O'Connor's Child, or the Flower of Love lies bleeding 78 Lochiel's Warning Specimens of Translation from Medea Speech of the Chorus in the same Tragedy The Wounded Hussar Gilderoy The Harper Song "My mind is my kingdom," &c. 87 Exile of Erin Lines written at the request of the Highland Society in London, when met to commemorate the 21st of March, the day of victory in Egypt Lines written on visiting a scene in Argyleshire ing of North Britons, in London, on Monday . 117 119 120 Valedictory Stanzas to J. P. Kemble, Esq. Lines, spoken by Mr. ***, at Drury Lane Theatre, on the first opening of the house after the death of the Princess Charlotte, 1817 Lines on receiving a Seal, with the Campbell crest, from K. M- before her marriage Stanzas to the memory of the Spanish patriots ANALYSIS OF PART I. The poem opens with a comparison between the beauty of remote objects in a landscape, and those ideal scenes of felicity which the imagination. delights to contemplate-the influence of anticipation upon the other passions is next delineated-an allusion is made to the well known fiction in pagan tradition, that, when all the guardian deities of mankind abandoned the world, Hope alone was left behind-the consolations of this passion in situations of danger and distress-the seaman on his midnight watch-the soldier marching into battle-allusion to the interesting adventures of Byron. The inspiration of Hope, as it actuates the efforts of genius, whether in the department of science or of taste-domestic felicity, how intimely connected with views of future happiness-picture of a mother watching her infant when asleeppictures of the prisoner, the maniac, and the wanderer. From the consolations of individual misery, a transition is made to prospects of political improvement in the future state of society-the wide field that is yet open for the progress of humanizing arts among uncivilized nations-from these views of amelioration of society, and the extension of liberty and truth over despotic and barbarous countries, by melancholy contrast of ideas we are led to reflect upon the hard fate of a brave people, recently conspicuous in their struggles for independence-description of the capture of Warsaw, of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed, and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge of Prague-apostrophe to the self-interested enemies of human improvement-the wrongs of Africa-the barbarous policy of Europeans in India-prophery in the Hindoo mythology of the expected descent of the Deity, to redress the miseries of their race, and to take vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy. |