#English #Romanticism #XIXCentury #XVIIICentury
YE brood of conscience—Spectres!… The bad Man’s restless walk, and… Fiends in your aspect, yet benefic… In act, as hovering Angels when t… Their wings to guard the unconscio…
FANCY, who leads the pastimes of… Full oft is pleased a wayward dart… Sending sad shadows after things n… Peopling the harmless fields with… Beneath her sway, a simple forest…
A trouble, not of clouds, or weepi… Nor of the setting sun’s pathetic… Engendered, hangs o’er Eildon’s t… Spirits of Power, assembled there… For kindred Power departing from…
Five years have past; five summers… Of five long winters! and again I… These waters, rolling from their m… With a soft inland murmur.—Once a… Do I behold these steep and lofty…
AMONG the dwellings framed by bi… In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little Wren… In snugness may compare. No door the tenement requires,
THE gentlest Shade that walked E… Might sometimes covet dissoluble c… Even for the tenants of the zone t… Beyond the stars, celestial Parad… Methinks 'twould heighten joy, to…
Though the torrents from their fou… Roar down many a craggy steep, Yet they find among the mountains Resting—places calm and deep. Clouds that love through air to ha…
WHO fancied what a pretty sight This Rock would be if edged aroun… With living snow—drops? circlet br… How glorious to this orchard—groun… Who loved the little Rock, and se…
AN age hath been when Earth was p… Of lustre too intense To be sustained; and Mortals bowe… The front in self—defence. Who 'then’, if Dian’s crescent gl…
THE Land we from our fathers had… And to our children will transmit,… This is our maxim, this our piety; And God and Nature say that it is… That which we 'would’ perform in a…
O FRIEND! I know not which way… For comfort, being, as I am, oppr… To think that now our life is only… For show; mean handy—work of craft… Or groom!—We must run glittering…
At the corner of Wood Street, whe… Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, i… Poor Susan has passed by the spot… In the silence of morning the song… 'Tis a note of enchantment; what a…
Amid a fertile region green with w… And fresh with rivers, well doth i… The Ducal Owner, in his Palace—h… To naturalise this tawny Lion bro… Children of Art, that claim stran…
SWIFTLY turn the murmuring whee… Night has brought the welcome hour… When the weary fingers feel Help, as if from faery power; Dewy night o’ershades the ground;
The God of Love—'ah, benedicite!' How mighty and how great a Lord i… For he of low hearts can make high… He can make low, and unto death br… And hard—hearts he can make them k…