Thomas Campbell

"Excerpt from "Gertrude Of Wyoming"     Apart there was a deep untrodden grot,     Where oft the reading hours sweet Gertrude wore;     Tradit"

"The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current"

"When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four the Seasons flew. First, in green a"

"1 Star that bringest home the bee, 2 And sett'st the weary labourer free! 3 If any star shed peace, 'tis thou, 4 That send'st it from above, 5 Appeari"

"Star that bringest home the bee, And sett’st the weary labourer free! If any star shed peace, ‘tis thou, That send ‘st it from above, Appearing when H"

"How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying! Yet remember, 'Midst o"

"Excerpt from "Gertrude Of Wyoming"     Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies,     The happy shepherd swains had nought to do     But feed the"

"O leave this barren spot to me!     Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!     Though bush or floweret never grow     My dark unwarming shade"

"When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear,     The debt of his nature did pay,     T' was Edward, the cruel, had reason to fear,"

"Of Nelson and the North     Sing the glorious day's renown,     When to battle fierce came forth     All the might of Denmark's crown,     And"

"The more we live, more brief appear     Our life's succeeding stages;     A day to childhood seems a year,     And years like passing ages."

"How delicious is the winning     Of a kiss at love's beginning,     When two mutual hearts are sighing     For the knot there's no untying!"

"Never wedding, ever wooing,     Still a love-lorn heart pursuing,     Read you not the wrong you 're doing     In my cheek's pale hue?     All"

"At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow     Spans with bright arch the glittering bills below,     Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,"

"At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour,     I have mused in a sorrowful mood,     On the wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower,"

"Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky     When storms prepare to part,     I ask not proud Philosophy     To teach me what thou art;     Still"

"Men of England! who inherit     Rights that cost your sires their blood!     Men whose undegenerate spirit     Has been proved on field and flo"

"Hadst thou a genius on thy peak,     What tales, white-headed Ben,     Could'st thou of ancient ages speak,     That mock th' historian's pen!"

"Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps,     Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps:     She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,"

"Star that bringest home the bee,     And sett'st the weary labourer free!     If any star shed peace, 'tis thou,     That send'st it from above"

"Wizard. - Lochiel.     Wizard. - Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the day     When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!     For a field of"

"On Linden, when the sun was low,     All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,     And dark as winter was the flow     Of Iser, rolling rapidly."

"Our bugles sang truce; for the night-cloud had lowered,     And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;     And thousands had sunk on the"

"Hark! from the battlements of yonder tower     The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour!     Roused from drear visions of distempered sleep,"

"There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin,     The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill:     For his country he sign'd, when at twilight"

"Ye Mariners of England     That guard our native seas,     Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,     The battle and the breeze,     Your gl"

"O, heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale,     Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail?     'Tis the chief of Glenara laments for h"

"When first the fiery-mantled sun     His heavenly race begun to run;     Round the earth and ocean blue,     His children four the Seasons flew"

"At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow     Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,     Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,"

"The brave Roland! the brave Roland!     False tidings reached the Rhenish strand     That he had fallen in fight;     And thy faithful bosom sw"

"The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded,     And sad pale Adelgitha came,     When forth a valiant champion bounded,     And slew the slanderer of h"

"Soul of the Poet! wheresoe'er,     Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume     Her wings of immortality;     Suspend thy harp in happier sphere,"

"All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,     The Sun himself must die,     Before this mortal shall assume     Its Immortality!     I saw a vis"

"Come, maids and matrons, to caress     Wiesbaden's gentle hind;     And, smiling, deck its glossy neck     With forest flowers entwined."

"PART I     On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!     Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall,     And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring,"

"In the deep blue of eve,     Ere the twinkling of stars had begun,     Or the lark took his leave     Of the skies and the sweet setting sun,"

"Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn     When soul to soul, and dust to dust return,     Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour!"

"'Tis not the loss of love's assurance,     It is not doubting what thou art,     But 'tis the too, too long endurance     Of absence, that affl"

"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.""