The Isle of Palms and Other Poems Author:John Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: J. Ballantyne Subjects: Scottish poetry English poetry Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has n... more »o illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ISLE OF PALMS. CANTO FOURTH. A Summer Night descends in balm On the orange-bloom, and the stately Palm, Of that romantic steep, Where, silent as the silent hour, 'Mid the soft leaves of their Indian bower, Three happy spirits sleep. And we will leave them to themselves, To the moon and the stars, these happy elves, To the murmuring wave, and the zephyr's wing, That dreams of gentlest joyance bring To bathe their slumbering eyes; And on the moving clouds of night, High o'er the main will take our flight, Where beauteous Albion lies. Wondrous, and strange, and fair, I ween, The sounds, the forms, the hues have been Of these delightful groves; And mournful as the melting sky, Or a faint-remember'd melody, The story of their loves. Yet though they sleep, those breathings wild, That told of the Fay-like sylvan child, And of them who live in lonely bliss, Like bright flowers of the wilderness, Happy and beauteous as the sky That views them with a loving eye, Another tale I have to sing, Whose low and plaintive murmuring May well thy heart beguile, And when thou weep'st along with me, Through tears no longer mayst thou see That fairy Indian Isle. Among the Cambrian hills we stand ! By dear compulsion chain'd unto the strand Of a still Lake, yet sleeping in the mist, The thin blue mist that beautifies the morning : Old Snowdon's gloomy brow the sun hath kiss'd, Till, rising like a ...« less