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Thomas Campbell

1777 AD — 1844 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Pleasures of Hope
O'Connor's Child
Lochiel's Warning
Ode to the Memory of Burns
Ye Mariners of England
Battle of the Baltic
Hohenlinden
The Exile of Erin
On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
The Soldier's Dream
To the Rainbow
Gertrude of Wyoming
Song of the Greeks
Drink ye to Her
Hallowed Ground
The Beech-Tree's Petition
Number 248 · printed citation: Thomas Campbell
Number 1949 · printed citation: Thomas Campbell

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01c. 1810 AD

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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02c. 1810 AD

But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

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03c. 1810 AD

O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!

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04c. 1810 AD

Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell!

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05c. 1810 AD

On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.

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06c. 1810 AD

And rival all but Shakespeare's name below.

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07c. 1810 AD

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?

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08c. 1810 AD

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun.

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09c. 1810 AD

The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd—till woman smiled.

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10c. 1810 AD

While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew.

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11c. 1810 AD

There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.

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12c. 1810 AD

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

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13c. 1810 AD

That gems the starry girdle of the year.

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14c. 1810 AD

Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!

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15c. 1810 AD

O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?

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16c. 1810 AD

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

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17c. 1810 AD

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between.

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18c. 1810 AD

Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's; And every hand that dealt the blow— Ah me! it was a brother's!

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19c. 1810 AD

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

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20c. 1810 AD

Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.

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21c. 1810 AD

And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful beneath his touch.

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22c. 1810 AD

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage.

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23c. 1810 AD

Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

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24c. 1810 AD

Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

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