fl&%./. 75.313 X THE POETICAL WORKS OP THOMAS CAMPBELL. THE POETICAL WORKS THOMAS CAMPBELL. WITH NOTES, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, BY THE EEV. W. A. HILL, M.A., Of Worcester College Oxford. ILLUSTRATED BY THIRTY-SEVEN WOOD-CUTS. FROM DESIGNS BY HARLEY. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET. NEW YORK: 56, WALKER STREET. 1863. LONDON BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS- o. B «22-J*NQ? % '9 74 ^/v a PREFACE. The Editor of this new edition of “ Campbell's Poetical Works” has felt great diffidence, almost reluctance, to offer any obseryations upon the productions of a bard so well known and venerated—one who has so long been admitted “ a poet of the first order of genius, and a critic of competent judgment and taste.” He has, however, been emboldened to present to the public a few notes to some of the chief poems, com- pressed as much as possible, prefaced by a short Biographical Sketch of their Author, (portions of it in the Poet’s own words,) from a belief that those who have rejoiced in the soft breathings of Mr. Campbell’s lyre, will not fail to experience some in- crease of pleasure in ascertaining under what circum- stances those effusions which have been recurred to again and again, with fresh and ever-increasing zest, VI PREFACE. first suggested themselves to his mind ; and, further, that the force of his melody of diction and purity of style will be heightened by a knowledge of the sweet- ness of his natural disposition, the singular gentleness and modesty of his whole character, and the realisa- tion that he “liked to be loved,” and had a most affectionate heart. The Editor acknowledges with pleasure the kind- ness of Dr. Beattie in allowing him permission both to consult and make extracts from a work recently published, entitled “ Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, edited by William Beattie, M.D., one of his Executors." W. A. H. South Kennington, London, Avgusty 1851. CONTENTS, 4 Paok Pleasures of Hope. —Part I. 1 — Part II 29 Theodric : a Domestic Tale 55 Martial Elegy.—From the Greek of Tyrtseus 81 Song of Hyhrias the Cretan . S3 Fragment.—From the Greek of Aleman S3 Specimens of Translations from Medea . ... 81 Speech of the Chorus, in the same Tragedy . 85 O’Connor’s Child; or, “ The Flower of Love lies Bleeding ” 90 Lochiel’s Warning .... 102 Te Mariners of England : a Naval Ode 108 Battle of the Baltic ... Ill Hohenlinden 120 Glenara 123 Exile of Erin 125 viii CONTENTS. Tags Lord Ullin’a Daughter 131 Ode to the Memory of Emms 135 Lines written on visiting a Scene in Argyleshire .... 130 The Soldier’s Dream 142 To the Rainbow 144 The Last Man 147 A Dream . 152 Valedictory Stanzas to J. P. Kemble, Esq. 156 Gertrude of Wyoming.—Part I. 161 Part II 177 — PartHI 190 ines written at the request of the Highland Society in London, when met to commemorate the 21st of March, the Day of Victory in Egypt 215 Stanzas to the Memory of the Spanish Patriots latest killed in resisting the Regency and the Duke of Angouleme 218 Song of the Greeks 221 Ode to Winter 224 Lines spoken by Mrs. Bartley at Drury-Lane Theatre, on the first opening of the House after the Death of the Princess Charlotte, 1817 . 227 Lines on the Grave of a Suicide 231 Reullura 232 The Turkish Lady 241 The Brave Roland 243 CONTENTS. IX Page The Spectre Boat: a Ballad 24 6 The Loyer to his Mistress on her Birth-Bay . 240 Song—“ Oh, how hard ” 250 Adelgitha 251 lines on receiving a Seal with the Campbell Crest, from K. M—, before her Marriage 252 Gilderoy 255 Stanzas on the threatened Invasion, 1803 257 The Ritter Bann . 259 Song—“ Men of England ” 268 Song—“ Drink ye to her ” 269 The Harper 270 The Wounded Hussar 272 Love and Madness: an Elegy 275 Hallowed Ground . ' . 279 Song—“ Withdraw not yet ” 283 Caroline.—Part 1 284 Part II. To the Evening Star 286 The Beech Tree’s Petition ' . 280 Field Flowers . 291 Song—“ To the Evening Star ” ........ 293 Stanzas to Painting, .... 294 The Maid’s Remonstrance 297 Absence 298 X CONTENTS. Pag* Lines inscribed on the Monument erected by the Widow of Admiral Sir G. Campbell, K.C.B., to the Memory of her Husband # # 299 Stanzas on the Battle of Navarino 300 Lines on revisiting a Scottish River 302 The “Name Unknown in imitation of Klopstock . „ 304 Farewell to Love Lines on the Camp Hill, near Hastings 307 Lines on Poland 309 A Thought suggested by the New Year . .... 316 Song—“ How delicious is the winning ” 317 Margaret and Dora The Power of Russia . 