The Death Of The Boar (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
Now of the hard strait of the Feinne this legend's verse shall tell:When Fionn's men had fought and won, and ...
PART I.Dark, with shrouds of mist surrounded. Rise the mountains from the shore,Where the galleys of the Islesmen Stand updrawn, their voyage ...
I.Where the snow-world of the mountains Fronts the sea-like world of sward,And encamped along the prairies Tower the white peaks heavenward;Where they ...
Does death cleanse the stains of the spirit When sundered at last from the clay,Or keep we thereafter till judgment, Desires that ...
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
Best beloved of ancient stories Are our Diarmid's woes to me.Like a mist, by breezes broken,So this tale of olden gloriesFloats ...
A brother's eye had seen the grief That Duart's lady bore;His boat with sail half-raised flies down The sound by green Lismore.Ahaladah, ...
In the vapour and haze on the ocean, Where the skies and the waters meet,There's a form that drifts, phantom-like, onward As ...
At a feast in the east of our central plains,Girt with the sheaths of ...
For a while the salt brine leaves me O'er my terraced rocks to fall,And my broad swift-gliding waters Olden memories recall.Ere the ...
OR, THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN-CORN.Cherry bloom and green buds bursting Fleck the azure skies;In the spring wood, hungering, thirsting, Faint an ...
Is it Man alone who merits Immortality or death?Each created thing inherits Equal air and common breath.Souls pass onward: some are ranging Happy ...
A moment's pause before we play our parts,To speak the thought that reigns within your hearts.--Now from the Future's hours, ...
We stood, as the helmeted horsemen Formed up in the light of the sun;We knelt, stretching bayonets towards them As they charged, ...
Oh, dear to old Dunolly's heart His darling daughter seemed,Yet when she fled, how pitiless His bitter curse was deemed.To death he ...
A GREAT ROCK ON THE AMERICAN NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.Among white peaks a rock, hewn altar-wise, Marks the long frontier of our mighty ...
There's a warrior hunting o'er prairie and hill,Who in sunshine or starlight is eager to kill,Who ne'er sleeps by his ...
Oft the savage Tale in telling Less of Love than Wrath and Hate,Hath within its fierceness dwelling Some pure note compassionate.Mark, if ...
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