(31st March 1827) The Spirit of Dreams
The London Literary Gazette, 1827
“So many minds did gird their orbs with beams,
Tho' one did fling the fire;
Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams
Of high desire.”
The Poet (1830)
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