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Thomas Campbell Poems
- Lord Ullin's Daughter A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, ...
- River Of Life, The The more we live, more brief appear Our ...
- Freedom And Love How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at ...
- Hohenlinden On Linden, when the sun was low, All ...
- Love And Madness Hark ! from the battlements of yonder ...
- Hope At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow Spans with ...
- The River Of Life The more we live, more brief appear Our ...
Born in Glasgow, Thomas Campbell was the youngest son of Alexander Campbell, of the Campbells of Kirnan, Argyll. His father belonged to a Glasgow firm trading in Virginia, and lost his money in consequence of the American Revolutionary War. Campbell, who was educated at the Glasgow High School and University of Glasgow, won prizes for classics and for verse-writing. He spent the holidays as a tutor in the western Highlands. His poem Glenara and the ballad of Lord Ullin's Daughter owe their origin to a visit to Mull. In May 1797 he went to Edinburgh to attend lectures on law. He supported himself by private teaching and by writing, towards which he was helped by Dr Robert Anderson, the editor... more »
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''The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.''
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), Scottish poet. Life of Mrs. Siddons, ch. 18 (1834). Campell referred to the child actor "Master Betty," William Henry...
Lord Ullin's Daughter
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound,
Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry!
And I'll give thee a silver pound
To row us o'er the ferry!''--
``Now, who be ye, would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy weather?''
``O, I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,
And this, Lord Ullin's daughter.--
``And fast before her father's men
Three days we've fled together,
For should he find us in the glen,
My blood would stain the heather.
``His horsemen hard behind us ride;
Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride
When they have...
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Thomas, I do believe you have great potential! The way you set a picture in the audience's mind; it is absolutely exquisite.
When I first read his poem A Soldiers Dream I thought it was about WW1, but then realised the book it was in was published in 1834. But it could be ANY war.
evoking as it were-his leavng all behind-but now we read-his every known line-
evoking as it were-his every known line-as i read it now-looking for a sign-
He was a very good poet.