It seems a day (I speak of one from many singled out) One of those heavenly days that cannot die; When, in the eagerness of boyish hope, I left our cottage-threshold, sallying forth...
Intrepid sons of Albion! not by you Is life despised; ah no, the spacious earth Ne'er saw a race who held, by right of birth, So many objects to which love is due: Ye slight not life, to God and Nature true;...
The Bard, whose soul is meek as dawning day, Yet trained to judgments righteously severe, Fervid, yet conversant with holy fear, As recognising one Almighty sway:...
These times strike monied worldlings with dismay: Even rich men, brave by nature, taint the air With words of apprehension and despair: While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray,...
Imagination, ne'er before content, But aye ascending, restless in her pride From all that martial feats could yield To her desires, or to her hopes present...
While from the purpling east departs The star that led the dawn, Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts, For May is on the lawn. A quickening hope, a freshening glee, Foreran the expected Power,...
For thirst of power that Heaven disowns, For temples, towers, and thrones, Too long insulted by the Spoiler's shock, Indignant Europe cast Her stormy foe at last...
Hail, orient Conqueror of gloomy Night! Thou that canst shed the bliss of gratitude On hearts howe'er insensible or rude; Whether thy punctual visitations smite...
An age hath been when Earth was proud Of lustre too intense To be sustained; and Mortals bowed The front in self-defence. Who 'then', if Dian's crescent gleamed,...
O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain, Dwells in the affections and the soul of man A Godhead, like the universal PAN; But more exalted, with a brighter train:...
O'erweening Statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies, and external wealth: But from 'within' proceeds a Nation's health; Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride...
Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech! Yet, though dread Powers, that work in mystery, spin Entanglings of the brain; though shadows stretch O'er the chilled heart reflect; far, far within...
A Roman Master stands on Grecian ground, And to the people at the Isthmian Games Assembled, He, by a herald's voice, proclaims THE LIBERTY OF GREECE: the words rebound...
The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire, Flung back from distant climes a streaming fire, Whose blaze is now subdued to tender gleams, Prelude of night's approach with soothing dreams....
We gaze, nor grieve to think that we must die, But that the precious love this friend hath sown Within our hearts, the love whose flower hath blown Bright as if heaven were ever in its eye,...
By Art's bold privilege Warrior and War-horse stand On ground yet strewn with their last battle's wreck; Let the Steed glory while his Master's hand Lies fixed for ages on his conscious neck;...