When Sol in shades of night was lost,

And all was fast asleep,

In glided Townley's murder'd ghost,

And stood at William's feet.


Infernal wretch, away! he cried,

And view the mangled shade,

Who on...

Poet:

The roving breezes come and go, the reed beds sweep pand sway,

The sleepy river murmurs low, and loiters on its way,

It is the land of lots o' time along the Castlereagh.


The old man's son had left the farm, he found it dull and slow,...

Poet:

Tried always and Condemned by thee

Permit me this reprieve

That dying I may earn the look

For which I cease to live —

Poet:
Poet:

Triumph — may be of several kinds —

There's Triumph in the Room

When that Old Imperator — Death —

By Faith

Poet:

How many times these low feet staggered,

Only the soldered mouth can tell ;

Try !  can you stir the awful rivet ?

Try !  can you lift the hasps of steel ?
...

Poet:

Truth — is as old as God —

His Twin identity

And will endure as long as He

A Co-Eternity —


And perish on the Day

Himself is borne away

From Mansion of the Universe

A lifeless Deity....

Poet:

“'Twas the new moon!

Since then I waited—

And lo! to-night!

[I have my reward!].”[1]

Poet:

Twice had Summer her fair Verdure

Proffered to the Plain —

Twice a Winter's silver Fracture

On the Rivers been —


Two full Autumns for the Squirrel

Bounteous prepared —

Nature, Had'st thou not a Berry...

Poet:

Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears,
Hither I come to seek the spring,

And at mine eyes, and at mine ears,
Receive such balms as else...

Poet: