Selections From Campbell Author:Thomas Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be t... more »ypos 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: Dishevelled are her raven looks ; On Connocht Moran's name she calls ; And oft amidst the lonely rocks She sings sweet madrigals. 40 Placed 'midst the foxglove and the moss, Behold a parted warrior's cross ! That is the spot where, evermore, The lady, at her shieling door, Enjoys that, in communion sweet, 45 The living and the dead can meet; For, lo ! to love-lorn fantasy, The hero of her heart is nigh. Bright as the bow that spans the storm, In Erin's yellow vesture clad, 50 A son of light -- a lovely form, He comes and makes her glad ; Now on the grass-green turf he sits, His tasselled horn beside him laid ; Now o'er the hills in chase he flits, 55 The hunter and the deer a shade ! Sweet mourner ! those are shadows vain That cross the twilight of her brain ; Yet she will tell you she is blest, Of Connocht Moran's tomb possessed, 60 More richly than in Aghrim's bower, When bards high praised her beauty's power, And kneeling pages offered up The m6rat in a golden cup. " A hero's bride ! this desert bower, 65 It ill befits thy gentle breeding : And wherefore dost thou love this flower To call -- 'My love lies bleeding ?'" " This purple flower my tears have nursed ; A hero's blood supplied its bloom : 70 I love it, for it was the first That grew on Connocht Moran's tomb. Oh hearken, stranger, to my voice ! This desert mansion is my choice ! And blest, though fatal, be the star 75 That led me to its wilds ...« less