Author: Robert Southey

Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which […]

Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur’d scenes Beguile the lonely hour; I sit and gaze With lingering eye, till charmed FANCY […]

‘Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep As undisturb’d as Justice! but no more The wretched Slave, as on his native […]

Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o’er distant lands […]

Faint gleams the evening radiance thro’ the sky, The sober twilight dimly darkens round; In short quick circles the shrill […]

Fair is the rising morn when o’er the sky The orient sun expands his roseate ray, And lovely to the […]

MY days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where’er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds […]

Author Note: In Finland there is a Castle which is called the New Rock, moated about with a river of […]

(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil once more to wear The weeds of infamy from every […]

Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way Homeward thou hastest light of heart along, If heavily creep on one little […]

Go thou and seek the House of Prayer! I to the Woodlands wend, and there In lovely Nature see the […]

Hard by the road, where on that little mound The high grass rustles to the passing breeze, The child of […]

The summer and autumn had been so wet, That in winter the corn was growing yet, ‘Twas a piteous sight […]

The Raven croak’d as she sate at her meal, And the Old Woman knew what he said, And she grew […]

Argument. To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be A remedy for hopeless love, […]

Enter this cavern Stranger! the ascent Is long and steep and toilsome; here awhile Thou mayest repose thee, from the […]

The lilly cheek, the “purple light of love,” The liquid lustre of the melting eye, Mary! of these the Poet […]

Tho’ now no more the musing ear Delights to listen to the breeze That lingers o’er the green wood shade, […]

If thou didst feed on western plains of yore Or waddle wide with flat and flabby feet Over some Cambrian […]

This is the place where William’s kingly power Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel, Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless, […]