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  • The Verse of Coleridge’s ‘Christobel’
    MARK yon runnel how ’tis flowing,
    Like a sylvan spirit dreaming
    19 lines
  • To the Moon [Earlier Version]
    WITH silent step behold her steal
        Over those envious clouds that hid
    119 lines
  • To Mary
    WHERE Beauty is smiling
        With Love undenied,
    25 lines
  • Memory's Genesis
    HOW few through Memory’s dreamy scope,
    However resolute of hope,
    29 lines
  • Ned Connor
    ’TWAS night—and where a watery sound
        Came moaning up the Flat,
    243 lines
  • Poetry
    RISING and setting suns of Liberty—
        Mountainous exploits and the wrecks thick strewn
    13 lines
  • Records of Romantic Passion
    THERE’S a rare Soul of Poesy which may be
            But concentrated by the chastened dreams
    13 lines
  • Virginal Love
    I LOVE him so,
    That though his face I ne’er might see,
    19 lines
  • The Drunkard
    Disease was lurking in the cup!
    Disastrous folly mantling there!
    43 lines
  • To My First Born
    MY beautiful! For beautiful thou art
            To me thy father, as the morning light
    13 lines
  • Finality
    A HEAVY and desolate sense of life
            Is all the Past makes mine—and still
    82 lines
  • Wordsworth
    LOFTY and strenuous of sentiment
    But narrow and partial in its scope and bent,
    68 lines
  • The Tower of the Dream
    HOW wonderful are dreams! If they but be
    As some have said, the thin disjoining shades
    490 lines
  • Gray
    The loud, apt epithet, applying sure;
    The dim-drawn image, artfully obscure;
    14 lines
  • Poetry and Prose
    What is the true difference ’twixt Prose and Rhyme,
    Since both may be beautiful, both be sublime?
    3 lines
  • To ——
    LONG ere I knew thee—years of loveless days—
        A Shape would gather from my dreams and pour
    63 lines
  • Dreams of the Beloved
    HER IMAGE haunts me. Lo! I muse at even,
        And straight it gathers from the gloom to make
    13 lines
  • Emblems
    A STREAMLET is a bright and beauteous creature
        In some wide desert, where it keeps apart
    12 lines
  • The Creek of the Four Graves [Early Version]
    I VERSE a Settler’s Tale of the old times,—
    One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,
    289 lines
  • The Enquiry
    O SAY, if into sudden storm
        Some future cloud we may not shun
    40 lines
  • Eva Gray
    PALER, paler, day by day,
    Waxeth wordless Eva Gray,
    22 lines
  • The Master Mariner’s Song
    (Outward Bound)
    AWAY, away she plunges
    40 lines
  • The Tree of Liberty
    WE’LL PLANT a Tree of Liberty
            In the centre of the land,
    43 lines
  • The Flight of Peace
    TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,
    Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,
    27 lines
  • My Political Belief
    O LIBERTY, yet build thee an august
            And best abode in this most virgin clime;
    13 lines
  • The Bush Fire
    “’TIS nine o’clock:—to bed!” cried Egremont,
    Who with his youthful household (for ’tis now
    153 lines
  • Freedom in Faith
    HIS MIND alone is kingly who (though one)
        But venerates of present things or past
    13 lines
  • Morning
    HOW beautiful that earliest burst of light
        Which floodeth from the opening eyes of morn,
    13 lines
  • The Death Of Shelley
    Fit winding-sheet for thee
            Was the upheaving eternal sea,
    87 lines
  • Like Him Who Great reports Of Tilth Rejects
    Like him who great reports of tilth rejects,
    Because his own is a most barren field,
    7 lines
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