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“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”

Robert Southey

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.

God , Youth , Age

“Wild dreams! but such
As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile
From man with-held, even to the latter days
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.”

Robert Southey

For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.

Dreams , Hope , Christ

“Oh, when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An over-payment of delight?”

Robert Southey

Canto X, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)

Pain , Fear , Tear , Night

“From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little, snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.”

Robert Southey

St. 1.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

World

“My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,
Where'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom I converse day by day.”

Robert Southey

My Days Among the Dead Are Past http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1957.html, st. 1 (1818).

Past , Dead