Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774–1843) was an English Romantic poet, historian, and biographer who served as Poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843. His poems include "The Battle of Blenhe…
"This mound in some remote and dateless day Rear'd o'er a Chieftain of the Age [1] of Hills, May here detain thee Traveller! from thy roa"
"And wherefore do the Poor complain? The rich man asked of me,-- Come walk abroad with me, I said And I will answer"
"Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray Each in the other melting. Much mine eye"
"Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair, And to the deaf sea pour thy frantic cries? Before the gale the laden vessel"
"The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal, And the Old Woman knew what he said, And she grew pale at the Raven's tale,"
"'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep As undisturb'd as Justice! but no more The wretched Slave, as on his native shore,"
"No eye beheld when William plunged Young Edmund in the stream, No human ear but William's heard Young Edmund's drow"
"Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands has sped"
"It was a summer's evening; Old Casper's work was done, And he before his cottage-door Was sitting in the sun; And by"
"[Greek (transliterated): Kai pagas fileoimi ton enguthen aechon achthein, A terpei psopheoisa ton agri"
"The circumstance related in the following Ballad happened about forty years ago in a village adjacent to Bristol. A person who was present at the fune"
"STRANGER! the MAN OF NATURE lies not here: Enshrin'd far distant by his [1] rival's side His relics rest, there by the giddy throng"
"This is the place where William's kingly power Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel, Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless,"
"Jaspar was poor, and want and vice Had made his heart like stone, And Jaspar look'd with envious eyes On riches not"
"Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river Rhine, they beheld a boat or small ba"