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Le Fleuve Et laissant à son ire ouverte la barrière, Ainsi sur ce chasseur fit feu de son fusil : “ Membre orgueilleux de cette race errante Qui va de lieux en lieux promener l’épouvante, Et dont le grand exploit digne en tout d’un badaud Est d’assassiner un... Poet: Robert Southey	“My days among the dead” My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where’er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal, And seek... Poet: Robert Southey	The Holly-Tree O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist’s sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its... Poet: Robert Southey	The Inchcape Rock No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,— The ship was as still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape rock; So... Poet: Robert Southey
The Cataract of Lodore Described in “Rhymes for the Nursery” “HOW does the water Come down at Lodore!” My little boy asked me Thus, once on a time; And moreover he tasked me To tell him in rhyme. Anon at the... Poet: Robert Southey	The Battle of Blenheim [In Bavaria, August 13, 1704, between the English and Austrians on one side, under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, and the French and Bavarians on the other side, led by Marshal Tallart and the Elector of Bavaria. The latter party was defeated, and the schemes of Louis XIV. of... Poet: Robert Southey	The Well of St. Keyne “In the parish of St. Neots, Cornwall, is a well arched over with the robes of four kinds of trees,—withy, oak, elm, and ash,—and dedicated to St. Keyne. The reported virtue of the water is this, that, whether husband or wife first drink thereof, they get the mastery thereby.” —FULLER... Poet: Robert Southey