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Robert Southey
1774 - 1843
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Inscription III. For A Cavern That Overlooks The River Avon
Enter this cavern Stranger! the ascent / Is long and steep and toilsome; here awhile / Thou mayest repose thee, from the noontide heat
Inscription IV. For the Apartment in CHEPSTOW-CASTLE where HENRY MARTEN the Regicide was imprisoned Thirty Years
For thirty years secluded from mankind, / Here Marten linger'd. Often have these walls / Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread
Inscription V. For A Monument At Silbury-Hill
This mound in some remote and dateless day / Rear'd o'er a Chieftain of the Age [1] of Hills, / May here detain thee Traveller! from thy road
Inscription VI. For A Monument In The New Forest
This is the place where William's kingly power / Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel, / Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless,
Inscription VII. For A Tablet On The Banks Of A Stream
Stranger! awhile upon this mossy bank / Recline thee. If the Sun rides high, the breeze, / That loves to ripple o'er the rivulet,
Inscription VIII. For The Cenotaph At Ermenonville
STRANGER! the MAN OF NATURE lies not here: / Enshrin'd far distant by his [1] rival's side / His relics rest, there by the giddy throng
Jaspar
Jaspar was poor, and want and vice / Had made his heart like stone, / And Jaspar look'd with envious eyes
John, Samuel, & Richard
(Time, Evening.) / JOHN. / 'Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away,
Lord William
No eye beheld when William plunged / Young Edmund in the stream, / No human ear but William's heard
March To Moscow, The
The Emperor Nap he would set off / On a summer excursion to Moscow; / The fields were green and the sky was blue,
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