Coombe-Ellen (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through ...
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through ...
The long-piled mountain-snows at last dissolve,Bursting the roaring river's brittle bonds.Ponderous the fragments down the cataract shoot,And, buried in the ...
Hark! the owlet flaps her wing,In the pathless dell beneath,Hark! night ravens loudly sing,Tidings of despair and death.--Horror covers all ...
A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewedIn the soul's coldest solitude,With that same scene when peaceful loveFlings rapture's colour o'er the ...
Supposed to be written by the VICTIM of an ill-placed AFFECTION."Enchanted grounds o'er which I vacant stray'd,In bow'rs of fragrance ...
WHERE not a sound is heard But the white waves, O bird,And slippery rocks fling back the vanquish'd sea, Thou soarest in ...
MY native vale! with heighten'd pleasure stillI trace thy simple scenes, my partial eyeSurveys new beauties each returning spring,Each summer ...
IT is a goodly sight through the clear air,From Hampstead's heathy height, to see at onceEngland's vast capital in fair ...
A highway white with dust that winds amidAn undulating stretch of breezy down,Whose ruggedness by spreading ferns is hid-Four miles ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
I How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here ; And this sweet bed of ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
On a sunny brae, alone I lay One summer afternoon; It was the marriage-time of May With her young lover, ...
AMONG the heathy hills and ragged woods The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods; Till full he dashes on the ...
SLEEP'ST thou, or wak'st thou, fairest creature? Rosy morn now lifts his eye, Numbering ilka bud which Nature Waters wi' ...
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river ...
Go thou and seek the House of Prayer! I to the Woodlands wend, and there In lovely Nature see the ...
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
The village of Penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills, Is most lovely to see, and the Pentland Hills; And though ...
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