The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell |
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FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY:
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FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY:
TRANSLATED FROM THE WORKS OF ELMAR, BISHOP OF SELSEIE.
Now may all hell open to gulp thee down,Whilst azure darkness, mingled with the day,
Shews light on darkened pains to be more roune;
Oh! mayëst thou die living deaths for aye!
May floods of sulphur bear thy sprite anon
Sinking to depths of woe! May lightning-brands
Tremble upon thy pain-devoted crown,
And singe thine all-in-vain-imploring hands!
May all the woes that Goddès wrath can send
Upon thy head alight, and there their fury spend!
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