Category: Poetry
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
Lines Inscribed on the Monument lately finished by Mr. Chantrey, which has been Erected by the Widow of Admiral Sir G. Campbell, K.C.B., to the Memory of her Husband 139
Chapters
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Apostrophe to the power of Love ... its intimate connection with generous and social Sensibility ... allusion to that beautiful passage in the beginning of the book of Genesis,...
5. PART II.Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you ’tis true, Yet, wildings of nature I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teemed around me with faery deligh...
9. PART III.That I am justified in making the Indian chief allude to the mammoth as an emblem of terror and destruction, will be seen by the authority quoted below. Speaking of the mammoth,...
8. PART I.“The mocking-bird is of the form, but larger than the thrush; and the colours are a mixture of black, white, and grey. What is said of the nightingale by its greatest admirers,...
2. PART I.The Poem opens with a comparison between the beauty of remote objects in a landscape, and those ideal scenes of felicity which the imagination delights to contemplate ... the in...
1. Part III. 61Lines Inscribed on the Monument lately finished by Mr. Chantrey, which has been Erected by the Widow of Admiral Sir G. Campbell, K.C.B., to the Memory of her Husband 139
6. PART I.After relating the barbarity of the Indian cacique to his child, he proceeds thus:—“A day or two after we put to sea again, and crossed the great bay I mentioned we had been at...
4. PART I.7. PART II.“In this extremity,” says the biographer of Charles XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa, “the memorable winter of 1709, which was stil...