Robert Pollok was a Scottish poet best known for his work, The Course of Time, published in the year of his death. Wikipedia
“With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.”
Book viii, line 632.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.”
Book viii, line 616.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Book ii, line 270.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Book v, line 722.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane,"
And played familiar with his hoary locks.”
Book iv, line 689. Compare: "And I have loved thee, Ocean! … And laid my hand upon thy mane,—as I do here", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818), Canto IV, st. 184.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Book iv, line 684.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words,
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.”
Book iv, line 725.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
