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Poems and Essays

By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton)
Roscoe, William Caldwell (1823-1859)

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MINOR POEMS.
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SONNETS.
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ELIDUKE, COUNT OF YVELOC.
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VIOLENZIA.
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ACT I.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
  
[The bubble of the silver-springing waves]

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[A presence! a glory celestial!]

A presence! a glory celestial!
O Eros, how great is thy gain!
Divinity walks the terrestrial;
Away, away, ye prophane!
Give me thy hand, O Delightful!
I too am the child of a god;
And the long-locked Apollo at nightfall
Will linger to kiss me, and nod.
Tread as becomes us in duty,
That mortals may know the divine;
For I am a prophet of Beauty,
And thou art the statue and shrine.
1846.
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