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The morning shone on Tagus’ rocky… And airs of summer swelled the yel… When, rising from his melancholy b… And faint, and feebly by Antonio… Poor Camoens, subdued by want and…
Mortal! who, armed with holy forti… The path of good right onward hast… May HE, to whose eternal throne o… The sufferers of the earth with an… Be thy protector! On that dreary…
IF chance some pensive stranger,… His bosom glowing from majestic vi… The gorgeous dome, or the proud la… Should ask who sleeps beneath this… ’Tis poor Matilda! To the cloiste…
O THOU, whose stern command and… (Tho’ agony in every vein should s… And slowly drain the blood-drops f… Have bade the patient spirit still… Thou, who to sorrow hast a beauty…
O NORTH! as thy romantic vales… And bid farewell to each retiring… Where thoughtful fancy seems to li… Tracing the broad bright landscape… That mingled with the toiling crou…
I stood upon the stone where ELA… The widowed founder of these ancie… Where fancy still on meek devotion… Marking the ivied arch, and turret… For her soul’s rest—eternal rest—t…
Stern Father of the storm! who do… Amid the solitude of the vast deep… For ever listening to the sullen t… And whirlwinds that the billowy de… Thou at the distant death-shriek d…
A PICTURESQUE COTTAG… Stranger! mark this lovely scene, When the evening sets serene, And starting o’er the silent wood, The last pale sunshine streaks the…
To him, who, many a night upon the… At mid-watch, from the bounding ve… Shivering, has listened to the roc… Oh, how delightful smile thy views… Fair Land! the sheltered hut, and…
It was a high and holy sight, When Baldwin and his train, With cross and crosier gleaming br… Came chanting slow the solemn rite… To Gwentland’s pleasant plain.
ON these white cliffs, that calm… Rear their o’er-shadowing heads, a… Scarce hear the surge that has for… Sure many a lonely wanderer has st… And, whilst the lifted murmur met…
Matlock! amid thy hoary-hanging vi… Thy glens that smile sequestered,… Which yon forsaken crag all dark o… Once more I court the long neglec… As erst when by the mossy brink an…
Why mourns the ingenuous Moralist… Science has stored, and Piety ref… That fading Chivalry displays no… Her pomp and stately tournaments o… Lo! when Philosophy and Truth adv…
Nay, let us gaze, ev’n till the se… Upon the rich creation, shadowed s… That not great Nature, in her lof… Of living beauty, ever on the sigh… Rose more magnificent; nor aught s…
I thought ’twas a toy of the fancy… That leads with illusion the sense… And I sighed with delight as we s… While the sun, as he smiled on our… Rejoice in my light, ere it fade f…