“Call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.” I “O LORD, our Lord! how wondrously,” (quoth she) “Thy name in this large world is spread abroad!…

A Rock there is whose homely front The passing traveller slights; Yet there the glow-worms hang their lamps, Like stars, at various heights; And one coy Primrose to that Rock…

The power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal and circumscribed in time and space; But who the limits of that power shall trace Which a brave People into light…

A PASTORAL THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink; I heard a voice; it said, “Drink, pretty creature, drink!” And, looking o’er the hedge, before me I…

THE MIGHTY Minstrel breathes no longer, Mid mouldering ruins low he lies; And death upon the braes of Yarrow Has closed the Shepherd-poet’s eyes: Nor has the rolling year twice…

. I saw an aged Beggar in my walk; And he was seated, by the highway side, On a low structure of rude masonry Built at the foot of a…

OAK of Guernica! Tree of holier power Than that which in Dodona did enshrine (So faith too fondly deemed) a voice divine Heard from the depths of its aerial bower–…

A Pastoral I HIS simple truths did Andrew glean Beside the babbling rills; A careful student he had been Among the woods and hills. One winter’s night, when through the…

A MONTH, sweet Little-ones, is past Since your dear Mother went away,– And she tomorrow will return; Tomorrow is the happy day. O blessed tidings! thought of joy! The eldest…

I 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 The haughty towers where…