Category: History - Modern (1750+)
FIVE centuries ago there might have been seen in the streets of old London, one of those gifted mortals who are now and then sent into the world by the Father of spirits, to stamp their name upon the age in which they live, and to enshrine its memory amidst the splendours of t...
“By these mysterious ties, the busy power Of Memory her ideal train preserves Entire; or when they would elude her watch Reclaims their fleeting footsteps from the waste Of dark...
5. PART V.“Albion! on every human soul By thee be knowledge shed Far as the ocean waters roll, Wide as the shores are spread:— Truth makes thy children free at home, Oh, that thy flag unf...
3. PART III.“The barrier flood Was like a lake, or river bright and fair, A span of waters: yet what power was there, What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us, if...
1. PART I.FIVE centuries ago there might have been seen in the streets of old London, one of those gifted mortals who are now and then sent into the world by the Father of spirits, to sta...
2. PART II.“Fair land, by time’s parental love made free, By social order’s watchful arms embraced:— With unexampled union meet in thee, For eye and mind the present and the past; With gol...
6. PART VI.“With arm in arm the forest rose on high, And lessons gave of brotherly regard: Mercy stood in the cloud with eye that wept Essential love, and from her glorious bow Bending to...