Category: Poetry
questions of individual taste were made primary, and not secondary; and an arrangement, which gave scope for the arbitrary selection of particular texts,--according to the wisdom, or the want of wisdom, of the editor,--would deservedly meet with severe criticism in many quarte...
FORESTER His senses play him false; and see, his arms Outspread, as if to save himself from falling!-- Some terrible phantom I believe is now Passing before him, such as God wil...
2. Chapter 2(especially the sonnet addressed to Miss Maria Williams); but, since they have appeared elsewhere, I feel justified in now reprinting even that trivial youthful effusion, signed...
1. Chapter 1questions of individual taste were made primary, and not secondary; and an arrangement, which gave scope for the arbitrary selection of particular texts,--according to the wisdo...
5. Chapter 5OSWALD They chose _him_ for their Chief!--what covert part He, in the preference, modest Youth, might take, I neither know nor care. The insult bred More of contempt than hatred...
4. Chapter 4LACY The Troop will be impatient; let us hie Back to our post, and strip the Scottish Foray Of their rich Spoil, ere they recross the Border. ---Pity that our young Chief will h...
6. Chapter 6HOST Lady, you'll find your Father at the Convent As I have told you: He left us yesterday With two Companions; one of them, as seemed, His most familiar Friend. (Going.) There...
7. Chapter 7HERBERT That Chapel-bell in mercy seemed to guide me, But now it mocks my steps; its fitful stroke Can scarcely be the work of human hands. Hear me, ye Men, upon the cliffs, if...
3. Chapter 3[Footnote B: By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this edition (1840). See p. 37.--Ed.[Footnote D of 'Descriptive Sketches', the preceding poem in this text.]]