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The Legend of Genevieve

with other tales and poems. By Delta [i.e. David Macbeth Moir]
Moir, D. M. (1798-1851)

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LEGEND OF GENEVIEVE.
  
SIR ETHELRID.
  
ELLEN, THE FORSAKEN.
  
MARY'S MOUNT.
  
NAPOLEON'S ADDRESS TO THE STATUE OF HIS SON.
  
THE GREEK TO HIS SWORD.
  
SPANISH PATRIOTIC ODE.
  
THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE.
  
THE RUINED CASTLE.
  
THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL.
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF KOSCIUSKO.
  
STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.
  
ON ANDREW HOFFER.
  
TO HAYDON.
  
LOCHLEVEN CASTLE.
  
SCENE ON THE GRAMPIANS.
  
THE MOSSY SEAT.
  
THE EVENING LANDSCAPE.
  
FEMALE DECAY.
  
EVENTIDE.
  
THE VISION.
  
BALLAD STANZAS.
  
STANZAS. ON THIS GREEN BANK, &c.
  
THE CONFESSION.
  
SONNET. TO LOVE.
  
ODE ON THE OLDEN TIME.
  
THE LEAFLESS TREE.
  
THE MIDNIGHT REVERIE.
  
THE SEPTEMBER FOREST.
  
THE SILENT EVE.
  
THE WILD ROSE.
  
THE MANIAC'S PLAINT.
  
A MOTHER'S DIRGE OVER HER CHILD.
  
VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
  
THE NOVEMBER GARDEN.
  
THE ARBOUR.
  
SOLITUDE.
  
RURAL SECLUSION.
  
INCH-KEITH BEACON.
  
EVENING RETROSPECT.
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SONNETS.
 I. 
No. I. RAINY MORNING.
 III. 
No. III. DAYS OF YORE.
 IV. 
No. IV. THE SCHOOL BANK.
 V. 
No. V. TO THE EVENING STAR.
 VI. 
No. VI. DECAY OF CHIVALRY.
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BALLADS.
 I. 
No. I. SIR HAROLD.
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No. II. ADELINE.
 III. 
No. III. FALSE FLORENCE.
 IV. 
No. IV. THE BARD'S WISH.
 V. 
No. V. FITZTRAVER'S GRAVE.
 VI. 
No. VI. THE SPECTRE'S VISIT.
  
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE WORLD.

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LOCHLEVEN CASTLE.

Un arbre, le dernier adieu de la vegetation, est devant sa porte; et c'est â l'ombre de son pale feuillage que les voyageurs ont coutume d'attendre.
Corinne.

A light breeze curls the Leven's silver tide,
Spread like a sheet around yon rocky isle,
Whereon, in ruin'd hoariness, a pile
Uprears its massy walls in castled pride;
The sunbeams, shooting o'er a morning cloud,
Fall on it, and display the shrivell'd trees,
Blasted and tall, their thin leaves in the breeze
Fluttering, like plumes above a funeral shroud:
The blue-wing'd sea-gull, with a wailing shriek,
Sails round it; and, on high, the sable rook
Perches in peace:—no more 'tis doom'd to brook
Man's domination; but with aspect meek,
Crumbles to ruin, year, and month, and week,
Voiceless, and with a melancholy look!
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