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Poems

By William Bell Scott

Scott, William Bell (1811-1890)

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I.

I.Age—Eight Years.

II.

II.Age—Sixteen Years.

III.

III.Age—Seventeen.

IV.

IV.Age—Eighteen.

V.

V.Age—Nineteen.

VI.

VII.

VII.Age—Twenty.

VIII.

VIII.Age—Twenty-one.

IX.

IX.Age—Twenty-three.

X.

XI.

XI.Age—Twenty-four.

XII.

XIII.

XIII.Age—Twenty-five.

XIV.

XV.

XV.Age—Unknown.

THE ARTIST'S BIRTHPLACE.

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TO THE GREAT SPHYNX:

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I.

II.

III.

IV.

A RHYME OF LIFE.

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POEMS OCCASIONALLY ADDRESSED TO “MIGNON.”

I.

I.A DREAM OF LOVE.

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II.

II.A WATCHMAN-SONG.

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2.

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III.

III.LINES SENT WITH SPENCER'S “FAERY QUEEN.”

IV.

IV.RHYME TO THE DEPARTING YEAR.

VI.

VI.A COMPLIMENT TO MIGNON SINGING.

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FOURTEEN SONNETS.

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II.

II.TO DAVID SCOTT,

V.

V.ON READING HAYDON'S AUTOBIOGRAHY.

VI.

VI.WORDSWORTH. ON READING THE MEMOIRS BY DR. C. WORDSWORTH.

VII.

VII.WORDSWORTH.

VIII.

VIII.WORDSWORTH.

IX.

IX.THE FIRE AT EVENING.

X.

X.THE WIND IN THE CASEMENT:

XII.

XII.TO THE MUSICIAN.

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TEN SONNETS EMBODYING RELIGIOUS IDEAS.

III.

III.LIFE ITS OWN GUIDE.

IV.

IV.LIFE WITHOUT FAITH.

V.

V.RESTORATION OF BELIEF.

VI.

VI.ON THE AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY.

VII.

VII.PEBBLES IN THE STREAM.

IX.

IX.GOD AND THE SOUL.

X.

X.SPIRITUAL LIFE.

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I.

The silence of a moonless night
The path of time doth follow: moonless night
And starless tracks man's footsteps, with dim forms
Still crumbling back into the caverned past.
And thou the strangest legend wrought in stone
The huge rock-spectre of an earlier world,
Within that terrible darkness standest still,
A mystery now as then.
I shut my ears and hear
Through the far centuries the clang
Of Coptic hammers round thy limbs half-freed:
Slaves toiling in their blindness, slaves of fate,

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And slaves of man! what mystic mutterings,
What inspiration or what sad resolve,—
Those laborers cheer that know not what they do?