Charles Tompson Poems

I.
Gay blooming goddess of the flow'ry year,
Enchanting Spring, thou youth of nature, hail!
What artless beauties in thy train appear,
What balmy fragrance swells th' ambrosial gale,
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Hast thou not seen some captive bird
Impatient flit within the wire,
And seek the bliss of liberty,
With anxious fond desire?
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It flies—the gilded vessel flies,
That wafts my Daphnis o'er the main,
A lovelier sun, to distant isles
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A Song.

AIR, “JESSIE O' DUMBLAIN.’
Calm Eve hangs her shades o'er yon wood-crowned blue mountain,
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When first above the briny surge
Australia reared her tow'ring crest,
The roaring gales confounded fle
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The Late Much Lamented Governor of Australia

What mournful cause, on every sorrowing brow,
Sheds the dark poppies of corroding woe,
Shrouds every thought in melancholy deep,
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From this dull portal (whence th' expectant eye
Surveys the partial, forest-bounded sky,
Roves o'er a portion of neglected ground,
With ruin'd huts and fences scatter'd round,
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“With cheerless gloom and storm-portending clouds
Rude Winter brushes from Antarctic wilds,
The front of Heav'n, in murky vapors shrouds,
Then bursts his sounding freightage o'er our isles
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Written on a Summer Evening.
Now sinks the sun behind the western hills,
And balmy Eve assumes her placid sway,
Soft whispers murmur from the tinkling rills
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In Imitation of Cowper

Dark lowered the sky, the rumbling thunder roll'd,
And light'ning's vivid flash, athwart the gloom,
Appalling, seemed to burst the valt of heaven;
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