The Poetical Works of Campbell and Falconer: With a Memoir of Each, Volumes 1-2Houghton, Mifflin, 1880 |
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... Morning .... 41 Description of the Ship , as seen by the Inhabitants SECOND CANTO ... of Candia , on her leaving the Harbour .. Description of a Water Spout .. 42 .47 .50 Description of a dying Dolphin . Description of a threatening iv ...
... Morning .... 41 Description of the Ship , as seen by the Inhabitants SECOND CANTO ... of Candia , on her leaving the Harbour .. Description of a Water Spout .. 42 .47 .50 Description of a dying Dolphin . Description of a threatening iv ...
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... ( for this is none of my own recollection ) , in Glasgow , on the 27th of July , 1777 , at 7 o'clock in the May Cambell , now Mrs. W. Alfred Hill . morning . The house which my father and his family viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
... ( for this is none of my own recollection ) , in Glasgow , on the 27th of July , 1777 , at 7 o'clock in the May Cambell , now Mrs. W. Alfred Hill . morning . The house which my father and his family viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
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With a Memoir of Each Thomas Campbell. morning . The house which my father and his family inhabited then , and for fourteen years afterwards , was in the High Street of Glasgow , a little above , and on the opposite side of the Havannah ...
With a Memoir of Each Thomas Campbell. morning . The house which my father and his family inhabited then , and for fourteen years afterwards , was in the High Street of Glasgow , a little above , and on the opposite side of the Havannah ...
Page xi
... - horses , on the morning of the day when they know they are to be brought to the race , are so agitated that they refuse their oats . Whether it was presentiment , or the mere castle - building of my vanity , OF THOMAS CAMPBELL . xi.
... - horses , on the morning of the day when they know they are to be brought to the race , are so agitated that they refuse their oats . Whether it was presentiment , or the mere castle - building of my vanity , OF THOMAS CAMPBELL . xi.
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... Morning Chronicle ; " of these , only four have been preserved amongst his print- ed poems . As the winter drew to a close , and while in actual correspondence with a friend , touch- ing a grand tour through Hungary and Turkey , the ...
... Morning Chronicle ; " of these , only four have been preserved amongst his print- ed poems . As the winter drew to a close , and while in actual correspondence with a friend , touch- ing a grand tour through Hungary and Turkey , the ...
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anguish Arion arms Ascog beauty beneath bleeding blood bloom bosom brails brave breast breath Campbell Campbell's Candia charms child clime crew cried Culdee dark death deck deep distress doom'd dread edition England ev'n eventful song eyes fair faithless Falconer fame fate father feel fire flame gale Glencoe glow Greece grief halyards hand heart Heaven hope hour Indian Innisfail isle land life's light living Lord Madame de Staël mast melt mind mournful Muse Nature's never night numbers o'er pale Palemon peace poem poet poet's rage Ramillies roar rocks Rodmond roll round sacred sail says scene Scotland scud shade ship shore sigh sight skies smile song sorrow soul spirit star stay-sail storm sweet swell sword tears tempest thee THEODRIC thine thou thought tide top-mast trembling Twas vessel wave weep wild WILLIAM FALCONER wind youth
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Page 98 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow...
Page 99 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 115 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Page 99 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 113 - DAUGHTER A CHIEFTAIN, to the Highlands bound, Cries, "Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound, To row us o'er the ferry.
Page 102 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased— and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.
Page 94 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning : no rider is there ; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair.
Page 235 - But strew his ashes to the wind Whose sword or voice has served mankind, — And is he dead, whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high? — To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
Page 129 - Tis mercy bids thee go; For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow.
Page 95 - Lo !. the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah ! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast, Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...