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The complete poetical works of Thomas Campbell

Oxford edition: Edited, with notes by J. Logie Robertson
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)

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THE PLEASURES OF HOPE
 I. 
PART I
 II. 
PART II
  
[The Pleasures of Hope]
  
GERTRUDE OF WYOMING OR THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE
  
THEODRIC: A DOMESTIC TALE
  
THE PILGRIM OF GLENCOE
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POEMS HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY
  
O'CONNOR'S CHILD
  
REULLURA
  
LOCHIEL'S WARNING
  
LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER
  
GLENARA
  
DIRGE OF WALLACE
  
SONG
  
GILDEROY
  
LINES ON THE CAMP HILL NEAR HASTINGS
  
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE STATUE OF ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED STANZ-UNTERWALDEN
  
THE BRAVE ROLAND
  
ADELGITHA
  
THE SPECTRE BOAT
  
THE RITTER BANN
  
THE TURKISH LADY
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SONGS OF BATTLE
  
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
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BATTLE OF THE BALTIC
  
[Battle of the Baltic]
  
HOHENLINDEN
  
THE WOUNDED HUSSAR
  
THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
  
STANZAS
  
LINES
  
TROUBADOUR SONG
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
SONG OF THE GREEKS
  
THE DEATH-BOAT OF HELIGOLAND
  
STANZAS
  
NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH SAILOR
  
THE LAUNCH OF A FIRST-RATE
  
THE SPANISH PATRIOT'S SONG
  
STANZAS
  
ODE TO THE GERMANS
  
LINES ON POLAND
  
THE POWER OF RUSSIA
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  
LINES ON LEAVING A SCENE IN BAVARIA
  
THE LAST MAN
  
TO THE RAINBOW
  
A DREAM
  
EXILE OF ERIN
  
LINES
  
ODE TO WINTER
  
THE BEECH-TREE'S PETITION
  
HYMN ‘WHEN JORDAN HUSHED’
  
HALLOWED GROUND
  
FIELD FLOWERS
  
CORA LINN, OR THE FALLS OF CLYDE
  
THE PARROT
  
THE HARPER
  
LOVE AND MADNESS
  
THE ‘NAME UNKNOWN’
  
LINES
  
THE QUEEN OF THE NORTH
  
STANZAS TO PAINTING
  
IMPROMPTU
  
ODE
  
LINES TO A LADY
  
TO THE MEMORY OF FRANCIS HORNER
  
VALEDICTORY STANZAS
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND
  
LINES
  
TO THE INFANT SON OF MY DEAR FRIENDS
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT
  
THE CHERUBS
  
THE DEAD EAGLE
  
FRAGMENT OF AN ORATORIO, FROM THE BOOK OF JOB
  
BEN LOMOND
  
CHAUCER AND WINDSOR
  
A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR
  
MOONLIGHT
  
ON GETTING HOME THE PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE CHILD, SIX YEARS OLD
  
LINES
  
TO MY NIECE, MARY CAMPBELL
  
LINES ON MY NEW CHILD SWEETHEART
  
THE CHILD AND HIND
  
EPISTLE, FROM ALGIERS, TO HORACE SMITH
  
EXTRACTS FROM THE MOBIADE
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SONGS, CHIEFLY AMATORY
  
CAROLINE
  
ODE TO CONTENT
  
TO JUDITH
  
DRINKING-SONG OF MUNICH
  
ABSENCE
  
THE LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS
  
SONG
  
THE MAID'S REMONSTRANCE
  
SONG TO THE EVENING STAR
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
LINES TO JULIA M—
  
SONG ‘WHEN LOVE CAME FIRST’
  
FAREWELL TO LOVE
  
FLORINE
  
MARGARET AND DORA
  
TO A YOUNG LADY
  
EPIGRAM
  
VERSES ON THE QUEEN
  
SONG IN PRAISE OF MISS ISABELLA JOHNSTON, AFTERWARDS MRS. LAWS OF SPRINGWELL, THE POET'S COUSIN.
  
SONG
  
SENEX'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS YOUTHFUL IDOL
  
SONG
  
THE JILTED NYMPH
  
JEMIMA, ROSE, AND ELEANORE
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JUVENILIA
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FROM ANACREON
  
I
  
II
  
LINES ON HIS SISTER MARY
  
LINES ON SUMMER
  
DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE-DAY (MAY 1st) IN GLASGOW COLLEGE
  
LINES ON THE GLASGOW VOLUNTEERS,
  
VERSES ON MARIE ANTOINETTE
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ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
 I. 
PART I
 II. 
PART II
 III. 
PART III
  
ODE TO MUSIC
  
ELEGY
  
A FAREWELL TO EDINBURGH
  
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340

TO A YOUNG LADY

WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR HER ALBUM (1840)

An original something, fair maid, you would win me
To write—but how shall I begin?
For I fear I have nothing original in me—
Excepting Original Sin.
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