Felicia Hemans

“ When holy strains, from life's pure fount which sprung,
Breath'd with deep rev'rence, falter on its tongue.
And such shall be thy music! when the cells,
Where Guilt, the child of hopless Misery dwells,
(And, to wild strength by desperation wrought,
In silence broods o'er many a fearful thought.) ”

“ Which folds the plain, as with a glimmering shroud.
And thou, pale Night-Queen! here thy beams
Are not as those the shepherd loves,
Nor look they down on shining streams,
By Naiads haunted, in the laurel-groves ”

“ Bade the red cairn-fires blaze from every height † [2] .
Like battle-signals, whose unearthly gleams
Threw o'er the Desart's hundred hills and streams
A savage grandeur; while the starry skies
Rung with the peal of mystic harmonies,
As the loud harp its deep-ton'd hymns sent forth
To the storm-ruling Powers, the War-Gods of the North.
⁠*⁠*⁠*⁠*⁠*⁠*
Prisoners of War confined on Dartmoor. ”

“ As we have reason to believe that this successful "Prize Poem" will soon be given to the world, along with other pieces from the same delightful pen, we shall reserve, till their appearance, what we would otherwise have been inclined to say of the incomparable author of "The Sceptic," "Wallace," and "The Wife of Hasdrubal." ”

“ In the concentred thunders of the Past.
And there, perchance, some long-bewilder'd mind
Torn from its lowly sphere, its path consin'd,
Of village duties, in the Alpine glen,
Where Nature cast its lot, 'midst peasant men ”

“ They had no poet, and they died.
Pope's Imitat..
↑ † In some of the Druidical festivals, fires were lighted on all the cairns and eminences around, by priests carrying sacred torches. All the household fires were previously extinguished, and those who were thought worthy of such a privilege were allowed to re-light them with a brand kindled at the consecrated cairn-fire. ”