Poetry Codex

Romantic

Thomas Campbell

1777–1844

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) was a Scottish poet, born in Glasgow, the youngest of eleven children. He made his name at twenty-one with The Pleasures of Hope (1799), a didactic poem on hope, liberty and the wrongs of Poland and Africa, and followed it with the Pennsylvania tale Gertrude of Wyoming (1809).

He is best remembered for his patriotic and martial lyrics — ‘Ye Mariners of England’, ‘The Battle of the Baltic’, ‘Hohenlinden’ — and for the ballads ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’ and ‘Lochiel’s Warning’. He was also an early promoter of University College London and served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University; he died at Boulogne and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Poems (139)

  1. The Pleasures of Hope: Part I
  2. The Pleasures of Hope: Part II
  3. Gertrude of Wyoming: Part I
  4. Gertrude of Wyoming: Part II
  5. Gertrude of Wyoming: Part III
  6. O’Connor’s Child; or, The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding
  7. Theodric: A Domestic Tale
  8. Lochiel’s Warning
  9. Battle of the Baltic
  10. Ye Mariners of England: A Naval Ode
  11. To the Rainbow
  12. The Last Man
  13. Valedictory Stanzas to J. P. Kemble, Esq.
  14. A Dream
  15. Lines Written at the Request of the Highland Society in London
  16. Stanzas to the Memory of the Spanish Patriots Latest Killed in Resisting the Regency and the Duke of Angoulême
  17. Song of the Greeks
  18. Ode to Winter
  19. Lines Spoken at Drury Lane Theatre on the First Opening of the House after the Death of the Princess Charlotte, 1817
  20. Lines on the Grave of a Suicide
  21. The Turkish Lady
  22. The Wounded Hussar
  23. Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately Finished by Mr. Chantrey
  24. The Brave Roland
  25. The Spectre Boat: A Ballad
  26. The Lover to His Mistress on Her Birth-day
  27. Hohenlinden
  28. Glenara
  29. Lines on Receiving a Seal with the Campbell Crest
  30. Gilderoy
  31. Adelgitha
  32. Absence
  33. The Ritter Bann
  34. The Harper
  35. Song to the Evening Star
  36. Song: Men of England
  37. The Maid’s Remonstrance
  38. Song: Drink Ye to Her
  39. Song: When Napoleon Was Flying
  40. The Beech-Tree’s Petition
  41. Song: Earl March
  42. Love and Madness: An Elegy, Written in 1795
  43. Song: Oh How Hard It Is to Find
  44. Stanzas on the Threatened Invasion, 1803
  45. Exile of Erin
  46. Lord Ullin’s Daughter
  47. Ode to the Memory of Burns
  48. The Soldier’s Dream
  49. Lines Written on Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
  50. Spanish Patriot’s Song
  51. Verses on Marie Antoinette
  52. Dirge of Wallace
  53. Jemima, Rose, and Eleanore: Three Celebrated Scottish Beauties
  54. The Death-Boat of Heligoland
  55. Song: When Love Came First to Earth
  56. Lines on the Departure of Emigrants for New South Wales
  57. Farewell to Love
  58. Lines on a Picture of a Girl in the Attitude of Prayer
  59. Stanzas on the Battle of Navarino
  60. Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria
  61. Stanzas to Painting
  62. Drinking-Song of Munich
  63. Lines on Revisiting a Scottish River
  64. Lines on Revisiting Cathcart
  65. The “Name Unknown”: In Imitation of Klopstock
  66. Song: Withdraw Not Yet Those Lips and Fingers
  67. Hallowed Ground
  68. Caroline: Part I
  69. Caroline: Part II (To the Evening Star)
  70. Field Flowers
  71. Lines on the View from St. Leonard’s
  72. Lines on Poland
  73. Lines on the Camp Hill, near Hastings
  74. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of La Perouse’s Voyages
  75. The Power of Russia
  76. Reullura
  77. Ode to the Germans
  78. Florine
  79. The Pilgrim of Glencoe
  80. Freedom and Love
  81. The River of Life
  82. Margaret and Dora
  83. Original MS. Introduction to The Pleasures of Hope
  84. Lines Suggested by the Statue of Arnold von Winkelried, Stanz-Unterwalden
  85. Troubadour Song on the Morning of the Battle of Waterloo
  86. Napoleon and the British Sailor
  87. The Launch of a First-Rate
  88. Hymn: When Jordan Hushed
  89. Cora Linn, or the Falls of Clyde
  90. The Parrot
  91. The Queen of the North: A Fragment
  92. Impromptu to Mrs. Allsop on Her Exquisite Singing
  93. Lines to a Lady on Being Presented with a Sprig of Alexandrian Laurel
  94. To the Memory of Francis Horner: A Fragment
  95. Song of the Colonists Departing for New Zealand
  96. To the Infant Son of My Dear Friends, Mr. and Mrs. Grahame
  97. To Sir Francis Burdett on His Speech Delivered in Parliament, August 7, 1832
  98. The Cherubs
  99. The Dead Eagle
  100. Fragment of an Oratorio from the Book of Job
  101. Ben Lomond
  102. Chaucer and Windsor
  103. Moonlight
  104. On Getting Home the Portrait of a Female Child, Six Years Old
  105. Lines to the Countess Ameriga Vespucci
  106. To My Niece, Mary Campbell
  107. Lines on My New Child Sweetheart
  108. The Child and Hind
  109. Epistle from Algiers to Horace Smith
  110. Extracts from The Mobiade: An Unfinished Mock-Heroic Poem
  111. Ode to Content
  112. To Judith
  113. Song: All Mortal Joys I Could Forsake
  114. Lines to Julia M—
  115. To a Young Lady Who Asked Me to Write Something Original for Her Album
  116. Epigram: To the United States of North America
  117. Verses on the Queen
  118. Song in Praise of Miss Isabella Johnston
  119. Song: To Love in My Heart I Exclaimed T’other Morning
  120. Senex’s Soliloquy on His Youthful Idol
  121. The Jilted Nymph
  122. Specimens of Translation from Medea
  123. Speech of the Chorus in Medea to Dissuade Medea from Her Purpose
  124. Fragment: From the Greek of Alcman
  125. Song of Hybrias the Cretan
  126. Martial Elegy: From the Greek of Tyrtaeus
  127. From Anacreon
  128. Lines on His Sister Mary
  129. Lines on Summer
  130. Description of Prize-Day in Glasgow College
  131. Lines on the Glasgow Volunteers
  132. On the Origin of Evil: Part I
  133. On the Origin of Evil: Part II
  134. On the Origin of Evil: Part III
  135. Ode to Music
  136. Elegy
  137. Part of Chorus from Buchanan’s Tragedy of Jephthes
  138. A Farewell to Edinburgh
  139. Lines on Leaving the River Cart

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