319 Lines on leaving a Scene in Bavaria 324 The Death-Boat of Heligoland Song—“When Love came first to Earth ” 333 Song—“ Earl March looked on his Dying Child ” . 334 Song—“ When Napoleon was flying ” 335 Lines to Julia M , sent with a copy of the Author’s Poems. 336 Drinking Song of Munich 337 Lines on the Departure of Emigrants for New South Wales. 338 Lines on revisiting Cathcart 343 The Cherubs.—Suggested by an Apologue in the Works of Franklin CONTENTS. XI Paoe Senex’s Soliloquy on his youthful Idol 348 To Sir Francis Burdett, on his Speech delivered in Parliament, August ?, 1832, respecting the Foreign Policy of Great Britain . 349 Ode to the Germans 351 Lines on a Picture of a Girl in the attitude of Prayer, by the Artist Gruse, in the possession of Lady Stepney . 353 Lines on the View from St. Leonard’s 355 The Dead Eagle.—Written at Oran . 361 Song—“ To Love in my Heart ” 36? Lines written in a blank leaf of La Perouse’s Voyages . 368 The Pilgrim of Glencoe . 371 Napoleon and the British Sailor 396 Benlomond 399 The Child and Hind 400 The Jilted Nymph 406 On getting home the Portrait of a Female Child . 408 The Parrot . 410 Song of the Colonists departing for New Zealand . 412 Moonlight 413 Song on our Queen 415 Cora Linn, or the Falls of the Clyde 416 Chaucer and Windsor 418 Lines suggested by the Statue of Arnold von Winkelried . 419 xii CONTENTS. Page To the United States of North America . 420 Lines on my new Child-sweetheart . 421 The Launch of a First-rate . .423 To a Young Lady .... 424 Epistle, from Algiers, to Horace Smith . 425 Fragment of an Oratorio . 42S To my Niece, Mary Campbell. 431 Notes . 433 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS CAMPBELL. “ Qu?eres & nobis, Gracche, cur tantopere hoc homine delectemur? quia suppeditat nobis ubi et animus ex hoc forensi strepitu reflciatur, et aures convicio defessae conquiescant. An tu existimas, aut suppetere nobis posse, quod quotidie dicamus in tanta yarietate rerum, nisi animos nostros doctrine excolamus : aut ferre animos tantam posse contentionem nisi eos doctrine eadem relaxemus ? ”—M. T. Ciceronis Oratio pro Archid Poetd, cap. 6.—Bn. * “ I sit down to take a retrospect of my life. Why should the task make me sad! Have I not many blessings and many friends? Yes ! thanks to God, very many. But life, when we look back upon it, has also many painful recollections; and pain, when viewed either as past or to come, makes a deeper impres- sion on the imagination than either the past pleasures or com- forts of life that can be recalled. In the remembrance of our lives we are like unfair tradesmen, who omit a part of their debts in their balance of accounts. We resign ourselves to forget—myriads of the easy, tranquil, or even pleasing though anxious hours of our being; but for an hour of pain we make a large charge in our estimate of compared misery and happiness. I do not think that it is a fair argument to urge against indi- vidual-comparative happiness that because most of us if the question were put—Would you wish to spend your life over Retrospect of life, written by himself. XIV BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH again?—would probably say—No, I thank you; I have had enough of it. This is just as if you were to ask me, after I had finished a narrative book that had much amused me—How should you like to read it over again ? Why, possibly, unless the book were Robinson Crusoe, I should say—No, I cannot now read the book with the same curiosity as before. Even so it is with life. Its evils are sweetened by hope, novelty, and curiosity. How can we imagine ourselves animated by these feelings a second time if we were to enter on a second existence ? But why, it may be asked, if the retrospect of life be in the least sad, should I sit down to the task of noting its memoranda ? Why, unimportant as I am, I know that some account of me will be written. Dr. Beattie has even volunteered to be my biographer. He is likely to survive me by fifteen years, and a better biographer I could not find, except that he would be too laudatory. I know not, however, what business Dr. Beattie may have on his hands at the time when it may please God to call me away, and to leave my friend to grope his way through letters collected from my correspondents, or through confused memoranda of my own writing, would be but a sorry bequest to my best of friends. “ I shall leave to you, therefore, my dear niece,* a series of the recollections of my life, as distinctly connected as I can make them, and he and you, after my death, may make what use of them you think most proper.