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Thomas Campbell
July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844
Poetry Listing
Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Scene On The Susquehana | Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies, | | 18 | 1251 | | 2: | Absence | Tis not the loss of love's assurance, | | 16 | 1347 | | 3: | Adelgitha | The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, | | 16 | 889 | | 4: | Battle Of The Baltic | Of Nelson and the North | | 63 | 850 | | 5: | Benlomond | Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, | | 16 | 949 | | 6: | Exile Of Erin | There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, | | 40 | 1255 | | 7: | Freedom And Love | How delicious is the winning | | 24 | 925 | | 8: | Gertrude Of Wyoming | On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! | | 837 | 801 | | 9: | Glenara | O, heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, | | 32 | 923 | | 10: | Hohenlinden | On Linden, when the sun was low, | | 32 | 824 | | 11: | Hope | At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow | | 8 | 1034 | | 12: | Hope Triumphant In Death | Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn | | 58 | 817 | | 13: | Lines - On The Camp Hill, Near Hastings | In the deep blue of eve, | | 24 | 1341 | | 14: | Lines - Written On Visiting A Scene In Argyleshire | At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, | | 36 | 1281 | | 15: | Lochiel's Warning | Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the day | | 86 | 865 | | 16: | Lord Ullin's Daughter | A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, | | 56 | 941 | | 17: | Love And Madness | Hark! from the battlements of yonder tower | | 72 | 854 | | 18: | Maternal Hope | Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps, | | 37 | 826 | | 19: | Ode To The Memory Of Burns | Soul of the Poet! wheresoe'er, | | 90 | 890 | | 20: | Ode To Winter | When first the fiery-mantled sun | | 64 | 818 | | 21: | Song - Men Of England | Men of England! who inherit | | 28 | 1414 | | 22: | Song To The Evening Star | Star that bringest home the bee, | | 18 | 848 | | 23: | The Beech Tree's Petition | O leave this barren spot to me! | | 28 | 840 | | 24: | The Brave Roland | The brave Roland! the brave Roland! | | 36 | 1275 | | 25: | The Child And The Hind | Come, maids and matrons, to caress | | 80 | 853 | | 26: | The Dirge Of Wallace | When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, | | 53 | 1265 | | 27: | The Last Man | All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, | | 80 | 1345 | | 28: | The Maid's Remonstrance | Never wedding, ever wooing, | | 18 | 1255 | | 29: | The Pleasures Of Hope: Part 1 | At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow | | 604 | 1232 | | 30: | The River Of Life | The more we live, more brief appear | | 24 | 1310 | | 31: | The Soldier's Dream | Our bugles sang truce; for the night-cloud had lowered, | | 24 | 1287 | | 32: | The Traveller | Apart there was a deep untrodden grot, | | 72 | 1241 | | 33: | To The Rainbow | Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky | | 52 | 1295 | | 34: | Ye Mariners Of England | Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, | | 40 | 1288 |
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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