— Mild Offspring of infirm humanity… Meek Infant! among all forlornest… The most forlorn—one life of that… The second glory of the Heavens?—…
ALAS! what boots the long labori… Of moral prudence, sought through… Or pains abstruse—to elevate the w… And lead us on to that transcenden… Where every passion shall the sway…
DEGENERATE Douglas! oh, the u… Whom mere despite of heart could s… And love of havoc, (for with such… Fame taxes him,) that he could sen… To level with the dust a noble hor…
SHOUT, for a mighty Victory is… On British ground the Invaders ar… The breath of Heaven has drifted… And left them lying in the silent… Never to rise again!—the work is d…
EVEN as a river,—partly (it migh… Yielding to old remembrances, and… In part by fear to shape a way dir… That would engulph him soon in the… Turns, and will measure back his c…
SIX changeful years have vanished… Poured out (saluted by that quicke… Which met me issuing from the Cit… A glad preamble to this Verse: I… Aloud, with fervour irresistible
BEAUMONT! it was thy wish that… A seemly Cottage in this sunny De… On favoured ground, thy gift, wher… In neighbourhood with One to me m… That undivided we from year to yea…
I DROPPED my pen; and listened… That sang of trees uptorn and vess… A midnight harmony; and wholly los… To the general sense of men by cha… Of business, care, or pleasure; or…