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Thomas Campbell
July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | A Scene On The Susquehana | Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies, | | 18 | 986 | | Absence | Tis not the loss of love's assurance, | | 16 | 1012 | | Adelgitha | The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, | | 16 | 640 | | Battle Of The Baltic | Of Nelson and the North | | 63 | 584 | | Benlomond | Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, | | 16 | 613 | | Exile Of Erin | There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, | | 40 | 1006 | | Freedom And Love | How delicious is the winning | | 24 | 604 | | Gertrude Of Wyoming | On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! | | 837 | 569 | | Glenara | O, heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, | | 32 | 603 | | Hohenlinden | On Linden, when the sun was low, | | 32 | 582 | | Hope | At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow | | 8 | 688 | | Hope Triumphant In Death | Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn | | 58 | 590 | | Lines - On The Camp Hill, Near Hastings | In the deep blue of eve, | | 24 | 964 | | Lines - Written On Visiting A Scene In Argyleshire | At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, | | 36 | 1047 | | Lochiel's Warning | Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the day | | 86 | 595 | | Lord Ullin's Daughter | A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, | | 56 | 650 | | Love And Madness | Hark! from the battlements of yonder tower | | 72 | 598 | | Maternal Hope | Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps, | | 37 | 555 | | Ode To The Memory Of Burns | Soul of the Poet! wheresoe'er, | | 90 | 551 | | Ode To Winter | When first the fiery-mantled sun | | 64 | 582 | | Song - Men Of England | Men of England! who inherit | | 28 | 1107 | | Song To The Evening Star | Star that bringest home the bee, | | 18 | 597 | | The Beech Tree's Petition | O leave this barren spot to me! | | 28 | 578 | | The Brave Roland | The brave Roland! the brave Roland! | | 36 | 1007 | | The Child And The Hind | Come, maids and matrons, to caress | | 80 | 577 | | The Dirge Of Wallace | When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, | | 53 | 995 | | The Last Man | All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, | | 80 | 1007 | | The Maid's Remonstrance | Never wedding, ever wooing, | | 18 | 977 | | The Pleasures Of Hope: Part 1 | At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow | | 604 | 984 | | The River Of Life | The more we live, more brief appear | | 24 | 1029 | | The Soldier's Dream | Our bugles sang truce; for the night-cloud had lowered, | | 24 | 988 | | The Traveller | Apart there was a deep untrodden grot, | | 72 | 978 | | To The Rainbow | Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky | | 52 | 1011 | | Ye Mariners Of England | Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, | | 40 | 987 |
About:
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. In 1799, he wrote 'The Pleasures of Hope' a traditional 18th century survey in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs- Ye Mariners of England, The Soldier's Dream, Hohen Linde and in 1801, The Battle of Baltic.
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