(1802-1876 / Scotland)

Poems of Thomas Aird

1. A Father's Curse: A Dream In Four Visions: Vision Fourth 9/23/2010
2. A Father's Curse: A Dream, In Four Versions: Version First 9/23/2010
3. A Father's Curse: A Dream, In Four Versions: Version Second 9/23/2010
4. A Father's Curse: A Dream, In Four Versions: Version Three 9/23/2010
5. A Winter Day: Evening 9/23/2010
6. A Winter Day: Morning 9/23/2010
7. A Winter Day: Noon And Afternoon 9/23/2010
8. An Evening Walk 9/23/2010
9. Belshazzar's Feast 9/23/2010
10. Byron 9/23/2010
11. Captive Of Fez: Canto V: The Fire 9/23/2010
12. Evening 9/23/2010
13. Fall of Babylon 9/23/2010
14. Fancy 9/23/2010
15. First Tale: Herodion and Azala: Part One 9/23/2010
16. First Tale: Herodion and Azala: Part Two 9/23/2010
17. Fitte The First 9/23/2010
18. Fitte The Second 9/23/2010
19. Fitte The Third 9/23/2010
20. Flowers of The Old Scottish Thistle: Flower The Second: Maude Of Raventree 9/23/2010

A Winter Day: Evening

'Tis now the silent night: the full-orbed moon
Hangs in the depth of blue; scarce shine the stars,
Drowned in her light; the valleys of the earth
Are filled and flooded with a silver haze.

Of yonder heavens unscaled, so vast remote,
What can man know or tell? Their milky mists
Of nebulæ, what be they? A luminous stuff,
As Fancy thinks, to curdle into worlds

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