Gustavus Vasa and other poems

Observant of the deepening maze of fate, High on his throne of stars the Eternal sate: Whence his broad eyes the changeful earth survey'd, The rolling seas, the sun, the inferna...

Auspicious Spirit, whosoe'er thou art, Who warm, exalt, and fill, the Poet's heart: Who bade young Homer pour the martial strain, And led the Tuscan bard thro' hell's profound d...

Day's golden eye had closed, his ruddy light Expiring on the bosom of the night; And solitary twilight's deepening shade In dusky robe the firmament array'd. The moon, resplende...

The Swede I sing, by Heaven ordain'd to save His country's glories from a Danish grave, Restore her laws, her Papal rites efface, And fix her freedom on a lasting base.

The remaining books, ten or fourteen in number, will be occupied with a detail of the long and various war waged by Gustavus against Christiern, and the poem will conclude with...

tribes.--The Genius of Sweden appears to him in a dream; foretels his future exaltation, and the disgraceful end of Christiern and his party. He then shews him the reward of pat...

_Ernestus enters Dalecarlia--View of the scene round Mora--Transition to Gustavus Vasa, who it represented as reclining under a tree near his friend, the pastor's house, and ret...

_Soliloquies of Ernestus and Harfagar in prison--Christiern in a conversation with his peers throws further light on the rebellion of Prince Frederic in Denmark--He employs Olau...