Edderline’s Dream. Canto First (John Wilson Poems)
Castle-Oban is lost in the darkness of night,For the moon is swept from the starless heaven,And the latest line of ...
Castle-Oban is lost in the darkness of night,For the moon is swept from the starless heaven,And the latest line of ...
Magnificent Creature! so stately and bright!In the pride of thy spirit pursuing thy flight;For what hath the child of the ...
It is upon the Sabbath-day, at rising of the sun,That to Glenmore's black forest-side a Shepherdess hath gone,From eagle and ...
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these ...
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
Ere Margaret was three months old,Her father laid her in the mould!Poor Babe! her fleeting visit hereWas marked by many ...
Far in the heart of Island-solitudeOur tent was pitched, beneath a grove of oaks.A scene more solemn never hermit choseFor ...
Gentle as dew, a summer showerIn beauty bathed tree, herb, and flower,And told the stream to murmur onWith quicker dance ...
Methought that in a Burial-groundOne still, sad vernal day,Upon a little daisied moundI in a slumber lay;While faintly through my ...
Though oft in Britain's Isle the breathing bustTo fame consign the patriot-hero's dust,And conquerors waked to mimic life againIn imaged ...
With laughter swimming in thine eye,That told youth's heartfelt revelry;And motion changeful as the wingOf swallow wakened by the spring;With ...
To whom belongs this valley fair,That sleeps beneath the filmy air,Even like a living thing?Silent,-as infant at the breast,-Save a ...
Beside her Babe, who sweetly slept,A widowed mother sat and weptO'er years of love gone by;And as the sobs thick-gathering ...
It was a dreadful day, when late I passedO'er thy dim vastness, Skiddaw!-Mist and cloudEach subject Fell obscured, and rushing ...
A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun,A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow;Long had I watched the glory ...
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