Quotes from work

The Bard

“Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”

“Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear;
They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,
Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.”

“Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame,
With many a foul and midnight murder fed.”

“To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.”

“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!”

“Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly riding o'er the azure realm
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,
That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.”

“Weave the warp, and weave the woof,
The winding sheet of Edward's race.
Give ample room and verge enough,
The Characters of hell to trace.”

“The verse adorn again
Fierce War, and faithful Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.”

“Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail,
Nor even thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail
To save thy secret soul from nightly fears,
From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!”