Kilda's bridal, and other poems1845 |
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BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES bark beneath billows blest bliss breast bright brow Caithness CANTO chieftain Colonsay dance dark DAVID BOGUE dear deep dream dreary e'en echo ev'ry farewell fear fleet FLEET STREET fling floating fondly gale gaze gentle gone Graystiel hall hand hark hear heart hour hush'd Iona island Islay isle KILDA'S BRIDAL Knight of Ulva Leila light linger link'd lonely Lord Durie Lord Durie's maid maiden merry mighty minstrel MONODY ne'er Neath never NOTE o'er ocean's once POEMS pow'r Ranag's rest sail scarce Scotland seem'd shore sigh silence Skye sleep smile soft softly song sorrow soul sound South Uist spirit St Kilda's Staffa stood strand sweeps swelling tears tell tempests thee there's thine THOMAS CAMPBELL thou thought thy sire tide trembling Twas Ulva's knight vassal waft wave weary ween weep WESTERN ISLES word-farewell yonder youth
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Strana 118 - She is like some tender tree, the pride and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted and perished away, it falls even in the stillness of the forest; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it...
Strana 118 - How many bright eyes grow dim ; how many soft cheeks grow pale ; how many lovely forms fade away into the tomb, and none can tell the cause that blighted their loveliness ! As the dove will clasp its wings to its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is preying on its vitals, so it is the nature of woman to hide from the world the pangs of wounded affection.
Strana 115 - This, however, was so misconstrued by the sea lady, that in revenge for his treatment of her, she punished the whole island, by covering it with a mist; so that all who attempted to carry on any commerce with it, either never arrived at it, but wandered up and down the sea, or were on a sudden wrecked upon its cliffs.
Strana 143 - Ye, who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell; Farewell!
Strana 118 - ... the sound of bells, varying as in human rejoicings. All on board came to listen, and were convinced; but the phenomenon was most mysterious. Months afterwards it was ascertained, that at the time of observation the bells of the city of St. Salvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festival...
Strana 116 - ... declaring that they should never again be washed or used till her death, when they should be employed as her winding-sheet. She was afterwards induced to divide this valuable memorial of her distinguished guest with the amiable Flora, who, it may be mentioned, many years afterwards carried her moiety of it to America. In the course of her strangely adventurous life, and though often reduced to situations of the greatest distress by the republican insurgents, she never parted with it till the...
Strana 126 - Tis over; and her lovely cheek is now On her hard pillow — there, alas, to be Nightly, through many and many a dreary hour, Wan, often wet with tears, and (ere at length Her place is empty, and another comes) In anguish, in the ghastliness of death ; Hers never more to leave those mournful walls, Even on her bier.
Strana 116 - Kingsburgh, under whose roof he had been sheltered and treated with the greatest kindness, she went up stairs to his bedroom, and folded the sheets in which he had lain, declaring that they should never again be washed or used till her death, when they should be employed as her winding-sheet. She was afterwards induced to divide this valuable memorial of her distinguished guest with the amiable Flora, who, it may be mentioned, many years afterwards, carried her moiety of it to America. In the course...
Strana 114 - There is a tradition in the Isle of Man, that a mermaid, becoming enamoured of a young man of extraordinary beauty, took an opportunity of meeting him one day as he walked on the shore, and opened her passion to him, but was received with a coldness, occasioned by his horror and surprise at her appearance. This, however, was so misconstrued by the sea-lady, that...
Strana 118 - ... phenomenon was most mysterious. Months afterwards it was ascertained, that at the time of observation the bells of the city of St. Salvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festival : their sound, therefore, favoured by a gentle wind, had travelled over perhaps 100 miles of smooth water, and had been brought to a focus by the concave sail in the particular situation on the deck where it was listened to.