Lord Ullin’s Daughter (Thomas Campbell Poems)
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain Where native Otter sports his scanty stream, Musing in torpid woe a ...
Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind -- When he looked about him he was in ...
A man toiled on a burning road, Never resting. Once he saw a fat, stupid ass Grinning at him from ...
I stood musing in a black world, Not knowing where to direct my feet. And I saw the quick stream ...
Once there was a man -- Oh, so wise! In all drink He detected the bitter, And in all touch ...
There was one I met upon the road Who looked at me with kind eyes. Her said, "Show me of ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
Whenas-(I love that "whenas" word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with ...
Sence fair Jessica hez left us Seems ez ef she hed bereft us, When she went, o' half o' livin'; ...
After the cloud embankments, the lamentation of wind and the starry descent into time, we came to the flashing waters ...
Eternal Power, of earth and air! Unseen, yet seen in all around, Remote, but dwelling everywhere, Though silent, heard in ...
Eternal power of earth and air, Unseen, yet seen in all around, Remote, but dwelling everywhere, Though silent, heard in ...
As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to ...
The stars, a jolly company, I envied, straying late and lonely; And cried upon their revelry: "O white companionship! You ...
"Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said, "But love goes lightly over." I bowed ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
There were not many at that lonely place, Where two scourged hills met in a little plain. The wind cried ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Fridayâ?" so help me Jesusâ?"then made funny too the other, further one. ...
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