Alaric Alexander Watts

I lived from 1797-1864. I was from England, and am in the English category.

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• On The Death Of A Child

  Sweet flower! with flowers I strew thy narrow bed!
  Sweets to the sweet! Farewell! ~ Shakespeare.

  56 lines
• The Death of Pompey the Great

  Not when his golden eagles flew,
  In sun-bright splendour o'er him,

  101 lines
• On the Death of a Young Friend, of Fever, at Laguira

  He left his home with a bounding heart,
  For the world was all before him;

  44 lines
• Meet Me At Sunset

  Meet me at sunset, the hour we love best,
  Ere day's last crimson blushes have died in the west;

  25 lines, 1 comment
• The Avalanche

  'Tis Night; and Silence with unmoving wings
  Broods o'er the sleeping waters;—not a sound

  54 lines
• Music

  Mysterious keeper of the key
  That opes the gates of Memory,

  32 lines
• A Dream, Written After the Author's Recovery from Illness

  Why, what a Paradise is earth to-day!
  Some heavy torpor must have locked my soul

  84 lines
• To Octavia, the Infant Daughter of the Late John Larking, esq.

  Full many a gloomy month hath passed,
  On flagging wing, regardless by,

  84 lines
• A Woman's Last Song. - From an Unpublished Romance

  'Tis now that softening hour
  When love hath deepest power,

  72 lines
• To Poesy

  I always loved thee gentle Poesy!
  And though thou oft hast served to work me woe,

  26 lines

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