Category: Thomas Campbell

Hohenlinden 1 On Linden, when the sun was low, 2 All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, 3 And dark as winter was the flow 4…

The Battle Of The Baltic Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day’s renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of…

Hope At summer eve, when heaven’s aerial bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose…

Ye Mariners Of England 1 Ye Mariners of England 2 That guard our native seas, 3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 4 The…

Song To The Evening Star 1 Star that bringest home the bee, 2 And sett’st the weary labourer free! 3 If any star shed peace,…

Glenara O, heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail? ‘Tis the chief of Glenara…

To The Rainbow Triumphal arch, that fill’st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art;…

River Of Life, The The more we live, more brief appear Our life’s succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like…

Lochiel’s Warning Wizard. – Lochiel. Wizard. – Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the day When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array! For a field…

The Pleasures Of Hope (Excerpt) PART I (excerpt) … Where barbarous hordes on Scythian mountains roam, Truth, Mercy, Freedom, yet shall find a home; Where’er…

Ode To Winter When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four the Seasons…

Benlomond Hadst thou a genius on thy peak, What tales, white-headed Ben, Could’st thou of ancient ages speak, That mock th’ historian’s pen! Thy long…

The River Of Life The more we live, more brief appear Our life’s succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like…

Maternal Hope Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps, Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps: She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles…

Freedom And Love How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love’s beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there’s no…

The Last Man All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a…

Ode To The Memory Of Burns Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe’er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy…

Battle Of The Baltic, The Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day’s renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of…

To The Evening Star Star that bringest home the bee, And sett’st the weary labourer free! If any star shed peace, ‘tis thou, That send…

Love And Madness Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear visions of…

Gertrude Of Wyoming PART I On Susquehanna’s side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin’d wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring, Of…

The Exile Of Erin There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill: For…

Lord Ullin’s Daughter A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, “Boatman, do not tarry! And I’ll give thee a silver pound To row us o’er…

Adelgitha The ordeal’s fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her fame. She…

The Dirge Of Wallace When Scotland’s great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T’ was Edward, the cruel, had…

Last Man, The All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a…

The Child And The Hind Come, maids and matrons, to caress Wiesbaden’s gentle hind; And, smiling, deck its glossy neck With forest flowers entwined. ‘Twas…

Hope Triumphant In Death Unfading Hope! when life’s last embers burn – When soul to soul, and dust to dust return, Heaven to thy charge…

The Beech Tree’s Petition O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! Though bush or floweret never grow My dark…

The ordeal’s fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her fame. She wept,…