The Pilgrim of Glencoe: And Other Poems |
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Algiers Argyle ask'd bade banners battle of Sempach beneath bindweed blood BOOK OF JOB Boulogne Breadalbane bright Britannia's British brow burial-ground Campbell Chance snatch'd Chaucer Cheer up-cheer up-our Cherubim CHILD AND HIND CHORUS clan clan Macdonald courted dear death deep dirk dread eagle Ev'n father's fawns feigning Royalty's command female deer flowers foes forest flowers glow guest hail'd hand heart Heaven heritable heritable jurisdictions Highland superstition hungry grass Jacobite jilted jurisdictions kelpie king land legends Ronald scorn'd-ghost live look'd Macdonald Mark'd massacre mind mock morn ne'er never Norman o'er ORATORIO pass'd patriot PILGRIM OF GLENCOE plough'd the stormy poor possess'd pride rock roll'd round Scotland second-sight Sent forth exterminating shalt shine sight soldier soul stewartries stood thee thine thou tradition Twas up-cheer up-our course watch'd wept Whilst wild Wilhelm William III WINKELRIED Witch legends Ronald WOO'D AND MARRIED wraith
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Page 64 - With bright wings, to the bleak domain Of Mulla's shore. To spicy groves where he had won His plumage of resplendent hue, His native fruits, and skies, and sun, He bade adieu. For these he changed the smoke of turf, A heathery land and misty sky, And turned on rocks and raging surf His golden eye.
Page 55 - But Frenchmen caught him on the beach, His little argo sorely jeering ; Till tidings of him chanced to reach Napoleon's hearing. With folded arms Napoleon stood, Serene alike in peace and danger; And, in his wonted attitude, Addressed the stranger : — " Rash man, that wouldst yon channel pass On twigs and staves so rudely fashioned ; Thy heart with some sweet British lass Must be impassioned.
Page 52 - Twas when his banners at Boulogne Armed in our Island every freeman, His navy chanced to capture one Poor British seaman. They suffered him, I know not how, Unprisoned on the shore to roam ; And aye was bent his longing brow On England's home. His eye, methinks, pursued the flight Of birds to Britain half-way over With envy; they could reach the white Dear cliffs of Dover.
Page 114 - ... else, except the vision, as long as it continues; and then they appear pensive or jovial, according to the object which was represented to them.
Page 53 - A stormy midnight watch, he thought, Than this sojourn would have been dearer, If but the storm his vessel brought To England nearer. At last, when care had banished sleep, He saw one morning — dreaming...
Page 56 - I have no sweetheart,' said the lad; 'But — absent long from one another — Great was the longing that I had To see my mother. ' 'And so thou shalt, ' Napoleon said, 'Ye've both my favour fairly won; A noble mother must have bred So brave a son. ' He gave the tar a piece of gold, And, with a flag of truce, commanded He should be shipped to England Old, And safely landed. Our sailor oft could scantly shift To find a dinner, plain and hearty; But never changed the coin and gift Of Bonaparte.
Page 53 - Unprisoned on the shore to roam ; And aye was bent his longing brow On England's home. His eye, methinks, pursued the flight Of birds to Britain half-way over With envy ; they could reach the white Dear cliffs of Dover. A stormy midnight watch, he thought, Than this sojourn would have been dearer, If but the storm his vessel brought To England nearer. At last, when care had...
Page 114 - This receptive faculty, for power it cannot be called, is neither voluntary nor constant. The appearances have no dependence upon choice ; they cannot be summoned, detained, or recalled. The impression is sudden, and the effect often painful. By the term "second sight'' seems to be meant a mode of seeing, superadded to that which Nature generally bestows. In the Erse it is called Taisch, which signifies likewise a spectre or a vision.
Page 54 - An empty hogshead from the deep Come shoreward floating; He hid it in a cave, and wrought The live-long day laborious; lurking Until he launch'da tiny boat By mighty working.
Page 114 - Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present. A man on a journey far from home falls from his horse ; another, who is perhaps at work about the house, sees him bleeding on the ground, commonly with a landscape of the place where the accident befalls him.