Benlomond (Thomas Campbell Poem)
Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, What tales, white-headed Ben, Could'st thou of ancient ages speak, That mock th' ...
Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, What tales, white-headed Ben, Could'st thou of ancient ages speak, That mock th' ...
As he writes, without looking at the sea, he feels the tip of his pen begin to tremble. The tide ...
Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...
Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page, They were so tiny The pen could mash ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Tonight the moon is a cracker, with a bite out of it floating in the night, and in a week ...
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
In hand I take this pen of mine To write you, sweet, a valentine; I'd take your dainty hand instead, ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings, 2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun, 3 For my mean ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
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