. Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest…

. A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun’s pathetic light Engendered, hangs o’er Eildon’s triple height: Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred…

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 Until all…

I 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, Or…

. Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou,…

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,…

I 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– Stooped to the Victory,…

. 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…

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…

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…